worry at this point we're going to open the fourth for public testimony anyone wish to testify at this point they come forward please note that we are allowing this to happen for anyone who cannot stay for the agenda item comes up says you only have one agenda item because it doesn't really matter so you can either testify now or you can wait till the agenda item comes up you can do both good to one or the other jeff doc please come forward identify yourself you have three minutes yesterday morning commissioners my name is in the case jeff dac i live it five to seven koolau street and why luke i'm speaking today as a private citizen i've been a professional planner for thirty eight years half of that as a planning director for coastal town on the mainland and the last eleven years here my main focus of work at shoreline and close to planning and projects in the associate environmental regulations including chapter three for three h r s today are principally being asked to determine or chapter three four three and submissive rules that the mckenna resort project pulls all would not in some have a significant effect on the environment in my short three minutes of testimony and focusing on views and character from while a allen we rode this impact will effect by far a greater number of people than any other possible considerations environmental considerations regarding the proposal  a five the draft finally asserts that quote the proposed project is not anticipated to substantial effect scenic distance or view plans identified in county or state plans or studies unquote which is one of the significance criterion the regulations the location was identified as a high scenic value court or in the counties studies leading to the maui island plan and so it qualifies for this protection we look at these impacts figure twenty five in volume one and the first figure of appendix to most the story the project proposes a row of seventeen buildings pretty evenly spaced along the insights entire frontage of while i'll a new road all would be over eighteen feet above road height and twelve would expand forty or more feet above road height fourteen would be with within one hundred feet of the road for would be within forty two feet of the road and one of the largest buildings would be only twenty three feet away with one other at the minimum of twenty feet you'll likely hear arguments that ocean views would be equivalent in size or greater than those now seen through the current natural landscape on the sight but by far the predominant view and feel when traveling one now while a all in the road would be these buildings some towering above you creating a vast difference in the current natural landscape character of the site and the low lying houses in the area in this area mckenna ocean views would be relegated to ten small in one larger view between the real buildings when i first saw this project last year i had a rare physical reaction beyond analysis i presented i thought not c m i got and when this started to well up in my eyes the developers closed preferred alternatives now what they call a refined site plan but when i look at figure twenty five i see really very little difference from the book polls of the commission commented upon last year my heart and my head tell me the same thing as with the draftee a not but now it's worse because i see little improvement and you are being asked to make a final decision why environmental law when you accept the finally a it for ever becomes the commission's document everything in it and a project that comes to you for permit soon way i wanted to thank you for coming but i know it's difficult as an employee of the county and as a member of the planning department take the position as an individual that may be contrary to what  thank you don freeman of development the use of permeable porous paving and green streets approach a groundbreaking way to ensure that water comes from the heaven does not simply wash concrete streets surrounding into the ocean the low densi three point four is well below what could be a twelve point two units per acre allowed in the current zone and this low density design proves this developer is dedicated to the well being of our island this environmentally conscious project will produce income for  community improve other areas of communal priorities as well as create new jobs for the people of maui i plot this developer for their investigation and diligence in this low impact design if we do not approve this is done others could follow that would not be as dedicated to our environment please approve this mckenna project to ensure the responsible development of this area thank you thank you gentlemen the planning commission his family zone so i believe it's not a question of when it will be speak to the mike i'm sorry the property known for such a development in my mind it's not a question of whether it will be developed it's a matter of who's going to do that development whether it's now or in the future is going to occur unless you change the zoning or somebody else buys a property that wants to do something else with it the  core if they don't develop now maybe ten years from now somebody wants to put in a lot of very high density buildings where they can maximize their profits rather than what these folks done  i feel they've gone to great lengths to address the concerns of the local community they've changed their architectural plans to make the project blend in more than the original plan  using materials that reflect more of the white culture they address the strong runoff probably to the point now that we would actually have cleaner water flowing into the ocean than if it was left for all land  they've tried to enhance the cultural sensitivity with a relatively small white cultural center they made the be better than what you currently got looking through the natural vegetation and i think it's significant in that i can't even imagine how much money they have spent trying to get to this point where they're addressing those concerns and with another developer even care i've never seen a similar development anywhere where they have gone to these kind of lengths to try to make sure that they've done everything that can reasonably be done a commercially be done with low density spacing the structure without being concerned about storm runoff so if not these folks doing the development the new and when i'd rather have them do it in the manner that they've proposed than wait so many years and end up with something that we all would rather not see thank you very much thank you are very community minded and actively support community whenever possible therefore we take matters of community concern very seriously therefore as we know the development of mckenna area has been a sensitive subject and has been an ongoing process for over twenty years when considering the current and proposed plan before the committee today i recommend that committee approve the project and move it forward based on a number of favorable point i believe there has been a successful and productive been gauge met by the developer with community and special interest groups resulting in solutions enhanced spent in appropriate accommodations to important concerns in matters such as preservation of soldier reducing the density best practices in drainage exceeding standards preservation of open space again exceeding standards and access developer in my opinion understands very well the delicate balance needed to develop in a mechanic area even with zoning approvals already in place and make good decisions making changes to the benefit of the community at their expense the harsh reality of dealing with a less pro active developer would not be a good thing for malley and it's for these reasons and i say yes before you as a resident i believe that you're going to see for the presentation of the other speakers today about the details of the plan and what i can bring to the table on behalf of this project is the devout of the people involved i feel like at the center of an environmental impact is the people that are implementing this development it can be from discovery land itself to the resort owners to their representatives that are before you today but i have had a chance to deal with them on a regular basis at the resort and the contractors you see in the room i can personally vouch for the fact that these people have in their hearts when they're putting this plan together i think that there is a certain amount of inevitability to this project it now or later but i can't think of any better any team better in this case to go forward with this and i pledge my support of the project thank you construction manager for mckenna golf and beach club i have been in the construction and developing industry and why for over fifty three years following my retirement over five years ago i was provided the opportunity to be part of the mckenna development team with my association with the development team in the kennel over the past two years i had developed a true sense of appreciation for the efforts that are being that extended to make community for macand they can it will be developed is my belief that this proposed low impact of elop and that has been well thought out and well planned with the support of professional consultants and commuting gauge is the best project for mckenna the discovery land company will be the best steward of this land thank you for your time i'm confident you support  stated that this environmental impact assessment the developers are going about it in my opinion the correct way whether it's from the impermeable surfaces that is actually  some sort of way to the type of greenery that they will be planting so it absorbs the negative effect of run off into the bay and elsewhere along the region like most locals group at the beach so obviously there's a beach right there as well as cavalry church which holds a lot of sentimental value still a lot of people who were born and raised here and like i said it's just in my opinion that they're doing everything within their power and more to preserve all of these things i'm in for this project thank you thank you frank frank brent's going once twice pass ok michael assume straining community needs to be respected and heard from the information i've read and been presented i believe this is happening it is my understanding the infrastructure was put in previously before this project was even considered so i don't think there will be too much of an influx of traffic or excessive water usage drainage problem there and i believe the job provided will help the community as well once the project is developed like i said serious i've only lived here a short time in the big picture of this island and its people but i do believe this would be positive for all involved family over in the late eighty's and had an immediate connection with cana shoreline since we've been here we spent many nights and days along the coast to remember white rock important is the me pain that this that that god given to you that's there and in looking at this development and the extra effort that they have put in to  the drainage and the protection of that ocean is it's quite important to us we don't view our family doesn't use the experience as driving on the road whether it's road or gravel road looking at which for me is a problem to get off the trees because they don't help anything the all the centrally the runoff and the euro but it's the experience of being at the beach it's experience of being on the cliffs the experience of going out and looking at the stars at night and it all comes around to that water and i believe that this development has gone above and beyond any developers or any development whether it's single family anything and for that reason our strong support of this project thank you for your time to show never worked with a better group of people who care about mowing they care about our home they care about what's going to be done to our home and really now as a whole and that's really why i'm here to talk about the character of these people because i think if you look at a developer you really have to look at you know who's going to be taking care of that one who's going to be maligned about land who's going to be the one developing it and that's why i'm in support of this project i've worked with these people for two years and i have nothing but great things to say about each and every one of them they do what they can and they go above and beyond that so i ask you to support this project i'm sorry i'm a little nervous not a great public speaker but please support this project thank  club but i've also had family members who work for them all you friends for many years previous to that so it's safe to say that i have experienced first hand and second hand so many ups and downs at the mchenry's or had experience of the years as well as lay witness to many of the  proposed for the area as well it is an inevitable mckenna just like the entire three somalis will experience changes in the many years to come but i'm optimistic in the plans for this particular area that was presented today not only because