2022-01-20 Leeward Exh B (Item 3 Planning Dept Presentation)

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you earlier. So we are currently in the consultant selection process, procuring a consultant, and the CDP does still have a subcommittee that also includes members of the public, and so we will be working with that group as this particular project unfolds. This is looking at open space but also trail networks and green space networks that can be connected in the Urban Area. Again, I've already mentioned the State TOD infrastructure financing study. We are also embarking and have for the last year or so on a public access inventory update. So we are going through all of our public, the public accesses that we have in the county, looking at the permits that authorize them, the conditions that go along with those, the grant of easement, if one was put in place already, and connecting all of those pieces and making sure that they are accurately entered into their GIS database so that it will be available on our GIS. We are also working on a shoreline setback analysis that looks at erosion rates for our shoreline across the island. Right now we are working on a few very specific sites to do that shoreline analysis, and then it will end up in, we hope, a shoreline setback rule amendment, which you will certainly be hearing about, and as that project unfolds, we will provide additional information as well. We are, the Waimea trails is an ongoing project, and we are trying to identify funding for construction for Waimea trails. The CRC, the County's Cultural Resource Commission, has two subcommittees, Planning and Preservation Plan; the Preservation Plan reviews the status of preservation plans that are in place and works with the agency or the landowner to make sure they get implemented and upkept; the Planning Subcommittee is a new one and one that will be working to help decide on priority projects for the commission for any given year and also look at priority sites for purchase and other things of that nature. As part of, we are working with Research, Department of Research and Development on the climate action plan, and we are running a piece of it, looking at climate vulnerability assessment. So again, that's another presentation we could give in the future, excuse me, to present the findings of that work and further update you from R and D on the climate action plan. Then we have the General Plan update, which I will also let the director speak to in just a moment as well. So some of you may have seen this over the last several years of, sort of the path in which we've taken in putting together the comprehensive review of the General Plan. So we started with affirming goals and looking at all of the community development plans, and it was really a great exercise in confirming how consistent the community development plans are with the General Plan in looking at the goals and objectives overall. Then we went through and understood all of the existing conditions and looked at trends and forecasts. So if we keep going the way we've been going, what will it look like? Some of you may have attended some of our workshops that we had a few years ago in this regard. And then what if we start to change things and do some scenario planning, and then what would it look like if those, if those types of things happen? And then to weigh those trade-offs of different alternatives through the scenario planning process and looking at model alternatives based, comparing existing trends to potentially new alternatives. And then where we are now is really finalizing the phase 4 of the process, which is wrapping up the recommended plan and something that we have been reviewing with this administration and our planning director and will continue to do through this year. And then phase 5 will get us into additional public review of the plan. Then it will come to you for review and recommendation, and then to the County Council. 7 EXHIBIT B