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schedule. But largely, I think, because of the really dedicated work from the community side, I
<br />think we’ve been able as a team to put together two pretty good Plans. And of course, tonight
<br />we are going to talk a little bit about the North Kohala Plan.
<br />One of the, I think, really critical approaches to the North Kohala Plan that pretty much everyone
<br />agreed to from the outset was, because of the tight timeframe and also because everybody
<br />wanted to see a Plan that had some guts, that had some strength, that had some specifics, that had
<br />some action, we agreed – the planning consultant, the community and your planners agreed –
<br />this has to be a focused and action-oriented Plan. We were not going to try to address every and
<br />all and any issues that everybody may have; we were going to really try to drill down, identify
<br />the most critical issues that the community wanted addressed, and figure out action plans – what
<br />needs to be done.
<br />So I’m sure you’ve all had a chance to look at this Plan, and you see that the community decided
<br />to focus on four priority issue areas; and they are growth management, public access both to
<br />shore areas and to mauka areas, affordable housing, and infrastructure. Now, I’m not going to
<br />try to go into the details of those priorities tonight – that’s clearly what the Plan document is for;
<br />but I would like to point out again in terms of the action – emphasis of this Plan. This Plan is
<br />about 100 pages long. There’s some introductory material, there are some general policies, and
<br />then the action agenda, the action programs, what the community feels can be done, should be
<br />done, and partly with our help as technical planners, the action program begins on Page 26 and it
<br />runs to Page 99; so about ¾ of this Plan is about the action agenda. And we have told people,
<br />yes, the Plan is very, very important, but most important is when the Plan hopefully is approved,
<br />lots of people have got to work together – County people, community people, other agency
<br />people – to move the Plan forward into action that would be helpful to the community. So that’s
<br />the kind of Plan we’ve tried to put together.And I hope that you folks feel it’s a worthwhile
<br />Plan. Thank you.
<br />WATANABE: Thank you. I guess, Fern, it’s your turn then, yeah?
<br />WHITE: Aloha. My name is Fern White. I am the Chairman of the North Kohala
<br />Community Development Plan Steering Committee. My address is 54-2379 Kynnersley Road,
<br />Kohala.
<br />I’d like to address three things on behalf of the Steering Committee. And those three things are
<br />how we engaged the community, and some of our thoughts about the success of the process, and
<br />then finally what we feel in general from the community. So I want to, before I do that, though, I
<br />want to thank the Planning Commission. I think it’s extremely exciting for Kohala to have you
<br />here. I thank all of the members from the Planning Commission, Mr. Chairman, Planning
<br />Director and all of you members for coming out, and the staff from the Planning Department,
<br />mahalo from Kohala for coming out to us.
<br />On the first item on the Steering Committee’s attempt to engage the broadest cross-section of our
<br />community, Allen has talked about the CRP, and that early work that was done by the Logistics
<br />Team. That was absolutely vital for giving us the springboard for our work; and we appreciate,
<br />as Steering Committee members, the work that they did. They also came after the CRP,
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