2011-07-21 Leeward Exh B - LDS Church

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the wall would divert some of the flow onto the road drainage way – it will probably just have to flow over the sidewalk. But there will be events where, no matter what the Church does, in those extreme events, the water may overtop the wall and it will go into the school property, which is expected because every property owner is obligated to handle their own flood events and our engineer believes that the cut-off ditch may have been designed to a 10 or 50-year storm; so it’s expected that overtopping of the cut-off ditch would occur during extreme events, a 100-year storm and above, and that the parking lot actually does serve as a buffer for those extreme events. So what may have occurred in the flooding of the parking lot may actually have been a designed built-in buffer to accommodate those extreme events. But that recurrence should be substantially reduced by what the Church is doing. So all of these design mitigations would be committed during approval of a drainage plan by the Department of Public Works, which is a condition of approval prior to Plan Approval, and that condition is existing Condition No. 5. Okay, so that is how we are responding to the department’s letter. BEAUDET: Any questions or comments from the Commission? IOKEPA: Mr. Chair, I have a question regarding the traffic mitigation. What’s going to trigger the Church getting someone to control the traffic? Is that an event that’s planned at the church, or -? Just a question TAKEMOTO: Actually, they wouldn’t expect a problem at the access point because most of the events occur, you know, it’s off the peak times – so it’s on Sundays. So the peak, I guess, can be discussed in several ways: The peak in the traffic report is the commuting traffic along the Belt Highway, so the operations of the Church definitely don’t coincide with the peak commuting traffic in the morning and afternoon; the peak of the school, the normal peak, is after school, so starting from, say, 1:30, and the Church does not expect regular activities to occur during that time. There may be a very rare funeral or something like that; but it would be very rare that it would occur on a weekday during that time, particularly because they would try to avoid school traffic as well. But in an unavoidable event where there is coinciding, then either it will be something that can be anticipated so Church official can be there to monitor the traffic and guide it, or if it wasn’t anticipated and somebody sees a problem, I’m sure there will be a response because someone is always there in charge, supervising their activity. Rocky, do you want to add anything more? SNIDER: I think the only thing I would add – I think Roy has done an excellent job describing that – the concern being a concurrent high volume use of the school and the church, again, just there is nothing planned, there is nothing on a regular basis that the Church does that would cause that to happen. All of our regular events take place either on Sundays or in the evenings during the week; so there are no regular Monday-through-Friday midday activities that take place in the church. So the only time that would occur would be if something unexpected, like a funeral, came up. That’s really the only thing I can think of that might ever cause that concurrent high volume use. WHITTEMORE: Mr. Chair, I’ve got a question on the runoff. Where you got your ingress and egress on the site there, there is a lot of drop-off, I notice, and I’m just curious, with your site, how much you are anticipating you are going to handle the catchment or the runoff on site with your drywells versus water that would flow then, I’m assuming, down that easement into the roadway. Because you’ve got a rock wall on the makai boundary, I think it’s going to divert the water down that roadway. Am I wrong? 5 EXHIBIT B