it is low density or provides methods for by retention but more so because of a collaborative and respectful process of which the plan was to ride this team has demonstrated a collaborative planning process that includes respected members of the m community as well as mechanical poodles and broken familiar ancestral connections to the area they have throughout their planning process provided environmental and architectural experts to go beyond the county standards for drainage water and infrastructure planning and addition they have also reached out and met with interest groups who oppose the project and listen respectfully from these meeting they have adjusted their plans to alleviate the concerns of these various stakeholders the final product is an environmentally sound low density low impact and more importantly respectful development project will help bring back jobs mckenna area as well as they bring a gathering place back to mckenna thank you maui in the early ninety's and then in the mid two thousand the ritz carlton couple and discovery land company it's a company that i work for it's at the mo and they have done what is all they do everything right way everything from the design where they're using materials that are incorporated to the sense of place everything to taking care of their employees and making sure that the employees are treated right and hopefully this will be a trend of the future this development that i've been most know that mccain is always an area where there's a lot of controversy so they brought these people in to kind of talk about it and from what i've seen so far they took these comments and concerns and they are the rush to another only address them but taking it to the next level in the hands of the expectation so i truly approve this project and i'm for myself and my family and the employees at the hotel please approve this because in the long run when this project is all said and done it will provide employment for all the people thank you in support of this project they too are stewards of the land and the sea discovery land companies not just meeting and state and county standards are actually exceeding the state and county standards  to retain storm water runoff and to prevent the runoff into the ocean discovery land also is going to be pioneers of green street here on maui developing the first green trees on maui that will prevent that storm water from running off into the ocean into mckenna bay protecting and preserving the reef out there the green streets also prevent and reduce air temperatures and enhance the statics of the land surrounding mckenna so i am in total support of this project thank you thank you for site work and for structural concrete and i wanted to address the concerns about potential runoff during construction is one one aspect of it and we have stringent b m p's best management practices  county that are enforced the challenges with other projects with a b in fees failing normally it's because they're not mean paid and they're not things aren't addressed i know the management team from discovery land and i believe i respect them i trust them i believe that they're here for the long haul we're really fortunate to have this development and in mckenna after we've had you know over the years i but in the infrastructure first all of the infrastructure is in place sewage treatment plant i counted twenty fire hydrants along the property for image beautiful roads the county isn't maintaining they are so i believe that they're going to follow through that's often the challenge i believe that they're going to be a benefit to the community financially with the tax base with employment and these people  experience are more respectful and more in love with the ocean than anybody going to find i mean that's the people who are moving in there that's why they're going they're going to take care of the area this is not a speculative to live you know just make some money and leave these are people who are really good making a commitment and i believe their commitment is sincere mitigation measures during construction are very feasible the golf course small the roadway the area isn't that large it's not adjacent right to the ocean so the long term mitigations that measures they have will enhance the existing condition that we have for potentially roge it will make it better than it currently is so i hope that you support this project this is a project that is going to a long time coming  our community needs some positive forward moving listening to people who are in opposition collaborating together but thank you for the time and i really hope that you get behind this project  in those days if you can remember there were eight thousand acres of sugarcane that carpeted the west maui mountains now when you go there all you see is that smokestack standing even the mill the power plant the factory had been bulldozed down my point is is that this island is going to change we all know that and we just saw this negative change with h c n as closing with this project out in  i think we have a good chance to make a positive change for the island as so many people have said it is inevitable even heard about how these guys are doing the right thing out there and i agree with that so i hope you vote in here to testify is because i really believe the process that these developers have gone through and reaching out to the community listening to the concerns and then really following through on those concerns and you know they really reached out to experts in each field where there was a concern whether it was the group who knows and listening to the history and getting to know you know what's important to that particular area or you know reaching out to experts in environmental engineering and incorporating all these green designs that you're hearing about today i mean it's just amazing that  once this development done it's going to have less of an impact on the ocean i mean the sooner we can get this done the better because every day that goes by is just more and more sediments going in the ocean and through this development they're going to we're going to you know retain those sentiments and and not allow you know not allow that to continue so  know just a huge supporter of the project and just of the team and what they've done and i think they'll continue to listen to concerns and address and i appreciate your time and i'm in support of the project followed by michael bri because everybody's word means a lot here today i want to start out with the development of this property here this property has a lot of money on it but it's been well taken care of that they've been looking to everything and they they have the people that's been there that stayed on that property that it knows that property and there's lot of studies in it i'm for this these guys have designed a lot of a lot of a lot of runoff issues and they're go developing right up to the shoreline of all the places i've been around a long time where i saw on the west side where they built it was right on the sand on the beach now they've got problems everybody has problems this has a buffer that's right that is going to be left as a wide open area and then we call yours did i mention that and i'm for this project because it's for employment on the construction site employment on the when they get done with it and it's a fifteen year up together as i live my life on maui for the last forty five years i appreciate if you guys have to think about it and have this project go for it thank you  us is needed the law is clear i mean this is a basic thing either we're going to go ahead with this project we're not going to we the people you speak for us are voice there will be jobs there will be jobs for ten twenty years but what about in forty or fifty years when our children and our great grandchildren don't have a job because this is another honolulu what happens when there is a tsunami and there's no place for these people to go or these people that are for this project going to say i'm sorry because those lives are going to be lost with all those million dollar homes that are going to be filled why isn't there any affordable housing why are there horrible housing we're nobody else wants to live but that's world they'll put people why isn't that an issue on the table you folks speak for us we trust you we trust you to do the right thing so many people live here struggling every day but we live here because god has blessed this land that we can fish from and the people have aloha that we love and take care of each other and we support each other i understand that people for for they need to work and have jobs but we need to think about the future of the lands period and what the impacts will be in an emergency situation and we have been blessed that we haven't had any tsunamis or any horrible things happen but mother nature can do whatever she likes and she will we see all over homeowners that are infested with tumors and people come here to see the honus they see the whales there's so much money that is elaine why can't they just outbid for homes over there why do they have to build new homes they bring us out of our own apartments because we're not worthy of the money that they need to make  why don't they just bear out these homes and while aid that people use for vacation rentals and just keep on outbreeding if there is that money that much money that these people how why don't they just buy the homes and while the mechanic there are ready there instead of doing any more damage that we have caused as humans i thank you for your time i thank you for letting me speak soon i have to go to work god bless you and what i would suggest is i know that you folks have to do this but there are so many people here that want to speak well we have to go to work and we don't get paid to be here to do this i've got a good scrub toilets that's what i have to do to pay my rent and i would love to live on the piano but unfortunately would probably be in a tent thank you for listening to me have a wonderful day generation corals cannot colonize a soft bottom so he snorkel out here dive you see it's covered in land base sediment so there's no new generations of coral fifty percent of our corals in the last twenty years  disappeared on our current trend will be without corals by two thousand and fifty so why is it so bad if construction projects are implementing the m p s and said i'm in a rose in plans and you know two hundred page volumes of how they're going to control their discharge that's because best management practices are not effective management practices doesn't matter how many silk fences you put up if you're not measuring what's coming off your property you don't know you're not controlling your impact so and that's unfortunately the way it is construction projects all you have to do is show you're trying to implement the m p s but you don't have to actually measure the discharge but what if i told you there are automated sensors you can stick in a strain you can stick at the end of a pipe and basically it gives you water quality data twenty four seven any time on your smartphone to the regulators to the landowners to the developers there's no mystery and what's going on that's effective management practices so i encourage you not for just this project but any project to encourage developers to implement this instrumentation it's cheap thousand dollars a month and that you know exactly what's going on on the property i'm sure you've all read the fifteen hundred page let me point to a couple of things the clean  water data showing hundred forty two times the legal limit of nitrogen currently this is what's happening on our coastline down there high levels of nitrogen you've got to go one hundred fifty metres offshore to get levels that need department  standards what does that tell you the previous construction all the other landscape changes the b m p is didn't work and the stuff the golf course nitrogen all that side the stuff is reaching the water and  just touch on the reefs portion of it they actually did a research in two thousand and five and then another group replicated and i'm wrapping up in two thousand and sixteen at three stations the coral is dropped from forty four percent to thirty percent eighty seven percent to twenty nine percent of the coral cover fifty percent so nine percent what does that tell us the reefs there are getting destroyed a number one problem is sediment so i want to talk about the reefs my question for you is we have problems with prior developments affecting our reason the cover is there any way that we can we can vacuum up blow off the silt of these corals to help bring them back to life or is it a lot like they did in one of the linn county bay or is it something that is just gone so the problem with the super sucker which is good for algae is there's a lot of small microorganisms on the reef that are that you need to have there she can just go in vacuum and put a reef with the storm surge in the way the vents will clean itself out over time if you stop the insults so you don't keep injecting more sediment those re can recovery with natural movement