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IWASHITA: Yes, Mr. Chair. With regard to Item No. 4, Applicant County of Hawaii <br />Department of Parks and Recreation SMA 09-000036, Special Management Area (SMA) Use <br />Permit to allow the redevelopment and improvements to Reed’s Bay Beach Park, including a <br />new restroom, pavilion, walkways, walls, landscaping and related improvements, I move that the <br />application be approved in accordance with the recommendations and conditions set forth in the <br />record herein. <br />WOODWARD: Do we have a second? <br />KERN: Second. <br />WOODWARD: All right. Well, at least that allows us to open it up for discussion. Who would <br />like to go first? <br />IWASHITA: I would, Mr. Chair. <br />WOODWARD: Commissioner Iwashita, go ahead. <br />IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess the long pause speaks a lot for what my impression <br />is the concerns about what’s being proposed. And, you know, I guess the concerns that have <br />been raised in the testimony about access and so forth, I personally feel that providing the <br />County’s commitment to provide keys to the boaters who have mooring permits in the bay to me <br />addresses that. That essentially gives them access to their boats even beyond the, what were the <br />hours, County park hours, whatever? <br />KOMATA: From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. <br />GONZALEZ: Six a.m. to 11 p.m. <br />IWASHITA: Yeah, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., whatever the hours were, as a practical matter to take care <br />of the boaters’ needs. I, you know, when I was a kid and the VFW thing was still down there <br />and the Hau tree and everything before they built the hotel, you know, it was a great place to be. <br />I have many fond memories of being down there Sunday afternoons picnicking and so forth. So, <br />and it hasn’t been that way since they built the hotel, and the hotel burned down and, you know, <br />all that stuff. So I would really like to see, personally, you know, improvements made to make it <br />more accessible so we can have, you know, the keiki have more access to this. And I see the big <br />picture in the long run, I see that. And, actually, personally I’d be more radical, I’d want to shut <br />down part of the road and make it one way and provide more parking out there, you know, to <br />make it more accessible that way; but that’s down the road. <br />But I think that what has been proposed and in front the, as indicated earlier, you know, our <br />perspective in approving SMA permits is to look at the environmental impacts and make sure <br />that those are addressed. You know, the water quality obviously is an issue. But, you know, I <br />don’t see that this, well, I see this project as mitigating against whatever current use, you know, <br />adverse effects current use might have. So from that perspective I support the application. <br /> 29 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />