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Arches system. Prioritize threatened areas and other areas of concern, identifying priorities for historic registration, acquisition, repair, restoration, and enhancement based on community input, feasibility, and potential benefit/impact. Develop and implement a regional plan for managing cultural and historic resources with a focus on prioritizing and addressing acquisition, protection, restoration, interpretation, and access needs, as identified in the inventory referenced above, and possibly including: • Supporting and coordinating the preparation of State and Federal historic site and district as well as historic landmark nominations for high priority cultural and historic sites and landscapes. • Coordinating the acquisition of historic and cultural sites (and/or access to them) for protection or public use. Acquisition can be supported through SHPD's Historic Preserves program and the County's PONC. • Coordinating and supporting other initiatives related to historic and cultural resource management (see other actions in this section). • Making recommendations to the County Cultural Resources Commission. Other Resources: To conduct additional research, SHPD can be contracted through its Inter -Agency Archaeological Services program. Students from UH Manoa programs as wellas a new UH Hilo Heritage Management could be enlisted to help. The Save America's Treasures (SAT) program provides matching grants for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Funds may be used for projects resulting in the protection and preservation of nationally significant historic structures and sites, as well as nationally significant collections of intellectual and cultural artifacts, documents, sculpture and works of art. The National Park Service's Tribal Heritage Grants assist Native Hawaiian organizations in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions, including oral history and sacred and historic places. Community Action 13: Develop and implement place -based strategies to retain village and town character, including alternatives to Historic District designations. Need: Competing land uses and dramatic changes in economic drivers have rendered many plantation era facilities obsolete and crumbling. One example is Honoka'a Historic Downtown with its' old false -front wooden buildings that are examples of vernacular architecture—architecture of a key historical period created by people without the help of a professional architect. Many of these buildings were built in the 1920's and 1930's by Japanese and Chinese former plantation workers who left the plantation to start their own businesses. There are several compelling reasons to establish historic districts. However, there is also the possibility that the social character of districts may change through gentrification. Gentrification is the process of Community Action Guide: 2017 �4