07-30-2018, 05:03 AM
For people who realize and understand that you get what you pay for. There is a reason (in fact many reasons) why land in Puna has been cheap. One of those reasons is that you risk everything that you put on the ground in LZ-1 and LZ-2.
As alaskyn66 so eloquently put it: "That's all it was.. a gamble. The house won. Accept it, and place another bet."
Those subdivisions were created for people who refuse to accept that reality. Sadly, our County government was complicit in the fleecing of residents/owners of those lots - and apparently doesn't have any compunctions about continuing that fleecing...
If you can't afford a lot in a proper subdivision, how can you afford to lose (for most people) what is the largest single asset that you've ever owned... not to mention your life - which, in some of these subdivisions, is very definitely at risk.