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level rise as we have already seen their impacts at the erosion on Alii Drive. And this is a <br /> tsunami inundation zone. <br /> And, the last thing. There's so much traffic down there already. It's congested and it's <br /> dangerous for the kids to cross the street. Thanks! <br /> FREITAS: E mele komo a he mele aloha. Nana kupuna i ke au i kala. Aloha mai kakou. <br /> UNGER: Aloha. <br /> FREITAS: Aloha, my name is Cindy Freitas. I'm a cultural practitioner. I oppose the extension <br /> to the SMA Permit. I'm a native descendant of the native inhabitants of Hawaii prior to 1778, <br /> born and raised in Hawaii all my life. My family conduct traditional practices in pule, hula, <br /> lawai`a, gathering, songs, surfing, etcetera. I practice my traditional cultural practices in the <br /> Ahupua`a of Holualoa from mauka to makai. Due to the Kilohana Makai LLC, it will encroach <br /> into my traditional practice under Article 12, Section 7. In HRS 91, it states that the public <br /> hearing should have been advertised in newspapers so people can come to voice their concern <br /> under SMA Permit, but the applicant was not forthcoming in doing so among other issues that is <br /> brought forth. <br /> Kilohana Makai LLC will cause irreparable harm to the land as well as the people. It would also <br /> cause desecration to the land under Hawaii Revised Statutes 711-1107. This came from the <br /> archives of the State: "Thus, Lieutenant James King, commander of the Discovery, 1779, <br /> recorded in the ship's log the first written description of Hawaiian surfing by a European." <br /> Before contact with Cook crew, Hawaii was ruled by code of kapu taboos, which regulates <br /> almost everything, where to eat, how to grow food, how to predict weather, how to build canoe, <br /> how to build surfboard, how to predict surf, or convince the gods to make it good. Hawaii <br /> society was distinguished, satisfied into royal and common classes, and these taboos extended <br /> into surf zones. There were reefs and beaches where the ali`i, chief, surf, and the reefs and <br /> beaches where the commoners surf. Commoners generally rode waves on pao prone boards and <br /> alaia stand-up board as long as 12 feet. The ali`i board was olo board as long as 24 feet. Under <br /> the Article XII, Section 7, this is a practice that was done prior to 1778. I am the descendant of <br /> this practice. <br /> I also gather things in that area. Today, they call it haole koa which we use for kala`au-s. We <br /> don't have the native plants around due to the vast growth of what's happening around us. So, <br /> today, we have to do it with what we got. The property that you, that sits there has many <br /> significant cultural practices where today we still as a descendant practice. So, therefore, this <br /> should not be issued to any further development. It should be hold back for the people of the <br /> land, which we can cultivate other things to feed the people, to use products that we need,just in <br /> case Matson truck doesn't come. Mahalo, thank you. <br /> UNGER: Mahalo. Thank you. You may be seated. Liz Wiggans, Chad Villarin, Lamaku <br /> Mikahala Roy? <br /> 21 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />