2024-09-30 Mark Lindsey Franklin Testimony

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species. One single home on upper Eastern property area is the most to be allowed is fair. The idea of a forced 50 -year stewardship demand of the new owners to regrow and the recovery of historical, cultural, and botanical losses is innovative. A State-run agency or a nonprofit agency should design and oversee the restoration work. Coastal Zone Management The rules are set to protect sites, but speculators pay the fine and it's like a slap on the wrist. Community Impact Hawaii is small. Sites like this are unique. So, it's been damaged for how many generations? 150-300 years. Hawaiian Gathering Rights Legal and open ala hele are mandatory at sites like this to ensure rights of citizens. Hawaiian Burial Council I was told by a now deceased member of the Waipa family where the burial site is located around 1993. Most of this area was run over by machinery. The sons are still living on Hawaii Island. Ethics and Good Stewardship The new owner told at least 5 neighbors face to face that he was conscious of the protected forest. He lied to the community. We can't trust someone willing to destroy a Wahi Pana for profit. Now, I will give you a brief introduction of who I am regarding this land application and why it is of importance Mark Lindsey Franklin, of Native Hawaiian and mostly Scottish/English and German ancestry. Recently retired from the County of Hawaii Fire Department Ocean safety department totaling 3 decades of full and part time work. I have a B. S. in Horticulture from Charter Oak College, Connecticut. I specialize in Hawaiian Botanical, and archaeological research. I have been a resident of Kaimu Village for twenty years before I lived in the Kikala Keokea mauka area of Kalapana beginning in 1982. I'm a Hilo High School graduate in 1978 and grew up in Volcano Village on my family's 10 -acre dairy farm and my grandmother's home in the Keaukaha area.. I was born in Honolulu.