09-29-2016, 08:02 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
How do you "manage" subdivisions ... They are coming in droves!
Charge each new home a portion of the costs involved in building the infrastructure and services necessary to match the population increase. (This is current policy, but only applied to "developers", not individual homeowners.)
hopefully they will do it right and add 2 more lanes
State has made it clear that there will be no "new construction", only "maintenance".
this should have been done years ago
"They" have definitely been working on "this" for a decade or more. Unfortunately, "they" are focused on the wrong "this" -- I have no idea what "their" real agenda actually is.
There's an idea that will really increase the number of unpermitted houses being built and lived in!
The Highway costs are a state matter, it is a state road, systems development fees are a county matter, used to offset county costs of initial development.
Legally they cannot hit individuals with systems development charges on subdivisions that have already been approved. Hawaii County wanted the tax money for all these subdivisions, so they allowed them to be created, the time to charge system development fees would have been then. The developers who profited from creating the subdivisions have taken their money and run off, it is unfair for the county or state, or people like Kalakoa for that matter, to decide after the fact that these subdivisions are costing the county too much money because people actually want to live on the lots they bought. If Hawaii county doesn't want people to live in Puna they should not have allowed tens of thousands of residential lots to be developed here.
Now the county is going to have to just deal with the people who are moving to Puna to live in these subdivisions. Many of the people who are building houses in Puna already live here in Hawaii, most work in Hilo but cannot afford to pay $285,000 for a termite infested house on a postage stamp lot, which is what passes for "affordable housing" in Hilo.