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for providing those to mein a timelyfashion. I also am here to indicate my general support <br />for this project although I do have some concerns that I want to discuss with you this <br />morning. The reason I am in general support of this is I think the concept-. Well first of all I <br />believe it€s consistent with the general plan and other plans established by the County of <br />HawaiŸi relating to land use development in this area. I think it€s also consistent with what <br />we€re seeing happening there and the concept that Mr. Tinguely has proposed on behalf of his <br />owner the LLC is a very interesting one, which I think we need more of. And that is for <br />people to be able to live where they work so that we don€t further exacerbate the traffic <br />problems every time we want to go to work. And so I thank him for that concept and wish <br />him success in that kind of thing. I think there are individuals who and perhaps others who <br />live here who would want to take advantage of such an opportunity. My main appearance <br />before you today is as a recognized descendant of persons who inhabited this area. And I€m <br />recognized by the State Historic Preservation Division and with respect to- and was <br />recognized, excuse me, with respect to the project immediately makai of this Alii Cove <br />project.Inwhichprojecttherewerenumerousburialsfound.Someofthemwerepreviously <br />known and others unfortunately were inadvertent which created some very difficult situations. <br />I don€t anticipate that we€re going to have that situation here as burials have been identified <br />on this property. I don€t know if you have that information. But, the previous owner of this <br />project came to me and talked to me about the burials there and what I thought to be done <br />when that owner was proposing a much larger type of development; really a hotel. So this is a <br />significant improvement. In any case, I would like to see a condition or conditions put on the <br />property that no ground disturbance of any kind would take place until such time as the <br />cultural, the valued cultural resources which are on this property. In particular Iwi Kupuna <br />and related resources have been protected. There have been instances in the past where <br />cultural resources in this area have been destroyed. In fact while data recovery was going on. <br />And I don€t anticipate this will happen but I would like to see a condition. Condition 9, which <br />I believe, is a condition that I€m speaking to says that in effect, final plan approval and any <br />issuance of land alteration permits will not be granted until such time as the mitigation plans <br />are finalized for these sites. And as part of those mitigation plans I just want to be sure that <br />the archaeological area that you see on the map is properly protected from any possible <br />incursion by ground disturbance machinery. I have- and I might add here that Mr. Tinguely <br />and I did have a discussion, I also spoke with Mr. Mooers about this. We did have a <br />discussion and I€ve known Mr. Tinguely for a while as well as Mr. Mooers and I want the <br />record to reflect that I€m not coming here today because I sense that something is going to <br />happen to those Iwi Kupuna or not. I think there has been a combination of issues that have <br />led us to this point in which point the issue is not resolved. And it needs to be resolved and I <br />believe it will be resolved. I believe it is in the process of being resolved by the State Historic <br />Preservation Division. And I also want to indicate that this is not to imply that Mr. Tinguely <br />or any of his associates in any way dropped the ball because I don€t believe they did. And nor <br />do I believe they will. But I want the record to reflect this because we, this Commission and <br />many previous Commissions as well as other public agencies have seen time and time again <br />where valued cultural resources were not properly evaluated, were not properly protected and <br />therefore were either significantly damaged or completely lost. And I don€t want to see that <br />happen in this area. I have no plans obviously, since you don€t have them before you, to file <br />for a contested case although I€m sure I would be granted standing. That€s not my objective. <br />My objective is to look forward and to make sure that what is pono is done here. I have 2 <br />EXHIBIT C <br />15 <br /> <br />