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PROJECT ORGANIZATION: LOCAL CAPACITY AND RESOURCES ■ EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon on March 22, 2004, in a hideaway basement of the Central Christian Church in Downtown Hilo, that a workshop titled "Downtown Hilo - Past, Present and Future" inspired our community. People were busily placing their dots on a map — sharing "what's great, not so great, and our dreams" for Downtown Hilo. Cherie Enns, a professor of Geography at University College of Frazer Valley in British Columbia, led our community through this simple exercise. No one realized that it would blossom into a full blown Community Vision and Living Action Plan. The Friends of Downtown Hilo Steering Committee (Friends) with the guidance of Visioning consultant and long -range Planner, Steven Ames, facilitated the creation of the Community - Based Vision and Living Action Plan by asking the community a series of questions: Where are we now; Where are we going; Where do we want to be; How will we get there; and Are we getting there? The Friends learned that if our Plan was to remain living and not simply sitting on our shelf, the last two questions needed to be answered. With his help, new avenues for community -based planning coalesced around the creation of the EDH 2025 Plan, which became the stimulus for initiating other community planning processes on the Island of Hawaii. The Hawaii County Council adopted EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025: A Community -Based Vision and Living Action Plan (EDH 2025) by Resolution 192 -05 in November, 2005. The EDH 2025 Plan is a comprehensive plan that includes a Community Vision Statement and Six Focus Areas, including Focus Area Vision Statements. It was the Island of HawaiTs first grassroots community planning process since almost 20 years. Each Focus Area contains multiple strategies and actions that are implemented by Lead Solution Partners (LSPs). An LSP is an organization or agency that takes the lead role for achieving an action. Lead partnerships are often shared between a government agency and a community group. ■ Steering Committee Information With the adoption of the Plan, the Friends introduced a new successor committee called the EDH 2025 Vision Keepers. Today, the Vision Keepers with the assistance of the County of Hawaii Planning Department forge and pilot creative grassroots community planning. This committee will serve as the steering committee to help plan and promote the SDAT process. They will also continue to ensure that the results of the SDAT program are incorporated into the broader community involvement process for the EDH 2025 five (5) year action plan update. EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 1 SDAT Application 2009