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the 25 year plan? How do you, you know, determine where the boundaries are that you would allow for development? MORRISON: We are incorporating the 3.2 foot recommendation that the State report put together, and so I don't have it reflecting on this map, but we do have it in our, in our mapping component. And then that doesn't, let's see—the way that we're using that is looking at coastal hazard areas. We don't have a specific policy saying to apply sea level rise and assume any kind of managed retreat from that line or anything like that, but we are incorporating it into this hazard area which will have then the conditions for land use, citing, and design within that area. ONISHL So again, when you're looking at development, you're looking at a long-term project, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 60, maybe even 70 years. Given what a lot of people believe in terms of climate change and sea level rise, this plan may not be incorporating the total impact of sea level rise over the life of a project. So you may be exposing a potential development to that impact, right? Because I mean I know on Oahu, in Waikiki, they're talking about how do they begin to migrate from the coast inland and where inland. Because right now their map shows flooding all the way up to Ala Wai Canal. So, how do you guys look at this? Because this is a guiding factor, right, for future development, but that future development has a long life span. MORRISON: So I, I'd have to get into all of the different policies and the plan that talk about sea level rise, but we—the next part of this process, General Plan lays out a kind of a broad framework and then we get into our codes and our regulations and start to make adjustments to be in line with that broad framework. And so the broad framework is telling us that we need to understand these hazard areas and set appropriate conditions and then when we start to go and look at our codes, and look at our shoreline set back policy, that's the opportunity to have that more defined, I guess, conversation. And we are working in partnership with the rest of the counties right now to understand how to best incorporate sea level rise into these codes and regulations. And so working with City and County certainly, Kauai„ we're all working together with the Climate Commission to really kind of get into the—now we have the maps, we understand our vulnerable areas, but it's not as easy as just saying, "Okay from this line makai we're not gonna have any more developments," it's a little bit more refined than that. So I'm hoping that we continue these conversations with the Climate Commission folks and other counties, and in the meantime, we'll be moving forward with the General Plan and then start doing our code updates so that we can incorporate those kind of best practices about how to include sea level rise as a shoreline setback policy or as if we're trying to do managed retreat, I don't think we're going to get to that level, but I think it could be a shoreline setback policy. ONISHL I guess my concern is that the resort area is very limited in terms of where it is now, and what you're proposing to continue. But something like sea level rise moving forward 40 years from now could change that area significantly inland to eliminate lot of that resort designation. And at this point, there's no, nothing in the plan except I guess where Seaside is that allows for additional resort development. Whether it gets developed or it doesn't get developed, I think how would you go about saying, okay, well we won't approve the, because of hazardous Page 7 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency August 28,2019 Minutes