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Commissioners look in the front cover of your Plan, these guiding principles are listed in the front cover, so that we won’t forget because the whole Plan should be able to measure up to these guiding principles; so we wanted them to be there to remind us as we implement the Plan over time – are we following these guiding principles or keeping that standard. And I think with that, Ken Melrose who is the Chairman of the Steering Committee, he is going to provide you with an overview of the policies and actions that were honed down after several years of work. Thank you. MELROSE: Aloha and mahalo for extending your already long day of public service. Thank you for staying with us to be introduced to the Kona Community Development Plan. The Plan is organized in two volumes. The one which you have is Volume I, which contains all the policies and actions, and would be the basis for the adoption as ordinance. Volume II includes the documents that were prepared for the Plan – the housing study, the open space study, the variety of Working Group reports, etc. – all the ideas, the reports out of the charrettes are there. The Plan itself, Volume I, is organized by Chapters: the first being what is Kona, the second defining the vision statement, and the guiding principles that Nancy just discovered, and the fourth Chapter being the one that organizes the goals and objectives of the Plan, and then closes with an implementation Chapter, which Earl will cover as well as Mike, that we felt very strongly that this Plan needed to have a strong action component to it, so it didn’t become just a resource document. Within the Plan there are official maps, there are appendices that are design guidelines for both the new urban areas and the clustered subdivisions in the rural. The Vision statement has guided us all along, as have the guiding principles. So then within the actions and policies, we took the elements of the General Plan, and organized them into eight individual sections as you see here; and they’re all in Chapter 4. From the public comment and the working process that Nancy described, the top three concerns or issues raised related to traffic, local governance and planning. So the Steering Committee and the staff took that input, and started to begin to work on solution statements to the numerous obvious problem statements we have throughout Kona, and created a framework within the Plan that has structured incentives to guidelines, use, transportation and policy decisions toward the desired vision and in the same time respecting existing entitlements. Transportation goal focused around multi-modal transportation, focused also on bus transit routes. The picture chosen here is Kailua Village – the obvious jewel in Kona along our oceanfront where the history is so permanently displayed for a visitor and resident alike. The land use goal was to create a foundation and a framework for concentrating growth within urban areas in North Kona, which would allow us to preserve rural character and significant cultural resources in the process providing housing opportunities and a process for constructively and fairly achieving the best practices in guidelines. This is a shift in land use planning towards smart growth principles and smart growth codes including focus on a sense of community, interaction with nature and focus on the building standards. The 2050 Sustainable Plan the Legislature dealt with this year included sustainability definition in Hawaii as meaning respect EXHIBIT B 3