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One suggested Email SUBJECT:  PLEASE Help Save Keauhou Bay from Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resort Development

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bigislandtalk@gmail.com, keauhoubay@ksbe.edu, planning@hawaiicounty.gov, Alex.Roy@HawaiiCounty.gov, 
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Aloha, 

Please help save the birthplace of King Kamehameha III, historical Keauhou Bay from Kamehameha Schools bungalow resort development because they have submitted their EIS draft to develop Keauhou Bay into an overcrowded bungalow resort development for tourists and there are many resorts and vacation rentals already surrounding Keauhou Bay. 

Please stand with 6,490 people who have signed the petition that opposes this development. 

It is scientifically proven developments severely pollute nearby waters. Please read these scientific reports: 

"Coastal development and runoff lead to sedimentation, which directly impacts coral recruitment, growth, mortality, and the ecosystem services that coral reefs provide." https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-020-00200-0#:~:text=Coastal%20development%20and%20runoff%20lead,services%20that%20coral%20reefs%20provide

"Impacts from land-based sources of pollution—including coastal development, deforestation, agricultural runoff, and oil and chemical spills—can impede coral growth and reproduction, disrupt overall ecological function, and cause disease and mortality in sensitive species."  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral-pollution.html#:~:text=Impacts%20from%20land%2Dbased%20sources,and%20mortality%20in%20sensitive%20species

Manta Rays are in this bay every night and they eat zooplankton. "Zooplankton are also affected by levels of pH, heavy metals, calcium, and aluminum. Nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus will affect the prey of zooplankton (like algae, protozoa and bacteria), indirectly affecting zooplankton survival." https://www.marinebio.org/creatures/zooplankton/#:~:text=Zooplankton%20are%20also%20sensitive%20to,light%2C%20and%20increases%20in%20predation.

Please read more scientific reports that prove development kills coral, marine life and devastates nearby waters because Keauhou Bay's ecosystem is in jeopardy https://bigislandsupport.com/kbayinfo/.

Keauhou Bay is listed "Impaired Water" by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and this bay NEEDS to be protected and not polluted even more by Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resort Development and this would go against the US EPA. https://mywaterway.epa.gov/waterbody-report/21HI/HI713293/2020

Their Bungalow Resort development also goes against the Cultural Impact Statement Law https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2020/bills/SB3152_ because Marissa Harman told me they were going to make the Keauhou Canoe club smaller and the club would have to get rid of their OC1 canoes, their one man canoes to make room for their bungalow resort tourists. This goes against the Cultural Impact Statement Law because canoe paddling, training for canoe racing, fishing, net fishing, baptisms, celebration of life services are all cultural practices that are practiced in small historical Keauhou Bay and these practices are protected under the Cultural Impact Statement Law.

Volleyball is also played at Hawai'i state university and many Hawaiian and local kids and local adults play volleyball at Keauhou Bay and have played there for many, many years. This is now a cultural practice and Kamehameha School's wants to take out the volleyball court to make room for their bungalow resort and this is also against the Cultural Impact Statement Law.

This bungalow resort development will add hundreds more people to this very small bay and this will have serious negative effects on ALL these cultural practices that have been in this local bay for years and this development goes against the Cultural Impact Statement Law.

This opposing petition titled, "Save Keauhou Bay From Becoming a Big Crowded Resort" has over 6,498 signatures by Hawaiian people, locals and tourists and We ALL Stand Together and Say NO to Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resort Development in Keauhou Bay.  https://www.change.org/p/save-keauhou-bay-from-becoming-a-big-crowded-resort?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=92a53560-1e91-11e5-b4ef-b94e90cedbdd 

Please Stand with ALL of Us and Help Save Keauhou Bay from Kamehameha Schools Bungalow Resort Development because this historic Bay needs to be preserved and protected.

Please, Mālama ‘Āina.

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Copy and past the same email letter directly to this email link to make sure to directly email Zendo Kern, the Hawai'i Planning Director, because he could be a big deciding factor   https://www.planning.hawaiicounty.gov/Home/Components/StaffDirectory/StaffDirectory/173/1663?sortn=STitle&sortd=asc.

Emailing all the above email addresses different letters often will Help make Saving Keauhou Bay LOUD. You can use this Scientific K Bay Info page for many email letters. Just copy and paste different sections from this page link to easily send many different letters often https://bigislandsupport.com/kbayinfo/.

This page will give you ideas to write your own letters, if like https://bigislandsupport.com/kbayletters/.

Mahalo for your time!