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ATTACHMENT B - AMENDED Provide a clear statement detailing how public acquisition would fulfill one or more of the above resource values. Explain the intent, long-term vision, and/or strategy of this proposed acquisition or project. 1. Public outdoor recreation and education, including access to beaches & mountains RECREATION: A) Securing public access to a site on the Hamakua Coastline. The Hamakua coastline in the days of plantation management of the coastal lands was much more accessible than now. The lower cane haul road which runs 20 miles from Kukuihaele to Ookala and provided passageway to the coastal cliffs below has now been closed, and consequently ocean access points are rare. Any such access is over private land with 4-wheel drive and are known to a relative few. Between Laupahoehoe and Waipio, this property currently being nominated has one of the very few, relatively convenient, access points (4-wheel or all-wheel drive over approximately 1/4 mile) to the ocean cliffs. Thus, procurement of public oceanside access along this coastline of Hamakua should be a priority consideration for the County. Of the few complaints expressed by residents of Hamakua about their district, lack of access to the coastline is the one most frequently heard. From Honokaa, the nominated property can be accessed via Standard Oil Road (the diagonal road from the Hilo end of Mamane Street to the power plant below Haina), or down through Haina itself. Two points of access onto the property then exist. The access at the top of the property leads to a dirt 4 wheel drive path through the center of the property to the cliffs. There is also access to the coastal portion of the property by turning onto the paved road below the old plantation mill A-Frame going downward. Then after 150 yards one follows the gravel road on Hawaii Health Systems property down past the Honokaa Sewage Treatment Plant. One then turns onto a dirt Jeep trail across the coastal segment of the nominated property. If one does not turn down onto the Hawaii Health Systems gravel road then this road quickly becomes unpaved and leads after 3/4 mile to Haina Landing. Currently discussion is taking place between Hamakua County Council representative Kimball, Hamakua's State Representative Kusch and Kamehameha Schools about opening the Lower Cane Haul Road to pedestrian and bicycle recreational access. If this should be successful, and Council member Kimball indicated in the last Hamakua CDP Action Committee meeting that she is cautiously optimistic that this could happen in the next 4 to 6 months, then points of access from this road to the oceanside would be even more of a priority in that the coastline would be `in sight and mind' but lack of access frustrating. This property lies somewhat midway along and then below the 20 mile Lower Cane Haul Road (8 miles from the Kukuihaele end and 12 miles from the Ookala end of the road). Thus, this Haina property with its access to the oceanside could serve as the beginning or end of this potentially newly accessible (should it happen) cane haul road in either direction. Remarkably, this property has County water present and sewer line access potential, thus making a restroom facility available at either the beginning, middle or end of an excursion on the Lower Cane Haul Road if the road were to become accessible. Sugg.26-03