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community, very sensitive to the property, worked, as had been explained before, with
<br />community organizations and the government to come up with a plan that was acceptable. And
<br />that plan is acceptable to us, too, with the exception of one thing. And it's not that it's not
<br />acceptable, I'm talking about the golf course, it's good except that it's the language which is in
<br />the Good Faith Agreement which refers to the golf course. Though it's very, very good
<br />language, it has no meat to it, it's just bones. And what we want to try to do is come up with
<br />meaningful conditions that implements this.
<br />What it says is the owner agrees to use state-of-the-art measures and its best effort to avoid
<br />contamination or degradation of the ocean water or groundwater from the development, and
<br />the golf course, during construction or after, and to prevent leaching any contaminants into the
<br />groundwater table, ocean, and ponds. Well, that's our goal, too. But in order to implement
<br />that, that needs specific conditions so that it's not mere words, or words that can be interpreted
<br />one way or another, depending upon who's doing it. And this is what our concern is. We're
<br />not here to oppose this project at all. We're here to support it to the extent that it be not only a
<br />template, as the Mayor is so proud to announce, of community, developer, and government
<br />working together to come up with a satisfactory plan, as has happened here, but also to be a
<br />template for a golf course.
<br />Because this place is so special. I'm sure you know, but let me repeat it anyway. It's on a -,
<br />this project is on a field of anchialine ponds, some of which are exposed, and underneath it's
<br />all anchialine pond water. The coastal water outside is Class AA, the highest quality of water
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<br />that you can have in Hawaii. Now we're going to have a park along a coastal strip, in
<br />between the ocean and -, no, we're going to have a golf course, six of 18 holes of a golf
<br />course in between 500 homes and a County, and a public park, which means we can have a lot
<br />more users than we've ever had there before, and that's good, because that place is a prime
<br />recreational resource. Add to it people who use the golf course, people who live there, 500
<br />families, all are going to be affected by the quality of the golf course in terms of its
<br />environmental sensitivity. And, of course, there are endangered species in the park next door,
<br />and from what I hear, endangered species are right on the property, also. So all this leads us
<br />to want to be sure that this golf course is built to the most highest standards of environmental
<br />sensitivity as possible.
<br />Now I must commend the developer, Mr. Dave Eadie, who has demonstrated a real sensitivity
<br />to our concern and has put us in, actually in touch with his golf course architect, Ted
<br />Robinson, and we have started to deal and talk with them. And our purpose in talking with
<br />them is to come up with the meat of this Condition No. 10, to come up with the specific terms
<br />that we all agree on that can be inserted into the SMA permit or the use permit as conditions of
<br />approval. We are talking on the phone, emailing, and as the week goes by, we intend to be
<br />more and more on this so that we can come up with something so that by the next meeting we
<br />will have something to present to you that incorporates all the concerns that are being raised
<br />about the golf course from the national park and all the other people have inputs into that.
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