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CLAUDIA ROHR <br />369 Nene St. <br />Hilo, Hawai'i 96720 <br />Phone: (808) 640-5976 <br />crohr4@gmail.com <br />January 3, 2024 <br />RE: Testimony WPC meeting January 4, 2024, agenda item Planning <br />Director's Report on SMA minor permits issued November 2023 <br />Aloha E Windward Planning Commissioners - <br />My testimony concerns SMA minor permit No. PL-SMM 2023-000054 <br />(hereinafter "SMM 23-54"). The SMA use permit assessment application (Papaikou <br />Landing), included here, admits that the landowner is segmenting his Project and <br />intends to obtaining separate SMA permits for three land uses and activities. The <br />three phases discussed by the landowner are: <br />(1) to subdivide parcel 118 into 2-4 lots; <br />(2) demolish the remnants of the old mill on Lot 2 which will <br />involve land disturbing activities and might require relocation of <br />the trail to the beach; and <br />(3) proposed eco-tourism and film industry uses. ("The Trust <br />reserves the right to use the trail, those privately owned areas of <br />the beach and river for its proposed eco - tourism and potential <br />film industry uses.")(Application, pg. 22). <br />The Planning department failed to assess the possible cumulative impacts of <br />the whole project, and all of the phases, in determining whether the project qualifies <br />for a SMA minor permit as opposed to a SMA major permit. <br />1 <br />APPELLANT EXHIBIT 4, pg. 1 of 5 <br />