2022-05-05 Windward Exh A (Testimony PD Report)

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to help us. This is access that belongs to the community, in order for this guy to be able to build. He promised it. There's a lot of access that he promised, and he never deliver on. First and foremost, the Planning Commission, Planning Commissioner, or the Planning Director's they never made sure that the enforcement was done. To make sure that these things went thru like promised. I mean, I'm pretty sure Heather you feel comfortable lying to people because you've been lying to us all this time. JACKSON: Mr. Chair. Point of order. The testifiers are supposed to direct their testimony to you as Chairperson and not to other Commissioners or testifiers or staff. JAERICK MEDEIROS-GARCIA: Chair. AU: Mr. Medeiros-Garcia, can you please address your testimony to the Chair, and the Commission please. JAERICK MEDEIROS-GARCIA: You got it. Chair, I will tell you right now, there's a lot of conflict of interest on these pictures I'm looking at right now. We need our access back. We use that to go gather food for our families. The community use that access. We tired of getting things taken away for your guys' private interests. Please listen, hear our voices. We are people from the community. I speak on behalf of our 150 guys from the Makahanaloa Fishing Association. I am the President. My job is to make sure that corruption don't stop our access. My name is Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia, Makahanaloa Fishing Association President. Please do what's right. Mr. Darrow I will come talk to you. Chair, thank you for your time. Thank you for serving. Have a nice day. AU: Thank you for your testimony, Mr. Medeiros-Garcia. At this time, I'd like to take the next testifier in the Zoom room. Maija, do we have the first person in the Zoom? JACKSON: Yes, I believe Ms. Rohr is the first testifier in Zoom. AU: Okay, so Ms. Rohr please go ahead and testify, and as a reminder to all testifiers please address the testimony to the Commission and to me, to myself. So, Ms. Rohr go ahead, you have 3 minutes. Thank you very much. ROHR: Good morning, Commissioners and Chair Au. My name is Claudia Rohr. I've been a resident of Hilo for more than 25 good years. I have used the shoreline trails in Pepe`ekeo for most of those years. This testimony is about the Planning Director's report. A report on Special Management Area(SMA) determinations, minor permits, and enforcement action issued by the Planning Director listed on today's agenda. This testimony follows my oral testimony on the Planning Director's SMA report at the meeting held on Thursday, January 6, 2021. Today, I stand in protest of the lack of disclosure that on March 24, 2022, the Planning Director's Deputy Jeff Darrow closed enforcement actions ZCV-2018-019E without dealing with the illegally gated public vehicular access to the shoreline in Pepe`ekeo. In 2005, developer Jere Henderson and his partners doing business as Continental Pacific submitted communication amending the language of the zoning bill by adding one additional public vehicular access and 3 EXHIBIT A