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

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LOPRINZI: No, but I want to ask you that, because you asked me to put my hand up and to swear something. What do you swear by? UNGER: This is an opportunity for you to testify, and we will — LOPRINZI: I know, but — UNGER: — we will have our opportunity to comment as well. So I do need — LOPRINZI: Do you do that? Do you — UNGER: — I do need to ask you to finalize your — LOPRINZI: Will you, okay, yes, so I’m — UNGER: — hō‘ike. LOPRINZI: — asking you to put your hand up to all of us and tell us what you, what you swear by. UNGER: Thank you. LOPRINZI: Okay? SMITH: That was good, a hard act to follow. My name is Timothy Smith. I live next to the adjacent empty property that’s the Pollak Trust. I’m relatively a new resident to the island. But in just the time I’ve been here, I’ve seen a dramatic increase in traffic. This tourism takes up, I don’t know when the traffic study was done, it seems to be a bit antiquated. If you are going to, Ali‘i Highway, it’s been stymied due to bones, grave sites, archaeological finds, that’s fine, so now I guess we’ll just bulldoze 42 acres and there will be whatever happens to those archaeological sites, it’ll be destroyed, let alone the runoff. Ali‘i Drive is, can’t turn that into a highway. It’s already bad enough with the amount of tourism and everything. It’s a lovely bay, and it, I can just see it getting destroyed. As the others have said, I’ve seen that with the water and the tsunami the park is in such disrepair, and that doesn’t seem to be important to anybody. I mean the fishpond is destroyed. It was beautiful. It’s now it’s just cracked concrete; it’s disgrace. The parking, there is so much, there is so little parking everyone’s parking where they shouldn’t be. I have, you can’t even get out of your driveways anymore with all the, especially when there is surf. It should be, it’s, there’s so many people. So I’m really, that’s just a huge number of, such a huge number of impact, number of cars and people using the beach there. And they are not going to walk by the way. That’s ludicrous to even think so. They’ll be getting in their car to go everywhere with all their beach chairs and their surfboards. People talk about walking, that’s a bit of a distance and I doubt that’s going to happen. So I really think that’s a bad idea for such a large development in such a rich historical site, let alone, like I heard before, the bats, the trees, the large trees, they harbor these creatures, the unmarked graves, everything 17 EXHIBIT C