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mapping. Ms. Piccichio stated she thought all districts should be doing a comprehensive <br />mapping of all the trail fragments to decide which cultural sites should be protected but <br />not used which could be linked to have a public access program and look at it from that <br />perspective. <br />Mr. Kaneshiro stated he's working on a project and was on the internet and looked at <br />Hawaii 2050, which is a visionary type of process that Senator Kokobun started and the <br />State legislature approved. Mr. Kaneshiro stated he hoped this visionary concept would <br />move into all of the CDP's that will be happening on the Big Island. <br />Ms. Piccichio stated the concept of preservation of agricultural land was a lot broader <br />than just protection of agricultural lands; it's a growth management strategy. If you <br />allow unplanned sprawling growth, it bankrupts the local governmental entities that <br />provide infrastructure services. Ms. Piccichio stated the old idea was to keep approving <br />development because it brings in revenue however they can't keep up with the services <br />and infrastructure. Ms. Piccichio stated it raises the question, is this Commission going <br />to be evaluating the concept of important agricultural land or does that fall under the <br />criteria of things that you evaluate? <br />Mr. Kaneshiro stated that agricultural lands are part of this but this Commission had not <br />yet received requests for agricultural lands or protection of watershed areas. This <br />Commission has been mostly concentrating on coastal areas. If you look at the way the <br />law was written, first priority is coastal areas. <br />Ms. Springer stated that when watershed areas or forest areas are mentioned, it's so <br />nebulous that we don't have the specificity to evaluate those recommendations to us. <br />Ms. Piccichio stated the Kona CDP have more people coming out with this issue of <br />remapping the watersheds. There is a big push within the Kona CDP to do watershed <br />corridor protection in the urban areas; they want to keep them as green belt buffers <br />between new urban villages. They want to find ways of protecting those links of <br />drainage areas by moving into this more environmentally progressive way instead of <br />putting concrete channels for flood, to do more natural flow way systems. Ms. Piccichio <br />stated in some places, in urban planning, they are doing this now. <br />Ms. Springer stated while she was on the Planning Commission, they could not deny any <br />application because the community prefers it not be there. There was an important <br />discussion of cumulative affects which then allowed our discussion to say, a subdivision <br />of this size should not raise any flags for us. However when approving them month after <br />month there was a cumulative affect, so, she hoped that any of their discussions take that <br />into account and make some sort of recommendation that the cumulative effects of any <br />individual proposal are taken up as what it represents in the aggregate level; limited to <br />that specific. <br />0 <br />