03-05-2018, 03:56 AM
speak of suing the County about the road situations. I personally am not for this option, as I think the resulting taxes would price me out of my home.
Can you afford the mandatory LID created by HB2570?
Back-of-the-napkin for pavement in Hawaiian Acres: 74 miles of road * $1M/mile buildout, financed as 20-year bond, divided by 4006 lots: approximately $1200/year, not including HELCO pole relocation, County administrative overhead, or "unforeseen" construction costs (such as when it rains), and ignoring the "minimum standard" 60-foot easement.
(As a technicality, County's purchase/seizure of lot frontage would make all the lots "legal nonconforming", zoned A3 but only 2.8 acres. Assumes 10-feet from the front of each lot, of which there are 68 per block. The paperwork costs alone could easily add a couple million in lawyerage.)
Improved roads = higher property taxes (access is valuable).
Paving the subdivisions effectively increases the territory HPD must cover -- either because it's more reachable, or because more people move in -- so property taxes would have to go up again to cover the cost of more police; the same is probably true of the fire department.
When all is said and done, Hawaii will be "just another place".
Can you afford the mandatory LID created by HB2570?
Back-of-the-napkin for pavement in Hawaiian Acres: 74 miles of road * $1M/mile buildout, financed as 20-year bond, divided by 4006 lots: approximately $1200/year, not including HELCO pole relocation, County administrative overhead, or "unforeseen" construction costs (such as when it rains), and ignoring the "minimum standard" 60-foot easement.
(As a technicality, County's purchase/seizure of lot frontage would make all the lots "legal nonconforming", zoned A3 but only 2.8 acres. Assumes 10-feet from the front of each lot, of which there are 68 per block. The paperwork costs alone could easily add a couple million in lawyerage.)
Improved roads = higher property taxes (access is valuable).
Paving the subdivisions effectively increases the territory HPD must cover -- either because it's more reachable, or because more people move in -- so property taxes would have to go up again to cover the cost of more police; the same is probably true of the fire department.
When all is said and done, Hawaii will be "just another place".