Kamehameha Schools is almost ready to submit their EIS Environmental Impact Statement - Environmental Assessment to be signed off by the Mayor and Hawai'i Planning Director. We CAN stop this by contacting them and asking them NOT to sign off on this Environmental Assessment.
Please ask all your friends and family to do the same because we need a lot of voices standing together in order to save this historic bay.
Please contact Mayor Kimo Alameda and Hawai'i Planning Director Jeff Darrow and ask them NOT to sign off on Kamehameha Schools EIS - Environmental Assessment.
Ask them to please help make Keauhou Bay Conservation Land for Historical Reasons because it is the birthplace of King Kamehameha III. For Cultural Values, the Hawaiian people have fished and paddled canoes there for hundreds of years, and many different community cultural practices are held there daily.
Those practices won't have the room they need if hundreds of tourists are allowed to take over Keauhou Bay because of a bungalow resort development. This is NOT "Low Impact Lodging" that Kamehameha Schools calls it.
Contact Mayor Kimo Alameda https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/our-county/mayor/comments-and-concerns
Ask for a Meeting with Mayor Kimo Alameda https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/our-county/request-meeting-with-mayor
Email and Call Jeff Darrow https://www.planning.hawaiicounty.gov/Home/Components/StaffDirectory/StaffDirectory/121/1663?alpha=D and call him at 8089618158.
Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resorts will violate the Cultural Impact Statement Law, "whether an action may have a significant effect on cultural practices, particularly native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices expressly protected under article XII, section 7, of the state constitution." https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2020/bills/SB3152_.HTM
Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resorts will violate the National Historic Preservation Act and the 36 CFR800 Regulations https://www.ntc.blm.gov/krc/system/files?file=legacy/uploads/18293/GuidetoTCPs%26SacredSites.pdf
The National Historic Preservation Act and the 36 CFR 800 regulations, “properties of traditional religious and cultural significance” and “properties of traditional religious and cultural importance.”
(i) are widely shared within the group,
(ii) have been passed down through the generations, and
(iii) have served a recognized role in maintaining the group’s cultural identity for at least 50 years.
More people need to stand up for Keauhou Bay and make efforts, or this bay will become a Bungalow Resort.
https://bigislandsupport.com/savekbay/ will give you other steps you can take to help save Keauhou Bay.
Mahalo for your time and efforts.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Melendez