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From: Cheryl Tanouav <br /> To: LPCtestimony <br /> Subject: I request to speak in opposition to Royal Vistas Housing Project <br /> Date: Tuesday, December 13,2022 4:29:06 AM <br /> Attachments: Harry Kim 191223.pdf <br /> Chanae of Zone Ordinance-chervl.tanauay(abamail.com-Gmail.pdf <br /> Gmail-Messaoe from the Plannino Director Cancellation of Upcomino Action Committee Meetinos.pdf <br /> Gmail-GENERAL PLAN 2040 information 220222.pdf <br /> Gmail-Pulama Ia KONA Historical Preservation Council Obiects to the Application No. PL-REZ-2022-000033.1)df <br /> Tom K Stone Holua of Holualoa.pdf <br /> I ask that you reject the ROYAL VISTAS HOUSING PROJECT application. <br /> "Kona Three LLC" wants to extend their application for final approval to build 450 <br /> units over a decade, of "market rate" For Sale multi-unit 2 and 3 story townhouses <br /> and units that will be purchased for use as short and long-term rentals on 2 parcels <br /> TMK 7-6-021 016 and TMK 7-6-021 017, formerly zoned Ag. In the process, all <br /> traces of Pre-Contact life (late 1400s) through important remnants of early industry on <br /> this historic apuahua'a with its folklore connections to both King Kamehameha and <br /> Queen Lili'uokalani will disappear forever. <br /> Reasons to oppose this zoning change and this development include: <br /> The Kona Community Development Plan, under which this Project was proposed in <br /> 1984, had been undergoing extensive review, soliciting community input, (as Harry <br /> Kim noted in his response to the Kona Three LLC En svironmental Assessment in <br /> 2021.) until September 2022 when Planning Director Zendo Kern <br /> suspended the Action Committee meetings. Our next meeting has now <br /> been scheduled for Monday, December 19th <br /> Royal Vistas, does not have the support of the Pulama la Kona Historical <br /> Preservation Council. Please see the attached letter from Antu Harvey representing <br /> the Historical Preservation Council which contains the 1953 report by Henry <br /> KeKahuna stating the existence of an ancient mauka-makai trail near the <br /> Holualoa Drainway and his knowledge of remnants of a holua run down along 10 <br /> Place and through the parcels we are trying to save. <br /> In early 2019, 1 observed and photographed the parallel rock walls (typical of a holua <br /> on the Big Island) on TMK 7-6-021 016 and TMK 7-6-021 017, Having visited the <br /> Holualoa Inn property and witnessing the Holua remnants there, I was in awe that <br /> sections of the Great Slide were present and readily seen on the parcels slated for <br /> development by Kona Three LLC. Having captured several photos, 1, along with <br /> other Kona Vistas homeowners, began researching the potential for and significance <br /> of these particular holua. Tom Pahaku Stone, who was raised on the Inn's property, <br /> will expand upon the significance of the rock walls on the Kona Vistas III property as <br /> the developer'sTMKs align with the TMK for the Holualoa Inn. <br /> We will also be hearing testimony on Thursday from Lamaku Mikahala Roy, Na <br /> Mamaka o Ka Lama of the Ahu'ena Heiau attesting to these 67 acres being the <br />