2024-12-18 Cindy Freitas #3 Testimony

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December 18, 2024 Cindy Freitas makainan i gmail.com Leeward Planning Department December 19, 2024 At 1:OOpm LPCtestimony(a)-hawaiicounty.gov Item: # 3 Kula Nei Partners, LLC. (PL-PUD-2024-000003) He Mele komo a he mele aloha no na kupuna o ke au i hala Aloha mai kakou. Aloha, My name is Cindy Freitas and I'm a Native Hawaiian descended of the native inhabitants of Hawai'i prior to 1778 and born and raised in Hawai'i. I am also a practitioner who still practice the cultural traditional customary practices that was instill in me by my grandparents at a young age from mauka(MOUNTAIN TO SEA)to makai in many areas. I'm in OPPOSITION for the following reasons: The applicant commissioned a report entitled, "Kula Nei Partners, LLC, Planned Unite Development, Ka Pa'akai O Ka `Aina Analysis" prepared by ASM Affiliates in 2019. According to the report, "THERE ARE NO ONGOING TRADITIONAL AND CUSTOMARY NATIVE HAWAIIAN RIGHTS BEING EXERCISED OR OCCURRING WITHIN THE SUBJECT PROPERTYY" This is an outrage for the Cultural Customary Traditional Practices of the people,WE THE PEOPLE ARE STILL DOING OUR DUE DIGLILENT OF HAWAIIAN RIGHTS BEING EXERCISED FROM MAUKA TO MAKAI TILL TODAY IN MANY AREAS. SEE; reaffirmed HRS 7-1 and expanded it to include, "native Hawaiian rights...may extend beyond the ahupua`a in which a native Hawaiian resides where such rights have been customarily and traditionally exercised in this manner" (Pete Defense Fund v. Paty, 73 Haw.578, 1992). Archaeological/Cultural/Historical Resources: An archaeological inventory survey of the subject LAVA property was conducted in 2005 by Rechtman Consulting (Clark and Rechtman 2005) and accepted in 2008, which identified 19 archaeological sites comprised of 66 features. Of the 19 sites, one site (Site 50-10-28-23834), a Historic era Ahupua`a boundary wall was previously identified by (Haun and Henry 2003) and the remaining 18 sites were newly identified by Clark and Rechtman (2005). These 19 19 sites consist of 7 historic walls, a historic era enclosure, a historic era roadway, 2 trail segments, a Precontact era habitation modified outcrop, a Precontact era habitation terrace, 3 Precontact era habitation lava blisters, one lava blister with human remains, a