06-23-2016, 02:33 PM
kalakoa
What alternative Universe or Utopia are you conceptualizing where workers in a highly developed economy live adjacent to their workplace? Don't say Europe, I visit there often enough to know better. Urban yuppies and millennials can do it, if they're single and make $100k a year. Did you mean something akin to the local example like the camps around the Plantations here on the Big Island? Those were unzoned, extremely small lots, with limited tenure and scant improvements. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it would never be allowed now by the various agencies that "measure growth".
BTW- you know why there's no affordable housing in Kona? Lack of Supply to meet the Demand. You know why there's a lack of supply? Overlapping and complex land use restrictions. You know those long twisty roads that go down through Waikaloa that have no houses on either side except at the Village? Makai of the Village is an obvious potentially "affordable" area, within 15 minutes of all those jobs. Change the Land Use District at the state level to Rural, change the zoning at the County level to allow smaller lots, even and including allowing modular housing ( used to be called trailers) and you change the Supply side of the equation immediately.
Is that what Hoffman is talking about? A real solution?
I don't think so, because for he and his constituents there property values would likely going down, or at least not continue to rise. If he were able to shut down, or even just slow down, the current approval process the values will just keep going higher and higher.
What alternative Universe or Utopia are you conceptualizing where workers in a highly developed economy live adjacent to their workplace? Don't say Europe, I visit there often enough to know better. Urban yuppies and millennials can do it, if they're single and make $100k a year. Did you mean something akin to the local example like the camps around the Plantations here on the Big Island? Those were unzoned, extremely small lots, with limited tenure and scant improvements. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it would never be allowed now by the various agencies that "measure growth".
BTW- you know why there's no affordable housing in Kona? Lack of Supply to meet the Demand. You know why there's a lack of supply? Overlapping and complex land use restrictions. You know those long twisty roads that go down through Waikaloa that have no houses on either side except at the Village? Makai of the Village is an obvious potentially "affordable" area, within 15 minutes of all those jobs. Change the Land Use District at the state level to Rural, change the zoning at the County level to allow smaller lots, even and including allowing modular housing ( used to be called trailers) and you change the Supply side of the equation immediately.
Is that what Hoffman is talking about? A real solution?
I don't think so, because for he and his constituents there property values would likely going down, or at least not continue to rise. If he were able to shut down, or even just slow down, the current approval process the values will just keep going higher and higher.