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HCHA meeting November 5, 2020 <br />dollars available under this CDBG-DR grant would be adequate to serve buyout <br />needs as they arose but also address the infrastructure needs and vertical <br />development for any new subdivisions and I think the other key consideration <br />was in some of the land use mapping understanding the eruption area relative <br />to other areas of Puna because clearly no matter how folks may feel about their <br />own choices about returning or leaving the home that they lost there's a strong <br />interest to stay local, yeah, among the families and individuals that we've <br />spoken to along the way and so you know in the subdivisions in lava zone 3 for <br />example just north of Pdhoa there are 5000 platted developable parcels in <br />residential subdivisions, so within this choice and really think about land use and <br />carrying capacity on the general plan side folks have choice to take <br />opportunities to purchase new homes if they haven't already started the <br />process of buying or building a home but with these resources and they <br />also ... there's development potential right, in these other subdivisions that folks <br />could choose to take part in. It really kind of ... we really felt like this program <br />addresses both this land use ... these land use decisions... but also this issue of <br />individual choice. <br />Kierkiewicz: and so because everybody gets a choice what I'm concerned <br />about is this checkerboard appearance of some people staying, others leaving <br />and how are we going to resolve all that? You know I was reading through the <br />action plan and it talked about if you acquire a property, if there's a structure <br />disconnecting utilities and demo'ing the actual structure. Is that demolition cost <br />gunna to be covered under this grant program? <br />Le: yes. yeah. Tha'd be considered a project activity. <br />Kierkiewicz: Okay. <br />Le: ....and you know disconnecting utilities to the home or the site closing a <br />cesspool, those types of actions. <br />Kierkiewicz: And the county's going to manage all of those properties that have <br />been bought out? Who? Finance? <br />Sako: The ah ... until such time as we determine what were gunna use with it, <br />whether it becomes an ag park or something else, yes, we'll help the recovery <br />team inaudible... <br />Kierkiewicz: That's assuming that parcels are contiguous, that you can have an <br />ag park. <br />Sako: Correct. But ah, until people come in for the buyouts were not going to <br />know specifically which parcels. So that's part of the monitoring every month <br />Page 30 of 36 <br />