HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-03-05 PL-SMA-2023-000046 Shanell Dedman Opposition Testimony From: Ouihano,Chasitv
To: WPCtestimony
Subject: FW: Lineal and Cultural descendant testimony regarding the Development at Punalu'u Black Sand Beach
Date: Tuesday, March 12,2024 4:30:41 PM
From: Shanell Dedman <shanelldedman@rocl<etmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, March 5, 2024 4:18 PM
To: Council Testimony<counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov>
Subject: Lineal and Cultural descendant testimony regarding the Development at Punalu'u Black
Sand Beach
Aloha a esteemed County Council of the
Windward Planning Commission of Hilo,
Moku nui O Keawe Ko Hawaii Pae aina .
O Shanell Hiiakaikapoliopele Leilani ko`u
i noa . My great great great great tutu wahine
are Keakealaniwahine & Kalanikauleleiaiwi .
am the eldest granddaughter of Pele
Kuaimoku Hanoa and daughter of Raymond
"Fish" Keali`ikoa Dedman and Jessie Ku `ulei
Kamakea I<eahiolaloand Aunty Keolalani
Hanoa my mentor and inspiration and
motivation .
Myohana has Kuleana Royal Patent Crown
Lands in an undivided trust on the shoreline
at Punalu `u .
I spent some of the best years of my life at Punaluu from 1996 to 2013 learned valuable
information as a cohort and assistant to my Aunty Keola and grandma Pete.
was the secretary, treasurer and coordinator for Ka`u Preservation , mau a mau , our
non-profit that saved Punalu`u from developers for the past forty years.
Punalu`u is a wellness Center in of its own wahi kapu, no need four walls.
You cannot have a continent mentality in an Island way of life. The food,water, cultural
and spiritual resources are too valuable. No can mahaoe and desecrate kapu aina that
m6i ali`i of the highest lineages malama and protected for centuries . You need to
research deeper.
You are violating lineal and cultural lineage rights by law by inhibiting descendants from
access to any cultural sites such as heiau and burial caves.You need a list of
descendants and leave them alone. You have to know the mo`oku`auhau the
geneologies.
tried reaching out to Eva Liu but had a bad miscommunication and her son and herself
caused a personal rift between myself and my own ohana.
If you Punalu`u Black Sand Beach LLC .com a foreign corporate investing developer are
going by the SMA Plan of the past two developers.You are relying on outdated
information that was not completely accurate.
Also,your website is chock full of the words and kaona straight out of our non-profit
Ka`u Preservation's mission statement and parts plagiarized from our documentary The
Punalu`u Experience, produced by Danny Miller in 2006, that won the Silver Lei award at
the Honolulu Film Festival. Lookfor it on YouTube .
In the future no one is allowed to illegally use my picture for financial gain for public
relations in a frivolous SMA Plan for a foreign investors development where my ancestors
are buried.
My tutu Pete was extremely opposed to development at Punalu`u and thousands of her
supporters know this and remember the Malama Punalu`u Festivals we had for two
summers.
Kamehameha Paiea trained at Punalu`u as a teenager with his cousin Keouakuahuula
and other ali`i. Kuleana Lands. Four heiau, one dedicated to Kanaloa , one to Lono, one
to Kane and one to 1<0 , numerous historic and archaeological sites, caves and ali`i
burials are extremely sacred and need to be protected.
The daily impact to the environment of hundreds of people traversing on the tiny beach,
taking sand and iliili pebbles is inevitable, if this gigantic development is approved.
A corporation will be encroaching upon the fragile and pristine ecosystem of Punalu`u
Bay and Black Sand beach and Ninole Cove.
This would be very detrimental to the indigenous and endemic animal habitats, native
flora and fauna and the freshwater springs that is the life for us all.
The native Loulu Palm tree, native hawaiian poppy, Pua kala and the Native cotton
plant Ma`o important to the fauna ecosystem there.
Endangered species live here including the `Ope`apea the native Hawaiian Hoary bat,
the Honu`ea Hawksbill Turtle who lay their eggs and build nests on the sand, the
`ilioholoikauaua monk seal, the native damselfly, the Koloa duck, Nene the Hawaiian
goose , `auku`u, the Pueo native Hawaiian Owl, the to native hawaiian hawk and many
rare varieties of limu, ko`ele, opihi.
There is no need for a wellness Center. Punalu`u is the wellness Center and is a living
classroom. My Aunty Keolalani Hanoa had KOkulu Kumuhana o Ka`u Hawaiian cultural
Immersion program for students K-12th grade. Empowering the youth to become the
stewards of the aina and keepers of the mana`o of this place.
A continental mindset encroaching upon our cultural heritage and Island way of life. As
usual. Time to change the narrative huli maka flip the script.
There is a dire need for an updated shoreline survey certification and entirely new SMA
Plan.
They have ignored CDP guidelines, needs an Environmental Impact Statement and
Updated Shoreline Survey Certification and fixing all the fire hydrants . You cannot
approve this monstrosity.
Please do not approve this SMA Plan Planning Director Zendo Kern and Mayor Mitch Roth
You cannot approve this. Look at the Big picture.All eyes are on you. Ku`e ! Imua ohana.
Kapu Ka`u. Save Punalu`u.
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