11-07-2014, 06:35 AM
a direct result of that wayward uncontrolled misguided planning
Two things to consider:
1. Embracing development means possibly influencing it to suit your needs and desires; if you fight development, it happens anyway, usually with "creative" solutions that aren't exactly what anyone wanted;
2. Bigger problem is we're stuck with the "expense" of having allowed development in a disaster area -- if lower Puna had been left alone (eg, a sanctuary for "wild west" unpermittedness), any development would be fully at-risk, leaving little room for complaint after the fact.
In any case, agree 100% that ignoring the situation for 50 years only made the inevitable lava catatrophe much worse than it should be... in retrospect, all those subdivisions in/around LZ1 make no sense.
Two things to consider:
1. Embracing development means possibly influencing it to suit your needs and desires; if you fight development, it happens anyway, usually with "creative" solutions that aren't exactly what anyone wanted;
2. Bigger problem is we're stuck with the "expense" of having allowed development in a disaster area -- if lower Puna had been left alone (eg, a sanctuary for "wild west" unpermittedness), any development would be fully at-risk, leaving little room for complaint after the fact.
In any case, agree 100% that ignoring the situation for 50 years only made the inevitable lava catatrophe much worse than it should be... in retrospect, all those subdivisions in/around LZ1 make no sense.