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Fred Cachou F.O. Box 504 ** Kapaau HI ** 96755 North Kohala Historic & Cultural Group Pounfy Council IP- To , �.` Testimony Delivered to the Hawaii County Council Committee on Planning Kohala, July 18, 2002 Chair Bobby Jean Leithead- 'odd, members of the Committee on Planning, aloha kakou. I am Tied Cachola, Jr., born and raised in Kohala and a property owner. Like many of the previous speakers, I am proud to call this special place my home. The plantation era ended about 30 years ago, and since then, it is becoming more evident that one of the most viable options and major trends for Kohala's future is the visitor industry. Visitors from all over the world come to Kohala to enjoy its open views from the mountains to the ocean, to explore Kohala's unique Historic and sacred sites, to participate in the rich cultural traditions of the district, to seek solace and serenity in the beauty of our natural environments. Therefore, to insure that Kohala continues to be a vibrant, thriving community it is absolutely imperative that we do everything possible to preserve our open view planes, our historic and sacred sites and our rural, cultural traditions. The actions of this committee in considering policies for the long- range development ofKohala's physical landscape will definitely have a major impact in detern- ining our economic future. I urge you to adopt the previous speakers' strong recommendations to designate the Kohala coastline - `Conservation and Open;' ... to clearly establish the six drivable access routes from Akoni Fide Hwy. to the coastline... to insert the word "'priority" in preserving existing view planes to and along the coastline, and to establish a room -cap for visitor facilities in the district.. I concur with the over all Goals, Policies and Standards set forth in the Historic Sites section of your General Plait. In addition, I suggest that your committee draft an ordinance that will create a County Historic and Cultural. Preservation Commission ...as are currently operating in the Maui and Kauai County and soon in the Honolulu County. I met with staff of the State Historic Preservation Division yesterday, and confirmed that that have identified. 8000 archaeological sites on Hawaii and there may be many more, because they have completed only 80% of their survey. Almost one fourth of the sites are in North Kohala, 1850. By comparison, the rest of our island chain., i.e. all the other islands combined have only 7000. It is ob ' as Re Ilio. Ref. r-0. Hof. Dau M