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cultivate a prepared and collaborative lifestyle, and generate momentum around <br /> building resilient people and communities. <br /> • Uphold Public Health. Work in collaboration with stakeholders from the State and <br /> health care sector to enhance public health programs and improve overall health <br /> outcomes including but not limited to establishing permanent air quality stations and <br /> providing mental health care support and services for those impacted by the disaster. <br /> 4. Housing Recovery Support Function <br /> Goals: Increase and provide safe and healthy housing choices to meet the diverse needs of <br /> those impacted and displaced by volcanic activity. <br /> Objectives include: <br /> • Explore Housing Opportunities. Develop a suite of housing choices that are consistent <br /> with existing plans such as the General Plan and the Puna Community Development <br /> Plan and considers studies currently underway such as the Risk and Vulnerability <br /> Assessments, and Multi-Hazard Risk Mitigation Study. Evolve thoughtful policies that <br /> consider, adapt to and mitigate risks, hazards, and climate change. <br /> • Empower to Resolve Situations. As part of the housing choices suite, offer up tools to <br /> self-resolve or access to resources that support a range of options including but not <br /> limited to transitional/temporary rental housing, permanent relocation, transfer <br /> development rights, retrofitting surviving homes, and rebuilding. Housing choices are <br /> subject to change upon completion of data-driven studies and risk analysis of the area. <br /> • Reinforce Case Management. Leverage the case management program to reach <br /> disaster impacted and displaced households, gauge individual circumstances, present <br /> potential housing choices, and understand individual decisions to help guide long-term <br /> planning, design, and construction. <br /> • Create Innovative Housing Options. Design housing options with area risks, potential <br /> hazards, and climate change in mind to ensure housing is safe, secure, functional, and <br /> resilient, with ability to move or withstand future disasters. The goal should be to <br /> create a model communities of eco-living and sustainability that merges concepts of <br /> ahupua'a with pioneering research and proven technologies. <br /> 5. Infrastructure Systems Recovery Support Function <br /> Goal: Build and restore natural and strategic infrastructure that provides important services, <br /> protects communities, promotes prosperity, supports future growth patterns, and encourages <br /> regional infrastructure resiliency. <br /> Objectives include: <br /> • Conduct Damage Assessments. Inspect damage to individual and public infrastructure, <br /> and provide best estimates for restoration as well as alternative investment scenarios <br /> as required by Federal funding programs. <br /> • Promote Resilient Infrastructure. Build or retrofit infrastructure systems to have the <br /> ability to adapt to or withstand a range of extreme weather patterns and hazards, and <br /> considers the impact of future risks, hazards, and climate change. <br /> • Roads Recovery and Development. Prioritize getting lava-locked residents with homes <br /> and farms back to their properties. Accelerate review of lava inundated roads such as <br /> Highway 137, Pohoiki Road and Lighthouse Road; develop a road restoration plan <br /> including timeline for action based on various studies underway, community needs, <br /> governmental permitting and review processes, and feasibility. <br /> Interim Re,c"`'1£r'.X,Strategy RU U t,:2019 <br />