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And, they really fall into three main areas. There's 12 core objectives, and they all are
<br />fundamentally about managing conserving natural resources, preserving and strengthening
<br />community character, and building a resilient and sustainable economy. They aren't on the
<br />screen, but in your Backgrounds and Recommendations. They're in the CDP near the end of
<br />Section 1, I believe. I'm sorry, I don't have the page number on me.
<br />So, then, the community had done kind of its core fundamental work at that point and then it, a
<br />lot of the attention turned to the CDP team whose job it was to take those community objectives,
<br />identify what's already in place to help achieve them, where the gaps are and then, therefore,
<br />what needs to be done in the plan to achieve the community's objectives. And you see that
<br />represented here in kind of a foundational way. Again, the values and vision are the foundation
<br />built upon that, and further refined are the objectives. And then we need to find the appropriate
<br />policies and actions to achieve those objectives.
<br />And, this is an important point which is a little unique for Ka`u but really kind of critical,
<br />because some of the confusion in people's interpretation of the CDP is rooted in these
<br />differences. We, as we were doing the work, realized that you gotta be careful what you call
<br />things `cause that means different things depending on what you call `em. And, even looking at
<br />the General Plan, there's often confusing language about what something really means when it
<br />says it's a policy versus an action or an objective, right? And, so we identified four fundamental
<br />different types of strategies.
<br />The first one is what we call land use policies, and those really are an expression of the ability
<br />the CDP's have to detail and designate land uses to try to really influence the settlement patterns,
<br />right? And, so those, those become the official land use policy for the CDP, and there's two
<br />types of those actually in a CDP. There's those that are really just intent. They're an expression
<br />of what's desired, and they aren't controlling in nature. But, others are controlling in nature,
<br />those that are very specific about what, what is appropriate where.
<br />And, then the second type of County policy is what we call County actions. Those are things
<br />that don't just automatically happen when the plan is adopted. You can identify capital
<br />improvement priorities like road improvements, water improvements, what have you, but just
<br />because it's in the plan and the plan gets adopted doesn't mean it has to happen. It requires
<br />follow-up action on the part of the Council and the administration in terms of budgeting and staff
<br />dedication, that sort of thing, right? It's still important to do in a CDP because a community
<br />should be very clear about what it thinks its priorities are, but you gotta understand that that's
<br />not, you know, mandated by law when the CDP is adopted.
<br />And then there's, and this isn't the best term probably, but something we called advocacy, things
<br />that are fundamentally outside County jurisdiction. Because what you realize very quickly when
<br />trying to find strategies to achieve community goals is much of what needs to be done is outside
<br />County jurisdiction especially here in Hawaii where health, education, highways, and many
<br />other important issues are outside of County jurisdiction.
<br />And, then the fourth and, I would argue, arguably most important strategy, are those community
<br />based collaborative strategies. Those things that the County can't do anything about, the State
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