Imagine it is 25 years from now and you are in PÄ

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mill town of a hundred years ago. All of the fast food restaurants have closed and health food restaurants and small specialty /boutique stores have taken over their spaces. The roads are wider and include safe sidewalks and bicycle paths. In fact, there are more bicycle being used due to the community /public bicycle program. This new program has increase the health and well -being of the community members and visitors. The shopkeepers throughout town were awarded funds to repair and paint their store fronts and businesses which makes the town shine. We have peace- officers who also participate in the bicycle program. They are more connected to the community and shop owners and are able to solve problems quickly and with greater peace, not force, intimidation or abuse. Pahoa Town also has an emergency care /urgent care center and continue to provide quality healthcare including an expanded dental center within the Pahoa Wellness Center complex which houses not only western medicine non - profits like the Pahoa Family Health Center but also the complimentary medicine providers /practitioners. Clean and safe.Families being active together and being proud and enjoy comming into town to the park ( covered areas to sit and nice grass and plants around to enjoy picnics together and community functions at the community center etc... Maybe even families takeing walks together and bike riding together along nice paths that go through our community area..A nice face lift on the buildings down town, and a strong sense in pride on the faces of our business owners and families ... I would love for it to be 25 years ago - -how I remember it. A fun town that I can walk through without being afraid, or eyeing people up cause they look sketchy, or gripping my son's hand so tight as we step over the homeless people to grab breakfast. I would LOVE for it to be picturesque- - like the hidden valley ranch commercial with improved buildings, sidewalks for he kids & a recreation hall where there isnt a while crapload of druggieshanding out at! I see Pahoa town as a high -tech, innovative town that is a ahead in sustainability structures in agriculture, energy and spirituality. I see a nice smooth road, people walking through pahoa on a sidewalk that goes all the way through pahoa so they can enjoy all the shops and maybe even call it an outing with their family. A nice park where there are covered places so families can sit and enjoy and with a bathroom. The housing by the exisiting park, well it will be all cleaned up and not look like some druggy vill. It will be when i drive through pahoa, it wont look like some crack town, but a town that i would consider family friendly. If there is no change in employment there might be any major changes. If there changes in economy and employment the old town maybe gone and a new one built. Unless commerce improves Pahoa will remain a retirement and wellfare community I see recycling receptacles throughout the town. Colorful murals covering the old historical buildings that have been restored. I can only imagine in 25 more years it will be even more congested and dysfunctional. i would like more parking spaces and better ways to get on the roads Not taken over by change stores. Safer downtown, safer traffic, safer parking lots, safer pedestrian Imagine it is 25 years from now in Pahoa —how do you see it? Page 7