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Mr. Michael Yee, Planning Director <br />April 6, 2018 <br />Page 2 <br />course of the tube as it ran beneath the property. This is evident today as a swath of <br />natural terrain and vegetation within an otherwise completely altered parcel. <br />On two separate days (October 18 and November 29, 2004) Matthew Clark, B.A., Dave <br />Nelson, B.A., Christopher Hand, B.A., Michael Rivera, B.A., and Oliver Bautista, B.A., <br />under the direct supervision of Robert Rechtman, Ph.D. carried out both a surface and <br />subsurface reconnaissance of the property. The surface survey included pedestrian <br />transects using a five meter spacing interval across the previously bulldozed portions of the <br />parcel and an intensive 100% survey of the previously unbulldozed swath. At the makai <br />end of the swath makai of the property boundary (off the parcel), a series of interconnected <br />lava tube entrances were identified. The tube was explored in both mauka (on property <br />and makai directions as far as humanly possible. " <br />'L A%" <br />5 ta� <br />1�d <br />[Portion of Tax Map (3)1-5-007:017 showing the approximate location of the Fire Station <br />and Police Sub Station, the unbulldozed swath, and lava tube entrances] <br />Although there were no historic features identified on the property, nor any ancient or historic <br />cultural materials or skeletal remains observed within the lava tubes, the EA goes on to <br />recommend that `for safety reasons... the existing entrances to the lava tube be barricaded and <br />that the previously unbulldozed area remains in its current state. " It appears that the identified <br />lava tubes traverse an area within the identified 5 -acre site. <br />Access to the Pahoa Public Library on this site would be mostly vehicular. The assumed entry <br />would be off the main highway possibly increasing traffic and slowing traffic flow in and out of <br />