03-21-2018, 01:16 PM
in Puna, not seen from the road...
- more than a half-mile off the pavement
- closed gate at end of driveway
- offgrid (HELCO requires permits)
- don't complain too loudly or demand services
There are two unforgivable sins: building in the setback (get a survey, don't guess), improper wastewater disposal (use a composting toilet, don't dig a cesspool). For everything else, there's "as-built" and "it's a storage shed".
County will even use aerial photos to assign a valuation for property tax purposes -- any "crackdown" on "illegal habitation" is (mostly) mitigated by County's preference for revenue, especially when "enforcement" just creates work for people who would rather not dodge the potholes on your unmaintained "private road".
- more than a half-mile off the pavement
- closed gate at end of driveway
- offgrid (HELCO requires permits)
- don't complain too loudly or demand services
There are two unforgivable sins: building in the setback (get a survey, don't guess), improper wastewater disposal (use a composting toilet, don't dig a cesspool). For everything else, there's "as-built" and "it's a storage shed".
County will even use aerial photos to assign a valuation for property tax purposes -- any "crackdown" on "illegal habitation" is (mostly) mitigated by County's preference for revenue, especially when "enforcement" just creates work for people who would rather not dodge the potholes on your unmaintained "private road".