2024-12-11 PL-CRC-2024-000019 Testimony - S. McMichael

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you could still sign up to testify on Zoom, but nobody knew that they could still sign up. So, you need to get that in alignment and have a rock-solid deadline that people can understand and anticipate because then we're scrambling all night to get more people that wanted to testify to testify. So that's a problem. Okay, I oppose the number 2 and number 3 zoning and SMA permits and like you've heard in this area from previous meetings and future meetings. The problems in this area are all the same. What we're bitching about is all the same. It's the sewer, evacuation, pesticides, and fertilizers going into the water. The traffic is just insane down there. The beach parks are overwhelmed. The locals don't even go there anymore. In fact, locals barely even go on Ali`i Drive because it's always so crowded with visitors and new residents. There's just not enough room in these areas without the proper infrastructure that we've been screaming about for years. But no one seems to be listening and you keep approving these big developments down there that cannot handle the traffic or the people that we have right now. So, you guys come on. Please don't approve another extension. It's been 13 years, they go bankrupt, they run out of money, they get foreclosed, there's other problems and for this particular development and it's not just this one it's all of them. There's just not enough infrastructure to handle that population down there and any kind of increases and you guys got to hear us. For those of you that don't live in Kona, you don't come over here too much. You don't know what we're having to go through down there and it doesn't matter if it's this one or the next one, or the next one. If the problems don't get solved down there, we're just going to have to keep complaining and complaining to you, but you're not hearing us. So, thank you, please oppose these two extensions. We just can't have anymore, there's too much that's changed, and they tested the traffic down there in 2019 during Covid. That's not a true number of traffic cars down there, not true at all. So, come on, please oppose new zoning and SMA permit for this proposed development. Thank you. VITOUSEK: Mahalo. Our next testifier is Lokelani McMichael. L. MCMICHAEL: Good morning. VITOUSEK: Please state your name and the town you live in and proceed with your testimony. L. MCMICHAEL: My name is Lokelani McMichael and I live in Kailua-Kona. I'm testifying in opposition of agenda 2 and 3, the La`ipala. I don't think that we should, the permit expired in 2019. I think expired means it's done. Just like your driver's license when it expires, you've got to get a new driver's license. Everybody's talking about the infrastructure. There's not enough infrastructure as it is right now and putting 62 units of housing is like the cart before the horse. Kahalu`u Beach is crazy, and everything down there is really car centric. If you go biking, if you go running, you have to breathe car exhaust. Part of this property, the La`ipala one is in the National Historic Registry and it's so amazing that we even have a registry for Kahalu'u. I had asked Michael Yee, the ex-Planning Director, if he 8 EXHIBIT B