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Billions of people around the world are alive and well without paved roads and piped water. I'm with Sun - I am relocating to Puna to lead a simpler, "old Hawaii" kind of life with a smaller carbon footprint. Growth is happening everywhere. I look around the city I was born in and can't believe how many people live there now. Where are all these people coming from? All over. Whenever one place is drastically cheaper than another, people will find their way there. I'm just more of a fan of preserving distinctive places and trying to adapt, than trying to bulldoze them all to match.
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Enjoying the old style is fine.... but it is a valid point that the residents of Puna and Kau are taxed sufficiently to maintain roads and provide water... the county and state just don't deliver - they siphon money to other areas.
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residents of Puna and Kau are taxed sufficiently to maintain roads and provide water... the county and state just don't deliver
...while asking for authority to raise the GET and keep more of the hotel tax... and forcing the "private" subdivisions to take out new bonds to raise money for road improvements...
Somehow, though, County does find money to pass meaningless legislation that will soon be pre-empted and/or litigated into irrelevance, and they always find time to deny business applications that "don't fit the plan". We should be thankful it works
at all.
