2025-01-16 Chuck Flaherty, Moku Loa Group, Sierra Group

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standards". These are not statements of standards, nor do any of the sentences reference specific standards. This analysis proves that GP2045 does not fully comply with the county Charter's requirement for statements of standards, especially when compared to the Standards currently contained within cGP. In order to comply with the county Charter, HIG recommends the Commission and the Planning Department work to develop recommended amendments to provide comprehensive standards using the existing Standards in the cGP as a basis. GP2045, Section 2. Collaborative Biocultliral Stewardship Goal, Objectives,Policies, and Actions HIG urges the Commission to compare the excepts, as related to public access and trails, provided at the end of this testimony from the draft General Plan 2040 (GP2040)released in 2019 and the language contained in the draft GP2045. As you will see in the excerpts, the extensive and substantive language supporting trails and public access in the draft GP2040 was effective stripped from the draft GP2045. GP2040 contained 15 Policies and 18 Actions under"Public Access and Trails". However, in GP2045, a key word search must be performed for the words "public access" and "trails"in order find the Policies or Actions related to these two topics. After doing so, there are only 11 Policies and only 3 actions that contain those words...a shocking and inexplicable result as compared to GP2045. HIG urges the Commission to recommend amendments to include the Policies and Actions from the GP2040 which present both an organized and clear path forward for public access, trails, and recreation in the coming decades. Pu'u Ohau In 1999,the Hawai'i Island Burial Council designated the entirety of Pu'u Ohau from its base to its summit as a burial site and royal mausoleum as a result of the significance of the burials present on this pu'u within 1250 Oceanside Partners' Hokuli'a project(Hokuli'a). Attached to this testimony, the Commission will find excerpts from the 1250 Oceanside Partners' Petition to the state Land Use Commission (Docket A06-179) and a Supplemental Environmental Statement Public Notice, which requested moving two Cultural Preserves comprising 12 acres on and around Pu'u Ohau into the state land use Conservation district. Docket A06-179 contains the following statements: