06-27-2016, 08:34 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
Much of the PMAR "problem" seems to revolve around HPP:
2. With about 25% of Puna population, and less than 50% build-out, HPP is, and will be, the major source of traffic on Hwy 130.
HPP needs an alternate route -- just doesn't want it going through their subdivision.
5. Investment in infrastructure and (commercial, public, and medical) services in Puna reduces the need to travel to Hilo.
HPP includes neatly-spaced 20-acre parcels for exactly this kind of development -- with multiple restrictions that effectively preclude these actually being used -- an expensive new park does nothing to mitigate the traffic problem.
This is where I suggest "pick a solution or stop whining" -- if HPP has enough population to get a County Park, they have enough population to upzone land for a corner store and/or force alignment for the PMAR (which may never actuallly be built, different problem).
Honestly, the whole system seems intentionally designed to keep anyone from making long-term plans of any kind -- just collect your benefits and bang on the drum all day, isn't that why you moved here?
HPP can't upzone land they don't own, but I'm pretty sure you knew that when you posted.