of the sentiment with with wave action so you can do that and just a touch i didn't notice in the there was no department of law degrees or letter in the nor did national marine fisheries service in there so i'm curious if they contacted all the experts on marine these are the guys that are on the reef every day surveying so i would if you know that would be a group you'd want them to cont is just a part of the overall eight hundred acre month and a resort this project will have significant impacts on the environment that are not resolved and requires a supplemental environmental impact statement our law states very clearly  potential environmental effects are significant and i are i think she's going you know i ask is needed again guys a lot is very clear that no ifs ands or buts the law says an agency needs to look at the bigger picture and consider the overall n q live affects of an action and it says an action shall be determined to have a big if we can effect on the environment if it involves very vocal clemency loss our destruction of any natural or cultural resources this final environmental assessment does not look at the connection project has to other developments in mchenry's order and the overall effect that it will have on traffic water each access and most importantly our way of life it does not admit that the project will cause destruction of natural and culture resources instead it relies on assumption that nothing the project does will cause any harm so  without an accurate view of the overall scheme of impacts that will affect local residents in our land waters views of the mountains and seas and cultural sites the f d a should not be accepted while saying the project will have no significant impact the planning commission should follow the law and require the supplemental e s p completed also not notice things to commission i feel for all our construction workers are understand a lot of the kids are gonna pay they got to pay their bills there's so much infrastructure there needs to be taken care of the lady before hinted on the whole for the housing where is it are these construction workers can have jobs forever for average with affordable housing where our infrastructure our waste water wells i mean there's so many things that will keep these guys going so again i'm all for the construction workers having jobs but not for this one and again the law clearly states guys clearly states here and i'm sure you guys hopefully all very wary of the law so again commission thank you guys very much for your time  last five years i've been the regional engineer that's important in this case because i'm often involved in pre construction side so we're working with pledging and pre planning jobs with developers such as discovery and i have  worked with them on this particular project in some you know budgetary work and pre planning and i'm here to testify in support because they have shown me something i haven't seen in my live in years here and working with other developers that they genuinely do care about the environment ed has actually told me more than on more than one occasion we're not interested in doing what's required by the county we want to do what works and specifically as mark said in regards to feet deep along king's trail and then it runs to the natural low point where there's two existing detention basins we lined those detention basins with baskets for like three four buy a three foot wire baskets filled with rock wrapped  silk fence and i'm confident that that will not go anywhere now i mean if we get a two hundred year storm there's nothing you can do to stop them like that but what they have done has gone way beyond what is required and what every other developer has done and put in something the three spots that are available on the actually enhance in that area and then wastewater that their own private has one point four million gallon a day wastewater treatment plant that does not have injection wells so i think the county could actually learn from what they're if i call your name as a follow up if you can please just come up on the site to be ready to get this going faster thank you thank you my name is ed fellini i mean i give you this i live it five fifty eight colonial place in my meadows i'm a board member of the maui meadows neighborhood association and i'm testifying on their behalf we ask that you reject the final environmental assessment for the proposed forty seven acre mckenna development and instead require a full environmental impact statement for the entire eighteen hundred acre master planned resort and not just a small proposed portion of the assessment does not adequately address many of the concerns that we have with the project and some of these concerns are that the applicant is narrow the scope of the environmental review by looking at only one component of the phase of a much larger undertaking an eighteen hundred acre master plan resort in this segmentation can hide primary secondary and cumulative effects of reasonably foreseeable actions then an environmental impact statement would more fully disclose assess and mitigate the second the archaeological and historically significant sites would be destroyed by the project like the historic mckenna who who row there was once a busy thoroughfare the key haven ten a community plan reads to preserve and restore historical roads and paths as cultural resources and requires such resources to be available to the public the drainage and pollutant runoff from the project may significantly impact ocean water quality and near shore reed ecosystems the waters of off mckenna are already impaired further degradation could threaten reply endangered hawks killed turtles and traditional gathering places of native hawaiians for the project was substantial will substantially impact scenic views and and view planes as identified in county plans further the project may impact our drinking water source the applicant proposes to withdraw our association was instrumental in getting designated as a ground water management area under the state the project is not supported by the key hey mckenna community plan not only meadows is being in the impacted by upon adoption of this plan allow no further development unless new infrastructure public facilities and services needed to service new development are available prior to or concurrent  impacts of new development the county government basically allusions to follow our community plans and implementing actions for development of self my new residential construction mckenna is not supported the developer has been communicating with the various associations yes and pointing to the record their record on february to seven i'm sorry that's ok that mistakes made many times in morning my wife and i been fortunate enough to live on maui for twenty one years and obviously during that time we've seen what we consider good development and perhaps what we see is not so good development i respect the first gentlemens idea that you carter's will be harmed  plans for this development mckenna give you carters in many ways will be improved also when we came to maui twenty one years ago we looked at it again resort it was owned by sabin who had plans for over twelve hundred units in their master plan the next developer took that down i believe to roughly nine hundred units if you look at phase one and two of mckenna and it plays out that way overseen by this commission i'm sure the number of units that will be built there will be even less than the nine hundred units the other concern that has been voiced to me by friends is traffic  there was also a concern about emergency evacuation i think the one thing to remember there's been a three hundred unit hotel in mckenna for many many years  if you take that especially during the holiday seasons that one hundred percent ninety percent occupancy i doubt that in the next thirty forty fifty sixty seventy years they'll be issues in that regard and if you look at the wh five years ago as a community and it's only seventy percent build out after forty five years so listening to the other testimony and having tried to study this in in full support of the mckenna development thank you thank you at this point we're going to take a ten minute he says would be back my plenty commission come back to order we're back to a public testimonies looks i guess to have over thirty people who we've been waiting for a long time for this so i would like to ask everyone to please encourage consider every us time to keep your testimony to three minutes or less please good morning members of the commission my name is doogal mill i am a born and raised here on maui and had the great fortune of living in mechanic for the last fifty two years and probably can't being there at least eight years before that have been on a community outreach group for discovery we've worked together for the last three years they have a cultural group they have a community group and then a combined towards the end of both groups they have address every one of our concerns as far as lighting a few planes clean ocean water runoff noice cultural aspects they've really done a great job of listening and then incorporating whatever our concerns were into their development it's my belief they are really willing to make this a porno project heaven the extent further extent that's possibly known beyond just what's required in terms of runoff and everything else the university  the professors stuck to them bringing up certain ideas so i really do believe they are covering the bases in terms of dance project that i've seen come before us in the market a community and i think they're built out four and five six and seven s seven is something like  hundred eighty five units that's so much fewer units than what they could do and right there alone i believe they're going to minimise their impact oh chair and volunteer commissioners happy new year to all like moran testifying for the key a community association or k c a we had submitted comments last january on this matter rejecting a fundi their invitation to gather information and have our questions answered we found them very welcoming receptive and informative as time the law is brief i'll just offer by devising their incorporating several of the k c eight b n peace plan they also informed us that they had high oahu consultant demand of courting who has offered progressive environmental actions such as green street principles and ecological engineering we were so impressed k c a has invited dr according to present and or much twenty first membership meeting which is open to nonmembers and media and hopes that other developers and county department officials can be exposed to this community benefit of this manner of construction however for a number of reasons including the huge volume of the overall project the lack of the county of the counties south now a traffic study to have a base to calculate traffic impact and the violation in many ways of thinking a mechanic community plan which clearly states no development issues about e a s in the i s's my testimony is not about the merits of the project itself and that leads me to what i'm going to talk about i also submitted a letter which apparently planning  not receive yesterday but i will give a copy of it to this crowd who said that i guess it is to folks later a so i'm not going to cover everything that's in the lot i'm just going to focus on the very narrow part of it before is an environmental assessment and that is a written the environmental assessment is inadequate or to determine that environmental impact statements to be done now an environmental impact statement is an informational document prepared in compliance with the rules adopted by  discloses the environmental effects of a proposed action effects of a proposed action on economic welfare social welfare cultural practices of the community and state affects of the economic activities arising out of the proposed action measures proposed to minimize adverse effects and alternatives to the action and their environmental bugs and you course have a very knowledgeable attorney who can probably give you a lot of information that you don't already know about what those what all of that means i think what's most important is first of all this proposed action is actually a segmentation of a larger project and when an e a and then the i a s is done it is supposed to be done for the entire project not for segments and there's many landowners that you know they want to do things in phases but they prepare an environmental impact statement for the entire project that is what is required by the law so the first problem with the f d a is that it's segments forty seven acres out of an eight hundred master plan project that's the first concern that this is segmentation of a larger project so on that basis alone the assessment has not address whether or not the actual if you don't address the issue of this forty seven acres being segmented from the eight hundred acre project the forty seven acre segments the environmental assessment in adequately addresses a whole range of issues the purpose of environmental susman is not to tell you at