Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan - Community Meeting 2

Date: July 19, 2016 Project Name: Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan

Subject: Community Meeting 2 Meeting Location: Hanalei Elementary School Cafeteria

Meeting Date and Time: Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 4:00 to 8:15pm

Recorded by: Corlyn Orr

Attendees: Mayor Bernard Carvalho Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR): Lenny Rapozo, William Trugillo,

Nancy McMahon, Ethalyn Calvan HHF Planners: Scott Ezer, Corlyn Orr, Rick Quinn Meeting Facilitator: Johanna Ventura ‐see attendance record for roster of community members

The second community meeting for the Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan Project was held at the Hanalei Elementary School Cafeteria on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. The meeting was scheduled from 4:00 pm to 8:15 pm, with an open house from 4:00 to 5:00 pm followed by an open forum session for verbal comments. The meeting purpose was to present the plan alternatives, and receive input on the facilities and improvements proposed in the alternatives.

OPEN HOUSE STATIONS Project displays were arranged to describe the planning priorities and call out the differences in the alternatives. Members of the planning team and DPR staff were available to answer questions and discuss the alternatives with meeting attendees. Handouts included a meeting agenda, letter size copy of the 2 alternatives, a questionnaire, and a written comment sheet (SEE ATTACHMENT A).

WELCOME AND COUNTY REMARKS The meeting was called to order at around 5:20 pm. Johanna Ventura, meeting facilitator, opened with a brief overview of the meeting format, and reviewed the procedures for speaking during the open forum (procedures were displayed on the screen at the front of the room). Meeting attendees wishing to speak were reminded to sign up, and to honor the 2‐minute time limit. Those wishing to speak longer than 2 minutes were invited to sign up for a second slot, after others had a chance to speak at least once. Extra time remaining after everyone had a chance to speak would be allotted for questions. Johanna also informed the group that Hō‘ike Community Television was recording the meeting, and speakers should notify the camera operator if they did not want to be recorded.

Mayor Bernard Carvalho welcomed meeting participants, speaking about his ‘ohana connection to Halele‘a, his appreciation for Black Pot, and the need to talk through the different ideas for how the park is managed. Scott Ezer, lead planner for the master plan, then provided a summary of the meetings and research completed over the past year, and encouraged meeting attendees to review the alternatives and give their feedback about what they want to see in the beach park. Scott noted that comments will be accepted through August 30 via a number of different venues, including the questionnaire form and blank comment sheet passed out during the meeting, as well as the online survey and comment box on the project website, the project email address, and postal mail.

OPEN FORUM Each speaker’s comments have been recorded nearly verbatim to maintain the accuracy and authenticity of their statements. The 2‐minute speaker’s time limit was extended to 3 minutes midway through the session after all individuals on the sign‐up list had a chance to speak once.

1. Betsy Lis: My husband is a surfer who hangs out at the horse shoe pit. I am concerned about the desire to close the beach to those launching watercraft. Surfers usually bring 3‐4 boards with them, depending

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on what conditions are as they’re sitting watching waves and assessing conditions. My husband’s going to be 65 years old this year, and carrying boards back and forth is not really a good option. Having this access is important to us. If beach access is removed, is the County going to provide security so vehicles are not vandalized and belongings are not stolen as at Ke‘e. This is also a very big concern, we have a lot of homeless. Last issue is how can the County justify spending millions of dollars taking people’s property against their will and designing a premier park when there are many millions worth of backlog road repairs not being done. Just in Hanalei, look at Weke Road fronting the Pavilion and on Aku Road fronting Calypso and you’ll see what I mean. Thank you.

2. J. Streed: I agree with a lot of what Betsy just said, and to include besides just the surfers, add the paddleboarders, fishermen, sailors, watercraft and ongoing usual beachgoers. I really like what the planners have done with the renditions and proposals, both plans are good ideas in their own right, as long as beach parking is included. It’s been a way of life for people out here for as long as I can remember. One of the open house posters says kupuna don’t remember when people parked on the beach. As long as I’ve been here, people have been parking on the beach. And it’s not been a problem. Well, from time to time, there are problems with parking anywhere. But for the most part, the beach parking recycles itself. People say cars leak, but the beach recycles itself generation after year after year through the cycles of rain and surf and tides. I don’t see there’s a problem with beach parking. The County will be making a much bigger problem by causing people like myself and others to haul our stuff. We carry stuff. The older we get, the more stuff we carry. That’s why everybody’s got pick‐up trucks and SUVs full of their stuff. Lots of surfboards, gear, coolers, whatever. If you can’t haul all your stuff from some of those parking stalls way off in the distance all the way to the sand. It’s not going to work. The older I get, the harder it is to haul one surfboard, one paddleboard, one whatever, let alone your stuff. How many trips are you going to have to make? Same thing about security in the parking areas when you can’t spot your stuff. There’s other beach communities around the country, mostly in the southeast, people park on the sand. They park on the beach, it’s monitored, it’s day use only, and they charge a fee for that parking. Daily, weekly, monthly or annually, and it works out fine. You put a placard in your window. It would be more revenue for the County.

3. Sailor DeCamp: How many here are for sand access parking? It looks like (by show of hands) at least a third, so that makes me kind of suspicious that there’s not a third alternative for parking on the beach. My issue is it’s a great place to camp and everybody should be able to camp there, but they should have sand access because it’s really sweet to have all the families right there and have their little tailgate things. I’ve taken my paddleboard and it’s easily accessible for me when I did it from the beach and could park there. Except one time I was camping there, after 9:30 pm when most of the people were gone, the rest of the night there’d be headlights going by. 2 to 3 in the morning, headlights into your tent, when I don’t think they should have been doing that. Maybe they should block it, and have a time thing. Boomboxes were there and it was a bummer, maybe a time limit and noise limit, you know, couldn’t even talk to my friends because it was too loud and they weren’t being very respectful. I heard they want to do a marina for the development on the hillside, and I’ve gone—no—no marinas, that’s going to totally ruin the atmosphere and turn it into Hawai‘i Kai or something. I’m kinda suspicious that that’s not out there. Thank you.

4. Cheri Hamilton: I’ve lived on Hanalei River for 10 years, and right at the beginning there was hardly any SUPs. Now it’s loaded. It’s crazy, it’s a wonderful sport for anybody—locals, tourists, kids, grandpas, grandmas, everybody. So it has hugely increased the usage of that whole area. I want to recommend that you do gender‐neutral, individual stall toilets so that we don’t have a lawsuit issue down the road for transgender problems. I went to Huntington Beach, they have individual stalls. You lock the door, you’re in there with your child, you don’t have to worry. They would come through and hose them all out every 2 hours, and they were kept clean. Because we have that problem with the bathrooms here, all over the north shore. Why can’t we have 2 shower stations at the front park area? ‘Anini has 3—the first park has 2—we could have 2. The other thing is picnic tables are falling apart. You have to bring your own. If you want to come to the beach, you have to bring your chairs and tables because picnic tables are falling apart all over the north shore.

Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan COMMUNITY MEETING 2 | July 19, 2016 of 18 5. Louise Sausen: This is our millionth meeting on this park. I want to be able to go back on to beach and

stuff. I’d like to first say thank you to all of you that came to this meeting. I’m coming from the host culture point of view. I got Grandpa Ah Meng in my head, Uncle Willy, Hashimoto, Uncle Jackie, Auntie Cathy Kalehua. It’s a way of life for us to have access to that shore. So, I don’t know how you gonna fix it to make it fair for everybody, but I think the plans should think first of the host culture and what we want. The color codes on the paperwork (the planning area boundaries graphic) confuses me. Blue is the existing park, purple is the county‐owned/controlled. There’s some places on the county‐owned/controlled that I have questions do you really own and control that area? On the green areas, future ownership. So how can you expect us to pick a plan, or how can you even present a plan and we have to choose between A or B, when a third of the plan includes green areas of future ownership? I think that because we have this problem in all the beach parks as far as where we’re going to park, they’re going to change our lives and impact us and now we’re going to have to park over there and follow like everybody else, I think that maybe the 24/7 residents should have a decal.

6. Coral Miles: My husband and I are both over 70 years old, and we’ve been going down to Black Pot Beach, driving on the beach almost every Friday or Saturday night for over 20 years and it’s a tradition with us. We meet with friends, we potluck, we take down a truckload of equipment—chairs and tables and tents and BBQs, and everything that accompanies having a great time at the beach together—and I would be very sad to see that tradition stop. I noticed in earlier meetings that there were a lot of comments about having a kupuna drop off. Looking at the maps, at least on Plan B, it gets a little closer. It still would be a large hardship for us to have to go from the drop‐off points down to the beach with all that we take down, myself being handicapped, so I would like to see a little more concern and questions about that. I also support the earlier comments about the noise and things going on and wonder why we can’t have a police regulation or a park ranger drive on the beach after 9 pm at night to make their presence known and caution people who are there with loud boomboxes and loud noise and partying. Just their presence would make a difference at the beach, and I hope we can solve that problem as well. I sympathize with residents that live down there and can hear the noise. Thank you.

