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and raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess we’ll start this end here. State your name and address, please. Teresa Nakama at 73-998 Ahulani Street. Mahalo for the opportunity. We all come from the very nature of our good bible that speaks of the spiritual nature in all of us. I speak of our Hawaiian within us w. It is much more significant than Pu‘uhonua, but it has been kept quiet all these years because of its sacredness, just like the top of Mauna Kea,as sacred it is, we leave no footprint at the top – surrounding areas. When we visit there and we have a need to be there, we start our meditation from our home, not from the site. By the time we get to the site, we are ready. We prepare ourselves prior. We walk the shoreline before we reach the site. We ask for permission because of its sacredness. The area before the site is where the proposed project is. We meditate as we walk. We pule as we sit along the shoreline. It is a lifestyle that we live. We were taught from the time we were keikis. I fish from Upolu Point to Kala‘e in Ali‘i Drive, is my fishing spot. The Ala Kahakai should be considered also; it should never be traded away like they did to the Kona Surf – they took away our trail. The trail that is along the Ala Kahakai, we still walk. It is our highway. Do not take that away from us. Our freshwater spring springs out from those lands from the shoreline area. When we bathe in the ocean, we know where the springs are; we can go just bathe in there and it’s along this project site. This project has a detrimental effect to our coastal marine life. All and whatever seeps into the ground during its construction phase, will end up in our coastal waters. And why do you suppose this is a special use permit they go through. Why do we have CZM? This is to protect these areas. You must say no – not giving an exception because. Why do we have rules that you do not follow? You have every right to say ‘a ‘ole. This project is immense comparedto its area. It’s a small area. Yeah, you can build athree-story, four-story building in a small area. But it has a detrimental effect to the marine life, the shoreline, the views. Say ‘a ‘ole. You have the laws in front of you. There are unfinished construction projects in Waikoloa Village. Many condos sit empty along Ali‘i Drive. I hear my time. There’s many more that we need to say, And if there is a slight inkling, of the very slightest inkling that says ‘a ‘ole, then please say no to the project. If they can take the project elsewhere and make their trust, more funds for their trust, then take it Pu‘uhonua. Mahalo. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. MATSUSHIMA: Hi, my name is Brandt Matsushima. My address is Ali‘i Drive – simple. For me, I’m a native and friend on both sides, I would say, because I know Cory as well. My thing is that development of this condominium would be in a sense, after hearing both sides, is I hear the pros and cons, but ultimately, this being on the sacred ground, and knowing the Hawaiian history behind that, if there were to be any development whatsoever that needs to be done on this land, it’s probably to show the knowledge and the history and the past of it to educate the people, because I’m sure that if everybody was educated about where they were a little bit more in depth – being 26 years old and a native Hawaiian – you would probably appreciate and not consider developing on 11 EXHIBIT D