this point how great the project is it's supposed to identify whether there are any significant effects on the environment and this  letter goes into a lot of detail about that it's very important that this commission not accept the finding of no significant impact or not make a determination of no significant impact as there are effects that have not been addressed and this is a segmentation of a much larger project thank you thank you de williams called by aaron  little morning my name's dave williams so i'll keep this pretty short to the point where wife and i have lived on maui for the last eighteen years in the south my weary a it's clearly my understanding that this mckenna area obviously has been  development that's been clearly identified earlier so it's not really a matter of if it will be developed but rather will develop it in when i've been very impressed by the amount of planning the communications from put into place for this project from discovery finally i think they've done a great job in providing public access to the shoreline which will be improved with new trails in the amount of park space will actually be expanded as trainers for the project appreciate your time thank you island of maui this is my first public testimony i'm a little nervous so bear with me but i am here to speak out not against the project per se but against the fact that you are going to be accepting an environmental assessment when a full environmental impact study is needed as a means collins had pointed out that this is a portion of a much larger development and the environmental assessment is not adequate to address  of the needs that we need to address i live in key have seen the traffic the you know the infrastructure problems with traffic problems i will tell you that on a personal level some of my best memories of being in maui are out of that cove where i've experienced kayak trips and dolphins and whales and hurdles we are very short sighted in america we're going up this project i understand it's going to do jobs for people i understand that but also our tourism industry is our our survival and we're going to be ruining the actual resources that people come here to see i actually don't even snorkel anymore because i'm so depressed when i get in that water and i see that the coral is all dead so what are we doing here people like we need to look out our future we need to look for what we are are grieving for our children what it was even for our grandchildren so i'm going to leave it at that and just say that i'm hoping that you guys make the right decision that you look at the legal aspects of best it doesn't matter who's for who's against it sounds like the developer is trying to be a stoner was possible but that does not matter when the law is requiring an environmental impact statement thank you for your time thank you mary when kevin search all my name is kevin busch and we work in the macand of all thirty four years i support this project i think it's going to bring a lot of jobs and donna johnson i've been working on that property and mckenna for twenty eight years i was there when i was a prince mckenna beach and golf resort and now with the discovery land company managing it and i've got to tell you that these are the best people that i've ever worked with they have more respect for that property than anyone that i've ever seen manage that that land and i worked at a landscaping for two years in the interim when we were getting renovated of the golf course and i saw the respect they had for the property the natural environment you know not planting with plants that weren't sustainable in that area using natural l rock all the care that was taken in landscape in the golf course and i know that when they do the property in its full capacity it's just going to respect that property and keep the beauty project i would love to acknowledge the mckenna team for reaching out to our communities and sharing with their learn on being a good steward of our environment i also support proven technology that will raise the standards of our bar that their team will be utilizing in control and to treat one off waters to our ocean and also to better better manage our  to support their concerns that will always be the health of our environment as well as our long term growth sustainability of these islands the overall view mckenna team is to encourage him to continue this footprint for the developers to foll good morning nic chance thank you for listening to this testimony i wanted to make three points just to make sure i don't ramble i want to make three points just to make sure that i don't ramble i think a full environmental impact study is absolutely required for a number of reasons and as the gentleman pointed out it's bad enough forty seven acres how many things you say eighteen hundred well regardless whatever the planned and future development is i think it requires a full environmental study the first gentleman the testified he outlined a scenario makes what i consider a nightmare even like worse exponentially because of his description of what we would be seeing so i think that's unbelievable and the other point i guess and maybe a little bit naive but what's the purpose of development in the first place you know i mean this is a special island to some extent it belongs to the world as it is now because of how precious and sacred it is and how unique it is and i don't i feel like we're beholden to the developers like we've done something wrong we owe them so now we have to allow them to encroach on the i know here and i don't really understand the purpose of development especially with regard to the fact that it doesn't really do anything for the residents of the island so what are we doing it for we're doing it for either money or for other people outside of mallee and i don't understand that as somebody pointed out there's lots of affordable housing lots of other things  that we could be doing as far as the impact i've seen develop commercial residential development and create terrible traffic this thing is unbelievable to me how the i mean they have to build like whole new roads and things like that let me wrap up by saying with in the most respectful way if you  took a walk down that area planned you know morning walking around there gather your thoughts and then imagine yourself so many years from now walking you're just grandchildren whomever the next generation children in saying this is what we did when i was in charge of this area in the county i did this and it and this is the way it was and this is the way it is now and i would like you to take that point of view all right thank you thank you janet six complex so i really would rather i would really i would think the work is being done in a mindful way and i appreciate that i like that the reaching out to cultural mental descendants and people in the area and also really like to encourage that the archaeological interest survey which would be included in the us would come before the culture resource commission so that we could have a chance to take a look at that my work in a while and six seventy in different areas has proven that having multiple the thing can really change the way you look at it so i want to really complement the work that's been done so far i'd like to hold people to that standard so i would like to see if we could have the culture advisors perhaps come to talk to the c off we also ought to think about the people in the water sunscreen all the other things we talk about the degradation of the reef so we really want to have an entire environmental impact statement in place so it asked that you really take a look at that and e a for a forty seven acre parcel doesn't really address when it comes to cultural assets and all the other things that go with this and so it's not the man to develop that i just would really like to see it done in a smart way and so i really want separate so for me to have a cultural resource mission and environmental impact they have to be combined time we are asking that we look at the culture and the impact on the environment so i really can not strongly recommend enough for the entire eight hundred acres to if i don't know what's going to happen today with the commission feels about doing any or if the is acceptable one way or another before a project can be constructed that this project still forty years and have lived in the kind of for twenty eight my life there and raised my family there as a president of the mckenna homeowners association i've worked hard to improve preserve the can as an historic place and nature preserve a neighborhood i've been a member of the advisory committee with discovery when the discovery when put together in the beginning to hear an address the concerns of the residents they've asked for input and they listen as an architect in residence i've been very impressed by what they propose project it's low density low impact and they have designated culturally sensitive architecture also an important issue is they have gone beyond any others and their plans to protect the land and the ocean during construction and into the future as i call this home i and my family are in full support of what is being offered here is a development i can't imagine anyone doing a better job turning his property into a residential community we welcome  i think i'm the only one in the shroom deck and speak loud and clear that being involved from the very get to the making  saying that i think i know it all but i can pay you damn sure that i've been involved with some mechanic area i am part of the last of the generations that include going back to a d c twenty five genealogies on both parents is i'm familiar with the genealogist and will support this project for the hardy and add that's why i wanted to attend a plan myself i've been on too many organizations and i've come forward for you to support this project full  we were involved in early consultation on this project and we also provided comments on the draft environmental assessment we offered comments on potential drainage impacts impacts a cultural sites including affordable housing and the fact that it's not located in this area what that does to communities mitigation for marine resource impacts finally does not address many of the comments that we made on the on the draft and i don't have time to go into all of them because we made a lot of comments there were a lot of deficiencies but the major deficiency of this final environmental assessment is that it does not acknowledge that the project does have significant impacts and the developer is therefore required to prepare a full environmental impact statement we raise a comment and it's not addressed in the final sorry the final environmental assessment  the environmental assessment is deficient and didn't address or comment should not be granted a finding a nose and a significant impact and a full yes of a much larger eight hundred acre development area should be required we're concerned that this project segments the forty seven acre developments and the overall development plans and the discussion of cumulative and secondary impacts on the adjoining mckenna resort master plan lands and vice versa should be the subject of any  us and you will hear more about that later today i just wanted to show you that this road actually does exist the mechanics of the public road and the first start of the second page talks about the community plan calls this is page twenty three from the community plan right in the middle there under objectives and policies says identify preserve protect and restore significant historical and cultural sites which this is one and on the bottom it says preserve and restore historical right that is from the county real property website and if you look on the left side of this photo there is a road there that is very low up place and if you look in in the bushes there you can see the continuation that is the old mechanic look public road and this parcel that is shown on this on this real property database is parcel that was originally granted to if you look at the next page it  and so i'll just say it is a real road it's called preservations call from the community plan these require a full environmental impact statement to the value it out and a lot of the other comments that we eighty four is this is a portion of it's actually in the final environmental assessment i believe it's appendix a and this is a consolidation of parcel m five what they're referring to as parcel and five so  qur'an a lot of planning commission thank you for having me my name is adrian ross forward and i am the coordinator for the sierra club our group i just want to start with a question did you receive our testimony that i e mailed yesterday ok won't be going over that but please i hope you do read it it will have mother testifiers it will mention some of what's in there what i really want to start with today is just to start off here come our group we are conservation organization but we're not against development we're against hasty development that doesn't take into account the environment and the cultural sites there and the problem with this final