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maintains that shoreline public access is not being denied, because people can walk from Kahalu‘u
<br />Beach Park in the ocean in order to get to the north side. That is an unacceptable shoreline public
<br />access and quite unsafe. If the safe school zone rationale proves successful at Kahalu‘u, my fear is
<br />that it could become a formula for other similar developments. Why not Ke‘ei Beach, Makalawena
<br />Beach, Waipi‘o Beach, Pā‘auhau Landing in Hāmākua District, Kahuwai ahupua‘a in Puna District,
<br />all prime coastal lands owned by Kamehameha Schools and good candidates for educational facilities
<br />and programs? Another property that would lend itself to the safe school zone model is Pāwai Beach
<br />in Keahuolū ahupua‘a, owned by Queen Lili‘uokalani Trust. If the formula succeeds in Kahalu‘u,
<br />why not at these other locations and many others? The applicant wants a managed public access with
<br />rules and the ability to educate people about Hawaiian cultural protocols and behaviors that are
<br />respectful of the land and its people. I completely support the approach, because public access to the
<br />ocean may be a right, but it is not without responsibilities. Mahalo for your consideration.
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<br />NUUHIWA: Good morning. Aloha kakahiaka, Commissioners. My name is Kalei Nuuhiwa, and I
<br />was actually born and raised on the Island of Maui, but I reside here now in Hilo for the last ten
<br />years, as of tomorrow actually makes ten years. I came to begin working at Kahalu‘u through the
<br />Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation; I was hired to, with them, to do some research regarding
<br />Lonoikamakahiki and his area of residence and all of the history. As Kahalu‘u is known to be the
<br />place where the individuals who composed the Kumulipo chant actually came from. And the
<br />individuals who lived in that area were all either kahuna or were the aloali‘i who actually taught the
<br />ali‘i who came through there, so it was historically an educational place. So I’m here today to talk
<br />about some of the history and some of the concerns regarding pathways and trails that go through
<br />there. And this right here that you see here is an 1875 map that is actually the first map that was
<br />created. But previous to that – I am a researcher and that’s what I do, so I love research, I can do that
<br />all day long – and so very first mentions of the Kahalu‘u area is in the Nūpepa Kū‘oko‘a written in
<br />1856, and this is the story of Kamalalawalu written by Kamakau; it’s a recant of the story of
<br />Kamalalawalu’s exploits and unfortunate end results for him in the whole area in Kahalu‘u. But in it
<br />it describes that one of his kuakini ran through the area and actually stuck to the alaloa, and the alaloa
<br />is, if you look on this map, is located – I don’t know if this \[pointer\] works, okay – well, on the lower
<br />part there. Actually, I have these for you; this is for you folks. And so on the lower part is where the
<br />dotted line is actually the alaloa that was created by Umialiloa and his predecessor, which was Liloa.
<br />And so the kuakini runs through there. And in his description of the Kahalu‘u area – oh, thank you
<br />\[for a pointer\], there we go, this is actually the alaloa – and so it talks about how the kuakini ran
<br />through there and as he got to Kahalu‘u, it was a coconut grove, and that’s what he talks about in the
<br />area. The next talk about it, it comes in a story of Kamiki, which is printed in Keauhou 1918 all the
<br />way to 1916; it was a long story about traversing throughout the entire Island of Hawai‘i, and it too
<br />also describes that as Kamiki and his brother traverse through Kahalu‘u area, they again talk about
<br />the coconut grove that’s here. Okay, so this is the 1875 map; what I did is I went to, oh, stop, okay,
<br />so I just want you to know that there are 72 individuals who talk about receiving lands and all of the
<br />trails are lateral movement, so the first trail is the government road, which is alaloa, the second is the
<br />upper road, which is the Māmalahoa Highway, and the in-between road is actually the, is where the
<br />Kuakini, everything else, which there were only two out of the 72 that 72 native testimonies that talk
<br />about the area, talk about two trails that move mauka to makai and those were mule trails and they
<br />end up in this area right here called Paniau. And I do have another map; this is a 1928 map of the
<br />Kahalu‘u area and this is the Kahalu‘u District, so this is the actual pathway that runs this way, which
<br />became the government road, which is now Ali‘i Drive. And if you look, they carefully wrote in all
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