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From: Cheryl Tanauav <br />To: LPCtestimony <br />Subject: PL-REZ-2022-033 Written Testimony in Opposition to Royal Vistas Housing Project <br />Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 9:41:26 PM <br />Attachments: Harry Kim 191223.odf <br />Chance of Zone Ordinance - chervl.tanauav c:amail.com - Gmail.Ddf <br />Gmail - Message from the Planning Director Cancellation of Upcoming Action Committee Meetinos.odf <br />Gmail - Pulama Ia KONA Historical Preservation Council Obiects to the Application No. PL-REZ-2022-000033.odf <br />Tom K Stone Holua of Holualoa.pdf <br />Corrected Version, with labeled exhibits <br />Forwarded message <br />From: Cheryl Tanguay <cheryl-tanguay@gmai1.com> <br />Date: Tue, Dec l3, 2022 at 9:26 AM <br />Subject: l request to speak in opposition to Royal Vistas Housing Project <br />To: <I.PCtestimony(cS'.hawaiicounty.gov> <br />Reject the ROYAL VISTAS HOUSING PROJECT application. <br />"Kona Three LLC" wants to extend their application for final approval to build <br />450 units over a decade, of "market rate" For Sale multi -unit 2 and 3 story <br />townhouses and units that will be purchased for use as short and long-term <br />rentals on 2 parcels TMK 7-6-021 016 and TMK 7-6-021 017, formerly zoned Ag. <br />In the process, all traces of Pre -Contact life (late 1400s) through important <br />remnants of early industry on this historic apuahua'a with its folklore <br />connections to both King Kamehameha and Queen Lili'uokalani will disappear <br />forever. <br />Reasons to oppose this zoning change and this development include: <br />the Kona Community Development Plan, under which this Project was proposed <br />in 1984, had been undergoing extensive review, soliciting community input, (as <br />Harry Kim noted in his response to the Kona Three LLC En svironmental <br />Assessment in 2021.) until September 2022 when Planning Director Zendo <br />Kern suspended the Action Committee meetings. Our next meeting has <br />now been scheduled for Monday, December 19th [EXHIBIT A] <br />Royal Vistas does not have the support of the Pulama la Kona Historical <br />Preservation Council. Please see the attached letter [EXHIBIT B] from Antu <br />Harvey, representing the Historical Preservation Council, which contains the 1953 <br />report by Henry KeKahuna stating the existence of an ancient mauka-makai trail near <br />the 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 />