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HOUSEL: Okay, so February 16, 17, and 18, it will be continued until then. Thank you very much
<br />you’re your testimony. We have a couple more people to testify. Eric Eisenherdt, are you here?
<br />EISENHERDT: Yes.
<br />HOUSEL: Okay. And Sam Keaa -, Kean -.
<br />GONZALEZ: Sam Keanaaina, Jr.
<br />HOUSEL: Okay. If there’s anyone else who would like to testify today -. Okay, anyone who
<br />would like to testify, please come to our staff, Noriko, there and let her know you’d like to testify.
<br />Okay, so could the following people please come forward to testify: Theresa Fernandez, it looks
<br />like, Jeremy Jaentsch, Janet Hunter, Barbara Garcia and Marya Mann. If you would come forward,
<br />please. If you could please pick up a microphone, and if you could share that one, please. Okay.
<br />Could you please raise your right hand so I can swear you in? Do you plan, intend to tell the truth
<br />before this Planning Commission today on this matter?
<br />TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you. Okay, we’ll start, I guess, on your far right. Would you give you name and
<br />address?
<br />FERNANDEZ: My name is Theresa Fernandez and my address is 77-6261
<br />, too, but to
<br />impress upon you the humanness of this all as well for the man who has acquired the land through
<br />loa Bay is great in its cultural significance. It has grown from
<br />that for us to enjoy as a place of surfing and fishing and canoeing, and everything that represents
<br />Hawai‘i families. And so I speak to you also for the Thresher Sharks that call that place home, for
<br />the spotted rays that frequent there, the native fishes. We have a very young reef. So we also don’t
<br />have well-established limu, but it’s trying. And in other areas where there have been development,
<br />we have had an influx of algae that has killed our marine plant life there, has caused a lot of the fish
<br />to be disseminated, the native fishes, and brought in other fish that, I guess we call them ‘
<br />that they are not native to those areas. Also, I think that in effect that we are all human and we’re
<br />trying to go ahead and create systems and ways to appease people’s ownership. I, you know, I feel
<br />for the man who bought the land. It is unfortunate that he purchased it with the understanding that
<br />he would be able to do this. And I think under the, I think we’re all trying to work on that. And I
<br />thank the Commission for hearing us this day.
<br />A condo on the beach, do we really need another one? You know, you drive, you walk, you go
<br />down our Kona coast, and there are homes and there’sveryfew open space. Unfortunately, my
<br />sense is that this is not appropriate for that. We don’t need another condo. I hope that the
<br />Commission, the Council, the people of Hawai‘i will find a way to recompense this man, to give
<br />him back his money, to find him another place where he can actually do this that would be more
<br />appropriate. To have any more staph infections, any accidental sewage spills, you know, that are
<br />possible with homes or development of any kind anywhere would be unfortunate. And I’m hoping
<br />that this Commission would preserve that area and continue to preserve our ocean areas and our
<br />resources, our cultural areas. And I thank you for this time.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. Would you like to give your name and address, please?
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