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Community Planning <br /> (Community Engagement, Strategic Planning) <br /> PBR HAWAII has worked with various State and County agencies, private developers and <br /> landowners on projects that involve extensive community engagement to develop community- <br /> based solutions that move beyond planning into sustainable actions. We employ various public <br /> engagement tools, including social media, infographics, stakeholder meetings and one-on-one <br /> interviews, interactive displays, online and paper-based surveys, live polling (using <br /> smartphones or dedicated polling devices), community charrettes and pop-up events, online <br /> document commenting, and ArcGIS StoryMap. <br /> PBR HAWAII's outreach efforts include web-based meetings. Zoom meetings including <br /> breakout rooms and polling are now standard practice. We can also stream meetings online <br /> live for remote participation and digital recordings of the meetings can be posted for post- <br /> event viewing. <br /> For each project, these tools are designed and catered specifically to the audiences our clients <br /> serve or seek to reach. Place-based cultural sustainability is also woven throughout our <br /> practice. Cultural sustainability and respect for individual communities ground our work and <br /> are the foundation of our plans. We seek to find synergies and multi-layered solutions that <br /> support a community's vision for its future and move plans from vision to implementation. <br /> PBR HAWAII strives to follow these guiding principles when engaging with the community. <br /> • Relationships. Acknowledgement that successful agencies and their agents must <br /> establish and maintain meaningful working relationships with communities to achieve <br /> their respective goals and objectives. <br /> • Respect. Respect should be shown and given to the relationship between a community <br /> and the resources and people that they care for by valuing local knowledge. <br /> • Reciprocity. All parties participating in a planning process should consider the benefits <br /> of"giving" as much as they "receive" from their interactions, with the intent of leaving <br /> people and places whole and not wanting. <br /> • Relevance. Acknowledgement that not all communication styles fit all conditions, <br /> locales or practices, especially those governed by natural time and cultural and <br /> environmental conditions. <br /> • Reflexivity, Reflectivity & Responsive(ness). Tailor conversations with the recognition <br /> that changing ecological, social, and economic conditions do not adhere to accounting or <br /> administrative practices that are either fixed or inflexible. <br /> • Reverence rather than Reference. Reverence should be shown for community and <br /> ecological resources and those whose kuleana, responsibility, it is to care for them, <br /> rather than treating either as reference data in the interest of satisfying programmatic <br /> mandates. <br /> "6-7"1-1&PBR <br />