environmental assessment is that it's claiming that there's no significant impact even though we know that there's cultural sites there and there hasn't really been enough investigation to find out if there's even more and of course we've already heard about some of the other environmental impacts that may have so we are asking you today to please move forward with an environmental impact statement and do not give us on the issue to this the in terms of development we want to make sure that we get this right this is of course the project is only a forty seven acre project in front of you but if you look at discovery lands website it's very clear they talk about their eight hundred acres on their site it's not theirs but of course it's what they plan to develop through the property owner this is segmentation if we only look at these forty seven acres maybe we'll find that there's not a huge impact i don't know i'm not an expert on those types of things but if we have let's say you know two years from now the next thing comes down the pipeline and the next thing and the next thing for these eight hundred acres if we look at them all a little piece by piece maybe you'll find it love every little piece added every time you'll get a final environmental impact environmental assessment i'm sorry that says no problem but twenty years from now when we have all those little projects put in there what kind of impact are we going to be seeing once we have those fall eight hundred acres about in one nine hundred seventy five there was that environmental impact assessment done and it found that there were thirteen different possible problems with primary secondary tertiary exciter impacts on that land  d many of those were environmental cultural impact as well as sound issues air quality issues parking issues so i think in terms of some of the things that have been said some people talk about how this is inevitable it's not that this project is inevitable it's that we have to decide whether we want it right and if we're going to have it what kind of project is it going to be how is it going to impact our community that environmental impact statement that's what it's going to help do it's going to tell us if we develop this what kind of issues we're going to have and really help us make sure that the project that we do end up getting eventually is going to make sure that there's not a huge impact on the community and the environment and the cultural sites so again i please ask you to not issue that fancy and instead to the environmental impact statement for this site and lastly i would like to mention here come out a group did start along with mouat a mile foundation petition asking you to please issue this environmental impact statement instead of the final and we have more than seven hundred signatures at the moment on that about seven hundred people that couldn't be here today they have other things they have to do but they are really in support of you making sure this is done right and we get that  no i'm sorry i don't know anything about that or did you folks never communicate about doing this c i as with the applicant during february of two thousand and sixteen i'm not familiar with full thank you for this opportunity to voice my opposition to a g c mckenna holdings proposed mckenna resort development trees reject their final environmental assessment and instead require a full supplemental environmental impact statement for this site the forty seven acres surrounding mackenna landing are home to many unrecorded cultural and historic sites which will be destroyed by this development it is unacceptable to marginalize the value and importance of these cultural sites and the loss of why and history that is present in the fragile marine environment is already stressed out coral are dying fish are fewer as a result of current impacts our near shore coastline i feel that it would be disrespectful to our white community and to the lineage descendants of this poor to further exploited and destroy what many of us consider to more thank you i worked as an elevator mechanic and retired then and i've been working in waikiki for a number of years and seen what happened there is there and knowing and being a fish man with my father my grandfather a lot of these being the reefs are  followed by calling mccormick cannot and discovery's planning for this piece of property i have seen what they've done i followed in the wrong my concern has always been i'm almost well committee and also the community advisory committee and so i have had a post relationship over a number of years with them on what's going on i think management forestry for many years and i have gotten to know the lands of know because i've hiked a lot better looking primarily for rare plants and animals on my hike i was with some amazing people who share their knowledge with me many of you know archaeologists many of story and and biologists who would teach me things and along our hike we would encounter many lots of archaeology history down there that needs to be told because there is a there is a true connection with mccann and to places like all of it which we are we are fight for we are normal and i think it's fair to the next generations that we keep as much of this history alive invasive vegetation the final survey documented hundreds of sites so i know that once alien vegetation is removed around the land much more things will appear and history will start to show itself hoary that is the one i'm really concerned about because i know that the light pollution from big developments will well push it away from foraging around that area to do the nocturnal animal seventy has agreed they did a good thing with their lighting standards they're doing this thing called the dark dark sky standard that was developed by electrical engineers to lessen the impact on ni we we stand here today to humbly ask you guys you have the power to make this a better project just don't rubber stamp it let's look at this carefully let's let's take the time to do the right thing the people of the future generations the ones that are going to be the longest listen to what they have to say that the people being paid to not the people that are getting paid the ones that aren't getting paid right now i took the day off i'm a teacher i had and i sent five hours yesterday making my lesson plan for my life so please conclude ask you just do the right thing for the beautiful this place that like no other thank you morning commissioners my name is james p i'm a resident of y luke who lost a planner in the planning department i am not representing the planning department today i'm taking a vacation day my comments are meant to improve the project i know this project will get built just how it get built is my what concerns me the project will change mechanic forever so we must get it right my message to you this morning is that the remain significant impacts to the plane that can be mitigated through further alternatives analysis the view plane is protected by law we are losing eighty percent of the plane along mckenna  votes you can defer the f e a for more information to make the project right even if you love the project now or you like the project please join in a vote to at least be for the f e a for more information on alternatives a short deferral of a few months for more information is critical to get this project right once this project is granted a fonzie that is a project that the developer is going to stick with so this third option is available to you and i encourage that discussing that first point there remains significant impacts to the view shit of mckenna which must be further mitigated they are building a virtual wall of buildings along mckenna all a new road six buildings will be up to forty eight feet tall another seven will be up to thirty nine feet tall i know that there has been a community outreach group in a cultural resource group but these groups might not be aware that these coastal views are protected by law and apparently they did not address these impacts that well the second point there is a conspicuous lack of adequate alternatives analysis in both the draft and the finally which again is required by law administrators rules two hundred alternatives analysis is the very essence and purpose of the e a process that is before you today the only alternatives in this finally a are no action full density build out the developers preferred alternative and very minor alternatives to developers preferred alternative no other alternatives these guys have forty seven acres of undeveloped land with elevation changes of fifty seventy five feet and they have come up with no other alternatives there are millions of alternatives i expected at least ten alternatives in the draft there are no other alternatives the applicant states that the development is compatible with other development and mckenna from my knowledge nowhere is such impactful development in mckenna i will conclude with some alternate examples for example how about relocating buildings g and h big massive the biggest mass of tallest buildings up on the highway away from the road down in front of a b c and d where the footprint of the single family homes are move those single family homes up along the highway so that you have an entire huge swath of single family homes in the middle that would open up an expansive view of mckenna for example how about aligning buildings j and k which are now along the road put them in front of each other so they they may lose their one hundred eighty degree panoramic interrupted views down to one hundred twenty degree views one in front of each other and then put the hallways next to it there and you would have again open up another swath of use similarly for buildings l m n and take them from along the road put them one in front of each other down t finally a far more alternatives analysis thank you thank you jim good question from commissioner donny do you have any other alternatives that you want to share with us no but i think by deferring it what we could do is the public and the planning department and others can work with alternatives there are many many alternatives i mean we don't need forty eight foot buildings along the highway i mean when they start building this thing i know my kids are going to freak when they're going down the big and these big tall buildings are going to build this large corridor down that we can possibly let they actually went from forty five feet  feet high now in the finally a so they are increasing some of the heights why not lower it why not densify and maybe something will lower the view there are myriad options that we could work with those are just some examples obviously in three concho first off i just want to say thank you for taking a holiday if this is this important to you you know actually come and take a holiday day so i just want to thank you so that a number of people have addressed the segmentation of the forty seven acres away from the asking here is i'm looking at the forty seven acres and i i i think the third alternative you have is to be for this finally to make it better i agree that eighteen hundred acres should be  careen i'm a semi retired mechanical engineer from boulder colorado and i've been here living here about ten years and i'm here really to i'm kind of nervous so  i'm here representing the sea life because i drive down the la perouse every day to snorkel and i've noticed a lot of decrease in number one the dolphins but right now there's currently a dead whale that has washed up right next to the area they call the dumpster he bay and they've closed down the bay for about a week and they're synchronistically putting in a drop a new parking lot and i just thought about it this morning that there could be a correlation i have no proof because i'm an engineer and i like to have proof of things but i have not known about a whale dying in that area probably for the last twenty years i used to come back and forth for about ten years before i moved here in two thousand  nine i'm just trying to make a point i also have been circling a lot right at the mckenna resort that's our backup you know when we don't snorkel right in the heat area and around the time they were doing the construction of the complex that's right on the golf course there were a lot of tumors on the turtles i've noticed it cleaned up a little bit but i'm trying to just give you some real like you know whole experience of my going down there every day as a swimmer and i have lots of friends that can come in and testify to i'm surprised they're not here but i almost didn't even hear about the meeting myself so there was definitely some that construction affected the turtles in the coral reef it's nothing like it used to be down there i go like i said every day and then i haven't seen dolphins for like months the dolphins have really decreased in the ranger told me they've gone down like four percent a year for the last five years and we don't know why  there's not construction but there could be overfishing for them but all of this i'm just trying to convey is that we're already negatively impacting just from putting in that parking