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Section 1-5. How to Use This General Plan. This General Plan is meant to be actively used. It should inform decisions as they are being shaped, not consulted after choices have already been made. When reviewing projects, programs, policies, budgets, or investments, decision -makers should consider the applicable elements of the General Plan in full. The Goals, Policies, and Actions are intended to be read together. No single provision should be interpreted in isolation. The Plan is an integrated framework that balances multiple priorities and reflects islandwide and place -based considerations. In cases where policies point in different directions or where tradeoffs are necessary, decisions should be evaluated for overall consistency with the County's adopted priorities, intended long-term outcomes, and community values. The intent of the Plan as a whole should guide interpretation, rather than by selective reliance on individual provisions. County departments are expected to use the General Plan when developing work programs, preparing budgets, proposing capital projects, updating regulations, and delivering services. Elected officials should consult it when evaluating proposals, setting priorities, and providing policy direction. Members of the public may to look to the Plan to understand how decisions are made and how public investments align with adopted goals. The General Plan is also designed to evolve. Monitoring, reporting, and periodic updates are essential to ensuring that the Plan remains relevant and effective as conditions change over time. Section 1-6. The General Plan Land Use Map. The General Plan Land Use Map is an integral component of this Plan. It provides a broad - brush islandwide graphic representation of the general location and relationship of different land use categories, and reflects the overall growth direction and pattern the County seeks to achieve over the long-term. The Land Use Map is a policy guide. It is intended to express the County's general land use objectives in spatial terms and to identify, at a broad scale, the relative location of residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, conservation, and other land use categories across the island. The Map is not a zoning map. It was not designed to assign a specific land use designation to any individual parcel, and its boundary lines are not intended to be precise or parcel -specific. As a standard of the General Plan, the broad -brush boundaries indicated are graphic expressions of General Plan policies, particularly as they relate to land uses. They are long-range guides to general location, not definitive determinations of any parcel's permitted uses. IV