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CARR SMITH: Questions for the applicant, Commissioners? No? Okay. Thank you very <br /> much. You maybe seated. <br /> HARRIS: Thank you. <br /> CARR SMITH: All right, it looks like we have some public testimony on this one. Could <br /> Simmy McMichael and Lokelani McMichael please come forward? <br /> [Ms. Simmy McMichael displayed a collage ofpictures and articles towards the Commission.] <br /> CARR SMITH: Good morning. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the <br /> truth on this matter now and before the Planning Commission? <br /> S. MCMICHAEL: Yes. <br /> L. MCMICHAEL: Yes. <br /> CARR SMITH: Please speak into the mic, and state your name and where you reside and who <br /> you are representing, please. <br /> L. MCMICHAEL: Aloha, my name is Lokelani McMichael. I'm from the Holualoa Ahupua`a, <br /> and I'm representing Keawe Alapai, my cousin, because he can't be here today; he is at the <br /> Keauhou Liberty Dialysis Center: <br /> "My name is Keawe Alapai, and I oppose the rezoning application for Tax Map Key (3) 7-7- <br /> 008:120 and (3) 7-7-008:124. They should not build and desecrate. Leave the land open space <br /> and cultural landscape, and I'm suggesting that the owner should work with PONC, which would <br /> make both parties happy; owner gets compensated and the community will get to enjoy open <br /> space. Our Alii Drive is already clustered with traffic on working school days, and it gets more <br /> clustered when surf rises. My name is Keawe Alapai, and I am a lineal and cultural descent of <br /> Pahoehoe. My fourth great-grandfather is a brother to Kamehameha III who issued Land Grants, <br /> Royal Patents. Two, I would like to have a cultural impact assessment review, it's important to <br /> our native Hawaiian, cultural and environmental impact assessment and environmental impact <br /> statement. Sincerely, Keawe Alapai" <br /> Mahalo. <br /> CARR SMITH: Thank you. <br /> S. MCMICHAEL: Aloha, my name is Simmy McMichael, and I reside in Kailua-Kona. I'm a <br /> kanaka maoli, and I was born in the Territory of Hawaii. I come today to oppose BNP change <br /> zone. At first I thought it was a good idea when you were downsizing. It's not adjacent to Alii <br /> Drive. But as I was preparing my application to PONC for Banyans and White Sands, it caught <br /> my eye that this land was part of one large land, Pahoehoe, a 432 acres. All of this land is <br /> sacred, and the mana, it's real. The last decades, many iwi-s in this area have been desecrated. I <br /> have been told by many of my friends. My local friends have many stories to tell. Many have <br /> 4 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />