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Kalawa, the lower Kona Palisades and then University Village. One of the focuses is that there will be more employment within these urban areas. The pink ones are more commercial in orientation. The blue are focused around more residential, although residential is a component in all. Part of the process of making this happen is we shift this paradigm land uses to create a proactive design review process. This is an expansion of the plan approval process within the Planning Department to create a Kona Design Center. Staff would be carrying forward working with projects to conform with the Community Development Plan and to assist them in a realization when they become consistent with the Plan. In this way the Plan provides for incentives for participation in that Design Center review process, which helps us to realize our desired outcome. Integral in the most of what we’ve talked about just now within the built environment, the open space environment, intergrowth link between culture and the environment, policies here recognize the fundamental relationship of both of these cultural resources and the natural environment. The goal of the cultural resources relates to the multi-ethnic cultures of Kona being preserved. And environmental focus around the natural resources that enhance Kona’s character, and development would be in harmony with that relationship and a networked system of open space. Policy here for cultural and environmental resources includes the development of watershed management plan, which builds on the efforts of the Five (sic) Mountain Alliance creating incentives for watershed preservation; develops a shoreline monitoring program that enhances that of the Department of Health; anchialine pond management plan that enhances the relationship of the Corps of Engineers and the University of Hawaii; plan to help manage storm water in the floodways – we have no perennial stream, so all of our floodways are dry riverbeds; and then to map those flood corridors that would be usable for multi-purposes like recreation. The Plan establishes a Kona Cultural Resources Committee; this is a local group of kupuna that would be involved in helping to further identify the valuable historic sites in Kona. One of the challenges we had, quite honestly – much of the Steering Committee and the public wish that the documentation of known existing environmental and cultural resources would be more clearly and precisely articulated in the Plan – we did find that there is a wide variety of technical consistency for that location; so that there needs to be some follow-on study to create that consistency before they can be accurately located. So there would be a mapping of those resources. Creation of a Kona Treasures Fund – which is really a non-profit organization that could provide a vehicle for tax deductible contributions in this area. Establishing a “Hubs and Links” Open Space Plan as a follow-on study that would create the important -, using this mapping and these committees to deal with an open space plan. The first two actions the Steering Committee took involved one which created a protected shoreline from the Old Airport Park to Kukio, and created a priority to a 1,000-foot shoreline setback in the Districts of North and South Kona for properties that exceeded 1,000 feet in depth, and provided some incentives EXHIBIT B 5