Communication No. 2018-08- KCDP Amendments Subcommittee Report

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eligible to apply for funding to complete studies of the historic resources in Kona and throughout the County. Policy CR-2.1: Certified Local Government. The County shall seek the CLG status as Part of the National Historic Preservation Program, by establishing a Hawai‘i County Cultural Resources Commission (HCCRC) which shall be comprised of a representative from each CDP. Policy CR-2.2: Regulatory System. The County shall should examine interrelated responsibilities, identify weaknesses in the current programs, and make recommendations for improving programs regulating and protecting cultural resources and historic sites. This may result in recommendations for changes in policy County-wide or specifically to the Kona CDP. Objective CR-3: Preservation of Kanaka Maoli Culture and Island Values. Ensure that our Kanaka Maoli and island values and cultures are preserved and perpetuated. Policy CR-3.1: Honor Kanaka Maoli culture and heritage. The Kanaka Maoli culture is the foundation of Hawai‘i’s living culture. We must ensure that the Kanaka Maoli people are supported and that this part of our culture is perpetuated. The success of this endeavor will ensure that the way of the Kanaka Maoli will guide our actions and behaviors in the years ahead. Policy CR-3.2: Preserve and perpetuate our Hawaiian and island cultural values by celebrating our cultural diversity and island way of life. Our diversity likewise defines us. Ensuring that our cultural practices flourish through language, dance, song, and art is crucial to sustaining who we are as a people. We must protect and nurture all aspects of our diverse history, traditions and cultures. Policy CR-3.3: Enable Kanaka Maoli and others to pursue traditional Kanaka Maoli lifestyles and practices. We must provide opportunities to those who want to pursue and perpetuate the way of the Kanaka Maoli. Policy CR-3.4: Provide support for subsistence-based businesses and economies. We must create opportunities for the Kanaka Maoli practice of subsistence-based businesses and economies, and remove the hurdles to their start-ups and development. Such traditional cultural practices are an economic alternative to Western forms of trade and commerce. Subsistence fishing, gathering, hunting and farming are examples of subsistence-based economies that are viable. Policy CR-3.5: Ahupua‘a Resource and Management. Integrate the values and principles of the traditional ahupua‘a resource and management systems as a basis for a sustainable Hawai‘i. 4.5 HOUSING Housing Goal: Diversity of housing choices for all segments of the population close to places of employment and/or daily needs.