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From: Peter Matlock <br /> To: LPCtestimonv;WPCtestimonv <br /> Subject: Oppose: Shoreline Setback and SMA <br /> Date: Wednesday, May 31,2023 2:54:49 PM <br /> Aloha Members of the Leeward and Windward Planning Commissions, <br /> Thank you for considering input on several important issues before you. <br /> Please take your time to appropriately consider shoreline setbacks from a long-term <br /> perspective. We have world experts on climate change-induced sea-level rise in the <br /> Pacific within the UH system—contact them. Today's New York Times reports climate <br /> change is making regions of the country uninhabitable, with skyrocketing insurance <br /> costs or inability to purchase insurance at any cost <br /> (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/climate/climate-change-insurance-wildfires. <br /> california.html). Our coastal regions are not exempt. <br /> We need more beach/shoreline protection from sea-level rise and climate <br /> change impacts, not less. <br /> Archaeological remains need protection, especially in the rich Kona region. It is a <br /> conceit to think that prior archaeological methods are still sufficient. We have new <br /> tools, technologies, attitudes and an increasingly critical need to better understand <br /> pre-contact Hawaiian society, agriculture, lifestyles, and culture. Lessons that can <br /> now only be learned from intensive study of rapidly disappearing archaeological <br /> remains are considered critical to understanding sustainable agriculture/societies in a <br /> world of increasing climate change impacts. <br /> We need more archaeological protection, not less. <br /> Thank you for your consideration of these critical issues. <br /> Peter Matlock <br /> Kailua Kona, Hawaii <br />