2021-11-18 Leeward Exh C (Items 1 & 2)

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grudge and don’t know if it was really community generated. I don’t know, I don't know but it just felt sort of strange to me. So, I know that there’s probably people that support this project and there’s probably people against this project, but I would hope that in the future we had some kind of filter to understand what we’re reading when we’re getting it. I don’t know if anybody else felt like that, but I did VITOUSEK: Commissioner Yates? YATES: That was part of the reason why I brought up about that 800 plus because I got an email from our representative from, what’s his name, I’m having a senior minute right now. A Tarnas that he had gotten a lot of opposition regarding this particular project in Waimea. So, this is why I had brought that up because I read that and so and then and I’ve talked to some of the people who are for it. But it just seemed like there was a lot of opposition going to our representative on Oahu. So, this is why I brought it up when I did earlier. I really think that I’m sorry. I really― VITOUSEK: That’s my fault. YATES: I think that I guess it’s a dozen or a half dozen or whatever they say so I guess we just do the best we can. VITOUSEK: Commissioner Armbruster? ARMBRUSTER: Yeah, I kind of got a similar feeling about like I looked at some of the zip codes for the people that were submitting that, and they were from all over the place, and I don’t have any way to understand if they are people that were from here, or if they’re people that just we’re on like an Instagram. Like it just felt sort of out of context to me, so I don’t know that those numbers are like terribly accurate reflections of what they were. I live down the street and I don’t know that any of my neighbor’s care either way. The traffic’s kind of a bummer but I don’t know if Mr. Metzler’s little project is really going to be the thing that triggers a bit you know, a big change. I think it’s certainly an infrastructure that needs to be developed and then evolved over time, but I don’t know that the project of this size is something that is the trigger for that. VITOUSEK: So, for me I grew up in Waimea. My parents still live in Waimea. I tried to read as many of the 800 letters, as we possibly could in the time and in the format that they came in which proves to be very difficult given the amount of stuff we have to read. That being said. The names on that list are people that I grew up with, they are the community members that I know and the family names Alapai’s, the Lau, Lindsey, Ahio, Kaniho. Those names are the names of Waimea, Bertelmann . To me it’s remarkable the amount of opposition that was generated from the people of Waimea to this somewhat small project. To me it gives an indication through the testimony where they’re very clear that they feel as though the way of life in the town is being invaded their words, not mine by the wealth that has moved up into town from places like Kaupulehu. 21 EXHIBIT C