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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. X763 08 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPT TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS REGARDING THEIR PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 10 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE RELATING TO EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROL BY HOLDING COMMUNITY MEETINGS IN THE SIX MOKU LAND DIVISIONS OF HAWAII ISLAND. WHEREAS, flooding can be a natural occurrence from rainfall, but flooding events can be increased in quantity and magnitude by poor land use decisions, inappropriate grubbing, pin- to-pin grading, removal of rain and cloud forest, diversion of water courses, and blockage of water courses with debris; and WHEREAS, the administration of Hawaii County has drafted and presented to the Hawaii County Council a potential amendment to chapter 10 of the Hawaii County Code; and WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works committed more than nine months ago to hold public meetings for public input and has been under a court order to amend chapter 10 for more than three years; and WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works has failed to hold a single public meeting on chapter 10, yet the Department of Public Works submitted an amendment to chapter ] 0; and WHEREAS, multiple severe flooding events have occurred due to watercourse diversion and/or blockage, development, and lack of enforcement of existing sections of chapter 10; now; therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that before the County Council considers the administration's amendment of chapter 10, the Department of Public Works shall hold public meetings in the moku of Hilo, Puna, Ka`u, Kona, Kohala, and Hamakua to obtain public input on community concerns regarding erosion, sedimentation, flooding, and the administration's proposed amendments to chapter 10.