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GOMES:This is Kilauea Street and Lanikaula Street, and the proposed project site is right here. And basically they're going to wall this development up and put in fill material to bring this level with the road, approximately, Kilauea Street or Avenue. I don't have a map, but I believe the final result would that -, would be that this flood water would go around the building. Right now it's, the limits are this dark solid line on both sides. So by putting in this building, they're saying that it's going to be negligible, it's not going to affect or raise the water level in this area. YUEN:On the makai side or Kanoelehua Avenue side of the building, are they making improvements to carry that water past them, or physically what is going to be on the ground where the water flows there? Is there a parking lot? Is it an empty lot and a building? GOMES:It's going to be a parking lot around, well, parking around the building. There's a building in the center of the development and parking all around the building. YUEN:Now the limits of the floodway on the makai or Kanoelehua side of the property, they go off onto the other property? They're not just on this lot that we're talking about, the floodway? GOMES:Yes. I mean the property is -, ends right here, yeah. And this is the rest of the flood zone. YUEN:Right. And just as a matter so when this letter of map -, what we were talking about, you know, for the people listening in the audience that may no be familiar with it, this condition, the CLOMR, it's called Conditional Letter Of Map Revision. GOMES:Correct. YUEN:Is -, is notice of this given to the adjoining property owners that the owner of this property is seeking a change in the way the flood map is done so that if they have any objections to the plan of how the water is handled, the adjacent property owners have a chance to object or comment? GOMES:No. They have a 90-day appeal period when they get the official Letter of Map Revision. The premise on this type of development is the engineer proposes to build something, he gives FEMA his flood study, and he says I'm trying to propose this and as-built, you know, this is what I intend how the water's going to flow. After it's built, then he has to certify that it was built per his plan and that the effects are going to be what he said it was going to be and there's no changes to the plan. If there is changes to the plan, he's going to have to show how that affects the flood zone, the flood boundaries, the flood height. And at that time, they issue what they call a Letter of Map Revision, that would be an official revision, but however, they have a 90-day appeal period where they issue, where they put a ad in the paper showing that the community may come in and appeal at that time or they may raise questions about the Letter of Map Revision. 7