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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br /> EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025, 'Ike is Hilo, is the result of a grassroots visioning <br /> process that inspired a community. Originally guided by the Friends of <br /> Downtown Hilo Steering Committee, community members in Hilo came together <br /> in 2004 to develop a shared vision and an implementation matrix that would <br /> make their vision a reality. The resulting plan, titled EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025: <br /> A Community -Based Vision and Living Action Plan (EDH 2025), was adopted by <br /> Hawaii County Council Resolution 192 -05 in November 2005. <br /> Today, the EDH 2025 Plan continues to serve as a guide for planning in <br /> Downtown Hilo. EDH 2025 contains a long -range Overarching Vision which is <br /> achieved via the implementation of multiple strategies and actions within six (6) <br /> Vision Focus Areas: Creating Economic Vitality; Preserving Our Environment; <br /> Strengthening and Sustaining Our Community; Enhancing Education, Culture, <br /> and the Arts; Promoting Health and Safety; and Managing Growth. <br /> Following the adoption of the Plan, in January 2006 the Friends of Downtown Hilo <br /> introduced a successor implementation committee called the EDH 2025 <br /> VisionKeepers. Since then, the VisionKeepers have worked tirelessly to ensure <br /> that the Plan does not simply 'sit on the shelf' and that key government agencies <br /> and community organizations embrace the Overarching Vision and implement <br /> its strategies. Support from the County of Hawaii Planning Department has been <br /> crucial in assisting the VisionKeepers to `shepherd' the implementation process. <br /> As a model implementation committee for the Island of Hawai `i, the <br /> VisionKeepers documented and shared their challenges, highlights, and lessons <br /> learned in a publication titled, The VisionKeepers' Guide to Implementing Your <br /> Community Plan. <br /> Why conduct a Five - Year Action Plan Update? <br /> A true Living Action Plan evolves with its community. Moreover, since EDH 2025 <br /> represented a new community planning process, there were many lessons <br /> learned about how to clearly communicate strategies and actions. We have <br /> also discovered that implementation is a dynamic process that changes as new <br /> partners work together. Many of these changes feed back into the Action Plan <br /> in a constant loop of new information. <br /> During these last 4+ years, implementers, called "Lead Solution Partners" (as <br /> identified in the EDH 2025 Plan), have provided the needed information to <br /> prepare and enhance this new updated Action Plan Matrix. Their advice and <br /> EDH 2025: 5 -Year Action Plan Update iii 1 Page <br />