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Home My WebLink About2014-73 Community Associations Responses Communication No. 2014-73 Leilani Community Association Thank you for starting to look into this. The district may well change as events unfold and the more prepared we can be the better off we are. The Leilani Community Association can and will do many things to help ourselves and others in Puna. Frankly, some of the infrastructure you are looking for will not be available. For instance with no county water or sewer available we would find it difficult to support most types of commerce. (The County, or maybe the State,has property and a couple of buildings with County water on Pohoiki Road just below Leilani. It's been abandoned but could probably be brought into useful condition. It was part of the old geothermal site.) Currently our Board of Directors has authorized the use of the Leilani Community property by both government and relief agencies, coordinated by Civil Defense, up to a time frame and density to be determined.Any other use, including other service groups or NGO use,will be considered on a case by case basis. Use of private property in the subdivision remains under the terms of the Leilani CC&Rs. Jay Bondesen Leilani Community Association Questions: 1. How much acreage does your community cover? 2. What is the current zoning of your lots? Ag 3. What is the current infrastructure of your community center? Office and equipment storage building, paved parking, 4,000 gallon catchment water, 20,000 + sq. ft. pavilion. 4. How big is the lot in which your community center is on? Roughly eight acres 5. What commercial endeavors are you willing to temporarily house? We have monthly sales in the pavilion. That could possibly be expanded. 6. Are there any restrictions to what you might be able to temporarily house? Yes. We are generating a document covering things such as insurance, hours of operation and others. So far this is to accommodate non- commercial relief and governmental uses. 7. Do you have water access? If so, what type of access? Also, do you have a water purification system for drinking water? Catchment. Hawaiian Shores Community Assn Nice idea. Visited Christ's Church in New Zealand at Christmas last year and they relocated their businesses to a container town after their massive earthquake. It was pretty impressive! While Hawaiian Shores Community Assn has land - over 20 acres of open space and a water system,we would most likely NOT be the favored location due to the current lava path. Zoning throughout the subdivision is A-la County but State designation is urban. Hope that helps. I've been discussing the concept proposed in the Sept 23rd letter from the PCDP with the rest of our board and members of the community. We really do have a good location at the property where the Hawaiian Shores Community Center is situated which is also referred to as "the Stables" located near Keonepoko School. The property contains a total of 10-12 acres and once supported a polo field although now allowed to grow up in grass. Provided the flow takes the path predicted, it will skirt this area by 1 mile and head off towards the keonepoko ahupua'a (DHHL). If it follows the predicted path,we will have a site that has water provided from our well next door, electricity (HELCO is bringing in power along the Beach Rd from HPP), and is zoned State Urban, County Ala. This spot was identified as a Village Commercial center in the Puna CDP. It is also just a mile up Kahakai Blvd from the Railroad Ave detour route. Oceanic and HI Tel have put in free WiFi at the center and we've invited the County police to set up a substation there should lava cut off Hwy 130 and the top of Kahakai Blvd. The police are considering this seriously and contacted me yesterday to do measurements on the facility. We would prefer to have their presence inside the Hawaiian Shores/Beaches subdivision as their response times are already excessive and if they have to file in with everyone else on the detour routes it will be even slower. Thus,there may be a police presence on site as well. There would be plenty room for parking as well, although our septic system for the community center would not support additional restrooms so port-a-potties would be needed on site. AT&T and Verizonwireless will be activated from the new cell tower on Maikoiko Street on Nov. 1, 2014 which will help boost cell services in that location. Given that the nature of a container town provides for mobility, it might be a good spot to consider for Pahoa businesses that could be displaced. It would be great to have some services inside the subdivision should access in and out be restricted to slow emergency detour routes. I did experience a similar effort in Christschurch NZ as they did a container town for displaced downtown businesses after the 2011 earthquake which was still functioning well after 2 years. The powers that be were having a hard time deciding whether to rebuild the downtown area given the earthquake prone nature of the location. Sound familiar?? Please let me know that you have received this communication as I responded earlier and heard nothing back. Contact me if there is interest as it would seem this location is the most central to the traffic flow patterns that will develop once they have to activate Railroad Ave. There is no guarantee that is will be safe from inundation forever,but at this time it doesn't appear to be in the path so might actually suffice. It has been the intention of the current board to consider this location for some type of light commercial activity anyway, so this actually supports that plan provided Pele cooperates J Eileen O'Hara, Ph.D. President, Board of Directors Hawaiian Shores Community Assn 965-1981 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Koa'e Community Asociation. Questions: 1. How much acreage does your community cover? The area is several hundred acres but the Community Assoc. does not own any land except a portion of Papaya Farms Road. 2. What is the current zoning of your lots? Ag. 3. What is the current infrastructure of your community center? No official CC but there is a recreation center within our community whose owners allow the CA to hold meetings there. 4. How big is the lot in which your community center is on? N.A. Ann kobsa <autofreeann @hotmail.com> ++++++++++++++ Orchidland Association Elmer, I don't have the information details that your are requesting but here are some POCs that may be very helpful to you. Jeff Darrow, Hawaii County Planning Department, idarrow @co.hawaii.hi.us, phone: 961-8158. Jeff can give you the full plan on the various community centers in Puna. Gregg Gadd: 935-6871 936-4616, greg 7 @me.com, is the developer who owns the commercial lot under construction at Orchidland Drive and 34th Street. Richard Howard , rhoward @lava.net, 971-8817, is the manager for JD Watumull who owns the Orchidland commercial lot that has the gas station, drive-in and hardware/convenience store. Thanks, Bob OLCA Board Member +++++++++++++++++++