2024-03-05 PL-SMA-2023-000046 Malie Ibarra Opposition Testimony

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designated as a Minor Resort Area by the General Plan, a designation that designates this area as accommodating no more than 500 visitor units." With this, 500 visitor units add to the already existing 76 Colony 1 condominium. This means that the proposed development will house more than 5 times the size of Colony 1 while continuing to house Colony 1 residents and visitors. Currently, an increasing amount of tourists come to the beach with very little ocean safety and Hawaiian wildlife knowledge. Many tourists are notified by lifeguards throughout the day about not touching the turtles, not walking over their nesting areas, and swimming too far into the current. Before lifeguards were around, the locals would be the ones to monitor tourists and many have risked their lives to do so. Also, the more tourists and visitors that stay at Punaluu, the more trash and waste being created. If there are already hundreds of thousands of visitors that come to Punaluu a year and the development plan proposes to add 70, 2 story condominiums, 30 retreat individual cabins, repair the aspen center, tennis court, golf club, add a fish market, add a restaurant, add an open market, add a swimming pool, and more, it will overwhelmingly increase the flow of visitors and the wastewater alone will be way over capacity. Mahalo for your time, Malie Ibarra