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LOCKWOOD: Monica Lockwood, 76-6125 Plumeria in Kona. I pretty much just wanted to say my
<br />dad is an archaeologist for the museum in Northern Arizona. He has done it his entirely life.
<br />HOUSEL: If you could hold your mike a little closer, yeah.
<br />LOCKWOOD: Oh, sorry. My father is an archaeologist for the museum of Northern Arizona; and
<br />I grew up going on sites with him, and excavations, and what not. I’ve only been here about eight
<br />years and he has come to visit me twice. And during both of those times, he spent over half his
<br />vacation going and looking at the petroglyphs and the sites, you know, and just not tracking
<br />everything but just, you know, examining the cultural history that is here. And I have to say that
<br />that site right there where the bay is, he was blown away by what is there. And the potential to
<br />possibly lose the impact or, you know, the site, the impact, everything, is huge. I mean he was, he
<br />was pretty much devastated when I told him what they were doing, because he has such a
<br />connection to it. His specialty is Anasazi, Hopi and Navajo. So, you know, his specialty is
<br />obviously very different, but the cultural impact is still there. And it needs to be addressed, and it
<br />needs to be, you know, taken into account by you guys. You know, my husband surfs;Lyman’s is
<br />his favorite spot, ever. He tried to teach me to surf there – it didn’t work out very well. But our son
<br />surfs as well, and he’s only eight. And, you know, I want him to grow up knowing that he can ride
<br />his bike there and not have to see another condo. Or if he does see another condo that it’s at least
<br />built in a way that is responsible for the environment and for the cultural stuff that’s there. So
<br />please take that into consideration.
<br />HOUSEL: Okay. Thank you for your testimony. Would you like to -? Please state your name.
<br />NEWTON: Oh, I’m Karen Newton.
<br />HOUSEL: Okay.
<br />NEWTON: And my address is 77-6452 Ali‘i Drive. And I’m here to state the importance of
<br />preserving the integrity of Lyman’s Bay. I got a phone call, I was living in Colorado 20 years ago
<br />and my brother said I am to sign, or, or just moved into the most awesome place on earth, and it
<br />happened to be Lyman’s Bay. He rented the house, the small house on the north side there for 11
<br />years. It is so phenomenal. When I saw the pictures of the proposed building, I was blown away.
<br />How could this even happen, a four-story building there in the spot where those small houses are;
<br />and it just screams Orange County to me. So I would like to see something that meshes with the
<br />environment, is respectful to Lyman’s Bay, respectful to the people on this island. And thank you.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony.
<br />CLARKE: Good morning, my name is Randy Clarke. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members
<br />of the board. Thank you for the time that you guys have made for us. First of all, I had heard
<br />inklings of this maybe a couple of weeks ago. But the other week we had a cleanup at Lyman’s,
<br />and I came down and I assiste
<br />building, how far it was going into the reef, how it would impact the existing rockwalls and some of
<br />the gathering areas that have been there for centuries. And I was, you know, as a local Hawaiian,
<br />you know, you feel hurt and sad for this development, because I don’t think that it is being done in a
<br />respectful way, you know, to honor our ancestors, to honor the kanaka maolis today and the future
<br />generations. And so either it needs to be changed, or stopped, and done in a way that we’d do this.
<br />And, you know, I mean realistically, if you look up and down the coast, we have mega resorts that
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