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Keakamāhana and her daughter Keākealaniwahine. This project has had a five-year extension on
<br />the permit, and as of December 26, 2017, it expired. That should mean it’s all pau, you know,
<br />and I don’t see how you can blame on the bad economy, either, because they are trying to sell it
<br />for 1.8 million dollars, and they only paid 10,000 dollars for it. So please just don’t build five
<br />stories. Twenty feet back from the shoreline is way too close still. The inside section of that
<br />whole Hōlualoa Bay, wherever people had put all those buildings with the seawalls, you’ve taken
<br />out the inside section. There was an inside section where the keiki and wahine-s got to learn; it’s
<br />gone, it’s all rocky. I’ve been surfing there since I was ten years old, and I’ve been told by
<br />residents to get off their lawns and go onto the loose rocks. I was ten the first time I got told to
<br />beat it, and my brother was eight. So, just, all pau. Mahalo.
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<br />MAKAIO: Hi, I’m Tiare Makaio. I live in Sunset, but my grandmother’s house was on Ali‘i
<br />Drive. Loke, I and Keawe grew up, we are 40 now, and we grew up on that beach, you know,
<br />we learned how to surf at Kahalu‘u and Banyan’s, watched our parents surf there. And the
<br />development and the overcrowding and all the buildings, it’s just taking away from our Ali‘i
<br />Drive, you know, there is no space for us to enjoy the beach, you know. And just walking across
<br />the street from my grandmother’s house with my daughter, trying to watch the stars, we are
<br />getting kicked off the beach. We are getting cops called on us, you know. That’s everybody’s
<br />beach, and we’re just closing off more access to the ocean. And the traffic is bad, you know. So
<br />I’m opposing, you know, the permitting. And I’m hoping that we maybe turn it into a
<br />community park, you know, so we can bring our families down there to enjoy it, you know. It
<br />shouldn’t just be for specific people to enjoy the ocean; it should be for the people that was born
<br />and raised here, for all of us to enjoy, you know, not block it off anymore. That’s it. Thank you.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo.
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<br />ALAPAI: How’s it? My name is Keawe Alapai. I guess I’m a lineal descendant of the place.
<br />My grandfather lived right there on the, right next door to where they’re gonna build their
<br />property. My grandpa is Keawe Herbert Alapai. My grandma is Mary Arthur Ceasar Spinney.
<br />And that’s where they lived at their young life. And my grandma used to tell my grandfather to
<br />go fish for the āholehole, uouoa, because that’s what she craved because she was hāpai with my
<br />mom and my mom’s brother Keawe. So he go two o’clock in the morning, you know, throw net,
<br />catch the āholehole, and my grandma would, you know, just suck on the heads of the āholehole.
<br />And, you know, that’s part of our Hawaiian cultural practices from the ancient days, yeah? So,
<br />and my ancestry comes from every island, every chief, Moku o Keawe, Alapa‘i Nui,
<br />Kalani‘ōpu‘u, all ruling chief, all related to Kamehameha, that’s all my ancestors, but I don’t like
<br />brag about that, that’s not my thing. But you guys gonna build one, one five-story condo, it
<br />doesn’t benefit nobody, only the people who’s gonna sell it for the millions. The lineal
<br />descendants, lateral descendants, the community, the residents, nobody benefits, only the people
<br />who’s making money. They’re gonna just make their money and leave. They are not making a
<br />residential. They are not participating in perpetuating the Hawaiian culture or its sacred sites.
<br />Even though they are saying there’s no sacred sites, but Hawaiians, my ancestors, live
<br />throughout every island of every ahupua‘a; they live, they fish, they worship, they’re part of the
<br />land. So by saying that there’s no bones or there’s no history, just like saying there is no
<br />Hawaiians in Hawai‘i. So, they gotta redo the work, because like I says, these archaeologists is
<br />not lineal descendants, so, how do they know the history when they have no bloodline to the land
<br />or anywhere in Hawai‘i? They are from the mainland. So even though they have a degree, they
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