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involving a permit, license, certificate, land use change, subdivision, or other entitlement for use,
<br /> which may affect historic property, ... artifacts, or a burial site,the agency or office shall advise
<br /> the department and prior to any approval allow the department an opportunity for review and
<br /> comment on the effect of the proposed project on historic properties, ... artifacts, or burial sites,
<br /> consistent with section 6E-43, including those listed in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places."
<br /> Now I'm going to Item 1 and 2, applicant Ahu P6haku Ho`omaluhia LLC, SMA Permit No. 417
<br /> and SPP No. 1117. My name is Cindy Freitas. I oppose Item I and 3[sic] for the following
<br /> reason. The fauna study of the project was not done; however, the applicant stated that over the
<br /> years cultivating sugarcane had degraded the project area and destroyed native habitat. But yet, in
<br /> the past 20 years there has been noted a return of the Hawaiian hawk, or `io, and native owl, or
<br /> pueo, which is on the endangered list, which falls under the Endangered Species Act. And I want
<br /> to mahalo the applicant for upholding the Constitutional law, Article 12, Section 7. Mahalo.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Thank you.
<br /> LOPRINZL Aloha.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Aloha.
<br /> LOPRINZL My name is Clare Loprinzi and
<br /> DEFRANCO: Speak right into the
<br /> LOPRINZL What did you say? Oh, okay. I don't want to get thrown out to doing anything
<br /> wrong, so I'll obey all rules. Okay, so I would, I'm, I'm opposing these develops, and I'm
<br /> speaking in general for all three.
<br /> When you look at the eyes of indigenous peoples from here and from wherever we are from, that
<br /> has been my life, my whole life has been that. We preserve water, land, the rights, R-I-G-H-T and
<br /> R-I-T-E-S of not just the people but of the land. When I look at how much water, for example,
<br /> and I look at what's the development in Kohala, and I look at they already have [to Ms. FreitasJ
<br /> How many places?—and they are already going to make 16—and they are going to make [to
<br /> Ms. FreitasJ How many more? 20. And I look to see, well,who is that helping? I mean if, if the
<br /> `io and the pueo come back andI was taught by people, since I was young, to listen to them, to
<br /> watch them how they fly,the positions they fly, they are talking to you, the clouds, they are
<br /> talking to us. We are all of that. We are made of their ingredients, and they are made of ours;
<br /> basically, we are made of theirs. But when you look at the, them coming back, are they coming
<br /> back for more development? How many people in Hawaii have the koko that come from here
<br /> have land? And, and if you are going to have this corporation or this, coming out of Delaware
<br /> that's, that's behind all of this,who is getting the money? And, so you employ the local people as
<br /> the help? So if you study history,you know, in the transatlantic slave route, then you had that the
<br /> next generation, which is where my people came from. And if you know their story, it's not easy.
<br /> And it's not easy for what happened to people here, even if that did not happen to Hawaiian
<br /> people, it's still, they took away their land, they took away their water. So, how much water, and
<br /> who owns the water, and who owns the land? Is that a concept of Hawaiian people? Who does
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