HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-03-04 PL-SMA-2023-000046 Melvin Masuda Opposition Testimony From: Melvin Masuda
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Subject: For County of Hawaii,Windward Planning Commission Meeting,Thurs., March 7,2024,Agenda Item: New
Business 2.Black Sand Beach
Date: Monday,March 4, 2024 1:12:36 PM
Attachments: D00013.odf
To: The Planning Director, Hawaii County, and the Windward Planning Commission of
and for the Big Island of Hawaii
Re: The Undersigned Individual's Opposition to the Application for a Special Management Area
Permit (per the words of the Agenda:) "to allow for the development of a residential
and commercil community consisting of approximately 225 residential and
short stay units," etc.
Along with the 200 individuals who showed up last Saturday at the Black
Sand Beach area at Punaluu to oppose any devleopment of the area, I add my voice
In opposition. Unfortunately, Hawaii Nei is losing all of its pristine, rural
areas too fast—and allowing such a large development in the Black Sand
Beach-Ninole Road area would destroy the natural beauty and environment
of the area—pristine qualities that, once changed, can never be recovered.
Just as the Island of Kaho'olawe cried out for protection from development
(please see Atttachment from the Second Hawaiian Renaissance—a
Maui Community College rally—in 1975), so, too, I implore the Planning
Director of Hawaii County and the Big Island Windward Planning Commission
to protect the Black Sand Beach-Ninole Road area from any development
and to let that area remain as close to its pristine state as possible so that
various endangered species, both on land and in the neighboring ocean,
can thrive. Sincerely and Aloha, Melvin Maka Masuda (I'm the youngster in
the middle of the photo), Attorney at Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa-
Advanced Placement Courses; B.A., Princeton University;J.D., Yale Law School;
M.P.A., Harvard Kennedy School; Member, Board of Editors, The Hawaii
Bar Journal.
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