12-22-2014, 04:24 AM
The original lack of planning/infrastructure due to corruption is well documented in books that are now over 20 years old.
My question is: what are we going to do about it? It's pretty clear that County and/or State have no plans to fix the mess they helped make, and the low-income nature of lower Puna communities means there's not enough private money (nor, probably, public money) to retrofit the infrastructure to match its current occupancy.
I used to think part of the solution was "County get out of the way", but the dysfunctional subdivision boards have demonstrated that they are unlikely to do much better, and there are more than enough militant NIMBY groups to make up the difference.
It's pretty clear that choosing to live here means accepting all these limitations forever.
we'll build new roads when the traffic gets really, really bad was their theory
Great theory -- if they had kept up with the past couple of decades, and if the "plan" accounted for sudden loss of roads due to lava flow. Any real "plan" would probably also include a long-term strategy, too, so that people aren't surprised by where the roads eventually get built. Case in point: people along Railroad Ave who suddenly had a highway in their yard -- all those lots should have been reserved as buffer, or zoned CV.
My question is: what are we going to do about it? It's pretty clear that County and/or State have no plans to fix the mess they helped make, and the low-income nature of lower Puna communities means there's not enough private money (nor, probably, public money) to retrofit the infrastructure to match its current occupancy.
I used to think part of the solution was "County get out of the way", but the dysfunctional subdivision boards have demonstrated that they are unlikely to do much better, and there are more than enough militant NIMBY groups to make up the difference.
It's pretty clear that choosing to live here means accepting all these limitations forever.
we'll build new roads when the traffic gets really, really bad was their theory
Great theory -- if they had kept up with the past couple of decades, and if the "plan" accounted for sudden loss of roads due to lava flow. Any real "plan" would probably also include a long-term strategy, too, so that people aren't surprised by where the roads eventually get built. Case in point: people along Railroad Ave who suddenly had a highway in their yard -- all those lots should have been reserved as buffer, or zoned CV.