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From: Anne Celeste <br /> To: Plannina Internet Mail <br /> Subject: Kim,Here is my corrected letter for the March 7 meeting--RE: BLACK SAND BEACH LLC(PL-SMA-2023-000046) <br /> Date: Tuesday,March 5,2024 4:20:10 PM <br /> Attachments: PUNALUU-LETTER TO COUNTY.docx <br /> It follows below and by attachment. <br /> Thanks for your help, Kim! <br /> Anne J Celeste <br /> PO Box 669 <br /> Pahala HI <br /> annejcelestena amail.com <br /> March 5, 2024 <br /> Windward Planning Commission <br /> County of Hawai'i <br /> Aupuni Center, 1o1 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 <br /> Hilo, Hawai'i 96720 <br /> To the Members of the Commission: <br /> RE:APPLICANT: BLACK SAND BEACH LLC (PL-SMA-2023-000046) <br /> We oppose this development plan, because it would be devastating to the aina,the wildlife, and our <br /> people and their way of life. We respectfully request in no uncertain terms thatthe SMA be denied. <br /> We are grateful that County Planning Director Zendo Kim stated that his opinion can change afterthe <br /> public hearing because the residents of Kau are outraged. We believe that 95-99%are opposed. <br /> The community had no awareness of the SMA meeting. In the 5 days since the community learned of <br /> the county SMA meeting, Soo residents have rallied in protest... over 117o people have signed the <br /> petition opposing development...and many will show their opposition in a caravan to the county <br /> meeting March 7. If necessary,there are plans to bring the locals' brothers and sisters from the other <br /> islands, as at Mauna Kea,to stop this development. <br /> Our thoughts are below.We ask you to please save our beloved Punaluu. <br /> This development takes the heart of Kau, and destroys its quiet, natural wildness <br /> which is so important to the people of Kau. We live here for the quiet. We don't want a resort. <br /> It takes the last undeveloped area in all the islands, and one of the very last undeveloped <br /> beaches, and turns it into profit-making machine for foreign investors. <br /> There are other places to make money.There is only one beach.And when it is gone, it's gone. <br /> Please save Punaluu. We already lost beautiful beaches in Puna to Pele. Let's not lose this one. <br /> It takes a sacred, cherished land and desecrates it. Keep it safe for those who love it. <br /> These grounds are sacred—they are not to be desecrated to fill the pockets of foreign <br /> investors. The developer has already desecrated the bones of the ancestors, a great <br /> crime. <br /> The proposed development at Punalu'u would sacrifice many cultural, ecological and spiritual <br /> benefits for all Hawaii Island residents to enrich a very few people involved with the <br />