2015-01-08 Hearing Transcript-Steven Schropshire _SMA 14-058_

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photographs that go back a hundred years. We could look at that cliff face. We simply don’t have them. All we can do, the oldest photos that had enough resolution for me to use in my analysis were dated 1965. Those photos—the best resolution I can see is about 25 feet, but, and there have been no significant changes in that period since 1965--significant enough to exceed that 25-foot limit. However, I suspect for most of that coastline, the changes have been zero. In other words, it could have been as little as zero or as much as 25 feet, but to be more specific to define an erosion rate is not possible. I can talk on and on about this, but I’d really be most comfortable in addressing your specific questions. MIYASATO: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions? Okay, thank you. LOCKWOOD: Okay. MIYASATO: I’ll call up testifiers. Could you please come forward from my right to left? You have, Albert Nakaji, Akiko Matsuda, Ingrid Nishimoto, and Robert Nishimoto. You’ll each have three minutes for your testimony and then you’ll be asked to summarize. Could you all please your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‛i County Planning Commission? NAKAJI: Yes, I do. MATSUDA/I. NISHIMOTO/R. NISHIMOTO: I do. MIYASATO: Okay, could you please state your name and residence? NAKAJI: My name is Albert Nakaji. Distinguished and distinguished looking Director Kanuha, Chairman Miyasato and Members of the Commission, thank you for this opportunity to comment. My written testimony is fairly lengthy, so what I will do is summarize and then certainly be very open to elaboration if you so wish afterwards. The first issue has to do with subsidence and landslides, and I talk about this with great respect for Dr. Lockwood. There was a landside in about the 2004-2000 timeframe at Nīnole which caused about 30 feet about the cliff edge to fall into the ocean. Then, and this property is within a quarter to one half mile from the subject properties. Now, this incident was not reported to the best of my knowledge in any of the media. It was just something that just happened literally in someone’s backyard so there is perhaps no documentation of that. But, about 30 feet of the cliff edge fell into the ocean. As many of you know, also in 1994 at Laupāhoehoe, many feet in front of a home fell off. It took a pigpen, and it left a home hanging literally, hanging over the edge of the cliff when that occurred. 3 EXHIBIT A