2018-01-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SMA 412, REZ 17-225 & SMA 17-068))

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until 9:00 o’clock last night; so if anything came in after that, the Commission does not have it. And then you should have an email from Eldridge Naboa of Fish and Wildlife. We also handed out this morning a letter from William Lazenby, Julia Alos, Jojo Tanimoto, Barbara Schaefer, and, I’m sorry, let’s see, Olivia Cockcroft. I’m also going to hand out three more that you can pass around, we only have one copy, and that’s from Mike and Sue Kniss, Victoria Serrao and Marcie Davis. And the applicant provided this binder and they will go into more detail on the contents of that in a few minutes. And that concludes my presentation. I’ll be happy to answer any questions the Commission has. UNGER: Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions? CARR SMITH: Yes, I have a couple. Can you explain why the trails appear to end on the map? JACKSON: On, on which end? This end here? CARR SMITH: Yeah, those trails that you pointed out appear to end and not go any further. Is that typical? JACKSON: I don’t know the answer to that question. I know the applicant’s archaeologist is here, and he can probably provide information about why those trails end where they do. CARR SMITH: Okay. And do we know, is 2014 the last time that this shoreline was certified? JACKSON: It was actually 2015, yeah. And let me explain why that was. So typically, certified shoreline surveys are only valid for one year. When the Planning Department receives an application, we honor that certified shoreline survey, even if it takes more than a year for the application to get through the approval, the entitlement process. So what happened with this particular application was in 2015 the applicant submitted an application similar to what you have before you, and then the State Historic Preservation Division determined that their archaeological inventory survey was somewhat outdated; it didn’t meet the criteria according to SHPD rules for an AIS. So the applicant agreed to redo that survey and that process took about two years. During the process the applicant created a revised AIS, they created a new preservation plan, they revised their site concept several times to what you have before you now. And just for a little further background, when SMA 412 was issued in 2000, the trails were known at that time, those three primary trails, and the State Nā Ala Hele informed the applicant and the Department that those were trails that were owned in fee by the State under the Highways Act. But at that time SHPD didn’t determine them as historic trails for whatever reason. So what happened was there were no preservation requirements for those trails at that time. Since then, since the new AIS came out, new preservation plan, SHPD has changed that determination and they are seen as historic and culturally significant, which is why now the applicant change their site concept to accommodate those preservation buffers. CHURCH: You said one of the — CARR SMITH: Thank you. 8 EXHIBIT B