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Community Planning & Public Outreach
<br /> Post-Disaster Reconstruction Guidelines and Protocols for Maui County.
<br /> EmploymentCoastal Planners is the lead for developing a series of guidelines and protocols to
<br /> facilitate expeditious reconstruction after a major coastal storm while protecting and
<br /> conserving important community cultural and natural coastal resources. Project
<br /> Coastal - involves locally sensitive protocols based on community input through focused
<br /> 117 Loi Pohaku - workshops. A Project Advisory Group representing a cross section of Federal, State
<br /> Wailuku, HI 96793 and County officials, and deliberation of the project's ideas with academics and
<br /> 201 3-current government regulators at the PRiMO Conference and quarterly ORMP meetings.
<br /> Walk Story, Maui Island Plan 2030. Facilitator for a 2-day workshop where 60+
<br /> Cardno TEC, Inc, participants established urban growth boundaries through charettes, interactive
<br /> Honolulu, density and mapping exercises, and delineated growth centers for year 2030.
<br /> • - 2013 Maui Island Plan (MIP), 2030. Jointly-authored coastal, recreation, habitat,
<br /> watershed and natural resource sections of the MIP developing goals, objectives,
<br /> strategies, and benchmarks, plus funding needs to achieve the Island's sustainable
<br /> PlanningMaui County growth to 2030. Collaborated with General Plan Advisory Committee members to
<br /> Department, vet the documents and revise the document to address GPAC member concerns
<br /> 004 00• and needs.
<br /> PubliclnvolvementPlan, Tinian, CNMI. Developed a public involvement plan (PIP)
<br /> CNMI Division of Fish & and sensitivity workshop for the US Marine Corp and Navy. The PIP supported
<br /> Wildlife, Saipan, scoping exercises for a NEPA-based Overseas EIS. The PIP helps engage the
<br /> 00 004 CNMI residents in decision making on live fire training of troops from overseas.
<br /> Issues addressed in the PIP include environmental, coastal, marine, socio-
<br /> economic, cultural,water, public safety,transportation, and shoreline access issues.
<br /> University College College Southern of Hawaii's Ocean Resource Management Plan, HI. Generated public and Native
<br /> � _�_ Hawaiian support and input for new approaches and strategies to manage Hawaii's
<br /> Park coastal resources as a member of the Hawaii Ocean and Coastal Council.
<br /> La..Plata,� Subsequently served as a contributing author in collaboration with 24 other agency
<br /> 02 representatives for the development of a long-range plan to sustain, protect and
<br /> conserve Hawaii's coastal resources. Looking towards traditional resource
<br /> Water nt management paradigms, Hawaiian concepts of ahu' pua'a, were incorporated into
<br /> Research the Legislatively accepted, cross-sector, multi-agency approach to managing
<br /> AlexaFoundation,VA Hawaii's coastal resources for the next five years. Implementation of the plan
<br /> ••• ••• included ongoing, active participation on the ORMP Working Group, reporting on
<br /> progress and milestones achieved, and collaborative projects.
<br /> Community-based Natural Reserve Zoning, CNMI. Lead Consultant to develop
<br /> CRC Reef Researchuser-friendly rules and regulations, and maps that could be easily implemented and
<br /> Townsville, were consistent, for all protected areas in the CNMI. Using laminated maps and
<br /> Queensland, Australimarkers, stakeholders, including community and village leaders, small and large
<br /> 1994 -1995 business interests, fishermen, marine sports operators,tourists and tour companies,
<br /> recreational interests, and members of the public described where and what
<br /> activities they conducted in protected areas. Through one-on-one and community-
<br /> _d upon request based discussions the variety of stakeholder's needs and interests were mapped,
<br /> compiled and analyzed. Created GIS shape files for each protected area based on
<br /> topographic maps, areas of trade-off, and/or mutually beneficial exclusion areas.
<br /> Maps and site descriptions were developed that delineated each protected area in
<br /> various zones including active use, passive use, no take, limited take, restoration,
<br /> and restricted entry. Penalty and use matrixes were also developed to facilitate
<br /> public understanding of permitted and prohibited activities (and their costs) and to
<br /> help enforcement officers determine the correct penalty to assess for violations.
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