2021-06-16 Leeward Exh B (Public Testimony re SMA 21-000078)

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all of those concerns. I do want to relate a little bit of you know what my experiences are. Number 1, my grandparents, and my parents grew up on Oahu and when we come in to visit them from the airport you can drive as far as the eye can see. You see sugar canes, you see open areas and that was Hawaii to me and taking a look at Oahu now um' I don't recognize it. The last time I was there I had a hard time finding my grandparents' home and you know if you allow a 5-story building in the middle of Alii Drive where it's not conducive to any of the properties or the landscape in this area. You know, I ask you know where does it end. You allow something this big in the middle of Hawaii and that's a big reason why I decided to retire and spend the rest of my life in or in Kailua- Kona is because this is the old Hawaii that I remember. Another one of my experiences is we use to live at the Kanaloa Condos adjacent to the Kona Country Club. They shut that down for about a year and a half so they can redo their sprinkler systems and all they did for a year and a half was pound out lava to redo, set up their irrigation. So we dealt with that, which is still nothing compared to the 10 feet that we're living next to and I don't know how long this project is going to be and all we got was vibrations. I grew up in the Bay area so it was earthquakes every day. The sounds and the loudness of them breaking up the lava is just basically unbearable and that was our home and that is what's going to happen again in our home here. Um' again my point is where is it going to end if you allow them to build a 5-story, basically a hotel and then you take a look at where our future is going. You know with a couple of the speakers had mentioned Oahu, Maui and Kauai where have they gone with their construction and it's unrecognizable and I don't want that to happen to our Big Island. Thank you again for the time and I appreciate you hearing me out. Aloha. VITOUSEK: Thank you for the time, appreciate your testimony. Are there any questions from Commissioners? Our last public testimony for the day, Lancer Ka`eo Keeling. Please state your name and the town you live in. KEELING: Aloha everybody, I hope everybody is having a great day. I live in, my name is Lancer Ka`eo Keeling. Born and raised in Kailua-Kona, my family is the Moses family from um' Captain Cook. I live in Kailua-Kona. I just want to say, when I saw the pictures of what they were proposed to build you know it was very sad to actually see something that, I just lost for words. I have words but I don't want to say to them in a public form if you understand what I'm saying. Um' being from Kona, um' seeing things and experiencing things with family, my grandfather um' seeing what Alii Drive was at one time and what it is now and what people want it to look like. Um' this is just a shame, it is an absolute shame to build something that, ugh, its, yeah. It's definitely Oahu, Lake Tahoe but it's not the Big Island. Um' again, parking spaces. Um' you know my family use to fish there all the time and now because of the traffic and because of the parking headaches it's dangerous. You can't walk on Alii Drive without turning around and looking behind you. Um' can't ride 11 EXHIBIT B