September 28, 2016 DRAFT SC Minutes

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kind of livelihood back to the Hakalau area. I — at the end of the day, I don't wanna drive down to Hilo, I'd rather visit with you guys at Hakalau Point during the day. This is a beautiful property and he's willing to share it with us and offer commercial kitchens and you know other businesses that we really need in the area so I just — I ask that you please consider that you can't drive away the farmers, we need a — a resource. Thank you for your time. 17. Marissa Harman, representing Kamehameha Schools, speaking on the agenda item of the Pauka'a Map: Aloha ahiahi kdkou, ka Id mai as I turn my attention to the Steering Committee who I'm presenting this testimony to. I'm here to confirm my testiof September 10th' about our intentions for our lands at Pdhoehoe adjacent to Pouka'a as m st people know it. I apologize, at the last meeting, I guess I was not clear enough. I didn't provide specific TMKs but actually, our request is that not to designate as Low Density Urban but to keep the designation that's already therefor both parcel 24 and 25. 1 think your agenda item today was only in regards to parcel 24, so I just wanted to clarify, not asking for anything new, just asking for no change to the current map. For those of you that may not have heard, I think you were all there on the 10th but basically, you know I work for the portion of the Estate that manages our agriculture and conservation lands. So, our intention for the lands that are under the management on this island are really for agriculture. So, when I was here last time, I think I explained our Pdhoehoe lands are our most invested agricultural lands. We've invested in our private water system for our farmers, our roads, our boundaries, our — our security, our fencing. So, this is really the ideal place for us to scale up some agricultural initiatives. We have about 40,000 acres from Hilo to Waipi'o. But, you know, our Hilo lands are really slated for crop food production and so for those that know we're developing a processing facility about two miles from there to support our farmers at Pdhoehoe. It's still under construction, we take a while to do things in our large organization, but I think our test — my testimony last time was we really wanna explore other ways to scale up our agriculture to make it more efficient. And, housing has been a constant issue that has come up so we' looking at opportunities to cluster housing, new models for small farmers or starting farms. We have about 640 acres of usable farmland above this so those makai parcels allows opportunity in the future to continue to be more eff" nt and scale up. So, we don't have any plans at this point in time but our organization makes decisions for 30, 50, 100 years in advance so that's why we're asking that we just keep 00 the designation we currently have so that we have more opportunities to look at different ways of supporting agriculture. So, mahalo nui. Ms. Gloor:kSo, to ask a clarifying question, on this map, is it this parcel? Ms. Harman: Yes, the makai. Parcel 24 and 25. 18. Nick Koch, representing Hawaii Forest Industry Association, agenda item number 3: Hi, this is kind of a — it seems like off -topic, this evening, we seem to have a — a interest item of Hakalau Point on the agenda that seems to be a lot more of interest but I'm here just to — to advocate for trees this evening. I'm a forester. I've lived here a long time and I — I'm the president of the Hawai'i Forest Industry Association. We're proud of trees of all types, native, non-native, everything from mahogany that we see in lower Hdmdkua, Eucalyptus and also the Koa and other trees. There is some language in the current CDP that seems to suggest that windbreaks and other such uses of trees may not be appropriate for certain viewscapes and I just wanna reemphasize the beauty of trees and their central role in Hdmdkua and in people's yards. Page 110