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<br />I’d also like to bring up the public trust doctrine. In strong language it says, “The Hawai‘i
<br />Supreme Court described the public trust doctrine as ‘the right of the people to have the waters
<br />protected for their use, which demands adequate provision for traditional and customary
<br />Hawaiian rights, wildlife, maintenance of ecological balance and scenic beauty, and the
<br />preservation and enhancement of the waters .... For the benefit of present and future generations,
<br />the State and its political subdivisions shall conserve and protect Hawai‘i’s natural beauty and all
<br />natural resources, including land, water, air, minerals and energy sources, and shall promote the
<br />development and utilization of these resources in a manner consistent with their conservation and
<br />…. All public natural resources are held in trust by the State for the benefit of the people.” If we
<br />build this condo, it will not benefit the people, it will benefit very few.
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<br />There is also Shane Dorian’s contest, which I have the shirt on right now. They just celebrated
<br />th
<br />their 24 year. The keiki must get good grades to participate in that, and Shane gets all his
<br />sponsors to give the prizes. And the Sayres are awesome supporters, too; they give scholarships.
<br />And the condo here would be a huge loss to our community for the benefit of a few people.
<br />Thank you. \[Applause from the audience.\]
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<br />RUDOLPH: Aloha, my name is Shannon Rudolph. I live in the Ahupua‘a of Hōlualoa. I’m
<br />testifying today in honor of Joy Keahi Mills. It’s her birthday today, and she was a Hawai‘i
<br />County lifeguard, cultural practitioner, and fierce advocate for protecting our shoreline and our
<br />ocean. I want to honor her today on her birthday, and just want to say please deny this SMA
<br />extension. You’ll hear more about the traffic; it’s too much already. There is no parking. There
<br />is no evacuation routes. The tide is rising, and it’s going to cost tax payers down the road to
<br />remedy that to clean up the mess. There shouldn’t be any more construction on the makai side of
<br />Ali‘i Drive at all, big projects especially. Ali‘i Drive just cannot handle one more car. Thank
<br />you.
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<br />TANOAI: Aloha, my name, Sepa Tanoai. I move here in 19- in the 70’s. When I first came, we
<br />didn’t even have a streetlight here. And I remember taking my kids down to Banyan’s, and there
<br />were surfers out there, because they wanted to surf, they learned how to surf there, and there was
<br />protesting put up the condo over there. And I remember, you know, holding signs with them and
<br />all that. And then even when they did it at the Magic Sand’s, and the thing was when – the
<br />reason I move from Honolulu, the place was getting crowded, I live on North Shore, born and
<br />raised all my life, and I say eh I’m gonna go to Kona. It’s, you know, and it’s hardly had
<br />anybody here living then, back then back in the 70’s. I got a farm, a coffee farm, in Hōnaunau. I
<br />live up Kalaoa. I got a house there. And I still got the farm, I run the farm there, we got
<br />chocolate. But then I remember going down today and protesting, and even when, even Virginia
<br />Isbell came with us down Kealakekua, there was a park and that’s where we used to go down
<br />and barbecue across from, you know, Nāpo‘opo‘o, the park was across, right on the water. And
<br />some doctor from the mainland came over there and wanted to build a house. I don’t know how
<br />they gave him the permit. They took the park away from the people and put his house there.
<br />Now all you got is the mauka side of the park. And I says all this stuff – and they wanted to
<br />build a, down in Ke‘ei, they wanted to build a golf course, we protest – it’s like I’ve been
<br />protesting all my life for about stopping stuff like this. So I reject what you guys gonna to do.
<br />Just like we don’t do, it doesn’t matter, when we go up and speak about stuff like that, you guys
<br />do them anyway, just like it doesn’t matter. Thank you. \[Applause from the audience.\]
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