7. Tommy Passerella: I moved here 8½ years ago from New Jersey after being in law enforcement. It’s been the best 8 ½ years of my life. I feel the love in this room. I know the name Black Pot has a lot of history, but I thought of Andy Irons Black Pot Beach, or the Spirit that is Black Pot Beach, or Aloha Black Pot Beach. Another thing would be nice would be camping more than 2 days a week with all the open land. I like the open structure of Plan A. There should be a loop close to the beach to loop through to have people be able to put their stuff that needs to go to the beach closer to the beach. Another thing I’d like to see is not the beach access eliminated. That changes the whole flow of Hanalei in that area tremendously. Put up cameras. If you want to see what people are doing, cameras are very cheap. You can actually have sound monitoring systems that can tell how loud sound is in that area, very cheap to do. We have military that can tell where I’m standing right now by my voice recognition. You could tell how loud things are at Black Pot Beach without even having a ranger ride by. Another thing would be a pavilion/gazebo area—Brazilian jiu‐jitsu classes, ukulele classes, taichi classes available in an open, fresh‐air environment for people to have fun together. How about a luau once a month paid for by the U.S. government after we bring our troops home from war for all this nonsense we’ve been playing for these last 60 years. God bless you all.

8. Leilani Josselin: I have 5 things I want to hit on. First, we all know about both designs (plans) not having beach access driving. When moms come down with kids, coolers, pop‐up tents, are they going to carry their stuff across lawns when they have an infant, if they’re by themselves, how’s that going to happen? My second thing, how are you guys being able to put paths within shoreline setbacks areas? How are you getting the permits for this? Why are you guys taking out ironwood trees? Why are you guys planting palms, spending money on unnecessary things when back in the old days those were planted there for a reason. Ironwood trees are ocean resistant, that is the reason why they’ve been used by paniolos for hundreds of years right now. The next thing. It’s stated there’s no long term lease for the hale wa‘a, which is Na Molokama’s one. So is the County going to give them a long‐term lease? How is that going to work out? We can’t even get a place to put Namahoe, our double‐hull sailing canoe for our


island. Keeping it to Hanalei River and the Hanalei area, are you guys going to fix Hanalei Canoe Club’s road going down there because that road is messed up. The next one—building the boat ramp. How about dredging the river? A lot of people are super weird about this, but if you are a boat user, you know that has to be done. Going in the canoes, you‘re coming down, the water’s pushing, you’re trying to cut in, it’s nearly impossible. So those people who have been pushing for that stuff, you’re pushing for a boat ramp, I’m an avid fisherwomen and that’s a touchy subject. Then lastly, what are the numbers being used to build your septic tanks because I don’t want to see what happened in Ke‘e where they were using numbers from the ‘90s and look at what’s happening down there. The bathroom is awesome, filtration system but still allows viruses in the water, but it cleans out some stuff and is based on numbers from the ‘90s and we all know there’s much more people going down there now, obviously from the way it is. Lastly, I’m going to end with. I know it says stop but I’m not going to bother because there’s not much people. I want to be able to see Uncle Ah Fook and other old‐timers, just like how he’s highlighted in Hana Hou Magazine on the Hawaiian Airlines because of what he does. Building fires down there, and all these people complaining about car lights, music, at least we know where our kids are. I’ve worked at the school for 5 years, and at least I know my students are somewhere, somewhat safe, down there, cruising. I’d rather have them there than up in the bushes someplace or at someone’s house where they probably get into more trouble doing delinquent activities.

9. Richard Casto: One thing about Black Pot, it’s definitely a spiritual place. One time I was out there surfing, and I believe it or not, the hand of God pulled me out of that water. It’s my spiritual experience and I’m going to share it with all of you, I don’t give a flying rat’s a** if you believe me or not. You guys have some good points. About the guy from Jersey, I’m originally from Pittsburg and I’ve been here for over 20 years. Make more parking for handicapped, I agree on that. The thing that really pisses me off is what happened to the ‘ohana getting together having BBQs. I don’t see as many BBQ pits in half these parks, and it really pisses me off. That’s what brings us together, that is aloha. Screw that f***ing movie that they made. Sorry, I got a little hit before I got up here, and I’m trying to hold it back. Forgive me for speaking my mind, I am not one to judge. I put my life in God’s hands, and with all the chaos that’s going on the mainland. My whole family’s military, and I will stand for a cause. Black Pot is one of my causes. I got ‘ohana across this whole fricken island and I will stand for them, strong and proud. I wouldn’t be wearing this around my neck if it didn’t mean something to me.

10. Friedemann Bender: I’m amazed how 1 or 2 people’s interest in keeping the parking away from there has now mushroomed into a large deal. I’m for the parking. I think it’s essential. A special place is a special place and should remain a special place by having a special thing happening there like parking on the beach. The focus of this whole master plan‐‐Cheri said it very well‐‐ is the toilets. Come on you guys. What about the bathrooms? 1,000 people can park there but only 2 can go shi‐shi at the same time. It’s disgusting actually. It’s disgusting all the way down the coast, but nobody is thinking about the bathrooms or the showers. No, you can’t park there, but you could take a shower if you stand in line or go shi‐shi if you want to stand in line. What’s happening? The focus is wrong for this whole plan. You need water treatment plan and sinks, showers next to each other, and 3 bathrooms for all genders, and whatever have you. Something that is easy to keep clean, and somebody, how about a budget for somebody who can come there and take care of the place. Like people used to do. Nobody does now because it’s not in the budget of the County anymore. Aloha. Good luck to all of us.

11. Benny Ferris: I’m here talking because I spend a lot of time down at Black Pot like a lot of you and I care about what happens there. North Shore Kaua‘i especially is a special place, but it’s not an easy place to live, especially for my generation coming up, cost of living is super high and high‐paying jobs are few and far between but we’re still here because of the lifestyle that we live and because of really special places. Black Pot is one of those special places. We don’t want to lose what we have there. The easy access that we have, and the convenience of being able to go down to the beach even if we got 10 minutes to go surf because we worked all day. That’s something that you don’t have anywhere else, and it’d be a shame if we lost that. I really think it’s really important for the County and the people making the decisions to take that into consideration and to consider the people that are down there probably 200‐250 days out


of the year. Not take into consideration the people that own a house and spend 10 days there every year, or the people that visit for one day.

12. Ian Miles: When I first saw these plans and they had meetings, I thought, well it is getting crowded. Probably over 30 years since I first went there. In the old days, they used to have hukilau there pretty regularly. That was great. And a whole lot more people. But they are local people who are there. Very few tourists, comparatively, make it to that beach, especially on weekend nights, Friday nights. It’s special because of that. I don’t like the crowdedness it’s become. At first I thought, well maybe it’s time to do the parking off the beach, but the more I thought about it, that place is crowded but there’s miles of empty beach further down that people aren’t going there. We can spend millions of dollars on a park but there won’t be as many people in the park because they can’t just drive down there. We can save the County money by not doing this park. Maybe we need few more places we can go park on the beach. I know it’s not the environmentally sound thing, but this is a place where people like to come together, they want to do that, it’s the gathering place of the people, so let’s continue doing that. We can build a bigger parking lot at the back for overflow if we have to, but let’s leave the beach parking. We’re happy, we’re good. Everyone’s good with that, why change it?

13. Joi Bonaparte: I love parking on the beach at Black Pot. I love being able to watch my grandkids and my friends surfing and playing and jumping off the pier, and yes, I think we do need more parking and I look at the design and it’s a beautiful design, but I think I really like the way that it is. I think that we do need more parking, and the other thing is trash bins. There should be more trash bins offered. There’s a lot of garbage down there right now with all the camping. We should recycling available for plastic and aluminum and glass and regular trash, and the bathrooms certainly need to be addressed. They’re super inadequately. Definitely, I love Louise’s idea with the decal on the car for people that live here, and I think we should have visitor parking and maybe have the visitors’ park a little bit further out and walk to the beach. Thank you so much.

14. Cheri Hamilton: You may not know this. I moved here in 1972, and I rented a shack in Wainiha from Henry Tai Hook, and he would come to Black Pot, and he had a huge wok and he would cook everything and anything‐‐fish, veggies‐‐and invite anybody and that’s how it got its name Black Pot, in case you didn’t know. Gerri Lopez in his book said about his surfing life, his life was in the parking lots. All his favorite surf breaks, his whole life, his family, his friends, everybody was in the parking lot. Like my husband doesn’t have any friends. He doesn’t go anywhere or do anything with anybody, but he goes to the parking lot and hangs out with all his surf buddies from years and years and years, and that’s his socialization in the parking lot. We’ve been going there since ’72. Our baby was sleeping in the car, my husband’s sitting there and the baby’s sleeping, and he’s watching the waves, and our little 3‐year‐old is out in the water and he starts drowning and my husband jumps out and saves him. Not that I want lifeguards there, because every time there’s lifeguards around you can’t swim. Pine Trees, the surf’s this big (knee high), and there’s no swimming signs out. Less government as far as I’m concerned.

