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tsunami's I think part of the reasoning back in the day was that eventually these buildings would fall down if anything else came through,but the reality is the buildings are very strong. They are structurally overbuilt with the type of work that they were doing back in the day so I think these buildings are going to be here for a long time so hopefully something like this helps us to get to a point where we can really make it a very attractive gateway as they put it to the Downtown Hilo area and Bayfront as well. So, I hope that answered your question. AGUINALDO: Yes, it is. Thank you. REPLOGLE: Thank you both. Anything further from fellow Commissioners? GALIMBA: Raised hand. _=— REPLOGLE: Yes, Ms. Galimba? GALIMBA: Thank you Chair. I wanted to than the Yamanaka's, don''t_giggle John. I want to thank them for their history,background, histo background that was-wry interesting and useful. John and I have known each other for a very long timeo it's just funny to be in this very formal situation. I wanted to ask about the property and I think this actually might be more for the Planning Department than for youfolk_s but I wanted to thank you for that information. Besides the tsunami risks obviously wehave p ected sea-level rise and so I wondered about this area in general are there considerations and_standards concerning sea level rise in these kinds of properties? KERN: Zendo Kernhere I'll speak to that. The position that we're in there is a concern for sea level rise around the entire island and I'd say around the entire world. This one is a little bit unique, and I'd say is there concern there? Sure,but because it's been existing and it's there. What this is,is more of a housekeeping effort to get things squared away, straighten out so as they say they can actually make investments unto it =believe that this area as far as anything new goes the tsunami inundation zone basically=far exceeds that and I will let Alex add to that. So, well there is concern around the entire island not a lot of concern with this as its existing and as it's housekeeping and anything new would have to meet tsunami inundation which would kind of take it to a whole another level-that would also basically account for that probably through multiple lifetimes_and generations to come. But Alex has a lot of knowledge around the coastal and sea level rise as well so let him add to that. REPLOGLE: Alex? ROY: Okay, Commissioner I'm going to share my screen I'm going to pull up what's the sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation mapper or Sea Level Rise Exposure Area (SLR-XA). So, hopefully everybody can see so what I've clicked on is approximately one point one(1.1) foot of sea level rise and then exposure area in blue. So you can see the property is actually on a bit of a rise on that corner so even with 1 foot of sea level projected sea level rise the inundation would be very minor along the back end along Wailoa and then even if we go up to 2 feet you see the inundation is still minimal starts to creep in. So, we'd be looking at something that affects almost up at the 3-foot range which you know they're talking could be 100 or 200 years from 9 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)