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MCCOWATT: I do.
<br /> YEE: I do.
<br /> MCMICHAEL: I do.
<br /> LINGER: Thank you. When it's your turn, could you please state your name and area of
<br /> residence? Ms. McMichael, why don't we start with you? And just a reminder, we are, you can
<br /> certainly talk about the merits of the project, but what we're here specifically to decide today is,
<br /> is your qualifications for standing in a contested case hearing. Mahalo.
<br /> MCMICHAEL: My name is Paula Simmy McMichael, and I reside in the Holualoa District
<br /> 1 and 2.
<br /> LINGER: Thank you. Please proceed with your presentation.
<br /> MCMICHAEL: Okay. I would like you to say no to the project. That's my number one. And,
<br /> if you're inclined to say yes, then I would plead with you to allow me to present my information
<br /> in past decade of this entire area of the Holualoa Bay.
<br /> I've battled with the County, the State, DLNR, since 2005 on all the destruction of this land.
<br /> And, you know, building lands on this area should be the public beach, and when you put a
<br /> building there—this is a coastal high-hazard zone—we keep tearing, the ocean keeps tearing it
<br /> up, and we keep allowing them to build their walls. And this is our land, the public land. This is
<br /> our surf area. I have run surf contests there for ten years, six contests a year for the ten years. It
<br /> is the best surfing spot on the entire Island of Hawaii. You would not put buildings on Oahu at
<br /> the Pipeline, Sandy Beach, 20 feet from the shoreline. This is our land, and they keep illegally
<br /> trying to restore their seawall to protect the building, and they have done everything wrong about
<br /> it. They got fined 45,000 dollars. And, the last hearing, you said about the clear definition of
<br /> the, the State and the County on whose line it is, but I have photos to show you that they are
<br /> building inside the sand, and they are moving the shoreline out, and they were told to get
<br /> shoreline survey maps and then twice it was rejected. So, the State said, you know, the real high
<br /> tide, we have to go by the flood, FEMA, and the real line is in the middle of Alii Drive
<br /> centerline. You take all our beach. You take all our parking. There is no parking. Every condo
<br /> there has no parking, no parking. So, that's public shoulder parking. They took everything
<br /> away. Then, they take our beach away, and they constantly battle. The sand, and they put the
<br /> seawall, and they tell you to stay off the grass, and they make you walk on the, along the
<br /> shoreline, and there's nothing to walk on. It's all rocks. And, to build another one when you
<br /> have this, and you call it an infill? Where's the checks and balance of the public open space?
<br /> It's really difficult when—and I think it should be changed as far as the open, open space,
<br /> because you're saying from the highway. How about the coast? The coastline is like, it's
<br /> nauseous because all they're doing now is protecting their property with all these walls, and all
<br /> you do is you drive down, and it's walls, walls, walls.
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