15. Dustin Barca: I’m happy to see whoever is here is here. I’m pretty disappointed to see the other 800 people that would probably like to be here not here, because I only found out about this meeting last night, so kind of interesting. For those of who grew up at that beach our whole lives, learned how to surf there, learned how to fish there, learned how to act there, we learned our morals there, our elders taught us how to act, gave us slaps if we were acting up and that’s how we became who we are from that area down there. Some people may not have the same connection to the place as us who grew up here and gained so much from that area. That truly is the lifestyle of our community is that parking on the beach and that scene of being able to park and bring your boats there, bring your ‘ohana there, watch your kids swim as you BBQ, watch your kids fish, teach your kids how to fish, be able to watch them. That’s something‐‐like was said earlier‐‐special. I’ve traveled this whole earth and you don’t have that everywhere in this world. It’s a very special place and it’s been there for 4 generations, as a gathering place for our community since Henry Tai Hook. So you got to realize that we no like convert to another lifestyle. You need to convert to the lifestyle of this place. The problem here for all of you public officials is we need a moratorium on tourist cars. That’s what going on here. We need a moratorium on tourist


cars, and that’s the problem. Our whole lives, parking, plenty people down there since we was little kids. Plenty people, double‐parked, triple‐parked. You ask them to move, they move. It’s all good, you aloha them and be on your way and that’s how our life is down here. I got a lot more to say. It does tie into the Hanalei Ridge too. A lot of us are against the building of Hanalei Ridge and the development of Hanalei Ridge. There’ll never sell $20 million pieces of land on that ridge if we have the scene we have in Hanalei going on every day and every morning and every night. So there’s a bigger picture here and people need to be maka‘ala to the picture. If it comes down to it, I’ll be standing in front of those bulldozers and whatever they bring over here, and hopefully everybody is with me. Mahalo.

16. Louise Sausen: Decals for locals. Being taxpayers, we’re taxed up the ‘ōkole. We’re the 24/7 residents. Not the ones that own houses. We should be able to get. I’ll pay $25 for my decal that we can stick on our car just like the safety registration, it has your license number so you cannot steal it. We can go and park near our shores. Everybody else needs to go park in the parking lot. The visitor’s bureau, everybody, airplanes, car rentals, hotels, TVR inside and outside the VBA, all these people, timeshares that have and promote and impact our lifestyle they should be responsible for where their cars go and where they can’t go. They should be educating the people. Like they said, the local people using the beach is a very small percentage per day compared to the 24/7 tourist, 365 days a year. All of these things, you gotta think about. We’ve been fighting this park and everything, but the main thing is you people better wake up because why are guys picking a plan, A and B, when they don’t even own the land? Why don’t they have a presentation with what we own? Also, I’m going to get deep right now because do you know who owns that land—all the beachfront lands? County people, do you guys know? Its crown lands deeded to the state. The state has the shoreline, the county has vegetation areas that is deemed for parks and recreational use. So back to the host culture. Also, we have buffer zones. We don’t have to go squeeze back that way, we can go all the way down to Websters, Wai‘oli Stream. We have buffer zones, when we have this much impact on people, we’re supposed to open up the camping all the way down to Wai‘oli Park. Let’s think about that. Why are we squeezing in this? Why are you guys choosing between 2 maps when we don’t even own the land? I don’t understand why you constantly allow this to happen. One more thing‐‐nobody’s talking about CORE. What about CORE? How are those people going to come and experience the ocean? Already they have a hard enough time with life and we’re going to cut them off. The kupuna are having a hard enough time, they can’t get to their spaces.

17. Jeni Prince: Black Pot is one of my favorite places. I’m down there to teach. I surf down there, paddle, walk the beach, run the beach. My biggest concern is that I’m seeing more and more trash, rubbish, disrespect of that place, from not just Black Pot but all the way around the bay. I was down there yesterday and I was so sad how much rubbish was there. All over the lawn, all over the beach. I do what I can to help alleviate the problem. That’s my number one concern. My second concern is the bathrooms and the runoff there. The runoff goes into the dirt road and then into the ocean. I talked to a water tester and he said a lot of it’s polluting the ocean in that section by the pier from the runoff of the showers. I never want to see fires or anything like that be prevented on the beach there. That is the beauty of that place. It’s the beauty of being able to go there in the evening and see the moon. I’m just really concerned about the rubbish aspect. I don’t know if we need a new, bigger dumpster somewhere. I don’t want it is, but it’s overflowing, and it’s getting really far worse than it’s ever been. That’s my personal concern and I hope we can figure out something about that. Thank you.

18. Drew Nakahara: Scott, let me ask you a question. Have you ever spent a full day at Hanalei, relaxing and BBQing with your family, not working, not surveying, ever? Yes? Yes, you have. So you enjoyed, you had fun, you hung out with your family and friends, you had a very relaxing time. Did you park on the beach? No? Well it’s a great experience once you get it. Not only for the convenience. I was lucky enough to be born and raised here. Lucky enough to learn to surf there. Hopefully one day I can bring my children there to surf and play and enjoy the beach from the convenience FROM the beach instead of having to leave everything in the parking lot with all my stuff. A lot of you here are very senior and got to experience it for years. I’ve only been here for 20‐something years and I want to be able to experience it until I’m your age and beyond, and our kids can enjoy for generations beyond. You guys know how


special it is to be able to park on the beach, and enjoy that iconic view, whether it’s enjoy the sunset, or camping. All of this comes into play and gets taken away. I feel like we will lose a little piece of the north shore that makes it so special. I know the designs I was looking at, some of the stuff is really positive. We need more parking, we need more bathrooms and showers. All of that is really great, but taking away the beach parking is taking away a little piece of Hanalei. The Mayor has family from this side. I’m sure you can understand. I know you’ve parked on the beach. It’s been fun. Thank you for this time, and hopefully we can get more beach access there and to other places as well.

19. Joi Bonaparte: I forgot to mention that so much of our shoreline access been taken away from us so this spot is very special. We used to be able at park at Kāhili Beach, Rock Quarry, and now that they have the gated community, is my impression of why they made it we can’t park there anymore. They put rocks up. It is such a special place on the north shore that we can go and enjoy the ocean front and center. Beach access, or shoreline access, we have very little of it so I would love to see us be able to keep this spot the way it is. Thank you.

20. Kau‘i Fu: I too, alongside everybody, wish that we could have the beach open and drive on the beach. I don’t want to change that. If I had my way, I wouldn’t want to change that either. I’m up here because I’ve been hearing a lot of what we don’t want, but I want to encourage everybody, this is our time‐‐we have our mayor here, we have our county parks people here‐‐to come up and say what we do want. If you look at the alternatives, go past the cartoon‐looking alternative and really think about what you want to see. I was lucky enough to talk to officials earlier and tell them what I want to see. So I feel like this is a really good time for you guys to tell them exactly what they want to see. So leaving aside this whole area, cause this cartoon that looks like its fake and should be done and we should just pick A or B or C or whatever, is actually a map that people created that gives a vision of what could happen in the area. So even if I did leave out everything on the shoreline and everything we see as being Black Pot today, the county has a whole new section of park that’s available for our use. And we need to figure out what that’s going to look like. So I hope and encourage everybody to think about it, not necessarily in the alternative maps portion of what you think people want to impress upon our community, but look at the land, look at the land that’s going to be available to us, think about it in detail and maybe not even answer every single question to this lengthy survey, but write down what you want to see. This is an old canoe club, the very 1st canoe club in Hanalei, Hanalei Canoe Club which my dad was a part of starting. He also loved to play music here, drive on the beach, do things with his granddaughter. I grew up in very humble beginnings too, where Uncle Willy was always in the corner, watching fish in the river, watching fish in the ocean. He didn’t need to be ocean front to watch fish. He could be in a tree and watch fish, hidden. Those guys are gone and I don’ want to say those times are gone, but we are in a time of change. I really challenge people to think about mapping it out. Create your own map, create your own solution, think about where you want people to park, where you want to be, how things will function, because that will help the county implement the plan. We’re in the plan stage right now. We can’t just complain about it and figure it out from there. I really encourage you, if you had to leave one part alone, maybe envision this part, but that’s the part we all know we don’t want to change. We want it to be the same, so think about the newly‐acquired land, the issues, what you want to see, and I encourage you to write those things down and create your own map and say these are the alternatives I want. This is the old canoe club. Maybe you want a new canoe club over there, maybe you want it available for large luaus. Whatever you want, let your voice be heard in a constructive way.

21. Louise Barnfield: I paddle with U‘i, and although I’ve got a different comment, I just want to applaud what she’s said and agree with everything she’s said. I just want to point out that I and my husband attended other meetings here about Black Pot, and we listened as many people came up here and said they did not want to do away with beach parking, they really wanted it. And all we see now are 2 alternatives that have completely ignored that. And I just wonder whether everyone who stood up today is also going to be ignored when the final plan is made. That would be a tragedy.

22. Bryon Allen Beaver: I came here in 1962, and I look around, I don’t see too many people I know. I see this gentlemen over here, I see Mary and Bob. I’ve had my property on power lots in the ‘70s, I moved


on Maui, Big Island, I had a grocery store on Maui. And when people say, hey, just a little change, just a little change, B.S. Keep it the way it is. Think about Uncle Willy, think about Calvin, all the characters. Don’t give it up because of more rental cars, more development shoving us away, we get nothing for our buck. Our kids can’t find any opportunity. Maui prices are over $650,000 for a median price (home). Wake up parents. Where are your kids going to live? How can they afford it? What kind of work are they going to get? It’s a sham. Wake up. Think about the old people. Take a breath and see what we got, instead of, “Oh brah, we’re going to do something for you.” Yeah thanks. Mahalo.

