07-07-2016, 07:00 AM
I'm afraid that I have to take a contrary view to all the moaning about the PMAR. I've seen this happen repeatedly - city folk move out to a non-urbanized agricultural area because they want to escape the urban congestion and to enjoy the "agricultural life-style" and then immediately begin demanding services that undercut the agricultural economy and opposing practices that are needed by it: the whining about pesticide used for papaya, similarly on Kauai for the seed corn; whining about burning sugar cane on Maui; etc. etc. Ag theft is a huge problem on this island - Ruderman's sanctimonious BS notwithstanding, with the PMAR will come increased theft of ag products and the state and county will do about that what they do about most other adverse events that affect the businesses in Hawaii, F-A. And once the ag industry is killed off, then the whiners will whine about all the land going to new developments....
The reality is that the Puna subdivisions should never have been permitted. The economic and social impacts of the inevitable lava flows that will cover that district increases with every home built and every new service that is installed there. More roads means more people and more services that will, ultimately, be impacted. Kilauea has provided a "warning shot across the bow" of every current and would-be homeowner in Puna - the next time, Puna residents may not be so lucky as to see only one home go up in flames...
The reality is that the Puna subdivisions should never have been permitted. The economic and social impacts of the inevitable lava flows that will cover that district increases with every home built and every new service that is installed there. More roads means more people and more services that will, ultimately, be impacted. Kilauea has provided a "warning shot across the bow" of every current and would-be homeowner in Puna - the next time, Puna residents may not be so lucky as to see only one home go up in flames...