2019-02-07 Hearing Transcript - Wailani Development Amend REZ 10-117

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HANNIGAN: Hi. I'm, my name is Steve Hannigan. I live at [stated address] in Sunrise Ridge. I did get, I did get this from Mr. Fuke, but I feel like it's completely inadequate to all of the information that I could have had for the meeting today had the public and the people who within the 300 -foot zone should have probably had a lot more information to be better prepared. I would likeI know you're going to vote today on it, but I would have liked to have had the same information that was presented and be able to respond better to it. Being that we didn't have that, I can say that some of the testimony I've heard, I like. Underground utilities should be absolute. I can't believe we're not, we're not doing that. I am concerned with the road coming down from, I think it's the bypass, the Mohouli Bypass that would come down the side of Sunrise Ridge. It looks like there is only one exit for that road, potentially a bit of a problem there in the case of an emergency. I feel that the lady who mentioned the zones, the sort of zones to be established that would, where the development abuts already existing residential areas, that was a good idea. I like that. In the meantime, I'd like to say that I would have liked to have more time. Thank you. ROHR: Hello, yes, I swear. Don't start my time till—okay, wait a minute. Just wait—let's agree on when you're starting my time. Can you put your hand up when you're doing it? Thank you. I'm Claudia Rohr. November 21st, 2000, a great wall of water washed over this property, took out all the vegetation, clogged the culvert on Komohana, ripped it out. It went down through the subdivision below through somebody's living room, jumped back on over to the next door roadway, took out all the cars that were parked on that, and it all ended up down on, in the soccer fields Downtown. This is before Michael Yee came. This is before Robyn Matsumoto who exempted this project from an environmental review, before she worked here, and before the fellow who is in charge of the environmental management was, had his job. This is a sensitive area of high concern with floodwater. I called the emergency management that the liaison between that, the County and the FEMA program. If you guys make a mistake and approve development that goes against the principles of the FEMA program, out County can lose its FEMA program. I use that program; therefore, I have standing to insist that you do environmental review. It—you cannot exempt a project when they are based on one portion of it. It can't be segregated out. You have to consider the whole project. Not only that, you have to write to various agencies and get, consult with them. You have to call the OEQC and consult with them. There are steps to be taken. You can't produce a letter the day before this hearing and convince you guys who are going to be sued along with the Planning Director, the emergency management person, and Public Works because you didn't do environmental review, where this is a flood water that comes down to Hilo Town. This is not about a local family doing a great project. It's about the families who already live below this project, protecting them. You have an obligation not to lose our FEMA program. Thank you. VICENTE: Good morning, my name is Dwight Vicente. I'm representing the Hawaiian Kingdom. Full disclosure. I don't see all the information that is required to be in there. First of all, the lands here are either Crown or Government lands, and the jurisdiction of the State of EXHIBIT B 21