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comfort station, but it is starting to get close. It may affect where the landscape barrier goes. That has an 18-inch footing on it which is clearly in the tides. IWASHITA: So as to the improvements which is, I guess, the Puna side of this area, your concern is that that may be overrun by, you know, high tide, high wave kind of scenario and -? REES: Absolutely. Presently where the sidewalk is located, I have video evidence. And I’m standing in the water and I’ve got a light set up in the middle of the night, so you can see the reflection and grab reference points. And I measured it with my tapes and spotlighted that. IWASHITA: Thank you. WOODWARD: All right, further questions? No. Okay, Mr. Johnston-Kitazawa. JOHNSTON-KITAZAWA: Aloha, Mr. Chairman. WOODWARD: Aloha. JOHNSTON- KITAZAWA: And Members of the Planning Commission -. COMMISSIONERS: Aloha. JOHNSTON- KITAZAWA:Some of whom are familiar to me. I’m Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa. I’m a native tenant at Honuapo Harbor in Kau, but I grew up in Piihonua in Hilo. My mother was born in Piihonua. My father was born in Waikiki, was a surf board and canoe builder. And my maternal grandfather, I have a picture of him standing on a pier at what is now called Reeds Bay, the footings of which have been exposed over the last 15 years of erosion next to the culvert that some people call the spillway. The culvert when it was built was recessed into the coral rubble fill, concurrent with the building of Banyan Drive, the date you can get off the plaque at the Kanoelehua intersection. I’m disturbed by the use of certain loaded words, one of them is driving on the beach. In every administration former to Mayor Kim, that was referred to as the Reeds Bay parking lot or the coral rubble parking lot for Reeds Bay Park. All of a sudden we’re driving on the beach. It was fill that was dredged out of Kuhio Bay in the thirties, piped to shore, to make Bakers Beach, which has now washed almost all back into the ocean. It’s still all sitting out there on the sea floor. It was bussed, filled on the marshy area. I talked to Dr. Nagakura, retired veterinarian, he said it used to be all marshy area behind, and they filled and made that coral rubble parking lot. My biggest objection is the premise that this is a park improvement. Improvement for who and against who? If we took the dragstrip and said, hey, we’re going to make it the golf course, municipal, you guys out of here, no more racing cars, there’d be a big scream. If you took the municipal golf course and said we’re going to make a baseball field, you guys cannot play golf here anymore, people would be really upset. Same if you took Liliuokalani Park and said no more picnic here and walking, you know, we’re going to make canoe clubs over here or we’re going to fill it in and make a go-cart tract. So County Parks has a big responsibility and it’s 20 EXHIBIT C