2021-05-20 Leeward Exh B (Public Testimony re SMA 21-078)

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VITOUSEK: Thank you, Ms. Capri. [timer chimes in background] Oh, my timer. Any questions? [None.] Okay, moving on to Maki Morinoue. M. MORINOUE: Hello. VITOUSEK: Aloha, would you please state your name and your area of residence? M. MORINOUE: My name is Maki Morinoue. I am a Holualoa resident, multi-generation here, and over the years growing up here I have seen many things change. Now, this is just for Item Number 2, yes? VITOUSEK: Correct. M. MORINOUE: Okay. Here in Kailua-Kona especially, or Kona Coast, we have a very specific type of water table. Here the University of Manoa shows how our rainwater goes straight down to the ocean very quickly, and how our toilet behavior affects and impacts our ground water runoff. Here's another aerial shot, which I have put in my testimony, of how ground water moves through thermal camera. So, you can see that the blue area is how fast the water moves into our ocean. Over the years we've had increase various types of staph infection. We now go to the water with protection. Pre-COVID, we've had sanitation in our beach bags. Because this unit is right off the shore, having 22 bathrooms increase into our sewage area there, and having had a history of sewage leakage all along our Kona Coast poses threat to our environment and our natural resources. Having a building there established with parking, more oil leakage, possible, also poses the ability for lack of water mitigation so close to our oceanfront. So, I oppose this project. The design of the building does not reflect our cultural sense of place. It protrudes well beyond. In the report it uses the word "minor" and I'd like to push against that. It is a major eyesore to our visual landscape in Kailua-Kona. What else? There is some archaeological walls, historic walls there that I would like to see and hear its protection. And again, I second what people have already said about the parking overflowing onto the public streets of where we, the local people, love to go and fish, swim, and surf. So, for the protection of our natural resources for generations to come, our land to sea relationship must be taken into serious consideration. I second what Nancye Capri had mentioned; that this should be raised for PONC acquisition in protecting our natural resources rather than creating more residence. Thank you. VITOUSEK: Thank you. Any questions? [None.] Okay, moving on we have Janice Palma- Glennie. Janice, are you there? JACKSON: I don't see her here. VITOUSEK: Okay. Moving next to Simmy McMichael. Simmy are you here? I see Simmy's square. MCMICHAEL: Wait. Yes, hello? 5 EXHIBIT B