03-09-2015, 03:29 AM
Been going down there my whole life..
And in there lies the rub, yeah?
In the 70s, when I first built a house and lived in the valley the population was practically null, and the resources were abundant. From the river to the abandoned orchards, abundant. And the amount of tourists that came into the valley on any given day practically none existent.
Today there are many, many more people living in the valley, and a myriad of tourist operators and tourists themselves and all the weekenders coming from all over the island to do what they've been 'doing all their lives'
To consider it all one just needs to look at the property maps (tax maps) of the valley and realize that now, unlike in days gone by, practically every property is spoken for, and, unfortunately, there is no land set aside for the use of the entire community. There is a map, one map compiling all the Hawaii County Tax maps of Waipio Valley, at:
http://bigislandmappingproject.com/waipiotax.html
And in there lies the rub, yeah?
In the 70s, when I first built a house and lived in the valley the population was practically null, and the resources were abundant. From the river to the abandoned orchards, abundant. And the amount of tourists that came into the valley on any given day practically none existent.
Today there are many, many more people living in the valley, and a myriad of tourist operators and tourists themselves and all the weekenders coming from all over the island to do what they've been 'doing all their lives'
To consider it all one just needs to look at the property maps (tax maps) of the valley and realize that now, unlike in days gone by, practically every property is spoken for, and, unfortunately, there is no land set aside for the use of the entire community. There is a map, one map compiling all the Hawaii County Tax maps of Waipio Valley, at:
http://bigislandmappingproject.com/waipiotax.html