2016-06-02 Hearing Transcript - Mile Marker 12 SPP 16-189

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right before you give your presentation, if you would tell us your full legal name, where you reside, and then try to limit your testimony to three minutes. You're on. PRACHT: Aloha. HEAUKULANL Aloha. PRACHT: My name is Terra Ann Pracht, and I have been a resident of Puna since 2009. I am in deep service to this project and feel honored to be here, and I feel so grateful for all the energy, effort, and safety that you provide with this process, so thank you, and I'm full in support of this, of this project. Thank you. DOUGLAS: Good morning. My name is Lorn Douglas. I've lived on the Island 33 years. I'm a retired businessman. Been a volunteer mediator with Kuikahi Mediation Center since it opened in the late eighties. I have been actively involved in several community associations and also been involved with several of the communities that have sprung up in Puna since I moved here in 1989. I'm about sustainability and when Captain Cook supposedly discovered the Island, there was upwards of 500,000 people living here sustainably. Now, we have less than a third of that number of people and we're importing 90 percent of our food. Personally, I'm on a mission to be an example like Hawaiian Sanctuary. This morning, I picked a papaya, non-GMO, corn, jicama, it doesn't come from Mexico, sweet potatoes, this little cucumber that I picked this morning, and at the end of this building, my electric car that has 33,000 gas free miles is charging thanks to the County. I have a very low carbon footprint. I want to say that what I've learned at Hawaiian Sanctuary. I have doubled the output of my food using principles of permaculture, biochar, creating all of my own fertilizer inexpensively from, from debris laying on my lands, and that I tout myself as an inspiration of others, and Hawaiian Sanctuary is doing that on a much broader scale. The things that they're doing just in the terms of agriculture and education is, has been an inspiration to hundreds of people and it's kind of ironic that we have to go through hoops to be able to do this. That it's not part of the ability on ag land to teach ag principles. So, I'm very much in favor of what they're doing. I spent quite a bit of time up there, and your, hopefully, approval of this application will be greatly appreciated by me. HEAUKULANL Thank you, sir. DEUTSCH: My name is Jerry Deutsch, and when I first met Steve five years ago, I was president of the National Health Association. Since then, my position has changed, and I'm the senior advisor to the Nutritional Research Foundation. Both those organizations take a look and see the power that food has to heal and also used incorrectly to promote disease. In my experience, what Steve and the entire Sanctuary is doing is proposing something that will have a huge impact, not only to our local community but to all of Hawaii, `cause as my good 6 EXHIBIT A