HPP stuff

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Originally posted by kalakoa

Per HPP's own website: 6000 occupied lots * 275/year mandatory dues = $1.65M.

Compare with Nanawale: 520 occupied lots (per Wikipedia, from 2010 census) * 89/year mandatory dues = $46K. Feel free to double this figure as a way of compensating for the out-of-date census information.

Wherever there's enough money at stake, corruption and power struggles tend to follow...

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All lots in HPP pay the same amount, inhabited or not, so the amount of money does not change if the population changes, only if the fees are increased per lot. So the census data is irrelevant and the HPPOA board has no role in development or sale of lots. The budget is big because the total number of lots and miles of road are big, but the HPPOA has no stake in development of the subdivision; in fact the more lots that are developed the more maintenance there is needed, without any increase in income.

When HPP is fully built out it will be larger in population than Hilo. I predict that by the 2020 census HPP will have 1.5 county council positions, the rest of Puna another seat, and Ka'u may have a council seat to themselves the way realtors are pushing sales in HOVE. Hamakua and Hilo will continue to lose power because of shrinking or slow growing populations.