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Page 1 of 2 Fleming, Melissa From: Julie Enriques [konavb@aloha.net] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:50 PM i f r ~';a ; ~.~j~i ~2 r"' To: Jacobson, Bob Cc: Yagong, Dominic; Ikeda, Donald; Yoshimotb, J; Higa, Stacy; Naeole, Emily; Ford, Brenda; Pilago, K. Angel; Hoffmann, Pete; cohmayor@co.hawaii:hi.us; planning@co.hawaii.hi.us; repherkes@Capitol.hawaii.gov; repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov; senkokubun@Capitol.hawaii.gov; mazie.hirono@mail.house.gov; Neil.Abercrombie@mail.house.gov Councilman Jacobson: Bill 169-07 should be stopped immediately until this community has had a chance to look at all the possibilities. Once again, your Bill continues to highlight your consistent effort to railroad your own agenda and the agenda of a vocal minority, rather than providing equal opportunity for community groups and individuals to voice their thoughts. Identifying Ka'u Preservation in the Bill as the sole community organization to develop management plans and use, only serves to divide this community and create more animosity and frustration. I am sure you aze aware that Mayor Harry Kim is attempting to organize vazious community leaders to come up with a format to discuss the issues regazding Punalu'u. His effort to give this community equal platforms to speak is extremely refreshing. Let's wait to see the outcome of his labor before rushing in to the purchase of such a financially questionable and sustainable property. The County is considering the purchase of Kawa Beach, Honoapo has recently been acquired by the land trust, much of Kahuku has been fumed into a national park, Mazie Hirono wants to survey the majority of Ka'u Coastline to see if it should be turned into a national pazk and now this bill wants 150 more acres of already developed land to be tamed into a County Park. Ka'u has 80 miles of pristine, untouched and undeveloped coastline. How much more land does our government need to encumber in Ka'u, before we eliminate the real endangered species.....the local people. You know how badly we need to keep our workforce off the roads, how poor our school is performing and how many or our children are leaving with no economic opportunity to return. "Keep Ka'u, Ka'u" is no longer a slogan we can be proud of. As the President of ' O Ka'u Kakou(OKK), we believe there needs to be balance in how we care for the land and how we care for our people. We have neglected our people far too long. We need to take ow time and look at all the options. OKK has been the only group willing to communicate with Seamountain 5 (potential Developers of Punalu'u). It is unfair for you, Councilman Bob Jacobson or any of the newspapers to label us as pro-development when we have never publically or within our community made that claim. We do not feel that it is prudent to support a bill such as 167-07 or support developers as Seamountain 5, without first doing the research and looking at all the possibilities. In regards to development, OKK has taken Mayor Kim's advice to "create a development plan that can be acceptable to a majority of our community." And only our community, together, should make the decision to support or not support this development or bill 169-07. As part of the negotiations between OKK and Seamountain 5 agreements that aze reached will be written into a memorandum of agreement (MOA), in which Seamountain 5 will donate the 7 acres of the existing County Park that is now on a month-to-month lease. We are close to agreement on including another 50 acres (approx) of critical shoreline to the County or public land trust free of charge. It includes all the open coastal shoreline areas towards the Naalehu side of the existing beach park and the sensitive bluff area by the chapel and the important archaeological sites around Ninole Cove and the old Ninole Cove School area. So why rush to buy 150 acres when there is a good possibility to get approximately 56 acres of the critical shoreline donated to the County or public land trust. This bill needs much more conside2ra/ti/o//Jn~, O r: . °n P~ F-c. 4/30/2007 F4f. ~,1?; _i _