EDH 2025: 5-Year Action Plan Update, Nov. 2010

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Curb Extensions: A traffic calming measure that extends the sidewalk or curb line into the parking lane, significantly improving pedestrian crossings, enhancing visibility, and reducing the total time pedestrians are in the street. FIRM (Flood Insurance Rate Map): An official map issued by FEMA that identifies special hazard areas and the risk premium zones within a community; generally puts limitations on the types of development and renovations allowed within the identified areas. Form -based Code: A method of regulating development to enable or preserve a specific form or character of a place, by emphasizing the relationship between public and private space. Includes standards for building form and its relationship to the street, pedestrians and vehicles, public gathering spaces, block and neighborhood scale. Usually includes a regulating plan or map, building form guidelines and public space /street standards. Garden: A planned green space, usually outdoors, set aside for display, cultivation, or personal enjoyment of vegetation and other natural features. Gateway: A design element intended to signify the arrival to a specific district such as Downtown Hilo; gateways may incorporate architectural features, signage, landscaping, and street trees in an attempt to welcome, beautify, and inform. Major Attractor: A specific location or event in Downtown Hilo that provides activity, education, and /or entertainment, while grabbing the attention of the community and increasing the number of visitors to the downtown area. Open Space: An area or place that is open and accessible to all citizens, including publically owned lands such as parks, squares, and sidewalks. Parking Structure: A building designed specifically for automobile parking, and which consists of numerous floors or levels on which parking takes place. A parking structure may exist as a stand -alone or multi -use building. Playful City: A city that has committed to creating and maintaining safe and accessible places for children to play. The Playful City USA Program's vision is that a great place to play is within walking distance of every child in America. Place- making: A process that involves a community's residents and capitalizes on that community's sense of place - its character, assets, historical or cultural significance or physical landscape. It also focuses on developing existing potential and looks at ways to improve community design that enhances and creates welcoming public and private spaces that promote health and happiness all while strengthening a sense of community connection. Pocket Park: A small open space area that includes green space that is often maintained by the community EDH 2025: 5 -Year Action Plan Update 3 1 Page