10-12-2024, 08:14 PM
Why do you feel Puna gets too much?
From a civil planning, land use perspective Hawaii Island is a special case. We have active volcanoes and as such imposing a standard perspective, such as state or federal standards of land use and planning isn’t tenable. We can’t have a one size fits all system when in fact we have active volcanoes. But god knows we try.
By my measure, if we sat down and logically analyze the situation and include preventing disasters as a priority we would not have ever allowed for the wholesale domestication of our volcano landscapes. It’s that simple. We made, our forefathers made, a horrible mistake. In other words, Most of Kilauea, and a good chunk of Mauna Loa, and all of Hualalai would be limited in growth and extremely limited in government investment in infrastructure and such. Basically the entire southern side of our island should be a nature preserve, not a free for all one size fits all cookie cutter American dream on the cheap.
And that’s what it is, cheap land for people that can’t afford otherwise who are suckered into taking risks they can’t afford.. and a government that does nothing to protect them, and even goes so far as to underwrite their folly.
At the very least HPIA needs to go and the market place, the inability to get insurance and the trickle down effect on the availability of mortgages, needs to be allowed to have its effects. But beyond that government needs to start answer for its inability to provide the services they obligate themselves to when they collect taxes. In other words, protect the citizens, which they don’t, at all. Otherwise the Hub would not have had to exist. Otherwise CD would have had more to say to HOVE than they’d tell them which way to turn on the highway, if they could get to the highway at all, in a Mauna Loa crisis on that side.
I could go on.. but hey, you all know the story.
From a civil planning, land use perspective Hawaii Island is a special case. We have active volcanoes and as such imposing a standard perspective, such as state or federal standards of land use and planning isn’t tenable. We can’t have a one size fits all system when in fact we have active volcanoes. But god knows we try.
By my measure, if we sat down and logically analyze the situation and include preventing disasters as a priority we would not have ever allowed for the wholesale domestication of our volcano landscapes. It’s that simple. We made, our forefathers made, a horrible mistake. In other words, Most of Kilauea, and a good chunk of Mauna Loa, and all of Hualalai would be limited in growth and extremely limited in government investment in infrastructure and such. Basically the entire southern side of our island should be a nature preserve, not a free for all one size fits all cookie cutter American dream on the cheap.
And that’s what it is, cheap land for people that can’t afford otherwise who are suckered into taking risks they can’t afford.. and a government that does nothing to protect them, and even goes so far as to underwrite their folly.
At the very least HPIA needs to go and the market place, the inability to get insurance and the trickle down effect on the availability of mortgages, needs to be allowed to have its effects. But beyond that government needs to start answer for its inability to provide the services they obligate themselves to when they collect taxes. In other words, protect the citizens, which they don’t, at all. Otherwise the Hub would not have had to exist. Otherwise CD would have had more to say to HOVE than they’d tell them which way to turn on the highway, if they could get to the highway at all, in a Mauna Loa crisis on that side.
I could go on.. but hey, you all know the story.