05-27-2024, 06:11 PM
After the Lahaina fire, and fires in west Hawaii Island, private landowners and the county are building an emergency access road in Waikoloa Village. The article describes the recent Mana Road fire, how it took village residents and hour and a half to escape, and the cooperation of Mayor Roth.
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Then there’s this:
The road will ultimately be an access point to a community of up to 2,000 homes Somers plans to build in the area.
Somers is one of the landowners who is building the road.
If what it takes is a large landowner to find it in their best interest to create a road, is there any possibility that same template could be used in a place with 10 times the population of Waikoloa Village (or more) that will someday need to escape a lava flow, tsunami, bypass an earthquake damaged road, etc, etc, etc? People who are customers at the landowner’s commercial developments?
https://bigislandnow.com/2024/05/23/site...e-blessed/
Keep reading.
Keep reading.
Then there’s this:
The road will ultimately be an access point to a community of up to 2,000 homes Somers plans to build in the area.
Somers is one of the landowners who is building the road.
If what it takes is a large landowner to find it in their best interest to create a road, is there any possibility that same template could be used in a place with 10 times the population of Waikoloa Village (or more) that will someday need to escape a lava flow, tsunami, bypass an earthquake damaged road, etc, etc, etc? People who are customers at the landowner’s commercial developments?
https://bigislandnow.com/2024/05/23/site...e-blessed/