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

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Drive the other day. You can barely manage the road. Who is taking care of these other things? Where is the money being spent? I know that’s a little bit off target for this development, but I would really love to see that as a park. And I also am just curious about why we have a developer on the Commission. It doesn’t make sense to me. No offence. I just, it doesn’t seem right. Thank you very much for your consideration, and much aloha. UNGER: Thank you. MILLS-FERREN: Aloha mai kākou. ‘O Joy Keahipuakoikawekiu Mills-Ferren. UNGER: Aloha. MILLS-FERREN: I was born and raised in Honolulu. My family is from Hawi, Kapeliela Kaanaana ‘ohana. I am 65 percent Hawaiian. And I really don’t understand how Kamehameha Schools can use our Queen’s lands and do these type of things. I agree with a lot of these ladies. We need to look at our kupuna, we need to look at our keiki, and how we could better use these lands. And I also speak for kupuna iwi, Kuamanu Heiau. I regularly ask the tourists, please get off my kupuna iwi; they stand over there to watch the surfing. It’s a sacred place; they say that’s where surfing began where Kamehameha, you know, where a lot of our kūpuna surfed. I also speak for our nā ‘aumakua, our ‘ōpe‘ape‘a, our honu, our manō. When the, I can feel the waters, I swim all along the coastline there, you can feel the waters. The tourists ask me on a regular basis, what is that, I feel cold, I feel heat; I go that’s the streams that come from the mauna, probably most likely from Pele, she is not too far away. So let’s remember that, that we are on an active, uh, area. And just not too long ago a tsunami cleared out the whole park. We are still recovering. Let’s really look at our infrastructure before we add more people there. And, yes, I’m partaking, that’s how I, my life is, I am a lifeguard there, kia‘i ola. And the park is in a lot of disarray; the structures there falling into itself. And again, the amount of water that was come down from the last year’s rains really tore up the coral. But our fish, they are strong, they come back, they want to be there. So let’s take care of them. And let’s be ho‘o mana‘o; let’s really use this time wisely and really use it for the future, for our keiki. Today is my nephew, my grandnephew’s birthday. And he comes here to surf. He really enjoys that area. So, you know, I speak for them. Seven years, seven years, that’s how we’ve got to look, that’s how our kūpuna looked. With this development, be wise for us in seven years. Seven years more of Ironmen. Bikes and runners going back and forth. Do they not take that into consideration jumping right onto the bend there? You know, let’s really look for that. UNGER: Mahalo. MILLS-FERREN: Mahalo. UNGER: Mahalo. Thank you. LOPRINZI: It’s on? UNGER: You are on. 15 EXHIBIT C