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

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MCNAUGHTON: Aloha kakou. Mahalo for your time. My name is Blake McNaughton. I'm the Vice President of Makahanaloa Fishing Association. I live in Kaupakuea which is an Ahupua`a, that's right down the road. Claudia did a good job of kind of outlaying the history behind this, but I just wanted to kind of set this in the context of this whole area. In 2005, the subdivisions were being developed and the County worked with the developer and work with the community and the community credit to them, they stood up and they demanded access be put in place. The community was promised 6 vehicular shoreline accesses down to the shoreline. They ended up with 2. The one that everybody's testifying about today is one of those accesses which has been blocked for 4 years. The other one is blocked as well. That's been blocked for about 8 years. So, you can see the frustration from these testifiers that this subdivision has not been done correctly. The County didn't receive that easement of access until 2011. People already had built in there by then. So, if this is landing in the Windward Commission's lap and I understand that a lot of you guys didn't work on this in the beginning, but we need to back up now and do this correctly. So, moving this one vehicular access that runs to the shoreline back and let me tell you, when it was blocked, it was blocked and there is no parking put in. In fact, no parking signs were put all around that area. We had to go in and put and make areas so that the public, not just our fishermen, but the public could access that area and the landowner has never, never done a good job of maintaining that access. They're responsible for maintaining the whole entire shoreline. You cannot walk that shoreline. So, we need some enforcement. We need the County to step up and enforce the laws that are already on the books. We're not asking you to do anything that's not correct. Okay,just to give you guys a little bit of some history of this place, because this is not just a random place. Okay, this leads to a fishing spot it's called Iron Posts by the guys but it's Lonoka`eho. Okay, Lonoka`eho was 8t'headed chief from Kahiki, from Tahiti and the story goes that he fought with Kane and Kanaloa, and he fought with Pa'ao the Navigator before he came over to Hawaii. Okay, at some point Lonoka`eho decided to come back from Kahiki and challenge Kamapua`a. Kamapua`a lives in one of his houses at Kahuku. Our hill above Pepe`ekeo and he came and challenged Kamapua`a. Kamapua`a destroyed him and turn them into stone and that's the stone that sits right on the edge of the fishing spot. As well as the name of the stream that comes out of that area and so these are story places. That cliff line is Kukuilaumania. It has a name; these places have history. This area was fished for generations and now we're getting stopped from accessing these areas in the proper way. Okay, so let's not let this happen and cut off thousands of years of our history. Okay, we knew this access for our community and for our fishermen to provide for their families. Mahalo for listening. AU: Thank you, Mr. McNaughton for attending. Thank you to all testifiers for coming and taking your time. I believe there's no more testifiers, but I'd like to ask my fellow Commissioners do you have any questions for any of the 9 testifiers that just testified? 7 EXHIBIT A