02-08-2019, 03:59 AM
The complainants all seem to be from Panaewa Farm Lots, so I took a quick tour through there. It's a typical DHHL subdivision with paved roads, piped water, grid power, at least one flavor of broadband, and very few homes.
Click through the property tax data, and what do you know? Home and land assessed at $450K with a taxable value of $150K. Vacant lots valued at $150K with a taxable value of $0. County keeps complaining about how "there's no money", well this might have something to do with it.
These exemptions may be entirely proper ... but I'm left with the feeling that a small, vocal minority of well-entitled individuals is being allowed to decide whether the rest of us can have jobs, economic growth, or educational opportunities ... while their less-fortunate brethren are spending hours a day riding the bus to Kona so they can work hard cleaning hotel rooms, earning barely enough to get by, and left with no time to make their opinions heard.
TL;DR: Anyone who says "I support that ... but not near my house" should be required to offer at least two acceptable alternatives OR pay their fair share of the tax burden created when growth isn't allowed.
Click through the property tax data, and what do you know? Home and land assessed at $450K with a taxable value of $150K. Vacant lots valued at $150K with a taxable value of $0. County keeps complaining about how "there's no money", well this might have something to do with it.
These exemptions may be entirely proper ... but I'm left with the feeling that a small, vocal minority of well-entitled individuals is being allowed to decide whether the rest of us can have jobs, economic growth, or educational opportunities ... while their less-fortunate brethren are spending hours a day riding the bus to Kona so they can work hard cleaning hotel rooms, earning barely enough to get by, and left with no time to make their opinions heard.
TL;DR: Anyone who says "I support that ... but not near my house" should be required to offer at least two acceptable alternatives OR pay their fair share of the tax burden created when growth isn't allowed.