01-12-2015, 04:22 AM
Grafting commercial operations onto established residential areas
Lack of planning: if the subdivisions were created as bona fide "residential", livability would have required some properly integrated commercial, along with parks, a reserve strip for eventual sidewalks, etc. Apparently none of this was required for "agriculture".
An excess of consumer demand and dollars will overcome the hurdles of commercial development in Puna.
This. I keep forgetting that Puna is "poor", comparable in some ways to a ghetto (especially the "food desert" part).
no one was supposed to actually move here and live
Yet here we are, putting up with all the poor planning. Apparently some people have developed workarounds, maybe a better question is "what's the longest you've gone without Hilo, and how did you do it".
the PDCP identified most of these issues and suggested many solutions
Assuming the PCDP is fully implemented by 2050, it will only be about 30 years too late.
There has to be another way.
Lack of planning: if the subdivisions were created as bona fide "residential", livability would have required some properly integrated commercial, along with parks, a reserve strip for eventual sidewalks, etc. Apparently none of this was required for "agriculture".
An excess of consumer demand and dollars will overcome the hurdles of commercial development in Puna.
This. I keep forgetting that Puna is "poor", comparable in some ways to a ghetto (especially the "food desert" part).
no one was supposed to actually move here and live
Yet here we are, putting up with all the poor planning. Apparently some people have developed workarounds, maybe a better question is "what's the longest you've gone without Hilo, and how did you do it".
the PDCP identified most of these issues and suggested many solutions
Assuming the PCDP is fully implemented by 2050, it will only be about 30 years too late.
There has to be another way.