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From: Council Testimony (counciltestimony~co.hawaii hi us)
To: hawaiicountycouncil~yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, November 2Q ?007 8:10.03 AM
Subject: FW: Comment on Bill 51, Draft 6
From: Charles Flaherty [mailto:oneheart@abha.net]
Sent: Tuesday, M1lnvembrr 20, 2007 1:77 AA1
To: councittestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: 'Ford, Brenda'; 'Hoffmann, Pete'; 'Donakl Ikeda'; jjaco@co.hawaii.hi.us; shiga@co.hawaii.hi.us;
E'naenle@r:o.fiawaii.hi.ua; KAPif Afn@rn.hawaii.hi.u~;'rkiminir Yannnn'; jynshimntn@m.haw~ii.hi.uc
Subject: Comment on Bib 51, Drag 6
Aloha mai Chairman HofTmann and members of the Hawaii County Council,
Well, congratulations...you'vc made the NF1P deadline. But my congratulations stop there because the
Hokuli'a settlement deadline was over one year ago and nothing has been dune to reduce (loud risk in
our county.
An article in Sunday's West Hawaii Today trumpeted Bill 51, Draft 6 as exceeding minimum National
l+loud insurance Program (NFiI') standards. But after Council member lord's incredible effort to
educate this Council and the general public about flood control, 1 hope you understand that article was
nothing more than propaganda. if there were a race between Bill 5 i, Draft G and minimum NFIP
standards, it would be a photo finish.
[ hope this Council realizes that Bill 51, Draft does absolutely nothing to protect the numerous
community members who have tcstitied before this Council about Hreir personal Hooding experiences.
If the 50-foot buffer zone proposed in this bill had been in effect 20-years ago, it still would have not
have prevented these people from {boding. Their irornes lie far outside of the buffer zone. And this bill
does nothing to prevent mare community members from being flooded by future development. Anyone
who says otherwise is simply playing politics at the expense of the public's health, safety, and welfare.
Further, this i>ill d~xs ixrthint; to rain; our ~;~wnty's rnli~it; within Ihu ('u~ritaui~~iiy it,~li~ig tiystciri. tt will
not reduce flood insurance premiums.
1 would Itkc kzu-u~ir~tt lhES (:F~Fit~cil., N1ayoG IarF~, and 11(~.l ~;~t irr~CUt of I'~ddre. VJ ctiks lAu~.ckx tirklCl:
McClure that you have already committed to a .]Dint Council-Administration effort to reduce flood risk,
protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and minimize property damage. I and other members of
the piabli~, cxiwct you to follow-Ihru~iyh with thaC ~;uuunitinr,~~C_.and srwn.
1 also expect certain members of the professional engineering and architech~ral community who have
practical cxpc~iaucc, wil6 [icxxling its uu~ cunumu~iiy k~ conic. Cu:ih with slu.cilic k:gisla(ivc. lauy,:ragc to
correct existing problems caused by inet'Fective government regulation and inappropriate development in
flash flood risk areas.
Malialu,
Charles Flaherty
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