lot the sea life and  the turtles and just by having you know just what's been going on so far so i'm in support of doing environmental impact study and statement for sure i'm also a realist a broker in colorado in a mortgage for ten years i've been a real it's cheaper for sixteen so i i am for development but i do believe that we need to you know we make human errors we human beings have impact in that it would just be to the best of the project in the position so when he i i just and very grateful for living on maui being able to experience this every day i drive every day if i don't get in the water it's my how i start my day i take an hour out of my day killing each way and i just want to preserve the beauty visually in the water and take care of the the marine lives that don't have a say here so i guess i'm representing them so if we thank you for letting me speak and i i just i know won't do the right thing it's just looking in our hearts and moving forward so thank you state urging in here i want to make sure that we still have a thriving school and a community instead of a struggling one has many memories for me i learned a lot of now when i go by mckenna landing i feel like a stranger in my own home it feels like somebody opening your door walking into your house opening your fridge and picking food right out of your fridge drinking all the water and leaving us with the bare minimum this project take most of your of portable for water from the valley which in my opinion should be there's also a lot of water being used for the purpose of landscaping from the well as well above the development of these wells get stressed what do you think happens to all the fresh springs and the runoff that is all  bottom line is there are too many problems and questions but this project traffic impacts sewage impacts cultural impacts waste water impacts like where is the waste seventeen fifty three see we've spent a lot of time in our day thinking about whether now when when really we need to be thinking about the future we should look one hundred and fifty years on because when we go this is what our kiki will be left with as a single mother to this is what i think of often what will be left behind to my kiki what is going to be able to be hold on to their properties more than two thousand and five hundred within property taxes because of this over luxury of development with over luxurious development there is more  water being used more of the environment is to be lost if we keep on building without doing the proper structure thinking for the future generations the environment and culture will we have learned in the future to come i have respect for the developer and everything but with so much development this is all that we have center for learning because back in the day you know you hear very little bit of the more the lows used to be fishing villages navigation migration where is that now if we compromise our culture and i future generations for what is happening now with this development are we honoring my children for the future are we honoring the people we honor in the land that takes care of reconsider rejecting this in go for the full year for the one for the one thousand eight hundred acres because everything has a balance everything has a connection everything has an impact thank you god bless you things to conduct over the one thousand eight hundred acres proposed for development i like it to be taken the right way if it's development is going to be done elected to be done the right way i also like to know what the impact on be on me if this development is taken forward and move forward how is it going to affect me when i want to go practice my heritage and my rights at the ocean when it could be closed off to me at a gated community as i since forty years ago got to walk into that land jump into that ocean freely and it with this coming up with this gated community that's what i'm against and all the different things that could impact that as well like we said before our peak is in the future where the water going come from all these different issues need to be addressed before you guys can consider allowing these guys would build that because of course and i like the sawfish myself right now in our sphere now it is our people in the future our teacher generations to come that you guys all should be thinking about to you guys a thank you anyone else gain yourself a man yours to go up to the mountains and catch the biggest wild boar you can find and bring it down to the people feed your people but today i cannot feed my whole village so what i do i strength and he gives me and i guess the fish that they ask before and the core gives to me i might be people might think i might over fish what every one of the people that i feed i flourish their lives their families i keep their homes and affordable because i sell them a lot of fish i give them fish practically almost for free because of the land and the fish so what i share with you now final prepared for the mckenna resort five six seven two project on forty seven point one five acres for staff planner this afternoon presentation then we will take public testimony from the people who have not testified and then we will close public testimony and then the commission will have questions and you we have a mix of commissioners here some that were not here from the very beginning some went on the site visit some we didn't on the site visit so and then get members from the public who were here from the beginning some are new to the process for this project so  the we work with the applicant on the presentation in terms of advising them you know how best to take care of the many many comments that were received on this project both from the commission and everyone else and we'll talk a little bit about that in a bit so first of all the final document that is before you was submitted to the department on november twenty first two thousand and sixteen and we distributed it to you at your commission meeting on november twenty second to give you at least a full month to take a look at it and obviously we're here today to discuss the final environmental assessment one thing i noted to you when i distributed the finally a was that we tab in a purple tab the tiny commissions comment so that you could find them easily and there was quite a lengthy response from the can to your comments and those were marked with a green tab on the project very briefly is a mixed use project involving single family multifamily resort commercial transit vacation rental components and related approved improvements on forty forty approximately forty seven acres in mckenna a total of one hundred fifty units and lots and approximately twenty seven thousand three hundred square feet of commercial use is proposed the trigger for the t three compliant is the use of county lands and work within the shoreline area the project went through early consultation process process and you hear some of that spoken about today that was  february of two thousand and fifteen the q c publication date for the draft environmental assessment was on january eighth two thousand and sixteen the commission reviewed the draft environmental assessment on january twenty six twenty sixteen and the thirty day public comment deadline was february twenty sixth being the department does want to know that although the deadline for comments was on february twenty sixth seen  documents the five volume documents that you have before you address the comments well beyond the thirty day comment period i believe your direction to the applicant in one of your comments was to reach out to the community more than they had already had for some of the people that had testified had not not been able to connect and so you would ask the applicant to try and make that connection which they did to as many people as would  would connect with them so there were letters submitted again well beyond the thirty day review period which was risk responded to and it's contained in your final environmental  just to summarize the letters when we submitted when carolyn emailed you or or mailed out your agenda packet we mailed whatever letters we had at that time which were not very much and then she gave me a cut off of this past friday and whatever she had of this at this past friday at two o'clock another batch was emailed to you and then yesterday at around two o'clock two thirty whatever we had in the department was mailed out to you this morning and went to the office before coming here at about eight thirty we made copies of whatever we had received which is a just three more letters we gave that to you this morning had our meeting this morning i went back for lunch and when i got back i found a stack on my desk and so and  of them were letters that the fires who had come this morning said they had submitted it last night to the planning the general planning email isn't trickled down to our office to eleven thirty today so with that said the approximate numbers of what we have in terms of letters are fifty four letters in support forty four letters either objecting or concern expressing concern about the project and then we did receive today to eleven thirty that commission that titian that was spoke about this morning with five hundred sixty six signatures and i think that person mentioned to you that there is an update to that with six hundred signatures or so the department has not received that yet so everything that we have so far has been submitted to you in segments so with that i would like to over to the applicant to take you to the project and then the department will come back later on and we'll continue this discussion thank you lot since the last time we were here before you about this time last year the can is a beautiful place with a rich history we've thoroughly enjoyed forming lasting relationships with the community with local neighbors and getting honest and critical feedback from them to guide our planning projects we've learned that a project at mckenna must respect and represent the history and have a sense of community and sit well within the environment without significant impact inspired by the families who have fished the waters of mckenna for generations since the initial presentation of the draftee in two thousand and sixteen we collected more input about the project plans and listened carefully to the comments that we've received from you the planning commission and also from the reviewing agencies and community members then we set internal goals about refining and redesigning a project in a way that somalis sustainable and where helpful incorporating better than county standards we agreed among our teams who's here with us today and will be presenting shortly that we would work harder to design a project that had no impact on the environment yet creates a community where residents will enjoy mckenna with respect for the past and excitement about the future and we finalized a plan that we hope can become an example of sustainable responsible low impact development in hawaii a specific example of how our design exceeds county standards in order to protect and improve the environment is in our commitment to low impact development stormwater drainage improvements that captured nearly double what the county requires and includes treatment measures to remove sediments and remove nutrients and prevent those materials from impacting the near shore environment another few examples include that the property is zoned at the state and county levels for dense urban development however a proposed density is just three point three five units per acre whereas the existing zoning would allow more than twelve units per acre at one hundred fifty eight units proposed versus five hundred seventy three units allowed for the zoning also as was illustrated during the site visit that you attended our proposed building setbacks in most cases substantially exceed the county code minimum setbacks to allow more open space and zoning buffers in some cases three to four times larger than the county standards on the set and in some it was even pointed to earlier as many as six or seven times the standard and while we satisfy the county's workforce affordable housing requirements with approved credits tamed from contributions towards the development of affordable housing units here and now in a t c mckenna would like to see workforce housing units developed within the mckenna resort area needless to say we have our hands full with this current project however if a t c mckenna pursues future development within the mckenna resort area will most certainly assess feasibility of creating new workforce housing units at the development keeping in mind the reason that we're here today our team will do their best to summarise facts and information better details within the day to support making a decision i find it helpful when discussing the e a to clarify and briefly explain why we were directed to prepare an e a and not any i a s for this project today in maui and state wide environmental review is governed by well i revised statutes chapter three forty three it's been referenced earlier that law requires that the