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Objectives of Coastal Management 1. Protect,preserve, and where desirable, restore or improve the quality of coastal scenic and open space resources. 2. Protect valuable coastal ecosystems, including reefs,from disruption and minimize adverse impacts on all coastal systems. 3. Encourage those developments that are not coastal dependent to locate in inland areas. II. THE APPROPRIATE ROLE OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE A. To Recommend Land Use Designations to the Planning Department The primary task assigned to the Hamakua CDP Steering Committee is to make land use designation recommendations to the Planning Department without considering the possibility or likelihood that a particular operation or activity for a particular parcel of land will be encouraged or discouraged by the Steering Committee's recommended land use designation. Once the Steering Committee submits its recommendations,the Planning Department may accept the recommendations,reject the recommendations or modify the recommendations. In the case of the Hakalau Point property, the Steering Committee should not consider representations from any person or group in favor or in opposition to any particular project, development, operation or activity that might ultimately be established on Hakalau Point. Specifically, the Steering Committee should ignore the fact that some people imagine or desire an agricultural plantation center someday on the property or that other persons envision a public memorial park on the property. These desires are beyond the scope of the Steering Committee's function, are speculative at best, and irrelevant to the work of the Steering Committee. The determination as to what specific operations or developments will occur at the Hakalau Point is a descision which will be made by the Hawaii County Planning Department and not this Steering Committee. B. The Steering Committee Should Not Evaluate Land Use Designation Recommendations Based, In Part or In Whole, Upon the Possibility that a Designation May or May Not Be Lawful The Steering Committee should not consider whether or not a particular land designation ("Open", "Agricultural", "Low Density Urban","Medium Density Urban", "High Density Urban", "Commercial", "Rural", "Industrial"or"Resort") for any particular parcel of land would be legal or not. The Planning Department with its county attorneys will make that decision before affirming land use recommendations by the Steering Committee. It is my belief that the Steering Committee was misled at the prior Steering Committee meeting by one of the people testifying. The testifier said that if Steering Committee went ahead with its 3