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CULTURAL RESOURCES In reviewing the General Plan's Historic Sites Element, it was clear that the Kona CDP needed to embrace a more holistic approach to managing and celebrating Kona's cultural resources. 1. Cultural Landscape. Policies within the Kona CDP stress the strong relationship between cultural resources and the natural environment, and 2. Local Resource Management. There is an urgent need to ensure cultural resource protection very early in the land use planning process. Necessarily, this will involve participation of citizens who have knowledge of these resources and government representatives who have a direct role in the land use planning process itself, including those who are charged with proper implementation and enforcement of laws designed to protect these resources. The following summary are the key components. • Pursue community education initiatives about cultural traditions and resources. • Establish a Kona Cultural Resource advisory committee. • Establish/update inventory of cultural resources, including historic trails. • Increase community interaction with cultural resources. • Encourage the use and protection of mea kanu (native plants). • Promotion of use of traditional place names. • Revise, implement and enforce county policies/laws to protect resources. HOUSING The availability of safe and decent housing for all segments of our community is at the center of what it takes to sustain a healthy community. Access to a range of available housing affords the opportunity for our community to be ethnically, professionally and age diverse. It is the core of a strong, vibrant community. The unusually high cost of housing in Kona makes it critical to employ multiple tools to address the huge need for affordable, employee, farm worker, elderly and other special needs housing. As a framework to focus the efforts to increase a diversity of housing opportunities for Kona's residents, the strategy involves the following: 1. Build Units. -10-