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4.93 Establish a Scenic Resources Protection Program to identify, inventory, and protect <br />areas of significant beauty. The program would include: <br />a) Rate viewsheds and roadway corridors documented in the Scenic Resources <br />Inventory and Mapping Project (June, 2016) <br />b) Develop scenic resource and viewshed corridor maps <br />c) Develop administrative rules to implement Hawai'i County Code section 25- <br />6-60 <br />d) Develop Scenic Corridor Management Plan(s) for specific corridors <br />identified. Scenic Corridor Management Plan(s) should include permit <br />conditions, such as design guidelines, landscaping, screening, or structural <br />setbacks from major thoroughfares and highways, to mitigate any visual <br />impacts from development. <br />e) Prepare Urban Design and Scenic Resource Protection Guidelines <br />f) Staff and Planning Commission Training; <br />g) Set Guidelines for Development Compatibility Standards. [Program] <br />4.94 Develop, maintain, and implement design standards to protect important <br />viewsheds and ensure structural setbacks from major thoroughfares and highways. <br />4.95 Develop Scenic Corridor Management Plans. <br />4.96 Adopt administrative rules to implement Hawai'i County Code for Scenic Corridors. <br />4.97 Perform a feasibility study on developing a scenic route from Waipi'o Valley <br />Lookout extending mauka to connect Mud Lane at the entrance of Waimea and a <br />scenic park with a viewing area of Hi'ilawe Falls. <br />4.98 Coordinate with the State to upgrade the viewing site from the rim of Pololu Valley. <br />AGENCY ACTION <br />4.99 Encourage the State to develop and maintain scenic lookouts along highways <br />where appropriate to ensure ocean, mountain, pastoral, and waterfall views are <br />preserved from development, and coordinate a regular roadway vegetation <br />maintenance program. <br />4.100 Consider adding/improving viewing locations and interpretive signage near the <br />scenic bridges for safe parking and views of the areas' waterfalls and coastline and <br />along Saddle Road (Route 200) for views of the summit. <br />Section 4: Community Placemaking 117 <br />