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Kamehameha Schools Realty Company has submitted their Environmental Impact Statement to turn small historical Keauhou Bay into a Bungalow Resort. 

More ways to HELP SAVE Keauhou Bay located at https://bigislandsupport.com/savekbay/ Mahalo for your personal time.:)

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Please email the Hawai'i Planning and the County Council, and ask them to Amend the 2045 General Plan to designate Keauhou Bay Recreation Land as it is currently designated Resort Land in their plan.

Copy and Past ALL these email addresses: GeneralPlan@hawaiicounty.gov, WPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov, LPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov, rebecca.villegas@hawaiicounty.gov, heather.kimball@hawaiicounty.gov, jennifer.kagiwada@hawaiicounty.gov, dennis.onishi@hawaiicounty.gov, ashley.kierkiewicz@hawaiicounty.gov, matt.kanealii-kleinfelder@hawaiicounty.gov, michelle.galimba@hawaiicounty.gov, holeka.inaba@hawaiicounty.gov, james.hustace@hawaiicounty.gov

Copy and Paste Subject Title: Amend Keauhou Bay's Land Use in 2045 General Plan to Recreation Land

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Please Amend Keauhou Bay Land Use to Recreation Land because it was zoned Resort many years ago, before the numerous resorts that now surround Keauhou Bay.

The Cultural Impact Statement Law states, "defined by the state historic preservation division to determine whether an action may have a significant effect on cultural practices, particularly native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices expressly..." https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2020/bills/SB3152_.HTM

Overcrowding Keauhou Bay with another resort will have "significant effects on cultural practices" held in the bay. 

Keauhou Bay is the birthplace of King Kamehameha III; it should be conserved for its historical and cultural significance, such as canoe paddling, fishing, baptisms, life celebrations, unanimous meetings, yoga practices, and more.

Kamehameha Schools wants to make the canoe club smaller to make room for more tourists and this violates the Cultural Impact Statement Law.

If they are allowed to build 43 buildings with 150 rooms, it will bring in hundreds of tourists to small Keauhou Bay as 150 X 3 people equals 450 people. This will overcrowd and pollute Keauhou Bay for years to come.  

Also, the endangered species inhabit Keauhou Bay include the Monk Seal, Green Sea Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle, and the Hawaiian Hoary Bat. Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, "The purposes of this Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved..." https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/endangered-species-act

This is an Act their Bungalow Resort will violate because of the pollution their development will cause.

Keauhou Bay is declared "Impaired Water" by US EPA. Under Section 303 D of the Clean Water Act, "...develop lists of impaired waters. These are waters that are too polluted or otherwise degraded to meet the water quality standards set by states..." https://www.epa.gov/tmdl

Their resort development will contribute to more pollution to Keauhou Bay, thereby violating the Clean Water Act. 

Health.hawaii.gov states Keauhou Bay's Natural Ground Cover has been protecting the bay from golf course pollution for years.  https://health.hawaii.gov/epo/files/2013/09/Stormwater-MS4-Presentation-HEF-7.15.14.pdf

"If polluted runoff reaches the ocean, it can wreak havoc on marine life, including endangered green sea turtles." https://www.chemservice.com/news/polluted-runoff-in-hawaii-endangers-green-sea-turtles/ 

Keauhou Bay should be considered a National Park, "The National Park Service was created in the Organic Act of 1916. The new agency's mission as managers of national parks and monuments was clearly stated.

"....to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm

Please read all the reasons to Amend the 2045 General Plan and change Keauhou Bay to Recreation land at https://bigislandsupport.com/kbayinfo/.

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Please also send an email directly to Hawai'i Planning Director Jeff Darrow https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/Home/Components/StaffDirectory/StaffDirectory/121/22

Mahalo for your efforts.

Keauhou Bay is historical sacred land. It's also a small commercial and quiet residential area, with a local canoe club that uses the bay daily, local volleyball groups that play there daily, families BBQ every weekend, hold funeral services, baptisms local kids enjoy swimming, and visitors enjoy paddle boarding and kayaking all the time without a crowd.

Read their information on this link https://www.ksbe.edu/keauhou_bay/  

It's possibly the last untouched historical area that has not been seriously developed and it has been a comfortable and quiet bay for locals and visitors alike for many years without a big resort crowd. 

The beach is just over the size of one volleyball court that is there, with an even smaller park on the other side. It doesn't have a crowded feel and it's not big enough to become a resort area. 

It is also the historical site of the birthplace of the Hawaiian people's King Kamehameha III. The area holds much history and is a very sacred area to everyone, especially the Hawaiian people.

Developers are considering building this area up and putting 150 Resort-style bungalows in this very historical, quiet, charming, and small commercial and residential area that many people have enjoyed as it is for many decades.

Not only is the area not big enough for a new resort, but there is also already a nice hotel at the point of this bay and Time Share homes right next to that.

Both of those work very well with this area and offer tourists a lot of fun places to stay without taking away from the land, its history, quietness, all the local activities, and the small commercial buildings that have been there for many years.

Updating the commercial builds that are already there would be great, and adding a nice cultural center there would be nice for everyone as well, not just tourists having bungalows.

To have a cultural center where people can learn more about the land, and the Hawaiian people can have a place of their own at King Kamehameha III's birthplace would be great. 

Creating a walkway so the disabled can get from the Northside to the Southside would be another great add, but NOT building 150 new bungalows for a lot of people who don't even live here, who will then crowd the bay because the bay will be the focus for them staying there.

Now, besides putting another resort in this area, they want to open up the old road that has been beautifully overgrown with native plants and is located just above the canoe club and goes right through King Kamehameha III's birth site.

This will bring a lot of traffic right through this beautiful historical place where many locals hold family funerals, baptisms, birthday parties... It will overcrowd this very small special area that locals and visitors have been using for many decades, in many different loving ways.

Putting a road in could also increase the temperature there because of the pavement, and the traffic that will then pass through this beautiful, historical, sacred, and quiet area will be huge.

Trees shade this area right now very well and also help keep the erosion down by helping stop a lot of mud and debries from going into the ocean after big tropical storms that the island has sometimes. Without trees the bay could be extra muddy. 

Plus, they want to add more commercial shops to Keauhou Bay, and Keauhou Shopping Center has a lot of empty For Lease stores available. To create more shops when there are shops empty and For Lease in Keauhou Shopping Center just above the bay, is not being sustainable and using what we already have.

Please HELP SAVE Keauhou Bay from becoming a big Resort area. It is one of the last historically untouched areas on the island that has not been overdeveloped and has been fully enjoyed completely by locals and visitors for many decades.

Email Marissa Harman at maharman@ksbe.edu because she is the representative for this Bungalow Resort project. Let her know you OPPOSE her Bungalow Resort in Keauhou Bay. Call her at (808) 895-1865. 

Email A.Kilohana Hirano aahirano@ksbe.edu because he is the Community Strategist. Tell him you are part of the community and you OPPOSE his Bungalow Resort Development. You can call him at (808) 932-4408.

Go to Kamehameha Office in Keauhou Shopping center and OPPOSE their resort in person 78-6831 Alii Dr Ste 239. Kailua Kona, HI 96740. +1 (808) 322-5400.

Join my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BigIslandSupport/ to learn when the next comment period might be. I am hoping our voices will stop them so there won't be another comment period AND YOU MUST contact Kamehameha Schools and OPPOSE THEM, PLEASE!

If there is another comment period we MUST email LPCtestimony@hawaiicounty.gov to OPPOSE Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resort Development. I will do my best to know when this is and post it on my Facebook page. 

Thank you for your help.