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Just across the path that leads to the beach, on the lot to the south side of the Mysin parcel, is <br /> a Hawaiian graveyard direct evidence that the area was once highly populated, and that even <br /> today there is a high likelihood that cultural resources are still present. <br /> SHPD has confirmed, by letter, the determination for the proposed project that there are "no <br /> historic properties affected," and that the HRS Ch. 6E-42 historic review process has ended. <br /> (SHPD Planning Department Exhibit 5-April 30, 2021 Letter from SHPD). But the agency also <br /> concedes that its determination leaned heavily upon the Scheffler 2021 Field Inspection Report. <br /> "The Scheffler(2021)FI report served to facilitate project planning and the historic preservation <br /> review process. The FI report assisted in preparing SHPD's project effect determination for the <br /> subject permit,"wrote SHPD. <br /> We find the report incomplete, and many of its assumptions just plain wrong. We also believe <br /> that the truncated process allowed by SHPD is not serving the best interests of the possible <br /> cultural resources in the immediate area. <br /> In my research in the SHPD library archives, I found an interesting fact which I later <br /> confirmed. I was searching for Archeological Inventory Surveys, Preservation Plans, and Burial <br /> Treatment Plans created for properties in the immediate area of the Mysin parcel. I found that <br /> most of the properties makai ofAli'i Drive that were built before 2000 were not required to <br /> provide any of the documents listed above. Many of these parcels went through the SMA <br /> process, but only two properties in the immediate area of Mumuhale Point have any <br /> archeological documentation that I can find. Parcels mauka of Alii Drive, like have several <br /> studies that have been performed due to the widening of Alii Drive, the installation of sewer and <br /> water lines, the construction of Kahakai School, and the bulldozing of the proposed Alii <br /> Highway alignment.All of these projects triggered archeological investigation. <br /> The one Archeological Inventory Survey I did find was done after the fact, following the <br /> destruction of a fishing heiau by two homeowners in the Alii Point subdivision. The heiau was <br /> destroyed after the developer had agreed to preserve it as a condition of having their SMA Permit <br /> Application approved. The homeowners at the time; Marc Hembrough,Alii Point Development, <br />