first step an applicant must take is to prepare an e a not any yes sometimes a first step can be the preparation of an e i s present evidence but that's only where the agency makes a determination at the outset that the proposed project is likely to have significant effect on the environment the planning department did not make that determination in this case here the department issued an anticipated finding of no significant impact and we completed preparation  our proposed project is a standalone project with independent utility and we've embraced environmental review and prepared this carefully following the content and public review process is set forth under the administrative rules i want to emphasize what stated in the a which is at the project is not part of a master plan development it's not a segment within the larger thousand and fifty unit project the proposed project stands alone and we don't have any plans at this time for other projects at the mccann area in preparing our plan we focused especially on four key classes of substantial comments that were received about the draft this so that the planning commission can be satisfied that they and we took the required hard look at the ten july impacts and mitigation measures first we will describe our process of community engagement and the cultural  historic approach to the project next we will present a place based architectural design rooted in the cannas history focus on preservation and expansion of a few corridors utilize a palette of native plants and improve the desk and access cycling circulation and public parking for access to shoreline resources and nearby beach parks then we will describe the adequacy of the capacity of the potable and irrigation reuse water waste water and the traffic improvements last will present a low impact of elements i plan with water quality monitoring above and beyond the requirements of our team will now present in detail how we refine the plan over the past year in response to the commission agency and community comments we work collaboratively to respectfully capture and integrate what we learned in our plans and most important recognizing that we are within the special management area this project has been conceptualized in design to have no significant impact on the environment including upon cultural practices were fully committed to that approach we've searched high and far and consulted with the community extensively to find concerns and we find the plan so that won't have impacts that includes removing and relocating buildings increasing drainage retention about the county standards reducing on site and off site drainage flow rates be finding the architecture to be more place appropriate including a historic interpretive center for education among others we're committed to delivering our project with no impacts in the best possible way for the long term benefit of mckenna first through presenting a thorough and comprehensive and later to our request for an s m a permit and the commission's deliberate process of imposing conditions on that estimate permit to mandate appropriate development we look forward to an evolving the kana as a gathering place where we may all enjoy and celebrate its history landmarks and resources now i'd like to first take a few moments just to introduce you to the team working on this project the applicant as you have heard is a t c mckenna holdings l l c discovery land company is a t c development partner we also have a full range of supporting technical consultants who have been involved in the preparation process here with us in the audience to answer any questions you may have during your review today as i mentioned this project involves the creation of a new mixed use community in mckenna resort which includes multi family single family as well as a village containing both commercial and residential uses this project is situated o lands located within the urban growth boundary of the maui island plan we are here today to respectfully request the commission's review of the finally e a that has been prepared for this project as noted on the agenda we are not of old mckenna road some distance away from other parcels that lie adjacent to the shoreline area on a weekly street provides access down from the canal this project uses three three development parcels referred to in the name for this project which is and five and six as seven and be two and together they total about forty seven acres in area these parcels are designated for the level development by the state land use commission the key hay mechanic community plan and also maui county zoning the proposed project is consistent with these land can see the location of the project site on an aerial photo as i mentioned inland of old mckenna road and is not directly from the shoreline if we look left from left to north golf course to the south as you can see on this aerial photo there is the former mckenna beach in golf resort prophecy which closed its doors in july of last year and is currently in the process of being redeveloped further so this is the south is malarky beach park as well as various multi family as well as single family residences live residences excuse me that live beyond and some vacant land as well as mckenna landing beach park much time has been spent over the past couple of years on creating a plan that is both sensed isn't respectful of the special place we'll call mckenna this process has been driven by three main guideposts an overarching sustainability framework to inform the design process secondly findings of various site studies and and most importantly input received from the mccann advisory in cultural groups as well as the community at large i'd like to now hand over the presentation to be done in craig rather the design team for this project thank you bark good morning afternoon should the the planning and landscape architecture and we were the planners for the project before you today in this section we will give an overview of the planning an architectural components of the project and also describe our sustainability framework i'll start by describing the process we used to create the site plan first we established in the tender resort sustainability framework which consists of seven she guiding principles first was designed for resilience and climate adaptation second manage resources with responsibility third embrace and honor local culture fourth design for beauty harmony and understanding fifth provide mobility choice six foster local project cannot mix success and lastly operate sustainably day to day in addition to these principles we also utilize the finding assessments of sites studies including chapa graphic biological cultural and archaeological surveys and lastly seeking a truly inclusive process we listen carefully and drew upon input received during project group meetings with the mckenna advisory community advisory group in the tennis cultural well the sustainability principles i outline are important they are just a starting point and alone would not provide our neighborhood with a soul we knew that for this place to endure future generations would need to embrace the elements that had given the tenor its unique sense of overlapping cultural landscapes including agriculture ranching and plantations and we wanted our new neighborhood to be flecked and office all be respectful to all of these traditions so with this understanding in min plan that was guided by the following principles first the creation of a walkable mixed use village respectful on the tennis heritage and where the public is welcome to serve as a place for all together we place open space and single family homes along the mc high edge of the property respecting the existing homes and scale of that neighborhood and preserving a low density impression when viewed from the ocean consistent with the after input from the community and this commission we carefully arranged the buildings along mckenna island to eat to preserve and hands and in some cases create you quarters to the ocean a special planning commission site inspection was held in may that was well attended by the community and a number of the commission members during the site was these you quarters were stake which story poles representing the building corners and the building maximum heights and everyone was able to view them in person the project consists of the following uses eighty eight multifamily units in six seven and eight six buildings arrayed along the malka edge of the property twenty single family cottages in the center of the site twenty six single family lots located mostly along the mci as of the property and the village itself which contains about twenty seven thousand square feet of commercial space for neighborhood uses like the general star store that used to be here in the kennett with fourteen condo units located on the upper floors of those buildings and also  center heritage center adjacent to the new bridge the cultural heritage center will house stories and artifacts that we have collected on the special place including those of nato's families who choose to be recognized and workers who have made and continue to make the tenet their livelihood in total the projects one hundred fifty eight units at three point three five units per acre are substantially lower than those five hundred seventy three units at twelve parking for the project is located throughout the site adjacent to choose the total parking stalls provided exceeds the required parking for the code parking for the single family losses located on each live and parking for the multifamily units is an underground below each building which allows more open space throughout the site parking for the single family cottages is groups and parking lots and attached garages and parking for the village is an underground garage is with surface parking  now the village building i'd like to take a moment just to address one of the comments and concerns expressed by one of the testifiers this morning relative to alternatives and how many alternatives or what alternatives were looked at as we went through this process there were a number of design alternatives that we studied and we chose to reflect this alternative as our preferred for a number of reasons the first some of the  cause worse use of larger view impacts and what we have may have today or they did not support our sustainability goals but probably most important it did not reflect the direction that we heard from the community advisory groups and many of the long term mckenna residents that we spoke with will now describe each one of these building types in more detail r b who recommended a unanimous approval to the planning to the planning commission the first group of buildings we will show you on be to the village center easy understanding we have the range the matrix showing both the historic and design context with the proposed materials to be used in the small site plan in the center of the village highlighted in orange although on this one you can see that it's the lower right hand corner is the village this is the heart of the community link stone bridge it has been designed to foster local and project economic success the mysterians you see depicted on these elevations celebrate the historic traditions corrugated metal roofs painted a images of the single family holiday located on the site plan you see at the bottom of the page below the village these buildings were designed for resilience and climate adaption use of natural materials such as word coral and lovers and use in the textures and canoe ladders and fish traps to create interest in shatter patterns which not only help break up the building mass and the mckenna cultural focus group as well as comments from the u d r be as we move into the multifamily you can see the use of traditional materials inspiration this is a six flags seen on the site plan illo it is a lightweight wood construction sitting on top of a lava stone base on the stair towers you can see the texture now we move to the custom home sites described by done below the multifamily units these sites will be purchased by single owners who will construct their own homes in order to maintain the beauty  in connectivity to the community we have written a comprehensive set of design guidelines these will provide a yardstick to maintain the look and integrity of the community lights it defines a natural area and transition area and the private area of the recommended materials to be used on the foundation walls walls and roofs maintaining the idea of beauty on many an understanding the mentioned at the beginning of the presentation today we are here to request the commission's review of the final environmental assessment for the project the project itself the project itself does not process that this project started just over two years ago says february on the top of the slide there was obviously work ahead of officially submitting or distributing nearly consultation  testimony most of twenty fifteen was spent preparing the draft environmental assessment we came before this commission in january last year to receive comments on the draft and all of twenty important