2019-03-07 Hearing Transcript - Wailani Development, LLC Amend REZ 10-117

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I think one example here inside of Hilo is that, and I'll be brief and I'll be really quick here, is that diabetes is plaguing the community, okay? And, we need a diabetes suite inside of the site here, and within that, you need endocrinology, podiatry, and ophthalmology, and internal med or family practice doc to that combined to really treat the whole person here. Renal failure is so severe here is that if you take a look at the dialysis center, it had to increase chairs before it even opened. So, to be able to combat that, these are types of facilities that we have to have, and we have to have the space to do so. All medical facilities here are cramped for space, and this development would help combat that. Thank you. PALAMA: Hi, I'm Cathy Palama, and I live in Kaumana. In fact, the project is at my backdoor. I will tie into his, and this is personal, because my family has medical issues, and there is not anyone here that can treat them, so we have to travel, need to go to Honolulu. If we're lucky, sometimes there's a specialist in Waimea. With this facility coming in, it will eliminate—like he says, transportation—it will eliminate the transportation and time and effort and the finances that we have to take to go to Honolulu. Sometimes it takes me three days staying in Honolulu with one of my family members to get the care they need. I really believe that this project will eliminate a lot of it. I'm one of those. I'm a diabetic, and there are times that my doctor tells me that I need to go to Honolulu for certain things, and having quite a large family, it's very hard for me. But, I'm here to say that I'm just a resident of Hilo, from Honolulu, I love it here, but we are so isolated in many ways and many things, and I feel this whole project, not only the medical part, but the whole project, will benefit Hawaii Island, and will benefit communities, and benefit the people of Hawaii. Thank you. VICENTE: Good afternoon, my name is Dwight Vicente. I represent the Hawaiian Kingdom. Here again, I refer back to the ReciproI mean the treaty between King Kalakaua and the Emperor of Japan and ended in 1897, and the limits of the, the lands that was ceded illegally to the United States in 1898 was the 1,750,000 acres that became in 1900 the Territory of Hawaii; 1920, they rebranded the Crown and Government lands to be Hawaiian Home Lands. And, then 1959 by compact, the Territory agreed to implement the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act in the name of the State of Hawaii. Now, the lands in question are Crown lands. There's no documents showing that these lands became part of the ceded land in 1898. These lands still remained in the name of the Hawaiian Kingdom. These are Crown lands, and there is no contract with, that those contracts ended in 1925. King Kalakaua kicked up the lease to 25 years, the 3 to 5 year leases. So, then, the—for anyone to claim they own the land and they want to develop the land is in question, and on top of that, you've got the County where they're stating or the roads will be dedicated to the County. That brings up the question of jurisdiction. Does the County and the State extend their jurisdiction beyond the lands rebranded as Hawaiian Home Lands? That's a question I haven't seen a document that shows that yet. So, that question is still, that's going to come up in the Real Property Tax appeal. That's one of my Real Property Tax appeal argument is that the County of Hawaii is not the 4,000+ square miles of island. It's only the lands rebranded as Hawaiian Home Lands. You got the case, State vs. Harold Jim where you're required to have a driver's license on lands designated Hawaiian Home Lands. Another thing I want to point out, I've seen removal of Crown dirt on that property and being sold. There's no authority. That's theft right there, and the County has no jurisdiction over that, EXHIBIT C 20