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Page 1 October 5`", 2004 To: The Office Of The County Council/County Council Members Hawaii County Council Committee Planning Commission Re: Proposed Development, University Terrace Project, South Hilo, Hawaii'i From: Mary Brown, R.N. 53 Puuko St. Hilo, Hawaii 96720 808-961-6261 My name is Mazy Brown...I live here in Hilo...%z Mile up Kaumana street from the 76 gas station...makai side. I have lived at this address since November of 2000. I want to go on record as "opposing" the proposed legislative bill requested by the applicant = Western United Life Assurance Company to change the district classification for the 171.504 acres of the land Tax Map Key:2-3-44:19, 2-3-49:53, 2-3-37:1 from Agricultural 1-acre to Project District. (Mauka side of Komohana St.-Ponohawaii St. Intersection & makai of the Mohouli St. Extension, South Hilo. My primary concerns about the proposed University Ten•ace Project are: I .The University Tenace Project is in a well documented flood plain & it also contains wetlands. I obtained the following information from the organization =Environment Hawaii - Their Article titled: "Hazdened Banks, Channelized Streams Climb Ever Upwazds After Hilo Flood" (Volume 12, Number 7 (January 2002) (referring to The November 2000 storm when nearly 28 inches of rain fell in one 24 hour period). When the skies cleared, the damage assessments were: 1. The bay front soccer fields were found to be coated in a petrochemical goo -the residue of a long-defunct cooking gas plant -that the raging waters of Alenaio Stream had unearthed from below a scour basin at the end of its course. The concrete channel in Alenaio Stream itself, on which work was completed just 3 yrs. eazlier, was undercut & scarred, as was the channel on the Waiakea Stream, similarly armored back in the 1980's. Months later, total flood damage was placed at about $70 million dollazs Comm. No. S~• Ref. To: Prssstl~d Ref. Date