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quote:
Originally posted by Greg
Robert Petricci put it very nicely in Tiffany's blog;
Quote: "Typical, if you wanted to build a burger king and a 7-11 that would be fine but set an example of what a community can do with out the government and you get red tagged. A school a market, a community venue and activities for the kids. Everything the government claims to want done with out costing them a penny and what do they do. Shut it down, classic example of everything that is wrong with the current county administration.
They talk about sustainability but put up walls whenever we do it. You have created a model as has uncle Robert of the kind of community centers that fit into Puna. All those that want strip malls and burger joints have 99.9 percent of the land already, hard as it to believe some of us moved here because we like it the way it is."
Me:
Want a strip mall? No problem, Money talks.
Will of the people? Not a consideration; money talks.
There are "smoke and mirrors" involved, but take a poll of the people in the area and I guarantee the majority support SPACE.
The smoke and mirrors are coming from outside.
edit: punctuation
With all due respect to Ms Edwards-Hunt, she is the Last person who should be talking about zoning issues. She lost all respect when she and her husband came out against a zoning change to provide commercial zoning simply because the commercial entity requesting the rezoning would have been a competitor of her husband's business. You have people trying to do the correct thing and go through the expense of getting commercial use property rezoned legally for commercial zoning and what happens, the ugly head of Puna’s anti-business brigade raises its ugly head. Talk about political, journalistic, and anti-competition corruption! Let’s not fool ourselves, the majority of opposition to creating proper zoning in the Puna District is from the people, not the government. Everyone wants it, yet everyone opposes it when it comes around.
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Why would SPACE jeopardize their Use Permit so vicariously? Were the infractions that they chose to create so important as to jeopardize the whole thing? Why are they willing to risk what they have by thumbing their noses among other digits at the Planning Dept?
Anyone able to answer that question?
Dan
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I would like to know exactly what was allowed by the special use permit SPACE was granted and what are the nature of the alleged violations. I am somewhat on the fence without knowing the particulars.
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I am not questioning the value of SPACE, Just the way that it is being administered. Anyone willing to answer my question?
Dan
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I believe in one of the previous space theads the link to the SUP was listed. I cant find it quickly but somewhere here I *believe* i saw it.
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Here is a link to the SPACE page with another link to the CURRENT SUP (2010) application.
This shows what is being asked for now. It is not the 2001 SUP. (Not sure how to find that one)
http://www.hawaiispace.com/newsletters.php
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Obie:
Whole lotta stuff in that one.
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We are busier than usual at SPACE these days responding to this action by the County Planning Department but we do want to share as much information as we can with everyone concerned about this issue. Thanks for all your comments.
SPACE has been operating under terms of the original 2001 SP #1122 and a March 2010 letter from BJ at Planning which permit performance arts training programs, the Haas satellite Charter School and the Farmers Market. SPACE maintains that we have not violated the terms of either of these permits since March 25th. Our amended Special Permit application was complete and scheduled for Planning Commission review on October 14th 2012. SPACE then withdrew the application pending the lease of adjacent State Land which, if included in the amended SP, will enable us to move traffic parking and our proposed industrial arts center well away from Seaview Residences. The Environmental Assessment and other legalities required for this lease have created a major delay in this process. SPACE and the patrons of SPACE are anxious to move forward with this so that we can fully focus on our mission "to creatively promote sustainable community in Puna Makai".
The delay in our SP process plus the impact of complaints that include frivolous, fraudulent and vindictive accusations have brought about this crisis. It has also brought attention to the fact that the SP process as it exists does not serve to promote good community development. The County and State administrations are not financially able to provide many services that communities need and desire.
Community organizations like SPACE, and many many other grass roots groups island wide are taking up this slack and serving their communities by providing them with facilities and programs. Most organizations like SPACE are non profits and most people involved in this are community volunteers and almost all are illegal and in violation of County codes. Only Kalani Honua and SPACE have attempted to operate legally with Special Permits and look at the problems we are encountering.
It is time that we have a new kind of permit enabling Community Groups to operate legally. We need to adopt a process that builds community instead of dividing it. We need to replace the existing confidential complaint system with mediation and Ho'oponopono. We are asking the County to work with us on this instead of closing down activities that 100's of people support and a tiny minority oppose.
Our petition signed by 972 people and well over 100 testimonials written to Planning, so far, will clearly show that the overwhelming majority of nearby neighbors want the programs we are requesting to be permitted in our amended Special permit application. Many of our neighbors will be attending the May 3rd Planning Commission meeting to substantiate these facts.
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What's a" industrial arts center "
