09-29-2016, 12:28 PM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
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.
As pointed out elsewhere (ad nauseum) there are several solutions to "enhancing livability", not all of which require more roads for more cars to Drive To Hilo for everything.
It's pretty clear that County doesn't care. The time is ripe for "alternative solutions".
You do this weird thing where you quote a snippet from a post and then just go off on an unrelated tangent. You suggested individuals should have to pay a system development fee to build on their own property, in an already developed subdivision, as a way to discourage population growth in Puna, I responded to that point, you quoted a tiny piece of my response and went off on a tangent about cars and roads not being the solution, when I had said nothing about that. Almost as if you are having a conversation in your head.
Right now, in the real life present time, people who live in Puna and work, mostly work in Hilo; as great as it would be to already live in some rosy future where everyone telecommutes (which is how I can live in Kapoho) the present, and the imminent future of the next 20 years, will have most people driving to Hilo from Puna to work. As long as the only two places in the state where housing costs match up with Hawaii wages are Ka'u and Puna, people will continue to live there and drive to Hilo and Waikaloa for work. All the pie in the sky coulda woulda shoulda isn't going to change that.
Hawaii county got greedy and took a gamble that no one would ever actually want to live here and allowed subdivisions to be created with no thought of infrastructure, they didn't even make them put in "standard" quality private roads! Now people are living here, more all the time, and the government has no interest in making it work.