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more available and accessible to more of our community. I am curious, though, you know, some
<br />of the questions or issues that were raised here with respect, by our testifiers, I assume those are
<br />not new issues, and that somehow when you put together this plan for the park, that you sought the
<br />information either in a public hearing or them directly?
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<br />KUMABE: That’s correct. As far as the master plan that Janice had referred to – and we want to
<br />acknowledge and commend both Janice and Bobby for all these year and, you know, having the
<br />interest and taking the time out to, you know, pretty much be involved in our park areas – but in
<br />areas, yes, we, we have the Kekaha Kai Master Plan and my former boss then quit, when we,
<br />when I, when we started to broach in premises of Kekaha Kai, first thing he said, look at the
<br />master plan, make sure you guys kind of do, don’t go outside of what was discussed, and I said,
<br />why then, why, because, this is before my times, he said, well, we had a lot of good community
<br />public input imbedding what should be or what is appropriate as far as for the future development
<br />of Kekaha Kai and we want to keep in with that.
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<br />I want to make a clarification with the facilities we have at Manini‘ōwali Kua Bay; basically,
<br />Kūki‘o, the Kūki‘o development pretty much built, they built facilities you see over there. I know
<br />there was talk as far as putting in a different kind of facilities, but I think pursuant to I think
<br />County and State entitlements, Kūki‘o had had the requirement of putting in these facilities. We
<br />weren’t really consulted as far as a type of facility put in, but we welcome it and say thank you,
<br />Kūki‘o, you know, for the bathroom and stuff and the other areas. But now since we have that,
<br />now it’s our responsibilities, okay, how, how do we, I guess, address any concerns or impacts that
<br />may come from that.
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<br />The concerns raised about the showers, you know, we defer to the Planning Commission, you
<br />know; our proposal was to put in two additional showers, which we felt was appropriate and can
<br />be mitigated, but if the Planning Commission decides that perhaps we shouldn’t, then we defer to
<br />the County. But the point we are trying to make is that we want to put in what is appropriate, and
<br />what we had proposed so far is what we believe is appropriate within the intent and spirit of the
<br />master plan, then again balancing out our responsibilities of public health and safety.
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<br />WHITTEMORE: Thank you. No further questions, Commissioners? Can I call for a motion?
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<br />SHIMAOKA: Yeah, I move that the application for Special Management Area Use Permit,
<br />Docket Number SMA 15-062, be approved pursuant to the Planning Director’s recommendation,
<br />findings, and proposed conditions, which shall be adopted.
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<br />KAHOLO: Second.
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<br />WHITTEMORE: Second? It’s been moved by Commissioner Shimaoka and seconded by
<br />Commissioner Kaholo. Can I ask staff to call for the vote?
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<br />DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The motion before us is to approve the Special
<br />Management Area Use Permit. With that, we’ll take the roll call. Commissioner Shimaoka?
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<br />SHIMAOKA: Aye.
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