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sound of sleeping, nesting o~~ is nearby (which you also could have um+•ittingl}~ disturbed). You sounded like a bunch of squaking hens in the chicken }'ard and you want to treat this special area as your own spot to scratch and shit on. You never allowed me to even finish asking my questions, let alone providing you ~•ith a final recommendation. So, now that I have spent a year doing exactl}' the research you are onl}' beginning, now that I have Herbert Katvainui Kane aware of the site, now that the site can finally be granted the quiet dignity it deserves, here are your flaws, as I see them, in summation, and my follow-up recommenda- tions. I understand that my input will probably be even less welcome now than before, but I do plan on sending a copy of this document to various pertinant organizations and individuals, so since you've botched up welcoming a property owner's input, I suggest you pay close attention since your social ass may be on the line: 1. Propert}• Owner Input: I suggest that you receive input from the surrounding propert}• owners before you just go ahead and railroad this 2.5 million dollar plan down some political, greasy-palmed throat. I doubt any of you has attempted to do that }•et, since I never was contacted about this Park committee until your field trip got lost. In fact, my business partner and 1 had asked the Hui to be notified «•hen and if this commit- tee ever met, and we never Here. This leads me to believe that you don't reall}• ~i•ant property o~rners to know about this until the plan is made and the grant is given. And won't that be a little star on the Malamalama Merit badge? To have done this with no help from anyone else but }'ourselves is to take away the co-ownership that all the propert}' owners have of this area in discussion and to practically take away the subdivision privacy and hand it over to every possible anal-retentive blo~rhole on the island. And, since my business partner have at least 3-6 parcels in this subdivision alone, I guess that means that we have at least 3-6 times as much vested interest in what happens to this area as many of you probably do. 2. Unnecessar}' Paving: 1 can't understand your plans to desecrate this special area behind m}• home. I just don't understand why, with all the area already set aside for community parks and so on, this area needs so badly to have a $200,000 minimum paving job which will force the owls and ha6vks to find other nesting areas, which will invite in gangs and graffitti and crime into an unfenced, uninsured area. The areas of the subdivision which need bike paths are the main roads where commuters and children regularl}• ride and have even been killed on. Would you like to be the one to tell a mother "We won't pave a path where your child rides every day and theirfriend got killed on. We' 11 pave it where it's dangerous to get to'" Put pavement on the main roads, or make speed bumps for the side roads or just make sure the damn grass stays cut and the mud stays do«•n. And if you want Chem toilets, put them at the busstops for the children who have to hold it till the bus takes them to Keaau. And give them a covered busstop while you're at it. 3. Further Research is Required: It is obvious that the committee is spending a great deal of time planning to do something that is unrealistic financiall}' as v~'ell as in feasibility. What needs to be done first and foremost is to decide what to do right now with the place, as it is, to protect and preserve it. What better way than to leave it alone and quietly research it from the front door instead of bashing in the back door and im•iting in the herds of stampeding site rock-takers. To start stomping do~c•n the forest Kith a bunch of volunteer! eighth graders wielding sickles has got to be the mose lame-brained, micke}'-mouse idea I've ever heard yet. Let's get some very aware individuals in there to quietly examine the area, study it ongoing, so that we don't end up killing the good thing that's there. What's wild should stay wild. .