2018-10-18 Leeward Exh C (AMEND REZ 926)

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LIM: The Hualālai Resort side there are north and south parking areas totaling about 77 stalls. VITOUSEK: Thanks. Yeah, I have a couple of questions about that. Is the requirement to open it up to public after the acceptance of the preservation plan a legal requirement or is that something that the developer has decided to do? Is there a condition existing that says the preservation plan must be accepted prior to opening it up to public? KNABLE: Just one sec. If I could open up the comprehensive public access plan. LIM: I don’t think that that says particular key in the condition itself, but it has been always part of the discussion with the cultural groups and the State Historic Preservation Division. Part of the problem on the oceanfront area fronting the Kaūpūlehu Development side is that there is a ʻ series of conservation subzones that were enacted during the initial approvals of the project through the State Land Use Commission, and many of the archaeological sites and the areas fronting the shoreline, which are pretty dangerous, were subject to these buffer agreements. And there is also an integrated resource management plan that was agreed to by the project owners and the community and accepted by the County as part of this. So that all ties into it. So that’s why Jason was saying it’s not like your typical let’s-go-to-the-sandy-beach-and-go-into-the- water kind of a place; this is more of a pretty important cultural asset for the community. In the original Land Use Commission proceedings, they had the area kūpuna, they had, Hannah Springer was involved, Leina‘ala Lightner who is Aunty Lei that Jason is referring to, they are all involved in the Kaūpūlehu Development Monitoring Committee, which was a reqʻuirement of the State Land Use Commission approval. So they proceeded through the initial stages of the project, meeting with the developer, and essentially approving all of these various cultural and access plans. VITOUSEK: Okay. In reading this we see that the only real requirement for opening public access is after the completion of the golf course, but I didn’t see any updates on plans for the golf course. Is there a time frame on the 18-hole golf course in the area? LIM: No, no, and we proceeded ahead with development of the various parking lots and interpretive center prior to the development of the golf course because we know that was important to the community. VITOUSEK: Absolutely. Would you mind giving us just a little bit more information on the preservation plan? I see that in your application you guys submitted a copy of that, but that didn’t make its way to us, and I was just wondering if we could have a little bit of history on the correspondence between SHPD. When was the plan originally submitted to SHPD? KNABLE: The plan was originally submitted in late 2013. The architect, or, excuse me, the archaeologist, at that time followed up I believe a few months later, and then it has just been continual follow-up by the developer over the past five years, including our office. We followed up in April and May of this year and then also earlier this month. VITOUSEK: And who submitted it? 11 EXHIBIT C