October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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battle it out, hire the lawyers, stretch it out. Or, fourth, I shut it down and basically take it off you know, shelf it and let my children worry about it. And you know, frankly, that's — that option is there. I think if you look at the potential of working together, there's a greater potential to work towards common good because you know, this is still the United States of America and private property rights are still protected under this — in this country, thank God, and I believe that when you're contemplating basically is an illegal action that will amount to a taking of private property rights. And, I've talked to enough lawyers, I've talked to — privately with folks at the Corp Counsel. I don't think that's gonna — that's gonna hold up. So, I would just ask you to think about where — where you're heading with this because if its — if you think there's a fifth option which is strip my private property rights, intimidate me to hand over a piece of property, it's never gonna happen. It's not gonna happen so I — I would think there's probably more reason to work together than to continue to alienate me and I can [inaudible] polarization. Thank you. 7. Marissa Harman, representing Kamehameha Schools, speaking on agenda item 3C, new information presented: Aloha, thank you for the opportunity to come before you again. Based on the written testimony I submitted yesterday, I would like to ask the Steering Committee to consider the new information I provided in my clarification and consider the possibility of agendizing the Pauka'a map again, the revisions at your next meeting — sounds like you might have a next meeting. But just to summarize some of the clarification points I brought up, you know, we have about 40,000 acres in the CDP planning district. What I'm asking is actually not — I think some of the material wrongly says we're asking you to designate it as LDU. I'm actually asking you just to keep it as LDU. I think the revisions propose taking it away but you know the — the acreage is about 50 acres. It's 1/10 of 1% of our land holdings in the area and I think our track record, you know, after buying the plantation in Hdmdkua, 30,000 acres and taking back our Hilo lands that were in sugar, we consciously decided to keep those lands in ag production. Even Director Enright, his Department of Ag recognizes that in their 2015 State Land Use Baseline Study. We can quote: "KS is a long-term landowner and has not sought to sell any of the lands they have acquired in Hdmdkua in the last 20 years." End quote. So, for us, you know, I think Steve talked about kind of shelving a decision for a future generation. Actually, the burden we carry as you know, the caretakers of Pauahi's lands is to make the decisions for the next generation, so keeping the LDU designation allows us opportunities to continue supporting our — our agricultural lands. These lands at Pdhoehoe, we've invested about $1.3M in them in the last few years for our water system, for our roads, for paving, for security and with a post- harvest facility down the road. So, it's really my job as the current steward to — to ensure there are opportunities for Pauahi's beneficiaries in the future, one of them being a possibility for affordable farm worker housing. We've kinda got outta the housing market in Honolulu because of the lease to fee conversion but there are other ways of us doing housing in terms of short term leases or through third party. But basically, the 650 usable acres above this could support about 30-60 small farms if fully utilized for farmland so we gotta think through those possibilities as our trees come out at the top of those farms and that that land get turned into more agricultural production. And, I think there was a misunderstanding that current ag zoning would allow us to do this kind of clustered housing. The current ag zoning allows for one home — potentially one additional dwelling on that parcel. What we're trying to do is support all the ag land above it at the base here. And, I — I further don't believe that the County Action Policy Page 114