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assist you with the contested hearing in this matter. (To Corporation Counsel,) should I go ahead
<br />with the public testimony at this stage or continue reading this? Okay, so IÓll finish this quickly.
<br />A contested hearing would require the preparation for filing of, No. 1, written documents that
<br />clearly set forth the issues in dispute; No. 2, the preparation and presentation of exhibits,
<br />witnesses and other relevant evidence. After the Commission has established the parties to the
<br />proceeding, the Commission may either proceed with the hearing, or continue the matter to a
<br />more appropriate time and date, or assign the matter to a hearings officer due to the number of
<br />parties involved or the complexity of issues. If assigned to a hearings officer, it is the hearings
<br />officer that will determine all pre-hearing deadlines and responsibilities of the parties. As Chair,
<br />I would like to take up all the petitions for standing one by one today, if there are no o
<br />from my fellow Commissioners.
<br />Okay. So now letÓs begin with the public testimony. I think weÓll probably start with you on the
<br />far right. And if you would like to present your testimony. Tha
<br />REINEMAN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to all of you for allowing us to be here
<br />today to speak on this issue. I submitted written comments, and IÓm not going to read them. So
<br />IÓll just summarize concisely that my name is Daniel Reineman, IÓm here as representative of the
<br />Crumrine Family, which has the house right here immediately on the north side of the proposed
<br />development. My grandfather, Martin H. Crumrine, was represented at the purchase of our
<br />property by Howard Lyman himself in 1965. So this property has
<br />some time and we are very, very fond of it. We only received all the official notices and
<br />background material about the proposed development approximately two weeks ago beginning
<br />of this month, so we havenÓt had a whole lot of time to sift through all this or consult with, you
<br />know, lawyers or architecture experts any time. So the concerns that now, just now, quickly
<br />innumerate are based on our inexpert reading of the material. We have concerns that are
<br />environmental in nature, aesthetic in nature, and as well as our own privacy and security on our
<br />lot.
<br />Briefly, the application states that an environmental impact statement will only be submitted if
<br />required; we feel that a development of this magnitude, this close to the shoreline, would
<br />constitute a significant enough environmental change that an impact statement would be
<br />warranted. Furthermore, there are endangered marine species, which, there are some green sea
<br />turtle, which are commonly found in Hlualoa Bay and several locations on the shoreline here Î
<br />down here, and IÓve also seen them over here. They pull out and bask in the sun and feed on the
<br />limu, which grows on the rocks. So for those reasons, we feel that further environmental
<br />investigation would certainly be warranted.
<br />Aesthetically, this is a very, very special place on the Kona Coast. This bay is unique, I think,
<br />and I encourage you to go and take a look at it. As yet there are no big structures surrounding it,
<br />and we tried to pull together some images to highlight this, which IÓve attached to my written
<br />comments. Right now, itÓs just a series of very small structures surrounding the shoreline, and
<br />the net result is it has undeveloped feel and with the, you know, calm waters in the bay, itÓs a
<br />very unique and special setting, and we would like to not see that change.
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