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DOE has already bought 7 modular classrooms to put in the Kea'au High School parking lot, getting 10 more. DOE estimate is Pahoa Elementary, Intermediate and High School all get relocated to Kea'au, 1,800 students, 300 teachers and employees. Yeah, then this new medical services building. It is kind of redundant to be a supporter of more commercial building in Kea'au. The magnitude of these changes are really starting to become visible. Wonder how many people will have no choice but to leave the island?
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The magnitude of these changes are really starting to become visible.
Downtown Keaau is already congested, so I can hardly wait to see what happens next.
Note that the HMSA building does not include the road frontage; those are separate parcels (approx 0.3ac and 0.5ac). Shipman owns these as well as the three undeveloped ~0.5ac lots across the street.
All are already zoned commercial, so it's just a matter of time...
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Kea'au development got restricted by the bypass road putting the whole village center in a triangle shape, with not much vacant land, and large farm parcels. There should be less congestion going south out of Kea'au but with all this relocation, it's going to pool into massive congestion all around the village center, plugging up 130 and 11.
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I thought this topic was about elections...
Assume the best and ask questions.
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Okay, election: who supported the candidates that favored the urbanization of Keaau?
What? It wasn't part of anyone's platform? Elections are a sham?
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If the subject line was strictly confined to polling places, then it should have said so. The effect of the lava on the elections seemed to indicate the effect of the lava, the shift of development that is going to cause and the candidate views that might shift because of this. The supporting of more commercial development for Kea'au as a candidate platform, due to the lava flow, seemed to be part of elections.
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I wrote in the original post:
"Just curious how the local elections later this year are going to be handled if and when lower Puna is cut off by the lava flow."
That's hardly ambiguous. If you read the rest of my post it makes things even clearer. I wasn't asking about development in Kea'au, I was asking how elections would be handled in lower Puna if and when people get cut off and how the election office is planning for this.
I was hoping this wasn't a difficult concept to understand but it seems I was wrong.
Edited for typo - really shouldn't post at 3am!
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Re Mistrust of Elections Office running election: Who else would you recommend? If you don't trust them to do honest walk-in voting, why would you trust them for write-in or voting at the polling place? This sounds like an excuse not to vote at all. Sorry, I can't buy that... if there are problems, Brenda is willing to hear about them. And probably take action beforehand. Unfounded suspicions aside, I thank Nanawale CA for offering their space to save us a trip to Hilo.
