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policies and decisions should tie into, be consistent with. And so that's the highest order in the first tier of planning itself. So in this flow chart or diagram, the second level would consist of short and middle-range plans and that would be like community development plans, functional plans, and this is kind of where a BDHRA or Banyan Drive master planning effort would be. And those plans then inform what we do with our operating budget, our capital improvement budgets, and any kind of changes we may do to county codes and rules and so forth. So as many of you may know that the current General Plan is divided into thirteen topics. Those topics, as I said, were the topic research that staff has been doing for the update. Each section currently is divided into goals, policies, and standards. And in the current General Plan, there are some regional recommendations and just to remind everyone, this plan was adopted before CDP's came into existence, so it may have quite a bit of regional specificities where now some of the CDP's may reiterate that or provide additional information. And it currently has a land use pattern allocation guide map, or what we call the LUPAG map, which defines preferred future land use in the County. So with the new or updated General Plan, we hope to clarify some of the goals, objectives, and what we're calling policies and actions. So goals are really the big picture or vision statement of what we're aspiring to. You know it might be something like the County shall provide alternate modal opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. It's a real broad kind of vision statement, so . Objectives, they're the yardsticks to evaluate the progress towards implementing our goals. It usually is a specific end product and the intended impact we want to see, so in that same regards an example might be we wanna increase the amount of sidewalks by 30 percent within 10 years, or something of that effect to improve walkability. And then we have policy statements. Policy statements contain measureable, finite actions that are strategically linked to the broader objectives, so an example might be a minimum of five foot sidewalks in urban areas or when new roadways are built, so, creating policy that would then implement goals and objectives. And then we have what we call actions. It's the doing of something, usually over a period of time or in stages or with the possibility of repetition. An example of that might be, let's see, well wea simple action might be just requiring the Department of Public Works to change the code so that the sidewalks are required. So that's an action that the Department of Public Works at the County would have to take. So you could define those steps within the General Plan itself. So here we are; how can the General Plan help in regards to the BDHRA or in general? It is the regulatory framework for the regional village and functional plans. It can outline the broad goals and objectives. It could define future land use, it could define regulatory changes necessary to support preferred land uses, it could define capital improvements that support goals and objectives, and it could advocate for actions outside the jurisdiction of the County. So an example would be an improvement on a state highway where we're requesting that the State make some improvements. That would be advocacy. So here's the conceptual plan that was adopted by the commission here. And we're here to ask you for any kind of additional feedback that can help inform our General Plan recommendations going forward. So what we're looking for is broad goals and objectives that can help guide our potential policies and actions. We're looking for any kind of critical infrastructure recommendations that you would have that could help us support our goals and objectives, and we're also looking for opportunities that you could outline for us on how we could have better agency cooperation or coordination, and really we're interested in any kind of potential barriers that you feel that there may be to fulfill our goals and objectives. So, that's kind of the end of Page 5 of 10 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency November 29,2017 Minutes