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Hamakua CDP update for October

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The CDP Team has been hard at work on the booklet of Proposed Strategies Under Consideration.

Within the next few weeks it will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and then discussed at the upcoming Steering Committee Meeting in November.

After the Steering Committee reviews the document and the team makes their final revisions, the booklet will be made available for public review in mid-November.

The purpose of the booklet is to introduce the community to background information and strategies the CDP team has been developing.

The strategies that are being developed are based on the Values and Vision input received from the community at the beginning of the process, information from the Community Profile, additional research done by the planning team, and consultation with residents and stakeholders in the planning area.

The booklet is also intended to prepare the community for an upcoming Regional Workshop, which will be the opportunity for the community to gather and evaluate the proposals in the booklet and tell us what you think

This booklet is not a draft of the community development plan itself, but it demonstrates ideas and strategies that will likely lead to goals, objectives, strategies, actions, and policy recommendations, that may ultimately be written into the plan.

The community should get involved because this is your opportunity to check out the direction the CDP is going and let us know: are we going on the right track? Are the strategies in line with community values and vision? Are there strategies that need “tweaking” to satisfy the community, or to ensure they are feasible? Are we missing something?

Some of the proposed strategies under consideration include:

* Designate the Old Mamalahoa Highway as a new Heritage Corridor

* Preserve the sacredness of Waipio Valley as a natural, cultural, and scenic resource by seeking an official Wahi Pana status for the Valley at either the County, State, or Federal level – including a discussion of the pros and cons of the various designations

* Develop and reinforce a Regional “Flavor” and Hamakua identity through promotion of local agricultural products and entrepreneurial endeavors

* Preserve prime agricultural lands by directing future growth to existing populated areas and Important Agricultural Lands (IAL) designation incentives

* Strengthen and renew the School-Community Relationship through joint resource-use agreements and Farm-to-School Initiatives Implement watershed “management measures” through conservation plans and Town/Village Revitalization plans

Join us at the next Steering Committee Meeting: 5-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 1 (light refreshments will be served) at NHERC (North Hawaii Education & Resource Center), 45-539 Plumeria St., Honokaa

LeAna Gloor of Green Aina
Community Planning Assistant, Hamakua CDP
hamakuacdp@gmail.com

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