2022-07-21 Leeward Exh D (Public Testimony re Items 56 Hawaii One1 PL-REZ-2022-000014 PL-SMA-2022-000012)

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DUNN: So, good morning and hello, my name is Elizabeth Dunn and I've already written, submitted written comments. So, I'll really try to be brief and summarize those because I'm hearing some other things from the testifiers who are here in-person and who've testified on Zoom. I think one of the big things is this project has been around long enough and it's really not shown to be a viable project. The developers had 9 years on their own and 13 years in total. They've obviously spent a lot of money in their time and hired professionals to get this project through, but it's just not materialized. And I'm going to say this because I thought this was good a good line that I wrote. Lost funding and missed deadlines do not equate to continued extensions for this development proposal. When this project was last at the Planning Commission in April, there was a request for it to go to the Cultural Resources Commission and that happened in June. There were about 15 people who spoke, nobody was in support of the Naniloa proposal and, at the conclusion of that hearing the CRC voted unanimously for additional consultation with lineal and cultural descendants of this Ahupua`a and the neighboring Ahupua`a. So, my big question is how that is being folded into today's meeting because I didn't see anything in the staff report. I wasn't quite sure how they connect. So that's a critically important issue for me, certainly as this project may move forward. I'm going to kind of skip what I wrote, because the rest of it's a little sort of esoteric. I think there's some good ideas here, but you know, one of the big issues I'm hearing is that when land is developed it's you know if there's cultural history it's lost. You can do what you can to preserve it but the whole context is lost. And I think that's a big issue for many people in this room. I'm a new resident of Hawaii, but I certainly understand the issue and I understand the passion and I was hearing a lot of you know what I would say is certain little of a lot of concern from Cindy Freitas . About what happened to her ancestral land and if it's just developed, it's lost. What I would like to say is this that the other thing that a lot of cities and counties are not good at, and what you're seeing here in an ad hoc fashion is civic engagement. I'm a neighbor who's adjacent to this Naniloa project and a potential and another project up to the east of it up mauka. We have created a website and then go and take you know a little proud moment here is kapuonkapu.wixsite.com. That was created to address the Kapu project and we folded in our concerns about Naniloa. I'm also going to do something which I don't normally do, and that is advertise my email address, so if people have any questions or concerns, I can point them there. My name is Elizabeth elizabeth.dunnl35ggmail.com. We will respond to you, and I can certainly have some of the folks who have been involved with our group get in contact with you, if that also helps. The other thing I'm hearing is that there's a fair amount of public distrust in this public process. We've read about corruption by State legislators, local staff it's concerning for multiple reasons. Projects that go on and on and on like this one don't really seem to assist with that constraint about lack of public trust. So, here's the thing that I've been debating about talking about all this morning and I'm going to go ahead and do it. I think, maybe the time is right for a moratorium. Moratorium on development, a moratorium on extensions something to really put the context of what development means on this island into a way that people can understand what's going on. 5 EXHIBIT D