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r- <br />a <br />e `.x <br />o, <br />Top, registration of the participants to <br />the Mapping the Future workshop. <br />Right, the start of the small group <br />activities. <br />The Public Involvement Process <br />The workshop was a four-hour activity attended by over 350 residents <br />organized in 32 facilitated small groups. <br />During the critical questions segment of the workshop small groups <br />were randomly assigned to address one of 12 topics. Topics included: <br />housing choice, housing affordability, agriculture, transportation and land <br />use, congestion, parks, recreation, and open space, protection of the <br />environment, hazard mitigation, protection of ancestral and historic sites, <br />community character, retail, and tourism. The critical questions represented <br />the start of a discussion of policy issues for the CDP. They dealt with big <br />picture questions to frame and inform the more specific deliberations of the <br />CDP. (See Appendix B: Critical Questions Results Summary.) <br />The Mapping the Future segment of the workshop asked participants to <br />address three issues: <br />To define criteria for the protection of ancestral and historic sites, <br />To define criteria for the protection of land for environmental and <br />open space reasons; and <br />• To address the issue of land consumption in Kona. <br />Participants first considered and mapped historic sites and specific <br />geographical and environmental features that should be protected. Then, <br />they recommended appropriate locations where future growth could occur <br />based on cultural and geographic constraints and based on land available <br />within areas defined by the County General Plan as expansion areas. The <br />Mapping the Future segment enabled participants to begin to deal with the <br />issue of future growth—balancing future growth with the imperative of <br />respecting ancestral cultural resources and protecting the unique <br />environmental features of the Kona region. (See Appendix C: Respected <br />areas and Protected Areas Results Summary, and Appendix D Mapping the <br />Future Exercise Results Summary.) <br />Kona Community Development Plan <br />2.4 <br />