Puna, and the western part of Ka'u are still plagued by the bad planning that went on with the original creation of subdivisions like Hawaiian Beaches and Paradise Park in Puna  and Ocean View in Ka'u in the early 1960s. None of the roads and streets were built to County dedicable standards, no sewers were built, and they were all on catchment. Also the number of lots in those subdivisions is huge. The ultimate nightmare would be a house and a car and a four person family on every subdivision lot in Puna and Ocean View. The County won't take the roads because they are substandard, and it would cost residents too much to improve them on their own, even if they could get improvement districts. Those areas are stuck in an unwinnable situation.