23. Ian Miles: 30 years ago when it got busy down there, the bathrooms used to be horrible, and that still happens. There needs to be‐‐in probably today’s construction market‐‐$50,000 or $60,000 spent on the bathrooms because they’ve been in a terrible state for a long time. But somehow we can build, we can spend millions creating this new park, but we can’t have decent bathrooms. I don’t really understand how that works. Because money talks. This plan is actually pretty good, and it’s certainly in line with what’s fashionable in development for the property, but in the end it’s just another beach park. There’s a lot of beach parks where you can go and walk to a nice beach. This is the only one where you can actually go and drive on the beach. So we would like to take some pressure off that beach parking by creating larger parking areas, but that is what the people need. The developers over here write checks to politicians I believe. The people across the river. The people of the land here are continually being cut off from access, not just here, but all over the island. There are places where you can no longer go that we used to go to 20, 30 years ago, 10 years ago even. At some point, I would just like to see it stop. I like going down there. I don’t even like coming out and having to fight for it. We got to top catering to development and outside interests, and look at what the people actually want in this situation.

24. Dustin Barca: One of the things to take into consideration with the master plan is that the place is underwater maybe 10 times a year. The whole place, 90% of it, is underwater. So anybody that is down there 300 days a year will know, when it floods, when the waves come big, all those plans is out the door. It going cost you more money in the end to try to create things in areas that Mother Nature controls. Mother controls that area. Mother Nature controls this town. This town is swamp land. This is for growing kalo. This is not for developing and creating parking lots. That stuff only lasts so long, and that’s just how it is around here. That’s what makes this place special. To everybody planning stuff and doing all this kind planning, you really have to understand how Mother Nature works in this town. Mahalo.

25. Tommy Passerella: I think Dustin Barca nailed it. We have leaders in Hawai‘i. B.J. Penn, Tulsi Gabbard. We have true leaders, we have warriors. We’re all fighters here but we’re also all filled with aloha. Makana said, “With rights come with responsibilities.” When he took a stand on O‘ahu in 2012, that stood for something and we as the Hawaiian‐‐but not the Hawaiian people‐‐but what we represent is aloha. That means freedom, that means love, that means unity, creativity, courage, patience, that means peace, that means humility, that means honesty, these are words that are right on these walls. That means health, which means balance. What is balance in your heart? Balance in my heart is beach access. I was going to come up here and say 3 words, aloha and beach access. Beach access, beach access, beach access, beach access. Aloha. God bless you all. I have a brother who’s a major in the Marines, he went through the Naval Academy. I’m a 100% for our troops. I was running for president, wethepeople.love, it still stands. I was going to bring all our troops home back to America where they belong instead of being puppets for the Rothchilds. God bless you all.

26. Vaivea Peneku: I am an educator, and I focus my education and the work that I do with my haumāna on aloha ‘āina and ‘āina ‐based education. Now, as we proceed forward with plans and development, not only here, but everywhere, I urge you to think of our cultural aspect of it, that we as people, as Hawaiians, as a community, as extended family, should always look at our resources around us as that they do not belong to us, and that they belong to the future generations. And as we build, and we develop, and we deplete resources, and we put things in our waters, in our watershed, on our shoreline, up our rivers, that that is the only aftermath that our children will see. This community was a fishing community, a strong, close‐knit family of people who did practices of farming, cultivating and fishing. As we proceed forward with everything that we plan to do, and what we think we’re going to develop and


what we think we’re going to cultivate, that what we need to think about and always keep in hindsight, in our memories, in our intentions, not the profit. Not the focus on our tourism. That this place belongs to a people, longer than in the community. I teach our kids that this place that we look through is called kulāiwi. A literal translation of that means here rest the bones of our ancestors. That our ‘āina is only abundant and fruitful and able to produce crops because of the bones that nourish the soil beneath our feet. And by what we do, the actions that we do, we can save so much, to our children, we can teach them so much, but it’s our actions that speak the loudest. As I sit before my students and teach them, about aloha ‘āina, the pilina, the bond, the relationship and the connection that we as people have to this ‘āina, I have a responsibility to be here and speak on their behalf and be there advocates so that they may learn the traditions and customs and values of our people moving into the future. To make sure that the almighty dollar is not the first thing on people’s mind. That budgets and expenses are not the most important priority. I’ve dedicated my life to education, and even if I teach not one more day after today, I will always have students, I will always have haumāna that look upon me to see what I do in the community, to make sure that I validate what I need and speak on their behalf for the future generations. Mahalo.

27. Sunny Craig: By a show of hand, who are the public servants here, or work on behalf of the government here in attendance tonight? Then this question is directed to you guys. I’ve come to the previous meetings and the majority of people want to keep the beach access parking. Why do we not have a plan for that up on the walls? This seems really simple to me. You guys have jobs because I pay tax dollars. Where’s my voice going to be heard? So that brings me to the next question. So from our public servants, what I’d like to know, how do I have a voice legally or politically if the people here that want to stop that can have a voice, other than a meeting where our voice is obviously not heard. So by a show of hands, and I’d love to hear the answer from again our public servants. And we know you guys have a hard job, and I respect that, it’s not an easy question. Who wants to keep the beach access parking by a show of hands? I’d say it’s at least 60, 65%, so I’d love to hear an answer to the question, I’m sure the other 65% of the people would love to hear it as well. Aloha to everybody, and thanks for showing up. Please let your friends know‐‐and for the people who share your views‐‐to show up to the next meeting. I look forward to the plans in the future for keeping beach parking. Aloha.

28. Leilani Josselin: I just want to mahalo all the young ones coming out, because he knows I’ve been coming to these since I was a small little girl. And I’m very passionate and I always try to get across something that I want to say, but when I see Kahanu standing up here and them putting their phones down and actually listening to her talking, that’s why I want to see this. That’s why more of us young people need to get out here because they look at me and they’re like, this crazy hapa girl coming here and I get all passionate about it…. I just want to mahalo you guys for coming out. Drew, the other boy that came up, mahalo because you guys know I’ve been doing this since I was a small girl and it gets tiring when its only you. The second thing is, I was asked by many people to put in my papers to be a part of the board for this thing, and I still don’t know who exactly was on the board to make us this plan, because I know there was a huge process about, you had to answer some questions, file it in and people chose who was on top the board, and they tried to get a lot of community people to do it who would be awesome people to hear things from, but they work, they have other things they have to do, and they can’t really dedicate the time to something like that. So I’m kind of wondering who’s exactly on the board, and was it all business people? Because those are probably the people who went and filled out the paperwork, and I won’t drop any names, but you know, they have kayaks up the river and all kinds of stuff, and are very vocal also. So that’s my other thing. Can we get that answered? The other thing is, we’ve all been talking about water runoff, water quality. Hanalei is one of the dirtiest places. I’ve seen kids, Waipā summer program, impetigo, I had other kids with huge boils swelling out of their legs, I’ve seen other people with MERSA and all kinds of crazy diseases coming from Hanalei River. And then we have these permit processes where we have houses, like the one right across the bridge here, underwater every single high tide. Then you also have other houses like dropping down into Hanalei, Coldwell Bankers selling a beautiful house right before the closing of the gates when it floods down here. How that guy got the permits to build that house, I wonder. And how there’s nobody even living in there, but Coldwell


Bankers has a permit to build a huge, million dollar house right on the ridge which we’re all fighting to preserve. So those are the kinds of things, they don’t line up really. We’re all here, kū‘ē about this, but then those other things just happen under our toes and come back, and all are a part of the big picture, but often times that how, small divide and conquers is usually everyone’s method. And then paving. That’s all I wanted to make sure because I see a lot of paving area, and I just want to make sure there’s some kind of idea to that. I see there’s a swale by the boat ramp. Be careful about putting little islands of trees in the swale because that’s going to jack up the area for guys with trailers, and weird turnarounds when you got a 25‐foot trailer, it gets a little tricky, with an extension going into the water. I’m sure someone who doesn’t drive trailer probably planned that one out. So just think about those things. Thank you.

29. Jody Kono: I only found out about this meeting about a half‐an‐hour ago. I’m not a Kaua‘i girl, I’m a Big Island, O‘ahu, Maui. I saw this happen on Maui already. It’s painful. I’ve been here for 2 years. This place has changed so much in those 2 years. And what I loved about it when I got here was, it reminded me of my childhood on the Big Island. Now, what’s being taken away, it’s being taken away from our children. Our children can’t fish the way they used to fish on Maui. They can’t do the things that they grew up‐‐that we grew up‐‐doing. That I raised them doing. But now with all of this cement and parking lots and gates that we can’t access the beach after a certain time because it’s dangerous. Who’s bringing that danger? It’s not the local people. We were here. We never had this problem. That’s what I want you to look at. Go back to Maui, see what happened. See what’s there now. The people that have come, they don’t want to be there now. They say it’s too commercial. Well, I wonder how it got that way? So, Kaua‘i has been powerful, being able to hold back all these years. And that’s what I look towards. When I was in L.A, you guys were on the front page of the L.A. Times when you stopped the ferry, and it was like, wow, how powerful is that? How powerful is that as a people? When I came here, I was like….this isn’t going to happen here because the people of this land are too strong for this to happen. And I’ve watched it in the last year, where I don’t even want to go to the beach anymore because I can’t be there without smelling sunscreen being sprayed all over in the air and I’m breathing. So it’s changing our lifestyles. It’s changing what people have come here for, and now it’s being taken away, and they’ll leave. And what’s going to be left for the people here, for the people that have been born and raised here? I know you know this. Go to Maui and see what happened. Is that what you want here? That’s all I have to say.

