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GALDONES:Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:IÓm looking at Condition 3 of the Special Management Area Use Permit, and that refers to a settlement agreement dated April 12 of the third paragraph in that document indicates that ÐWhen open public access to the shoreline will be between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., seven days a week. Access for night fishing past 6 p.m. will be allowed pursuant to a permit registration sy County of Hawaii.Ñ And I just wanted to offer that to the testifiers as one place where public access is referred to; and that settlement agreement dated April 12, 2002 is between the County of Hawaii and Continental Pacific, LLC, for the Pepeekeo Makai Subdivision. So thank you. GALDONES:Commissioners, any further questions for Mr. Ortiz? If not, sir? State your name and your residence address, and you may begin yo GEHWEILER:My nameÓs Thomas Gehweiler and IÓm from Hakalau Mauka, Box 332, Hakalau, Hawaii. IÓve been here for 25 years and have Landing quite a bit with my family fishing and just enjoying it down there at the tide pools with our kids. My concerns are, I noticed all the subdivisions in Kona and everything they always give public access to top-edge corners where you have trails going to the beach with parking for the public up at the top end. Is there any way that this could be settled where the people have to put parking spaces down along the ocean and use the roads that are there, that have been there and people used them for their lives here, and able to park their car to carry the equipment and to go fishing? If you go down fishing overnight or even during the day, they have an extreme amount of packaging to carry to the beach and, you know, itÓs quite hard to hike down a lengthy trail, starts raining on you, you have to come back with the kids running, get soaking wet. I just donÓt see why these people canÓt be able to have parking for the public down along the beach at several locations instead of one location where you have to walk several miles along the coast to go to these places that we used to go to. And they were speaking how the locals used to be down there. ThatÓs why I really enjoy moving here when we moved here, the local people down there camping, the families having fun. YouÓre taking away, man, youÓre taking it all away. ThatÓs what everybody came to t the aloha. You know, IÓm a haole, man, and I got raised here by a couple of local families, man, and I really love the aina here. And whatÓs happ cry, man. ItÓs really sad. You can grin or whatever you want, man, but, God save this place, man. It isnÓt worth the buck. Just let us go down and enjoy ourselves here again, man, the way it used to be. You know, youÓre just letting these guys come in and take over everything. Hakalau Gulch is a good example. They have every right to close these places off but people have been driving down to these places. The cane company was a good land steward, at least they let people go to these places and enjoy themselves. Now you got all these rich people moving in here, just taking over; and itÓs sad, man. LetÓs put a fence and weÓre Ag, man. You know, I donÓt understand it. Open some roads, let and park by the beach again. God, I want to take my grandchildren down there and enjoy 8