05-01-2026, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2026, 05:07 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
HPP has a current estimated population of 13,500 - 15,000. Population estimate at build out is 30,000.
When I was young the town I lived in had a population of 12,000. We had approximately 5 gas stations, 3 full size supermarkets, multiple corner stores, banks, movie theaters, a downtown with everything. As kids we walked to school, the roads weren’t clogged with every individual parent driving their children to school. If I wanted a giant candy bar for 5 cents, or my parents needed a loaf of bread I walked a block and bought it. No petroleum burning required. I could safely ride my bike to visit almost any friend in town. Or the library, or the airport to crawl around inside old WWII bombers that for some reason landed there and never took off again.
HPP has 20 acre parcels set aside for businesses, schools, parks. This was a selling point, so it’s not that we moved here and only now want to change things, it’s that people bought homes and can’t live in a normal town as promised. It’s almost as if the developers were allowed to subdivide 8000 acres, given county approval with the agreement they would provide services by retaining ownership of the only properties zoned for those services, and then reneged and held those services hostage because they are also the owners of a shopping center in Keaau and another in Pahoa.
And they’re not even billionaires. So I suppose it could be worse.
When I was young the town I lived in had a population of 12,000. We had approximately 5 gas stations, 3 full size supermarkets, multiple corner stores, banks, movie theaters, a downtown with everything. As kids we walked to school, the roads weren’t clogged with every individual parent driving their children to school. If I wanted a giant candy bar for 5 cents, or my parents needed a loaf of bread I walked a block and bought it. No petroleum burning required. I could safely ride my bike to visit almost any friend in town. Or the library, or the airport to crawl around inside old WWII bombers that for some reason landed there and never took off again.
HPP has 20 acre parcels set aside for businesses, schools, parks. This was a selling point, so it’s not that we moved here and only now want to change things, it’s that people bought homes and can’t live in a normal town as promised. It’s almost as if the developers were allowed to subdivide 8000 acres, given county approval with the agreement they would provide services by retaining ownership of the only properties zoned for those services, and then reneged and held those services hostage because they are also the owners of a shopping center in Keaau and another in Pahoa.
And they’re not even billionaires. So I suppose it could be worse.