meetings that occurred in twenty sixteen last year including this craig had mentioned we went before the urban design review board for review of this  voted unanimously to recommend approval of the project plans to the to the maori planning commission that occurred in march and we also had the site inspection with mari planning commission in may last year whittling closely with planning department staff on finding next steps which included looking at possible alternatives and reviewing the proposed refinements to the site plan  that is a part of the final today and also the scheduling of the site inspection and they would planning commission which focus specifically on building heights and technical studies also updated where needed and new marine water quality and biological studies were also completed to address key concerns about mckenna bay as a result of the continued dialogue refining able to be made the site planned preserve and enhance important views building facades as craig mentioned were also softened to promote an increased sense of place mitigation measures that you'll hear about later in the presentation will also develop based on the comments we received on the draft environmental assessment this is this is all input that genuinely feels has ultimately made this into received during the draft a review period which we believe speaks to the authenticity of the preparation process all comments received on the draft have been responded to in writing by the applicant and this next section of the presentation we'd like to now dive a little deeper into exactly what has been done during the final preparation process to address the four main themes of what we feel were the substantive comments received on the draft a lot of commissioners many things to go for being here today and to everyone who is taking the time to be  in the wind culture you begin by sharing your name but also by telling where you come from and where and who your family lineage is genealogy and by doing that you're recognizing the connection a particular person has with the place and recognizing the genealogy they come from we began much in the same way with mckenna we look to the people who know this place intimately who have been there for generation upon generation and then we work to connect with all of the rest of law and beyond and services very much with great respect that i share with you guys here today a little bit about the process that we've gone to for to address historic preservation concerns and to really embrace the opportunity three years ago we were granted the opportunity to come up with a plan not for a general white island or for just the south of mali but a plan that recognizes this specific place mckenna to come up with a place based plan we learned about mckenna or genealogy connect back to this very place today we are honored to have an elder representatives of those families with undergrowth ancestral connection to this place to land they continue to live on or care for as part of our cultural focus groups members of this group had generational knowledge of this specific area of the effects storms winds and different weather patterns have had of currents and the different shoreline some have been fishing the shoreline and waters for well over half a century they have seen the change of lifestyle systems to commerce ranching and tourism it is their intimate knowledge of and love for mckenna that has supported their continued in durance in this dry leeward locale these are those who know of mckenna's culture they have held the stories and maintained the cultural practices of this area they are the stewards of mckenna schools are along with neighbors who are directly mccully into the south of the project area all of whom having lived in the area for decades we have relied upon this collected knowledge to create a plan that sewage natural coastal and cultural resources feasible this genealogy of place and people from the inspiration for this mckenna based development discovery land companies role in the story of this place began three years ago from the onset discovery recognize the importance of engaging the community and it had fifteen meetings of the last three years of the cultural focus group and a community advisory group made up of the greater the surrounding neighbors environmentally conscious community groups and individuals with long standing work in the field of hauling culture since our draft a presentation a year ago we embrace the opportunity to cast a broader net to continue to munity engagement to an inclusive process respect listening and working together for the last year we had over fifty meetings with hundreds of individuals and small groups including those noted below and regular outreach groups neighbors and elected officials particular groups reached out to our all those who testified in opposition at the draft for whom we had contact information additional representatives from environmental groups representatives from additional south maui homeowners groups various groups concerned with archaeological matters and additional and additional county officials we also look for opportunities to bridge county and state requirements the community in putting answers and facilitating meetings between both example of the examples of those we met with include representatives from the following groups you see here commission requested at the draftee a hearing to reach out to more community members beyond our community advisory group and cultural focus group we hope you see our sincere efforts in the list provided here we are shared with each of these groups are sincere wish to continue community our community connection and we gain insight from each of these meetings and appreciate the time and knowledge the groups have shared with us we also recognize that a number of community members were concerned with archaeological matters including concern over the number of sites i did a number of sites slated for preservation that preservation sites would be replaced by retention basins effect some cultural sites and what is allowed within the multi step archaeological process it is important to understand understand the steps we have taken to reach compliance including legal processes that are being followed and the history of this particular project area including previous archaeological work and the project area over time prior to historic preservation standards being enacted to administrative rules in two thousand in two the forty seven acres included in this project and especially the m six s seven area had previously been used by saving as a work site so unlike other areas in cebu hundreds of pigs were raised in the area and some of the archie laws are geological sites present or remnants from ranching days carousing was associated with animal husbandry more recently deer have moved in and out of the area and through  te heavy equipment work animal presence weather and change the vegetation have all affected the area and results in the number of sites that now remain thirty six from the s and one additional from the dental work totaling thirty  seven effect also result in the it take those thirty seven sites ten of which are slated for data recovery and potential preservation based on the data collection and additional seven sites already slated for preservation these effects are also what i contributed to an patterned distribution of coral water borne release and made in across a project area there's also been some comment about the mckenna pope will road in terms of site significance as a historic preservation review site as h p d has concurred concurred that the segment when that road is not worthy of preservation we will go into further detail regarding the iterator the archaeological process but as you can see here we are confident that the forty seven acres in this project area have been thoroughly surveyed archaeologist has walked through the project area an additional two times since field work in two thousand and sixteen and found no for the features to be very clear our goal is to provide the sites protection as mandated by what you have ministry to rules through the as a treaty process and through guidance from the cultural focus to the multi step process is the historic preservation review which encompasses more than just archaeological considerations including an important cultural component as part of site significance evaluation several of the mechanical to a focus group members have been involved in the archaeological and cultural matters and not only our project but for the last thirty plus years in mckenna on mali and throughout the state they protected the iranians are you happy learning is all or king's trail in front of the resort and we continue to support the work they have done to preserve shoreline access from the kennel landing to our newly beach furthermore beyond the expert cultural knowledge that are close to a focus group has of mckenna we had a cultural historical report conducted to be sure that we are thoughtful of collecting factual historical knowledge and will  our argue logical inventory surveys reviewed i'm sorry here we don't archaeological inventory surveys were reviewed and approved but as h p d no here were found on site and we can assure you that any site identified by the ses p d for preservation will be preserved thus no preservation sites will be located in retention basins as a reminder there are an additional ten sites slated for data recovery that have the potential to be preserved based on further data collection ok this is a slide for better viewing here's the top half of the process noting the area we see if i get here as an initial baseline information gathering point and the second half we have continually expressed our commitment to including the voices of those concerned in the community into the constitution portion of these preservation plans this is also where access to the sites will be determined we know access to the sites is important and we could not agree more are committed to the historic preservation review process and open the including these concerned community members in creating a multi step iterative process the h a r s n s a p d provide the framework for ongoing w archaeologists to do a follow up field inspection of the project area this action is in full cup full accordance with as each p d guidelines for ongoing mitigation and inadvertent fines the twenty sixteen field work produced a few additional features to previously identified sites additional sites none of the features or site identified in the twenty six june field were found to be significant in compliance with this h d d for ongoing litigation we have submitted addendums for the twenty six team field where it is helpful to know a little more about inverting finds p guidelines in the last year we have work to include the voices of those who express concern over archaeological and cultural sites at the track we have continually requested that any significant information be shared whenever information has been shared we have addressed through our historic preservation review process which as a gentle reminder includes the archaeologist the cultural focus group and each piece as evidence of our willingness to include the concerned community and heard in our historic preservation review process we have also priscilla to multiple educational opportunities through meetings with the cultural focus group to meetings with this h p v culture in history french and a recent site visit with our archaeologists we  worked to empower the community to learn what they can do through the law prior to the site visit those concerned in the community provide a presence provided a presence of presentation to us detailing to their concerns we immediately asked our archaeologist to  up and recheck those areas we are confident that the twenty sixteen field work submitted as an agenda combined with the a a a s is provide a thorough survey of historical properties in the project area as previously noted the archaeologist has walked through the area twice following the twenty six team field work is done over the features we are however open to and continue to reiterate our willingness to engage the concerns community members in the historic preservation review process as further evidence of this we have continually committed to including their voices in the consultation portion of the central preservation plan additionally we have delayed the burial trim plan creation to allow time for the concerned individuals to learn about and apply for descendants the recognition whether or not lineal or cultural descendants is recognized by the burial consul we will include these individuals in the consultation portion of the brutal treatment plan these are a few examples of our commitment to casting a broader net to continued community engagement to an inclusive process respect listening and working together archaeological and cultural research protection are among our most important priorities and we have work to provide a plan that recognizes county and state regulations and improves upon those who are listening intently to our cultural focus group and providing open