30. Aukai Lee: I sit on the Community Advisory Council. There’s a lot of questions that everybody has. We’ve been involved in this process with the County and the planners from the beginning. There’s a couple of things everybody needs to understand. Through Executive Order, that section of beach where everybody parks now is under the County’s jurisdiction. If the County wants to, they could try and pass some rules and laws with the County Council‐‐and I may not be 100% correct on this so take it with a grain of salt—and they can allow for beach parking. You gotta understand that there are forces in our community that do not want this to happen. They’re using the existing laws in the State of Hawai‘i and nobody wants to take the responsibility if somebody gets hurt on the beach, with the existing laws as they stand. But if the County wants to, they can allow it. So this is very important, I’ve been trying to talk to everybody that I see in the community, that if this is the community you want, if you want to park on the beach, you’re going to have to get involved in this process. You’re going to have to pressure the councilmembers. You’re going to have to get active. If this is what’s really important for you, this is the time to stand up and make your voice heard because if you complain about this later, this is what’s going to happen. And I’ve been fighting. My role on the council is just as a surfer. I’m not from this community. I’m not even going to tell you how long I’ve been up here because it doesn’t matter. I’m from the other side of the island. I can tell you, everybody knows it changes. And you just gotta grasp the reality that there’s just going to be more people, so we gotta figure out how we’re gonna channel all those people so they can use the area but yet try and maintain the sense of community that we have. I’m telling you, if you want to remain on the beach like we are now, there’s gonna have to be compromises, but it can be done. Don’t just tell them I want to do this and I want to do that. You gotta put pressure on the councilmembers, you gotta put pressure on the County and tell them this is what


you want to see done. They want to see that this is what you guys want. But I’m telling you, there are forces out there that are using the existing laws that the State has for beach use, and they’re saying no way, we’re not going to have it and we’re not going to allow it. The authorities don’t want to deal with this because this is unprecedented. In the State of Hawai‘i, you’re not supposed to be on the beach, but we can do it here in this community. That beach use and the way we’ve been using it all these years is what makes us a community so you better stand up and fight for this because it’s just going to get pushed to the side, they’re going to use the existing laws as an excuse, and they’re going to block that beach off. So that’s what’s going on, and that’s what I’m trying to fight for, and why they don’t really want to deal with this whole thing because it’s very much a gray area, and when you have gray areas and people get hurt and there’s liability, the County’s going to end up having to pay. So try and get involved and try to make it palpable for the County to allow us to go down to the beach. And use it in a responsible way because right now it’s kind of out of control. Everybody’s gonna have to compromise. That’s all I got to say.

31. Louise Sausen: You have 134 parking spaces and 80‐plus overflow, so 200‐something. 158 spaces and 80 overflow. Only 14 boat trailers. We need more boat trailer parking spots. And, what happens when there’s more than 210 cars? Where are they going to park? They’re going to park on the street? Because that’s where they’re parking now. Also, what’s going on here‐‐everybody, there’s also a Ke‘e meeting‐‐because what’s going on here is going on there. I really think the decal thing would work for 24/7 residents because then at least we have the right to go to beach that we like to go to. It’s hard for us to go to Ke‘e and take our kids to swim, there’s not much places we can take our kids anymore. Lumaha‘i is one spot where we can pull up with the kids. The other one is Ke‘e only because, when my son was working down there, he was confused, how come there’s no local people come to that beach? Because we can’t park down there. Just yesterday, we had a friend, she came and she was going to take her children to the beach. She was telling the kids, there’s no parking down there, I told her, just pull straight ahead at the lifeguard stand because we need to have right to our access. What happens when we go to the heiau? What happens when Hōkūle‘a comes in? What happens when we need to access the beach? You going to put down how much parking and stuff, I don’t think that’s not enough because we have thousands and thousands of people that come out every day. And they don’t mind parking and getting a ticket because it’s worth them to pay $38 on the ticket and be able to experience what they experience. So you’re going to make $25 from every single resident that drives a car, not the ones that fake kind. So that’s money. We’re generating money for you guys. That’s one way. The understanding that everybody else needs to park where they need to park, there’s a side parking. I want to go buy boots. They can call me up and I’ll unboot you for $250 dollars. That’ll be my new job.

32. Kyra Maka: We are from Hā‘ena, many generations, don’t even ask me how much. We just ask that you keep the kids in mind when making a plan. We want them to experience Hanalei like we did. To me, the plan is really confusing because I don’t have any alternatives. It seems like it’s just going to be another tourist trap. Make the rich richer. I just think we should keep Hanalei Hanalei.

33. Dennis Hannah: I’ve been coming here for 25 years or more. Since December, my wife and I live here. I want to answer the gentleman’s question, how that plan could not show the public access on the beach. Because I never would have thought of the plan 25 years ago or 2 years ago. Two years ago was the first meeting, but 3 years ago that occurring. The simple fact and the answer to the question is, laws control the lesser man, right content controls the greater one, and nothing controls politicians. That also answers or directs the statement to the fellow who says, oh the State is against this, there’s these powers out there somewhere, the county owns the land but the State‐‐I take that to be Honolulu or something‐‐is really against it and liability. Again I’m an outsider, but I’ve been coming here for 25 year or so, and I don’t know of any problem on the beach parking where someone was hurt or there was some liability. But if you’re going to balance the liability what happens on the public beach parking at Black Pot for some of the other liability on this island, I would say its de minimis, which is a legal way of saying minimal or non‐existent. I want to say one more thing, which is, I’m not an optimist, I’m not a pessimist, I like to think of myself as a realistic. As a person who participates in CORE, last Saturday, there was a CORE activity at Black Pot, which it always occurs at, and it also coincided with a canoeing


regatta. Coming down at 8:00 in the morning, I couldn’t believe cars were parked everywhere, as the lady said, on the street, all the way up to almost the Pavilion, but it didn’t have anything to do with CORE. There were so many cars on the beach at CORE, we had cones out, and the firemen asked kindly, could you please move your cars. Everything functioned because people talked to each other, and we didn’t call the Mayor, we didn’t call the police, we didn’t call the fire department, we didn’t call Honolulu or the Governor. We just asked people, look, we need to get in here for the paratransit to drop off people who have conditions who can’t access the beach from the parking lot or from even the corner. I think this whole issue about liability is at best a straw person. Thank you, and I hope I’m wrong that some plan does show, and more importantly, we continue to use the beach access. Thank you. Mahalo.

34. Kaipo‘i Pa: I just want to say how much Hanalei Pier and Black Pot means to me and my family for generations. Taking away stuff like this to us means a lot to us, we take it into consideration to our hearts. We bring our keikis over there, we go fishing, surfing, I was born and raised right here, Wai‘oli river mouth. Taking away something like that would be rough to us and tough. We spread my grandpa’s ashes right there at the end of the pier. The pier is not just a place to hang out for me, it’s like a sanctuary place to my family. It’s not just us looking at it, it’s my grandpa, Uncle Bobo guys, Sam Pa, looking over us, watching over everything that everybody does. So I hope the voice of the people is not just a word to ignore. Hopefully you take it into your hearts and think of us too.

The open forum was completed at around 7:00 pm, after all meeting attendees who wished to speak had done so. Johanna Ventura took a few minute to introduce her own thoughts (these comments have been recorded nearly verbatim to maintain the accuracy and authenticity of the statements).

Johanna Ventura: For those of you who know me, I very rarely voice an opinion at a meeting that I am helping to host or to run and that is because I think that it is important that my voice not be heard, but that your voice be heard. That is one of my mantras, that the community must always be heard. I did not bid on this project. I was asked to come in after the person that Scott had worked with to do the bid pulled out. And I knew from the very first conversation that the central issue on the community’s mind was going to be parking on the beach. It was pretty amazing to me to learn through participating with this project how little was really understood in terms of the laws, etc. about the special situation that we have at Black Pot Park. In fact, we have learned a lot just through trying to answer people’s questions. Some of what Aukai said, is in fact as I understand it, correct. I would like to clarify that the comments I’m about to offer are not on behalf of the project team or the County, they’re on my own behalf as a resident of this community and a participant in this project. We did learn that there is perhaps a special situation at Black Pot that may not exist in very many other places in these islands, because of the Executive Order. It is my opinion that the State probably executive ordered the beach in that location because they didn’t want to have to deal with enforcing the beach parking issue. What I’ve been trying to communicate to those that I talk with is that this master plan project, the intent of it and focus of it is on infrastructure that is intended to address how Black Pot Park will integrate the parcels of land the County has acquired and the County hopes to acquire. Because this plan is about infrastructure, it is not focused on the issue of parking on the beach because the beach is not infrastructure. You cannot stripe the beach, you cannot fix the road on the beach, and the project consultant and his team have their own opinions about the appropriateness of beach parking. As a resident of this community, I certainly understand how important it is to the lifestyle and how it has been that case for many, many years. I want to suggest to you that, as Aukai suggested, perhaps you should fight for it, if indeed in your heart you want to fight for it. I do not believe that this master plan which addresses infrastructure will be able to address that question, because that question is a policy question and it’s also a question of enforcement. I do think that there is the possibility for that question to be raised within the county process, and in fact I’ve been advocating that at the very least, the County be thinking about what sort of process it will do to engage the community about that decision‐making. The County meanwhile has been investigating on its own to address its own issues of legality, liability, etc. and I’m not going to speak to those because I don’t have much knowledge about them and I’m not authorized to do so. But going back to what Aukai suggested, if you feel like this is something you want to press for, I would suggest that you press for a process that can address this issue specifically. I also want to say, however, that I’ve been participating with this process for about a year, and I think that among those who value parking on the beach, there is a

Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan COMMUNITY MEETING 2 | July 19, 2016 of 18 perception that the value of holding it dear is shared wildly by almost everyone in the community. In talking with people, it is my conclusion that it may not necessarily be the case. There are many people who have come to me and shared that they do value the opportunity to park on the beach when it’s a weekday morning and there’s nobody there, and they pull up, and there’s 10 cars and they’re all taking out their SUPs. But then they look at weekends when it’s a holiday and the lines of cars are 3 deep, and children are running around, and cars are driving fast, and drinking has occurred, and they’re concerned about what’s going to happen because it’s no longer that humble place that it began, and that it very often still is. Very often you can pull up at Black Pot on a weekday and there’s hardly anyone there, but we all know that’s not always the case now. So it does seem that if there’s going to a press to try to hang onto that tradition, that there is also going to have to be some sort of ways to address what is becoming a very dangerous situation. I’d like to suggest that, first, we try to have understanding for the planner and his team, that what they’re trying to accomplish is a task that they bid on, to do a master plan to address infrastructure and how the park would expand to take into the properties that the County has both acquired and is hoping to acquire. Then there’s this other issue which is related—I’m not saying it’s not related—but what I’m suggesting is that there needs to be a different process to focus specifically on the parking on the beach issue. I also want to caution you that that process will probably have to also think about parking elsewhere on the beach because it’s happening in other locations, maybe not the same situation, Black Pot is a very special situation because of that executive order. Scott and I have different opinions, and his team has amassed some information which he can go into a little bit of detail about.

QUESTIONS The remainder of the meeting time was used to respond to questions. Questions and responses are summarized below, while statements are documented nearly verbatim to maintain accuracy and authenticity. Scott Ezer responded to most of the questions, unless otherwise noted.

1. We just heard this project is an infrastructure project. Presently, Black Pot Beach Park is accessible to the beach to drive on. Neither Plan A or B shows that. If this is an infrastructure project, how does it take away access to the beach?

Response: Neither plan shows access to the beach prevented or allowed. It shows the existing roadway that goes between the bathroom and down to the pier, and we have made no value judgement with respect to what happens on the beach. Both alternatives A and B show the road alongside the pier that is used to access to the beach.

2. Is the planning committee predominately from this island, or are they predominately from Lihue, the south side? How many on the planning committee have actually experienced Black Pot Beach?

Response: 100%. Most of the advisory committee are either residents or have some prior affiliation to Hanalei and Black Pot. Their names are on the poster in the back of the room. They’re your neighbors, they’re your friends, they’re people from this community.

3. Was the property that was just recently acquired, has it been done by eminent domain? How were the properties acquired by the County?

Response: The County acquired the properties in various ways, including eminent domain. Some property was purchased from the Sheehan family. The former Hodge property was condemned. The beachfront was given to the County by the State via a legal vehicle called an Executive Order. Almost everywhere else in the entire state, the State owns everything makai of the vegetation line (high‐water mark). At Black Pot, the State has given up that jurisdiction and granted the County authority; the County doesn’t own the land but they have the ability to use the land. The County will eventually acquire land on the riverfront through Executive Order.

4. What is the total cost of this project, including development?

Response: Cost estimates for development and construction will be prepared after a preferred plan is identified. There are no ballpark figures available at this time.

Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan COMMUNITY MEETING 2 | July 19, 2016 of 18 5. Who’s paying for the development?

Response: The County will be responsible for costs related to developing the new park.

6. I was on the committee. Don’t we have to change the law that you can’t park on the beach to allow for parking on the beach. If I’m hearing this correctly from Sam and Johanna, there’s a loophole in this law because of this strange Executive Order that actually gave the County the beach. I don’t know of anywhere else in the whole state where this has happened. How does the law come into play because the State has given the beachfront to the County?

Response: Ordinarily, if the beach is owned by the State (like in almost all other situations), the beach is governed by State rules, and Department of Land and Natural Resources DOCARE would be responsible for enforcing those rules. The State/DLNR has rules that don’t allow driving on the beach, but those rules are not in play at Black Pot because the State has given up jurisdiction of that area to the County. There’s some question about whether or not driving and parking on the beach that is owned by the County is allowable, because there’s a County law that says you can’t drive in a public park, and the State gave the beach to the County for park use. This is an issue that the County is currently trying to understand and work through.

7. Alternative A has a path through the makai part of the park and 2 rows of parking up front, while Alternative B has no path and only 1 row of parking. What’s the difference in the 2 plans? Do you have to have an ADA‐accessible path because there are more parking stalls included in that option? I don’t want to see a path through the park.

Response: The difference in the 2 alternatives is only meant to provide contrast between the choices. We want to know what you like and what you dislike. There may be some things about Alternative A that you like, and some things in Alternative B that you like.

8. I have concerns about the makai pathway because of what happened with the bike path on the east side, because of how they were able to acquire some areas and put the path over some sacred sites. I know there’s something going on here, and I’m trying to get at it. What is it? You said infrastructure cannot be built on sand, but Waialua Beach has 8‐foot augers anchoring platforms in the sand even with all the wahi pana of the area and iwi there. How do you put showers right on the shoreline setback line and put bathrooms 15‐20 feet from the shoreline setback area? Who’s indicating the shoreline setback area?

Response: The County of Kaua‘i may have the most stringent shoreline setback rules of any of the counties in the state, in terms of how many feet you have to offset from where the shoreline is determined. A Kaua‘i engineer went out and surveyed the shoreline a few months ago. It was important to know where the shoreline was so any proposed structures would be mauka of the setback line. Before any construction is done, the master plan will have to go through a Special Management Area (SMA) Use Permit process. DPR will be required to submit an application for an SMA permit to the Planning Department and prepare a Chapter 343, HRS environmental assessment (EA), which will include an archaeological inventory survey. The EA/SMA permit application will also include a public process.

9. How will the preferred plan be picked? Can you explain the process for how the final product will be determined?

Response: Comments on the alternatives are being accepted until August 30. There are a number of different ways to send in your comments (e.g., questionnaire, comment form, on‐line survey, website, email address, postal mail). After the County and the planning team review the comments, an internal preferred plan would be presented to the CAC for feedback and possible revision. Following DPR review, the plan would then be presented at a 3rd community meeting.

10. What’s the ETA on the land that’s not acquired yet, or is in the process of being acquired?

RESPONSE: Properties not owned by the County include the riverfront parcel and the Na Molokama Canoe Club. There is no ETA at this time.

Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan COMMUNITY MEETING 2 | July 19, 2016 of 18 11. Can you just add a note on both alternatives next to the pier that indicates vehicular beach access? Then

we’d all be happy.

Response: Thank you for your comment. This was mentioned during the Open Forum session.

12. The river mouth is blocked most of the time and boats can’t get in and out of the river, so they back up next to the point to launch. What will happen to the fishermen? Will they be allowed to continue to drive their trailers onto the beach and launch from the beach? The river mouth used to be cleared regularly.

Response: The condition of the river mouth has been raised in previous meetings. Maintenance of streams and rivers, including clearing, is regulated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). In many circumstances, the USACE issues a nationwide or general permit, which allows blanket authorization to conduct certain activities, like stream maintenance. The difference is that the Hanalei River is classified as an American Heritage River, and USACE blanket permits are not allowed on American Heritage Rivers. The County would need a separate approval from USACE to do maintenance work on the rivermouth.

13. You can’t control the river. Some days you can’t go out there, you gotta go out at ‘Anini. All the fishermen know that. You can’t control it. When you try to control it, you mess up the reef, you mess up other parts of the ecosystem. You guys don’t got jurisdiction. Educate yourself on Hawaiian rights and the illegal overthrew you’ll know you guys have no jurisdiction around here. Don’t worry about losing your house. Educate yourself on kanaka rights. People been raped. Everybody like get quiet, but that’s what’s really going on. There’s an illegal occupation here. You talk about jurisdiction, our Hawaiians, why don’t you guys talk about your rights as Hawaiians, your rights to jurisdiction. That’s not one American river, it’s a Hawaiian river, not an American river. There’s a tree that federally protected by my house at Kīlauea School, it’s not even a native tree but because its 100 years old its federally protected but our heiau and fishponds and everything else is ran over. And our kūpuna iwi, it’s all run over. They’re over 1,000 years old some of them, and they’re protecting trees and calling one river one American river. You better educate yourself because there’s a push to take back the rights for the Hawaiians. If anybody that get the blood and is not educating themselves is selling themselves short because your brothers and sisters around this nation is ready to die to get back what is theirs. So all these people with houses over here, you scared of losing your property or your Toyota or your Iphone, there’s a bigger picture going on. People are struggling, people are houseless, people are hurting, mostly native people. All of us need to realize the truth about history because the history we’ve been taught at school is bull‐oney. So go out and educate yourself and start backing up these Hawaiians. All this jurisdiction talk is bull‐oney, you have no jurisdiction. I’m lucky. I’m only one haole but I educated myself on the rights of Hawaiians and the history of Hawaiians. Everybody should. Empower yourselves in education. I might not have graduated from high school but I educated myself. Get out and educate yourselves on your rights, especially if you get kanaka blood. Educate yourselves on your rights, you guys are losing your rights by the day and they’re just walking away with it. They don’t have jurisdiction to do anything. Sometimes I no like talk about it because I’m haole, but I’m ready to die for Hawaiians. I’m not scared to speak the truth. I look at all the Hawaiians around here with your heads down because you guys not educating yourselves. You’re living in fear of losing little tiny things.

