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infrastructures that we need in place, then they need to be in place, and the assessments of a place,
<br /> especially of Alii Drive, of the large burials,the bones and archaeological sites need to be
<br /> respected because it's a, it's a—I was up in the military working on this issue because I'm a
<br /> cultural advisor to them, too, and MATO, listen to a whole, I mean a whole talk-- -PowerPoint
<br /> on MATO, and I'm very aware of it because I worked with burial rights with Native Americans in
<br /> the 80's, but it's a federal law that these, these laws are - - - state law, there's HRS, I think it's 6E,
<br /> HRS 6E, there's laws already in place. And so we just need to make sure that we have
<br /> transparency, and that we don't hurt—for me there's too many native people without being able to
<br /> have land, being crammed into Hawaiian Homelands, the lots getting smaller, and they are on the
<br /> streets, and it affects drugs and alcohol and all kinds of dysfunction within the families, and, you
<br /> know, these are,these are our people. So, I just wanted to thank Holeka and the Commission
<br /> forI think that it's a well-balanced bill, and I think that it's something that should go through
<br /> and cause and be end result of more harmony between all of us, because for sure you don't want to
<br /> divide - - - we want all of us to be living in harmony - - -. So,thank you for your time.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Mahalo. Thank you for your testimony.
<br /> LOPRINZI: Okay, have a great day, you guys.
<br /> VIOTUSEK: You, too. Okay. Is there anyone else on Zoom?
<br /> HATA: No public testifiers at this time.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Okay. Any, and no one else in person? [None]Okay. With that, can we have a
<br /> motion to close public testimony for this agenda item?
<br /> KANUHA: Motion to close.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Motion to close
<br /> DEFRANCO: Second.
<br /> VIOTUSEK: by Commissioner Kanuha, second by Vice Chair DeFranco. All those in favor?
<br /> COMMISSIONERS: Aye.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Any apposed? [None]Motion carries. Councilmember Inaba, would you mind
<br /> stepping back up? Is there anything that you would add following public testimony?
<br /> INABA: I think the points Mr. Childs brought up are valid points, like we talked about standard
<br /> practice being five years right now. I think we as a planning, as the County, as the Planning
<br /> Department, really need to help guide, because if some applicants come forth and don't really
<br /> understand the scope of work that it takes to meet the conditions, I do hope that the Department
<br /> plan-provides guidance, and if they know it's going to take seven years, then put seven years into
<br /> the rezoning bill. I don't want it to be five or 10, like Mr. Childs said,just, because, again, it
<br /> wouldn't accomplish what we are trying to get here at. What we are trying to get here at is a
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