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Please Distribute to all Leeward Planning Commissioners as testimony for PL-REZ-2022-033 <br /> homes were hooked up, as required by law. The only reason there is capacity today is <br /> because all current homes are not yet connected. <br /> Rainwater /Landscaping Runoff/Diverting Streams <br /> • Because of the placement of Royal Vistas on the leeward flank of Hualalai's "shield" <br /> configuration, well-defined drainage features are lacking, as noted under the FLOOD <br /> HAZARD section on p3-1 of the Grey Infrastructure Report in the Kona Community <br /> Development Plan. <br /> This will cause additional episodes of flooding and road wash-out as noted in the runoff <br /> and pollution, harming coral reefs and damaging the ocean. <br /> Horseshoe Bend and the Holualoa Stream on the parcels are listed in the second <br /> paragraph of 3.1 .1 , (under the heading North Kona Flood Hazard Analysis,) as one of <br /> the seven intermittent drainage ways studied by the North Kona Flood Plain Management <br /> Study (1984) by the US Soil Conservation Service (presently Natural Resources <br /> Conservation Service. (The developer has already diverted a portion of these.) The Study <br /> proposed among the 6 non-structural and 4 structural alternatives for flood <br /> zone management: <br /> Non-Structural Measures: #2. Establish and maintain appropriate vegetative cover, #3 <br /> Enforce county grading ordinance to reduce erosion and sedimentation. #4, Enforce land <br /> use zoning to restrict future development within flood plain areas. #5 Initiate state/county <br /> tax incentives for keeping flood plain areas in recreational and/or open space use. <br /> Structural: <br /> #1 . Require all new developments to dispose of their runoff on site.#3. Improve road <br /> culverts and bridges to carry larger discharge and provide additional ones where needed. <br /> Noting all of the details in the Study, one must be concerned at the potential for property <br /> loss within the new development as a result of 1) removing huge amounts of vegetative <br /> cover plus 2) eliminating much of the recharge by adding foundations and paving <br /> driveways and roadways of a sufficient width to accomodate the inevitable roadside <br /> parking and traffic passage. Uphill of the developed area is the Queen K/ Kuakini <br /> intersection which could be impacted as well. . <br /> Wild life <br /> • Area is home to, and hunting grounds for, the endangered Pueo and Hoary Bats, <br /> Hawaiian Hawks, the endangered Blackburn's Sphinx Moth and many other forms of <br /> valued permanent and migratory wildlife. <br /> • Birds and animals do not limit their territory to human map lines. Conservation must be <br /> considered on a regional, not individual parcel, basis. <br /> • Only "native" plants are considered important in the developer plans, but all flora in the <br /> area are essential to valued local birds and animals. <br /> 4 <br />