14. What is the executive order number? I’d like to see the executive order granted to the County, and give consideration to the comments about crown lands and Native Hawaiian jurisdictional concerns.

Response: The executive order number is listed on the project boundaries map (see handout). Executive orders are signed by the state governor to carry the force of law. We are taking our direction from the executive order, which grants the County the right to use the beach.

15. The State gave the land up because they didn’t want to handle the liability from the boating issue. We are an occupied nation. If we gave you guys the right to handle that area, why aren’t you guys facilitating to help us keep that parking in the front? You heard everything we said. We have to always constantly fight the government for what we need. I’m tired of that, I’ve been fighting all this time. We have senators, we have mayors, we have everybody here. Why can’t you guys help us give us what we want?


What our voices said, then put it in your plans. How many damn, F‐in years I’ve been coming, listening to the kūpuna that all died, because, we’re not being heard. That’s what is being said. So why can’t you guys help us get this facilitated? It’s hard for us to find the avenues. We’re behind you guys. So you got an executive order, now you got to show us how we gonna push through. And the roadway that you have going to the pier, that’s the old roadway. There’s no access going to the pier. How are we going to access the parking on the beach? There’s Hawaiians here, think about what they think. Everything that you’re selling, you come over here to see, we fought so hard to keep what you see today. Now my question, can you help us to facilitate to fit the executive order into the plan so we don’t have to be running around and chasing whatever.

16. The consensus is that everybody wants beach access. That aside, why can’t we focus on the important things—the little things—before we get to this big thing? What about the trash cans and the bathroom? Millionaires are coming in buying up properties, why can’t they throw in money to take care of our bathrooms and showers? The real need is to fix the little things first‐‐recycling, the showers, the bathrooms are disgusting. At 8 am on a Sunday morning, trash cans were turned over, trash all over the toilets, sinks were filthy, there were no towels. It’s embarrassing to have tourists use those bathrooms. We need maintenance now. I feel for the Hawaiians too. I‘ve been in Hawai‘i since I was 14, and go to the Big Island to feel like I’m in Hawai‘i. I come to these meetings thinking maybe I’ll see some local people that I know.

Lenny Rapozo, DPR Director, responded to this question: The County is waiting to complete the master plan so that the community’s desires are known before investments in new facilities are made. Once the master plan process is complete, the County can implement the plan and improve the facilities. Park maintenance is an on‐going operational concern.

17. Everyone that lives in Hanalei is feeling the impact of people continuously coming. Is the County going to address the multiple impacts being felt on the north shore? You can’t go to the beach because there are too many people.

Johanna reminded the audience that questions should focus on the master plan, which was the topic of the meeting.

18. How much of the infrastructure budget will be allocated to the toilets? Would composting toilets or an environmentally‐friendly wastewater system be considered, if the costs were more than a conventional system? The wastewater system needs to be modified: the toilets back up because people are flushing items that are not supposed to be flushed. Will there be a budget to create jobs in the community for a park monitor position? People may feel guilty about vandalizing the park if they knew Auntie worked hard to keep the beach park clean and was at the park watching them. Wastewater should be the top priority because it impacts everyone. Where we park is secondary.

Response: Alternative wastewater systems will be considered. The existing system was recently installed, and was designed to accommodate a certain load based on the daily usage. The problem with the system is from incorrect usage (people flushing large items like diapers). Decisions about how much to spend on improvements will take place when cost estimates are available, and the Administration can make decisions on line item costs. The Administration will work with the County Council to make decisions about priorities and what should be done first.

19. What is the process that the County would go through to make it legal to park on the beach?

The Mayor responded to this question: This planning process is being used to gather the community’s concerns and pull together the necessary information before the issue is presented to the Council. It’s important for the Administration to have a solid idea of what will be needed for this area and to understand all the issues before going to the Council. By acquiring the additional park lands, the County can finally discuss park improvements and how to use the area for the community.

Councilmember Gary Hooser also provided a response: If the County has the legal ability to allow driving and parking on the beach‐‐which first needs to be confirmed ‐‐then it can be done by an ordinance, either


separate of or together with the plan, and it could be introduced by either the Council or the Administration. However, any plan to legitimize beach parking would most likely require a management plan to address specific concerns (e.g. speeding, noise, safety).

20. The Plan could take years to complete. Can a new bathroom be built before the master plan is done? Why can’t improvements be done incrementally based on what we already agree upon? For example, both alternatives show the location of the makai bathroom in nearly the same location. A new bathroom which fits both alternatives could be built now.

The Mayor responded to this question: We all agree that improvements are needed. Like the Parks Director said, such improvements will follow after the master plan is done. It was a big step for the County to acquire the land. The next step is to move forward and complete the planning process because the master plan allows for a collective approach to address park use and activities. (It’s not just the bathrooms, but also parking, the boat ramp, beach access, access to the river, etc.)

21. Is it possible to keep the beach parking and just add new parking?

Johanna responded to this question: This has already been explained. The alternatives do not specify blocking or providing access to the beach because parking on the beach will be addressed as a policy or enforcement issue of the County, not as an infrastructure issue of the master plan.

22. If and when the plan is implemented, will access to the beach parking be automatically blocked?

The Mayor responded to this question: Part of the master plan process is to see what we’re going to keep, what is going to be enhanced, what is the best location for facilities, and how people will have the best access. No decision about parking on the beach has been made yet. There are no plans to close the parking at this time. Our intent is to keep it status quo‐‐as is‐‐while we’re going through this process. A decision will be made based on the collective results from these sessions.

23. Who will be the archaeologist on this project? I have concerns with previous desecrations associated with certain consultants, and think it should be a Hawaiian archaeologist.

Johanna responded to this question: Whatever plan is selected will have to go through a SMA permit process, which will include an environmental assessment, which the archaeological survey will be a part of. The archaeologist who prepares the archaeological survey will be selected when the County hires the consultant who will prepare the environmental assessment and permit applications. It is too early to know who will be hired; this will be decided as part of the County’s bid process.

24. Will there be an island‐wide vote for residents who were not able to attend this meeting to weigh in on beach parking?

Johanna responded to this question: A separate process at the County Council is expected to specifically address beach parking. If there is a review of the existing county ordinance, this will be played out at the County Council, and there will be an opportunity for the community to participate. The planning team is compiling a list of email addresses if anyone wants to receive communications from the County about future discussions regarding this issue.

25. Why should we trust you when you haven’t followed through on the Hanalei Ridge project, and the bathrooms and the septic all goes into the ocean and kills our reef system when it rains and floods?

Johanna responded to this question: As a resident of the north shore, my position is that you should never trust government. People always have to hold government accountable, which means coming to meetings like this and sitting through stuff so you can wait and have your chance to speak. Always be reading things with your own ideas, and coming to meetings and hearing things with your own ears so you can form your own opinion and do whatever you can.

26. What is the timeframe to complete the plan and get to a point where construction can begin? How will decisions about the final plan be made? Will there be a vote?

Black Pot Beach Park Master Plan COMMUNITY MEETING 2 | July 19, 2016 of 18 Johanna responded to this question: The County is working to understand the legality of the parking

situation at Black Pot. In terms of implementation, construction of new facilities will be subject to funding based on County Council decision and the County’s ability to pay, as well as completing the necessary permitting.

Scott also provided a response: After this meeting, comments are being taken through August 30. We will take some time to review the comments, and have a conversation with DPR to look over the alternatives and decide how to improve the alternatives. An October timeframe is anticipated to meet with the advisory committee and present a draft preferred plan, followed by more conversation with the County, then a community meeting early next year to present what came out of those conversations. Plan recommendations would then be presented to the County Council, tentatively by Spring 2017.

ADJOURNMENT Scott noted that a written record of this meeting will be prepared to ensure that all comments are captured, and that the minutes and materials from this meeting will be posted on the project website. Written records from all meetings held to date have been posted on the project website.

Johanna encouraged meeting attendees to submit their comments or questions to the project email address, to keep informed, .and to keep fighting. The meeting was adjourned at around 8:10 pm.

