2024-03-17 Punalu'u Maria Murray OP

Home

From: Maria Murrav To: WPCtestimonv Subject: Oppose Punalu'u Permit Date: Sunday,March 17, 2024 11:39:41 AM To whom it may concern, Please oppose the developer wants to put in "225 residential and short stay units, village and wellness center,retail uses,rehabilitation and use of golf course." Punalu`u means diving springs. Wai ola, water is life. Wai from the mauka aquifers feeds the ponds at Punalu`u . The fish are plentiful in the brackish water of Punalu`u bay. Home to the threatened Honu, Green Sea Turtle who loves to bask on the warm sand. Blanket statement for use in written testimony to help save this beach: use what you wish in your testimony, Thank you! The daily impact to the environment of hundreds of people traversing on the tiny beach, taking sand and iliili pebbles is inevitable, if this development is approved. A corporation will be encroaching upon the fragile and pristine ecosystem of Punalu`u Bay and Black Sand beach and Ninole Cove. This would be very detrimental to the indigenous and endemic animal habitats , native flora and fauna and the freshwater springs that is the life for us all. The native Loulu Palm tree,native hawaiian poppy, Pua Kala and the Native cotton plant Ma`o important to the fauna ecosystem there. Endangered species live here including the `Ope`apea the native Hawaiian Hoary bat, the Honu`ea Hawksbill Turtle who lay their eggs and build nests on the sand, the `ilioholoikauaua monk seal,the native damselfly,the Koloa duck,Nene the Hawaiian goose , `auku`u, the Pueo native Hawaiian Owl, the Io native hawaiian hawk and many rare varieties of limu, ko`ele, opihi. The Nai`a spinner dolphin,porpoise, Kohola Humpback whale, Sperm whale, various species of Mano shark and pilot whales are a few of the sea creatures that inhabit the waters in and around Punalu`u and Ninole bays. Do not approve the SMA permit to allow these new developers to use and desecrate the wahi kapu of Punalu`u." Mahalo!