03-26-2018, 07:16 AM
From Honolulu Magazine, 1999:
The Farmers' Market, for instance, has been in its "temporary" digs, plastic tarps on poles stuck into gravel, for more than 15 years now. It gets soggy there when Hilo's rains pour down, so owner Keith De La Cruz plans to build a three-story Farmers' Market structure on its present site at the corner of Kamehameha Avenue and Mamo Street.
But De La Cruz points out that, because downtown Hilo stands in a Special Management Area—a flood zone area and tsunami inundation zone—County Planning Department requirements state his building has to be 19 feet off the ground, with either no walls on the ground floor or walls that break away in a tsunami.
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/core/pagetools.php?pageid=4557&url=/Honolulu-Magazine/May-2006/Hilo-Rising/&mode=print
If you want to combine the dual pleasures of insanity and social acceptance, religion is your only choice. - Last Aphorisms
The Farmers' Market, for instance, has been in its "temporary" digs, plastic tarps on poles stuck into gravel, for more than 15 years now. It gets soggy there when Hilo's rains pour down, so owner Keith De La Cruz plans to build a three-story Farmers' Market structure on its present site at the corner of Kamehameha Avenue and Mamo Street.
But De La Cruz points out that, because downtown Hilo stands in a Special Management Area—a flood zone area and tsunami inundation zone—County Planning Department requirements state his building has to be 19 feet off the ground, with either no walls on the ground floor or walls that break away in a tsunami.
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/core/pagetools.php?pageid=4557&url=/Honolulu-Magazine/May-2006/Hilo-Rising/&mode=print
If you want to combine the dual pleasures of insanity and social acceptance, religion is your only choice. - Last Aphorisms
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves