"When corners are cut on environmental reviews, our local communities pay the price."
"I will come back to it later, but part of it is during the assessment, the environmental impact studies, tell us what the impact will be so we can make the adjustments and maintain it."
"It is tough to see all that advancement and then kind of have to see a couple of steps backward that is happening upstream."
"Just to put an exclamation point on that issue, two years ago we saw Hurricane Harvey, 50 inches of rain in one location."
"If you know that global climate change is going to lead to more torrential rainstorms and flooding, as you are describing, then let's do everything that we can at the local level, at the county level,..."
"there is a process that should have been followed."
"If I can summarize, I am thinking of my background in business. It is assessment, it is analysis, and then it is decision-making."
"The metaphor I was going to use is instead of ready, aim, fire, it seems like we did ready, fire, aim."
"Let me pause you for a second just to make sure, this is for me as much as for everyone else here."
"These were decisions, shortcuts that were made, like the county decision to study assessing the likely consequences that might follow."
"So saying that the 500-year flood is now at the level of the 100-year flood, it means that a flood that had a .2 percent probability of occurring in any given year is now five times more likely to occ..."
"The prior assumptions of what is an area with a 100-year flood possibility, a 100-year floodplain, is sort of antiquated at this point."