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

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PARDAU: My name is Jamie Pardau. I live in Kailua-Kona. And right now I’m just grateful to be here and learn even more about the area from all these other wonderful people. What I have to say won’t take long. You can probably tell I was not born here like many of the other people who have spoken. But there is nowhere in the world that is more important to me than Kahalu‘u Bay. I spend many hours every week there working with a volunteer program called the ReefTeach to make sure that those 400,000 people who come there to snorkel do not damage the bay or the turtles or the fish. And when I look at this development and I remember the rains last summer that caused erosion into all of our coastal waters and I think about what that will add to Kahalu‘u and the kind of mud and silt and pesticides and fertilizer that it will add to the water, it truly breaks my heart. One other thing that I just thought of, because I was sitting here listening earlier, you asked questions and were very concerned about the water supply for one piece of property being divided into two, I would like to know about the water for all these homes and the swimming pools and the irrigation of their lawns, because the last time I came to a hearing, it was about State wanting to take over our aquifer and we said no, the County was very, very capable of handling that themselves; but if there is water coming from the Keauhou aquifer for all of these properties and you accept that and think that’s okay, maybe we can’t control it ourselves, I mean, it doesn’t make any sense to me. I have not heard one word about where this water will come from. Thank you. UNGER: Thank you. Sharon Willeford, Joy Mills-Ferren, Adeline Macomber Lewi, Clare Loprinzi, Tim Smith, and Violet Leihulu Mamac. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. UNGER: You may begin. Please state your name, where you reside. WILLEFORD: My name is Sharon Willeford. I’ve resided in Keauhou for most of the last 30 years. I was a teacher for the DOE for the last 30 years until I unfortunately was poisoned by a golf course in Keauhou, and that’s why I’m also working very hard on regulating and banning Roundup for our community. It is the most devastating thing you can imagine; I was on my back for four years and I’m still in tremendous pain. So when I was able to finally get up and walk four years later, it was like I just wake up and I said what happened to our community, what happened, how did all of these developments get passed through your hands? I have to say shame on you for not taking care of the people first. There are so many homeless Hawaiians on this island who are suffering in Puna and all around. There is no place for them. They don’t have medical help. That’s where the priority should be. Right now the money being spent on this tearing up our roads and all of that going into the ocean, we need to test our waters in the bay, Keauhou Bay and this area, because I watch the runoff from the golf course, which was thick white streams go right down into the bay, and no one as far as I know has tested that. So hopefully, we can get that done. I’m concerned about the sewage and everything else that everyone has said. I am in contact with people on the other islands on a daily basis, and all I hear is how horrible the traffic is everywhere. We also have a terrible problem. All the new roads go north; the people that live down south have to wait for hours to get to their schools or to get to their work. The roads are in disrepair. There’s potholes everywhere. I drove up Kaloko 14 EXHIBIT C