01-20-2015, 02:10 PM
LZ1 (and, probably, LZ2) should have been a wild-west style "live and let live" zone, not another "permit-license-fee-inspection" residential subdivision...
I don't think that model applies. There are other rural areas in Hawaii that have natural limitation, that do not exist on the grid or have other first world community infrastructure, and yet their property owners pay their taxes and are subject to zoning laws and all that. They just don't have access to conventional financing and insurance etc.
In other words I think once the illusion of suburbia dissolves it will be the free market and profit/loss that will determine the fate of the lands that fall in lava zone 1 and 2, more than anything the government can do.
And yeah it'll probably look a bit more like the wild-west than suburbia, but hey that's always been a part of Pahoa's charm methinks.
I don't think that model applies. There are other rural areas in Hawaii that have natural limitation, that do not exist on the grid or have other first world community infrastructure, and yet their property owners pay their taxes and are subject to zoning laws and all that. They just don't have access to conventional financing and insurance etc.
In other words I think once the illusion of suburbia dissolves it will be the free market and profit/loss that will determine the fate of the lands that fall in lava zone 1 and 2, more than anything the government can do.
And yeah it'll probably look a bit more like the wild-west than suburbia, but hey that's always been a part of Pahoa's charm methinks.