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WATANABE: Ms. Chun, could you state for the record your address?
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<br />CHUN: Oh, IÓm sorry. Kaliko Chun. My residence is Post, resident of Kona, Post
<br />Office Box 823, Kailua-Kona.
<br />WATANABE: Thank you.
<br />CHUN: With Dickie Nelson involved in a legal action provoked by the lease to the
<br />Jacoby Development Company by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Department
<br />of Land and Natural Resources of the area just south Î you can see some of it back toward the
<br />highway and then just beyond the harbor Î because of the extremely negative impact to this
<br />extremely sensitive area. And I appreciate very much the Planning DirectorÓs proposal to change
<br />the classification, as youÓve heard from the others that have appeared, back to Open space. And
<br />that it was changed to Urban Expansion only in 2006 in order to accommodate the development
<br />in lease of lands. Now that lease has been cancelled by the DLNR and the Department of
<br />Hawaiian Home Lands, it is vitally necessary to protect this area and to do this by this
<br />designation of returning it to Open.
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<br />My family and I became involved with the care and preservation o
<br />Kaloko-Honokhau National Park and the abutting area in the early Ó70Ós and late Ó60Ós. When
<br />the harbor was proposed Î you might think that, well, the harbor is here, so why not have urban Î
<br />well, the harbor went in under vehement community protest and objection, and even with the
<br />1962 National Landmark designation of the Honokhau settlement. So it behooved all of us as a
<br />community to do what we could to preserve this area. And in 1972, it was advocacy of family
<br />members and the community and Congress the Federal Honokhau Study Advisory Commission
<br />was created and appointed 14 Hawaiian members. And they went to every island to find people
<br />and families who lived in this area, who could remember how they lived, the traditions and
<br />practices, and do they carry it on, which is held in a large book in the Federal Register, and the
<br />families said yes. Even though they might be living in KauaÒi or MolokaÒi, that they came from
<br />this area. They recounted their growing experiences and many me
<br />in them. So the Advisory Commission completed its work and recommended an area of over
<br />1,000 acres to preserve that goes just to this end, the great Kaloko Fishpond believed to be from
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<br />the 16 century and demonstration of extremely skilled engineering skills, and the fishpond here.
<br />The anchialine ponds are just that side, the south side. A study teams from MIT, the University
<br />of Maine and, I understand, TUFS have come to look at these anchialine ponds. And if you
<br />havenÓt seen them, they are like land lop just within the shoreline, I mean, back from the
<br />shoreline, and are endangered ecosystems within themselves.
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<br />The Spirit of Kaloko Honokhau, which is the report written by the Study Commission, opens
<br />with a poem, and part of that poem is, ÐBound by the spirit of Hhau to our kupuna, Who
<br />settled in the sacredness of the living honua.Ñ This area has, as I say, itÓs culturally sensitive,
<br />critically important. America described it as nationally significant resources; it has anchialine
<br />ponds, fishponds, artifacts, burials, flora and fauna, natural habitats, heiau, historical sites, ocean
<br />and land, offshore and onshore habitats, offshore geological resources. The Park extends 600
<br />acres into the ocean for two reasons: One, Hawaiians lived ahupuaÒa from the mountains to the
<br />sea, there are protection and preservation -.
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