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Page 43 <br /> Create incentives for landowners to retain and re-establish forest cover in <br /> upland watershed areas with an emphasis on native forest species without further <br /> regulations or fines. <br /> 1.k Amend the landscape standards in Rule or Code (Remove) to require <br /> the use of native plants for screening or landscaping. <br /> Change to: Support local education )n the importance of using native plants for <br /> screening or landscaping. <br /> 1.1 Amend the Code to incentivize (Remove) Replace with Support local <br /> education on the importance of the establishment of threatened and endangered <br /> endemic plant species within their habitable ranges during development approvals. <br /> 1.m Review the Code and consider amendments to encourage site <br /> clustering of development in order to avoid critical environmental areas and <br /> assets. REMOVE <br /> This is more unneeded regulations. This is BIG Island. People do not need to be ontop <br /> of each other. You're promoting too many regulations. <br /> 1.n Develop and establish Open Space Network Overlay on current unoccupied <br /> territory for natural landscape features, such as beaches and dunes, forests, streams, <br /> floodplains, wetlands, estuaries, or recharge areas that have the inherent capacity to <br /> avoid, minimize, or mitigate the impacts of climate change (Remove) <br /> 1.q Develop comprehensive programs and policies and provide resources for enhancing <br /> urban forestry canopy cover in unoccupied areas and without further regulations or fines <br /> for local farmers. <br /> 1.0 Partner with government, private and nonprofit agencies, communities, and other <br /> stakeholders and local farmers to develop a program for the identification and protection <br /> of plant species of special status, including plants significant for cultural practitioners. <br /> Page 44: <br /> 2.7 Partner with government, private and nonprofit agencies, communities, farmers, and <br /> homeowners, and other stakeholders (Remove. Who are these people and what do they <br /> have stake in?) to: <br /> o a) Implement a comprehensive conservation plan that identifies priority <br /> watershed areas for habitat restoration and enhancement without further <br /> regulations or fines on Ioc <br /> o b) Review and designate forest, river corridors, and watershed areas into the <br /> conservation district during State land use boundary comprehensive reviews. <br />