Special Master recommends Orchidland receivership

[DaVinci]

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Originally posted by kalakoa

nicely maintained gravel or cinder

Does not meet the HCC definition of "road", and is therefore not possible with public funds... at the same time, this level of maintenance wouldn't "bankrupt the County".

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Yes, it would. Harry Kim is correct. Hawaii has a standard for paved as well as gravel roads. By law, the county cannot dedicate a roadway unless it is first raised to the county standard. So step one would be OCLA improving all of the gravel roads to county standards. Step two would be handing them to the county. So we would need hundreds of thousands of dollars invested just to hand them over, then the county would have to spend millions keeping them up to county standard. Apply that to HPP, and all the other subdivisions in Puna (upwards of 700 miles of roadway) and yes, the cost would be prohibitive.

I don’t disagree that the initial subdivision of Orchidland (and HPP, Leilani, Acres, Beaches, etc.) way back in the early 60s was probably illegal but there is no easy way out at this point.