2018-04-05 Hearing Transcript - Hu Honua Bioenergy SMA 221 (Partial Remand)

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Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: Yes. CLARKSON: Thank you. If you would please introduce yourself and proceed to explain why you believe that your petition is in good standing under Rule 4-6(b), the Planning Commission's Rules for, excuse me, determining standing. Thank you. ROHR: I think I wrote a pretty long written description. Would you like me to read that? CLARKSON: If you could summarize that description that would be ROHR: Okay CLARKSON: —that would be good for everyone present. ROHR: I moved here in 1996, and I took up real estate, and I used to enjoy Sunday drives up the Hamakua Coast exploring. My specialty was agricultural real estate, and I discovered Pepe`ekeo Point and the roads that used to, used to be able to access the shoreline very simply. The sugar cane company left the gates open. They expected people to fish off the cliffs. Anyway, I was enjoying that, and I enjoyed looking at all the archaeological remains of the old village. There was quite a bit there, and researching that, I encouraged someone to open up asomething about the cane days in terms of the historical memorabilia that's available. But, anyway, my husband and I own a property in Leleiwi neighborhood, and we have an anchialine pond, and we would go out there and fish to stock our pond, and I was actually shown the cliffs in I think it was '99 by John Cross, the field manager of C. Brewer or of Mauna Kea Agribusiness. And, there used to be like little fire pits and places where people would fish off the cliff. It was very noticeable. I found it all very charming and exciting, and I even went for hikes with the Sierra Club, and I participated in all of the SMA hearings that were involved with the subdivision of a thousand acres surrounding the plant. And, I was the only one who went to every single hearing in SMA and the zoning bill. I didn't miss one, and that was hours and hours over a year and a half. Even when they rescheduled it, I appeared and testified. It's an enormous amount of energy that I put in to trying to protect my rights to access the shoreline for recreation. I own a B&B in Hilo, I mean in Leleiwi, and it's my firm belief from talking to my guests at breakfast that they're not going to like these log trucks coming down the Hamakua Coast. That's protected I believe because we call it the Hilo-Hamakua Heritage Corridor, and there was money gotten from the National, from the National Park Service to survey all the special sites along their published drive guide. Anyway, my belief is that those trucks coming from Pahala past the Volcano National Park up Bayfront and coming down the coast is going to change the town of Hilo for 30 years. I believe it's going to disrupt the cultural and recreational scenic value of Hilo Bay and our Downtown, and it's going to affect my property and my use of my property. It's going to limit me. I won't EXHIBIT C 2