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Natural Beauty & Viewshed <br />Objective 1: Protect, restore, and enhance watershed <br />ecosystems, sweeping views, and open spaces from <br />mauka forests to makai shorelines, while assuring <br />responsible public access for recreational, spiritual, <br />cultural, and sustenance practices. <br />"No eucalyptus trees or anything else that <br />WHAT HAMAKUA SAID <br />"Preserve, restore, and <br />enhance sweeping open <br />views of ocean and scenic <br />view outlooks." <br />blocks the view of the mountains and ocean." <br />Existing Policies & Pla 111r� Challenges CDP Value -Added <br />• The General Plan prioritizes Viewshed . Open space and viewsheds are . Identify priorities and develop viewshed regulations <br />protections; interrupted by development, (Policy 35, 36, 37, 38, Kokua Action 8, Community <br />• Natural Beauty Sites (General Plan), agroforestry, and invasive vegetation Action 6), <br />• Hawai'i Environmental Protection Act coverage, . Direct utility and Use Permit viewshed mitigations <br />contains scenic vista and view plane impact . Lack of scenic resource inventory and (Policy 37 and 105), <br />criteria, HRS 343, mapping for the Planning Area, . Support creation of a new zoning designation for <br />• CZM/SMA scenic and open space resource . Currently no clear/enforceable natural areas; <br />policies. County viewshed regulations, . Direct development and maintenance of scenic <br />. SMA process reviews for scenic lookouts/overlooks and routes — e.g., Heritage <br />views, however not all scenic Corridor &/or Scenic Byways (Policy 40, 41, Kokua <br />resources are within the SMA area Actions 9, 10, Community Action 7). <br />and projects can be exempt from <br />SMA review. <br />Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 4 <br />