2016-04-21 Leeward Exh C (SMA 16-063)

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PALMA-GLENNIE: — however, even if — UNGER: — can you summarize, please, ma’am? KIHOI: I only need one minute. She can have two of my minutes. PALMA-GLENNIE: Oh, really, I’m, thank you. UNGER: Okay. PALMA-GLENNIE: Thank you. Anyway, however even if the proposal fits with the CDP Smart Growth parameters, the lack of infrastructure in the entire Keauhou area makes the development untimely, certainly in relation to concurrency. As for the new planning paradigm, which the CDP is meant to help our county shift to, piecemeal developer-built roadways are not what will help our region solve the larger challenges, which area lack of roadways and other infrastructure represent. I ask as strongly as possible the Commissioners vote against the subdivision proposal, which will saddle residents with another boondoggle that you will be responsible for but we’ll have to deal with. Rats in a cage comes to mind. And everyone knows that the more rats there are in a finite space, the less friendly, less healthy and happy they are until the more pro-, and the more problems between and around them arise. Mahalo. UNGER: Thank you. Please state your name and where you reside. KIHOI: Mehana Kihoi, Hōnaunau, Kona Hema. Aloha mai kākou. My comments are mostly directed to the Kamehameha Land Trust. I’m not sure if any of them are present right now. If you are, would you be able to raise your hand? None of them? Okay. Well, I’m, I would hope that they would be present at something like this because my comments are towards them. You know, it’s just, it’s just unbelievable to me that we are sitting here, of course, but Kamehameha Schools is a land trust; they are not land developers. And their kuleana is to actively conserve the land and to be stewards of the land. The honor, the legacy of Princess Pauahi is to use her land to educate the people of Hawai‘i. That’s what she instructed them to do. And the integrity of their system is just slipping away. I called, well, okay, so I called ten different places within a five-mile radius of this proposed site, and ten out of ten are experiencing a 40 to 60 percent occupancy rate, ten out of ten have vacancies for sale and for lease, and so it just shows to me that there is no demand for this. And I can’t even imagine what the native population, how that incorporates and how that accommodates the native population. So it’s not needed. And I really think that Kona just needs to slow down. Just for our kūpuna. I am so humbled right now to be in presence of this kupuna. And if you don’t, if you can sit there and not feel anything through her voice, from her presence, you can feel the pain. I’m sitting here in pain just because she has to come here and speak for all of us. I can’t imagine what struggle it was for her to be here today, but she’s here and she’s presenting her plead for you to slow down. Mahalo. UNGER: Mahalo. Thank you. 12 EXHIBIT C