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Heritage Perpetuation & a Place -Based Visitor Industry Objective 12: Preserve traditional subsistence practices and encourage a reciprocity (e.g. bartering) economy as a sustainable complement to Hamakua's resource-based economy. Objective 13: Promote appropriate rural tourism that welcomes guests for an alternate visitor experience. Promote Hawai'i's host culture and Hamakua's heritage, including historic roads and plantation towns, and festivals that celebrate our rich multi -cultural music, art, and agriculture. WHAT HAMAKUA SAID "Waipi'o protected as a cultural kipuka." "Have informational center at the top of Waipi'o Valley." Existing Policies & Plans Challenges CDP Value -Added • Agricultural -Based Commercial Operation . Much of Valley owned by one entity — . Support the development of a protective resource Certification (HRS 205-2(d)(15), future management of land in overlay zone, (Policy 54), • Plan permitting approval for commercial question, . Promote culturally appropriate visitor opportunities projects, . Unmanaged access to Valley presents through cultural values education (Policy 59), • Special Permit Process for non-ag uses on ag resource management challenges, . Develop of the Waipi'o Heritage Center (Policy 60, lands, . Community conflicted on whether 61,); • Heritage Corridor can promote heritage sites Valley should have visitor industry, . Link the Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center to the — Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center, . Tourism related impacts, including proposed Heritage Corridor of the Planning Area • Potential for Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center. trespassing, desecration of sacred (Policy 57, 58, Kokua Actions 26, 27). sites, possible environmental and agricultural impacts, "Educational tours in - Agricultural zoning of land allows for the Valley." agricultural uses, and ag-based commercial operations —stricter zoning would restrict agriculture (e.g., taro). Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 2