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and bikeways. Gardens along walkways. Places for adults, adolescents to rest, recreate, read, relax..... Public transportation without cars /bus. Still has that old feeling, funky, artsy colors One -of -kind restaurants Pahoa Cash and Carry hasn't been bought out by Walmart Still get to pick up hitchhikers No more coqui sounds at night The same a today - same smal town feeling and I would like to see Burger King and KFC levels and not fast food in town. More bike /walking paths through town to get people moving around other than in their cars There are 21 restaurants and over 112 of them serve vegetarian food. The restaurants cover all cuisines. All the restaurants give their used cooking oil away to be turned into biofuel. All the stores and homes in Pahoa use passive solar and photovotaic on their roofs. All businesses recycle grey- water. No business owner in Pahoa makes more than 7 times the lowest paid employee. There are three parks in town, a large swimming pool, skateboard park, tennis courts, basketball courts and a large soccer field. There is a movie theatre that plays older films has couches and tables and serves alcohol. In the performance center there is often live music featuring local style music as well as guest artists from around the world. Additionally, local and international dance is performed here as well as live theatre. There is a community potlock once each month where issues are first discussed before enjoying the wonderful food and drink. A day care center is centrally located for all businesses and their employees to use. Improvements in bus services,affordable supermarket,retention of historical feel I see a capitalism thriving, with small stores in old, funky buildings powered by cheap geothermal energy and geothermal royalties, selling cool fashions and antiques to blue- haired ladies and families wearing sandals. I see a Pahoa High School sending multi- ethnic kids (Hawaii's gift to the world) to Harvard and Northwestern seeking degrees in alternative energy and tropical ag. I see the vast ag subdivisions surrounding Pahoa becoming the bread basket of the state of Hawaii, growing truck crops and genetically modified produce that science has proven the safety of over and over again. I see carefully managed growth in Pahoa, driven by a progressive community that allows just enough, but not too much development, and which has solved the problem of coqui frogs and other invasive species through the intelligent use of geothermal royalties... Or I see long- haired societal dropouts who announce their arrival with their body odor continuing to use every lame excuse to prevent geothermal, the golden goose, from laying its eggs of gold. I see neglected children, racism and a welfare society fueled by dope growing. I see the perpetuation of a lack of infrastructure by the government, simply because that's the way most of the residents want it to be. I see Long's and Burger King closing down because of the lost profits due to shoplifting. I see Pahoa High School releasing unprepared students into the world and 2 to 3 percent of the graduating class going on to four -year colleges. I can go on, but you know where I am going with this. You have been given a special gift that will not just benefit you, it will afford a transformational opportunity to all of Hawaii, and significantly, the kanaka maoli. If you like your life now, by all means, do what you have to. But if you are visionary, compassionate, willing to sacrifice for your fellow man, you can turn Pahoa into the crown jewel of the Pacific... the Vatican, Silicon Valley and the Hague all rolled into one with services which rival Johns Hopkins, the Louvre and Harvard. If you like what you have now, then stupid is as stupid does. Imagine it is 25 years from now in Pahoa —how do you see it? Page 8