2021-11-18 Leeward Exh A (Public Testimony re Items 1 & 2)

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VITOUSEK: Well, I can hear you very faintly. KAWANO: Hello? DAVENPORT: John, maybe get off your speaker and just go on to regular phone yeah. VITOUSEK: If you're together, he could just sit where you're sitting. DAVENPORT: Oh, okay, John come, you can sit here. Okay, here,just put my headsets on. KAWANO: Good morning, everybody. VITOUSEK: Good morning. KAWANO: Sorry, there's something going on with my phone. My name is John Kawano, I've lived here next to the Metzler of property for 3 generations. I have 3 concerns with this property and like Ms. Davenport said number one (1) is the flood impact, number 2 is the effect on traffic and number 3 is how would this effect our future zoning for Ag? Would this open up a floodgate for other people to just go "hey, I have Ag-5 let's slice this and dice this. So, number 1, let's go with number 1. There is an AEF floodplain running down Mamalahoa Highway. This is the overflow from Lanimaumau Stream. It starts at the Fukuki property, TMK: 6-4-024:016. It egresses onto Mamalahoa Highway, runs down Mamalahoa Highway like Ms. Davenport said. My question is, I want to go on record to request a FEMA impact this property will have on the other properties below the Metzler property. Because I've seen it rain here and I've seen just the egress right now it's encroached on HPM. It's flooded HPM, it's flooded NAPA, it's flooded Ululani Plaza. So, that's my real concern is public safety on this thing. How is it going to impact the rest of the establishments below this project? The floodplain runs past Metzler's property. Are you going to require him to put in sidewalks? If so, are you going to require him to put in drainage to control this flow? And it's going to go 2 ways the floodwater will either egress this property or it'll run from his property and add to the flooding downstream. So, I'm saying a FEMA impact study will be probably in the County's best interest and Mr. Metzler's best interest for liability in the future. And then number 2 if you require Mr. Metzler to put in sidewalks here so, we go into the sidewalk issue. When they did the Waimea improvement with the sidewalks in town there came the American Disability Act. They had to narrow the egress between each opening of the sidewalk. So, ACE Hardware, HPM, Ululani Plaza when cars coming out the other car coming in has no room to come over the sidewalk. They have to climb the sidewalk. So, if you have this Metzler project with these sidewalks traffic is going to stop. It will stop traffic and it's going to be a problem. So that's my second issue is the traffic. How would this affect the traffic? And then, my third issue is how it'll affect zoning? Will this project affect Ag-5's where people going hey Metzler did it, we can cut up our Ag-5 into 2 10,000 square foot lots? So, those are my 3 issues on this project, thank you for your time. I hope they get addressed and that's about it, thank you very much. VITOUSEK: Okay, thank you so much for your testimony. 3 EXHIBIT A