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Page 1 of 2 <br /> Caseria, Susan <br /> From: rivaut@netscape.com <br /> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:34 AM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Cc: Ford, Brenda; Pilago, K. Angel; Jacobson, Bob; Hoffmann, Pete; Yagong, Dominic; Naeole, Emily; Yoshimoto, J; <br /> Higa, Stacy; Ikeda, Donald <br /> Subject: SUPPORT COM.176.35/OPPOSE COM.176.40 <br /> May 14, 2007 <br /> <br /> Aloha Chairperson Ford and members of the Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, <br /> I am writing in support of amending Bill 51 as proposed in Communication 176.35 from Brenda Ford. <br /> Specifically, I support: <br /> • raising the requirements in Chapter 27 from the 10-year flood standard to the 100-year flood standazd. <br /> • bringing specific requirements from the County's General Plan, Section 5. Flooding and Natural Hazard, into <br /> Chapter 27, the County's Floodplain Management law <br /> • requiring the creation of an integrated electronic informational database that will accessible to all County <br /> agencies and the general public. <br /> • requiring 30-year old flood maps to be updated and expanded to include not only FEMA flood channels, but <br /> numerous mauka/makai "historic ditches" that only flow intermittently during high rainfall events. <br /> (?Co• SI <br /> xet. 15 20D7 <br /> 5/15/2007 <br /> <br />