ATTENDANCE RECORD 1. Juno Ann Apalla 2. Louise Barnfield 3. Dustin Barca 4. Bryon Allen Beaver 5. Friedemann Bender 6. Addison Bolosa 7. Josephine (Joi) Bonaparte 8. Rick Bosch 9. Cheryl Campanale 10. Danielle Candelaria 11. Carol Caspillo 12. Richard Casto 13. Sheila Clancy 14. Charlie Cowden* 15. Claudia Cowden 16. Sunny Craig 17. Dee Crowell 18. Sailor DeCamp 19. Rick Drayton 20. Debra Drayton 21. Benny Ferris 22. Kaui Fu** 23. Jay Furfaro 24. Carrice Gardner 25. Linda Grazier 26. Micco Godinez 27. Nanci Hamar

28. Cheri Hamilton 29. Dennis Hanna 30. Celeste Harvel 31. David Helder 32. Julian Helder 33. Brian Hennessy 34. Hanalei Hermosura* 35. Gary Hooser 36. Carl Imparato** 37. Patty Irons 38. Leilani Josselin 39. Maka‘ala Ka‘aumoana* 40. Jason Kerr 41. Billy Kinney* 42. Jody Kono 43. Gregg Kravitz 44. Aukai Lee* 45. Betsy Lis** 46. Kyra Maka 47. Charlie Martin 48. Chevy Martin 49. Tamra Martin 50. Marion McHenry 51. Robert McHenry 52. Coral Miles 53. Ian Miles 54. Olena Molina

55. Sherri Mudd 56. Drew Nakahara 57. Nadine Nakamura 58. Austin Owen 59. Kaipo‘i Pa 60. Richard Parks 61. Tommy Passerella 62. Vairea Peneku 63. Jeni Prince 64. Jennifer Richmond 65. Fern Rosenstiel 66. Roger Ross 67. Louise Sausen 68. Jason Schaper 69. Patsy Sheehan* 70. Cynthia Simmons 71. Barbara Smith 72. Kaiulani Sodaro* 73. Matt Sodaro 74. J. Streed 75. Liana Thomson 76. Bob Warren 77. Pam Warren 78. Jon Wichman 79. Tom Woods 81/82. Kim and Doug

* Community Advisory Committee member **Focus Group Participant

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4:00 to 5:00pm OPEN HOUSE

5:00 to 5:15pm WELCOME/COUNTY REMARKS

5:15 to 8:15pm OPEN FORUM (2 minutes per speaker)

8:15pm WRAP-UP AND ADJOURN

ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN The purpose of the master plan is to set a vision for the park that will shape facility improvements over the next 20 years. The focus of the plan is physical improvements, or brick-and-mortar projects, that result in new facilities, landscaping or utility system improvements, and park infrastructure.

With aspirations for a park that serves the local community and balances the demands of the various recreational interests drawn to the beach, the County’s goals for the master plan are to:

• Improve management and protection of the resource

• Ensure that investments for park expansion and new facilities are strategic and cost-effective

• Improve the user experience and user safety

• Resolve conflicts among the different recreational interests

OPEN FORUM PROCEDURES• Sign-ups to speak during the open forum session are being taken on a first-come, first-served basis, starting at 4pm, until all slots are filled.

• A time limit of 2 minutes per speaker will be followed to allow for as many speakers as possible.

• Speakers will follow the sign-in sheet order. Speakers will not be taken out of turn.

• Individuals wishing to speak longer than 2 minutes will be allowed only after everyone has a turn to speak once.

• Meeting will close on time. Individuals who do not get a chance to speak will be asked to submit written comments that will be recorded as part of the meeting record.

Talk to the planners and County representatives and ask questions during the open house session. This may help to minimize questions during the open forum, and shows respect for others’ time.

SHARE YOUR COMMENTSTell us what you think about the alternatives. Visit the open house displays, talk to the planners and County officials, and ask questions before you fill out a questionnaire. The displays and the questionnaire are organized by activity and facility type to consider the needs of the different park users.

The alternatives present different options for the location and layout of park improvements. To give input about your preferences:

• Fill out a questionnaire and leave it in the collection box at the front table. (An on-line version of the questionnaire/survey is also posted on the project website).

• Sign up and speak during tonight’s open forum session.

• Visit the project website to review the alternatives and take the on-line survey.

• Send in written comments. Fill out the comment form tonight and leave it in the collection box at the front table, or if you need more time, take it home to complete and return via postal mail, email or the project website. Comments are being accepted until August 30, 2016.

The two alternatives were developed in response to input from the County, the Community Advisory Committee, focus group participants, and the 1st community meeting in November 2015. Following the community’s review of the alternatives, the alternatives will be refined and a single preferred alternative will be identified.

Mahalo for attending this meeting to learn more about the master plan alternatives, and to share your comments on proposed facilities and improvements. Input will be used to identify elements of the master plan.

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WHICH USER GROUP BEST DESCRIBES YOU?(Select up to 3 categories, required) Fisherman (from the beach) Fisherman, boat owner Jetski or catamaran operator Surfer, stand up paddler Kayaker, one-man canoe paddler Canoe club member Commercial user, visitor industry representative Nearby neighbor, landowner Camper Picnicker, swimmer, beach-goer Other:

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A RESIDENT OF KAUA‘I? (OPTIONAL) I am not a resident Moved here less than a year ago Moved here between 1-5 years ago Moved here between 6-10 years ago Moved here between 11-19 years ago Moved here more than 20 years ago Lifelong resident (born and raised on Kaua‘i)

WHAT IS YOUR AGE GROUP? (OPTIONAL) Under 18 18-29 30-49 50-64 65 and older

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ADDRESS (required)

EMAIL (required)

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Please take time to answer the questions below after you have reviewed all the boards and have familiarized yourself with the two plan alternatives. Completed forms should be placed in the collection box at the front table.

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The alternatives present different locations for the bathrooms/showers. Alternative A shows a makai bathroom/showers located away from

the main park entrance/drop-off area, and a mauka bathroom/showers between the boat trailer parking area and the canoe halau.

Alternative B shows a makai bathroom/showers next to the main park entrance/drop-off area, and a mauka bathroom/showers between the

boat trailer parking area and an open lawn. Which locations do you prefer?

Alternative A Alternative B Other, Combination of Alternative A/B (please specify)

Why?

Alternative A shows a large drop-off area at the park entrance, and a smaller drop-off near Weke Ramp. Alternative B shows two drop-off

areas of similar size (one at the park entrance and one near Weke Ramp). Which drop-off configuration do you prefer?

Alternative A Alternative B Other, Combination of Alternative A/B (please specify)

Why?

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SURFING, SUP, CANOES , CATAMA RANS , AND NO N- MOTO RIZED CRAF TSWhich alternative provides better accessibility for surfers, stand up paddlers and others with ocean-going equipment?

A B Other, Combination of Alternative A/B (please specify) Why?

Which drop-off configuration do you prefer? A B Other, Combination of Alternative A/B (please specify) Why?

Should kayaks and small watercraft with trailers use Weke Ramp to launch? YES NO Why?

Which canoe halau location do you prefer? A B Why?

After reviewing the elements proposed in the alternatives, should anything be added to the draft plan to improve the park experience for surfers, stand-up paddlers and others with ocean-going equipment? YES NO If yes, please explain.

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CAMPING FACILITIES, BAT HR OO MS AN D SHOW ERS (co n t ’d)Do you think an additional camping area mauka of Weke Ramp (as shown in Conceptual Plan A) is a good idea? YES NO

Why?

The Department of Parks and Recreation's Park Rules and Regulations allow camping for up to 50 campers per night on Fridays and Saturdays, with one additional night allowed on holiday weekends. When you think about camping at Black Pot, do you think the County should issue more camping permits, less camping permits, or about the same amount as available now?

A lot more

A little more

About the same

A little less

A lot less

After reviewing the elements proposed in the alternatives, should anything be added to the draft plan to improve the park experience for campers? YES NO If yes, please explain.

What would you change about the proposed camping facilities, bathrooms and showers?

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PARKING AND LANDSCAPINGWhich parking layout do you prefer? A B Other, Combination of Alternative A/B (please specify)

Why?

What do you like most about the parking layout?

Alternative A proposes 134 marked parking stalls and 80 overflow parking stalls, in comparison to Alternative B which proposes 158

marked parking stalls and 80 overflow parking stalls. Should the plan provide more parking (like Alternative B) or less parking

(like Alternative A)?

Less than Alternative A

About the same as Alternative A

About the same as Alternative B

More than Alternative B

Other

Would you like to receive email communications from the County about future policy discussions concerning parking on the beach?

YES NO If yes, please give us your email address:

The alternatives propose to remove the ironwood trees along the shoreline because of recent incidents of trees falling on cars, and because

their root systems contribute to beach erosion. What kind of trees would you prefer to replace the ironwoods along the shoreline?

Palms or coconut trees

Canopy trees (possibly kukui, kou, etc.)

No trees

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After reviewing the landscaping and parking elements proposed in the alternatives, what other elements do you think should be added to

the draft plan?

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SU RFING, SU P, CANO ES, CATAM ARANS, AND NO N-M OTO RIZED CRAFTS ( cont ’d)What would you change about the proposed facilities to make the park better for surfers, stand-up paddlers, and others?6. What would you change about the proposed facilities to make the park better for surfers, stand-up paddlers, and others?6.



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BOATS, MOTORIZED WATERCR AF TWhich boat ramp alignment do you prefer? A B Other, combination of Alternative A & B

Why?

Which alternative offers better trailer circulation and trailer parking options?

A B Other, combination of Alternative A/B (please specify)

Why?

After reviewing the elements proposed in the alternatives, should anything be added to the draft plan to improve the park experience for

boaters?

What would you change about the proposed boat ramp and/or trailer facilities?

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PARKING AND LANDSCAP IN G (co n t ’d)What would you change about the proposed boat ramp and/or trailer facilities?7. What would you change about the proposed boat ramp and/or trailer facilities?7.

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Send us your comments. We want to know what you like and dislike about the alternatives, what you think about the location of the proposed facilities, and your suggestions about what to change or add to the plan.

To view the alternatives, visit the project website: http://blackpotplan.com/plan-alternatives/

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