11-09-2009, 02:49 AM
It's like they're telling us, "Your poorer than the others, so we have to tax you more as a percentage of your assets to provide basic services."
Of course if you live in Puna and/or one of the "substandard" subdivisions, it's questionable if you even get basic services. Don't start me on that today. Having just recently heard a speech from the County Planning Director suggesting that we in HPP establish a "Special Use Tax District" to pay for services that we are taxed for, but don't get from the County,
The Ready Mapbook of East Hawaii 5th Edition pages 83 and 84 list all the subdivisions of just the east part of the island. There are apx 560, yes five hundred and sixty listed. Of those I'd say less than one percent are standard but others might have a better estimate.
So lets estimate that about 500 subdivisions are substandard in some way, no electric, no phone, no mail delivery, no water supply, no sewers, no police protection, no roads, sidewalks LMAO, no utilities no services = substandard. A piece of land laid out with a grid and third world goat tracks, and a taxable property is created.
AMAZING isn't it like snake oil, a piece of land that has been subdivided and nothing else, like no one ever expected people to desire to live on it and hoped they wouldn't!
mella l
Of course if you live in Puna and/or one of the "substandard" subdivisions, it's questionable if you even get basic services. Don't start me on that today. Having just recently heard a speech from the County Planning Director suggesting that we in HPP establish a "Special Use Tax District" to pay for services that we are taxed for, but don't get from the County,
The Ready Mapbook of East Hawaii 5th Edition pages 83 and 84 list all the subdivisions of just the east part of the island. There are apx 560, yes five hundred and sixty listed. Of those I'd say less than one percent are standard but others might have a better estimate.
So lets estimate that about 500 subdivisions are substandard in some way, no electric, no phone, no mail delivery, no water supply, no sewers, no police protection, no roads, sidewalks LMAO, no utilities no services = substandard. A piece of land laid out with a grid and third world goat tracks, and a taxable property is created.
AMAZING isn't it like snake oil, a piece of land that has been subdivided and nothing else, like no one ever expected people to desire to live on it and hoped they wouldn't!
mella l
mella l
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