11-03-2024, 10:28 AM
HiloJulie - I agree, I don’t think the county would want to settle unless it was very sweet for them. Whatever the cost of seeing the case play out to the end, I doubt that it would be as much as the Puna subdivisions pay to maintain the roads in a given year.
My understanding of a SID is that it is generally proposed by the property owners and a certain percentage has to agree to it. I could be corrected on this if you or someone else knows better. Seems to me that if the county could go around willy nilly declaring areas to be SIDs, the whole island would be one big SID.
What I would hope for is that the county would take over ownership of the roads, and the management and maintenance of those roads. I would expect that they would remain substandard, and simply be added to the 700 miles of substandard roads that the county currently owns and maintains. I would expect our roads to be maintained at least to the condition that they currently are in, and I would expect improvements to come rather slowly. Similar to the other 700 miles.
The county doesn’t have maintenance standards for substandard roads (I asked) so I would imagine that there would need to be some definition for that included in the class action.
The ultimate goal is to get the associations out of the road business, not to pave paradise.
My understanding of a SID is that it is generally proposed by the property owners and a certain percentage has to agree to it. I could be corrected on this if you or someone else knows better. Seems to me that if the county could go around willy nilly declaring areas to be SIDs, the whole island would be one big SID.
What I would hope for is that the county would take over ownership of the roads, and the management and maintenance of those roads. I would expect that they would remain substandard, and simply be added to the 700 miles of substandard roads that the county currently owns and maintains. I would expect our roads to be maintained at least to the condition that they currently are in, and I would expect improvements to come rather slowly. Similar to the other 700 miles.
The county doesn’t have maintenance standards for substandard roads (I asked) so I would imagine that there would need to be some definition for that included in the class action.
The ultimate goal is to get the associations out of the road business, not to pave paradise.