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habitats and how is it defined? I MUST be defined by Hawaii citizen commission and not anyone outside Hawaii. <br />Mainland people should NOT be able to define this.) <br />1.18 Public landscaping and irrigation shall be designed to maximize water use efficiency and native plants. <br />Actions <br />1.b Review tree survey requirements and amend the Code to incorporate as part of site planning for public use. <br />1.h Develop buffer policies to protect native forests, wildlife, rivers, streams, coastal waters, and other native <br />habitats without. This is too vague. What policies are you considering and will that come with penalties? If so, <br />remove this. <br />Page 43 <br />1.i Create incentives for landowners to retain and re-establish forest cover in upland watershed areas with an <br />emphasis on native forest species without further regulations or fines. <br />1.k Amend the landscape standards in Rule or Code (Remove) to require the use of native plants for screening or <br />landscaping. <br />Change to: Support local education on the importance of using native plants for screening or landscaping. <br />1.l Amend the Code to incentivize (Remove) Replace with Support local education on the importance of the <br />establishment of threatened and endangered endemic plant species within their habitable ranges during <br />development approvals. <br />1.m Review the Code and consider amendments to encourage site clustering of development in order to avoid <br />critical environmental areas and assets. REMOVE <br />This is more unneeded regulations. This is BIG Island. People do not need to be ontop of each other. You’re <br />promoting too many regulations. <br />1.n Develop and establish Open Space Network Overlay on current unoccupied territory for natural landscape <br />features, such as beaches and dunes, forests, streams, floodplains, wetlands, estuaries, or recharge areas that <br />have the inherent capacity to avoid, minimize, or mitigate the impacts of climate change (Remove) <br />1.q Develop comprehensive programs and policies and provide resources for enhancing urban forestry canopy <br />cover in unoccupied areas and without further regulations or fines for local farmers. <br />1.u Partner with government, private and nonprofit agencies, communities, and other stakeholders and local <br />farmers to develop a program for the identification and protection of plant species of special status, including <br />plants significant for cultural practitioners. <br />Page 44: <br />2.7 Partner with government, private and nonprofit agencies, communities, farmers, and homeowners, and <br />other stakeholders (Remove. Who are these people and what do they have stake in?) to: <br /> a) Implement a comprehensive conservation plan that identifies priority watershed areas for habitat <br />restoration and enhancement without further regulations or fines on locals. <br /> b) Review and designate forest, river corridors, and watershed areas into the conservation district during <br />State land use boundary comprehensive reviews. <br /> c) Monitor nearshore water quality and impacts to reefs and marine environments and address land- <br />based sources of impacts. <br /> d) Protect and restore wetlands and riparian corridors to ensure more pristine water quality, decrease <br />erosion, and increase sediment management, groundwater infiltration, nutrient/pollutant uptake, soil <br /> <br />