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October 27, 2005
The Honorable Angel Pilago, Co-Chair
The Honorable Pete Hoffmann, Co-Chair
Hawaii County Committee on Planning
25 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawaii 966720
SUBJECT: Envision Downtown Hilo 2025: ACommunity-based Vision and Living
Action Plan for Downtown Hilo
Dear Co-Chairs Pilago and Hoffman:
I have to honestly say that I love Hilo. On a beautiful day, you see the majestic Mauna Kea
and Hilo Bay embracing our hometown Hilo.
The Downtown Visioning process has shown us what can happen when a small group of
committed volunteers gather together, take risks and dream big. Without their commitment
and willingness to explore new territory, their story, including the Vision and Action Plan,
could not have happened.
This has been one of the most organic community-based planning process we have seen come
to fruition in a long time. There are lessons learned from the Downtown Hilo Community
visioning process. One is that there is no other way than for government to partner with
community and to collaborate in solving our problems and planning for our future.
This document tells a very special story about how the vision process came together, and it
provides us with a new creative mindset that will help other communities to begin to tell their
story and achieve their dreams for the future.
I commend the Friends of Downtown Hilo Steering Committee for all their hard work and
their dedication to create a Vision that will guide us to sustain Downtown Hilo and to ensure
that it remains a special place where we can live, work and play. With their experience
behind them, I look to them for their leadership as we begin to implement this Vision plan.
Various departments within the County of Hawaii have been identified as Lead Solution
Partners in the Vision Action Plan. I am committed to working with the new Implementation
Committee as they begin to move forward with the Living Action Plan. There is still work to
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The Honorable Angel Pilago and Pete Hoffmann
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be done, and I ask you, as Council members, to also support the Plan by also making your
commitment.
Please pass the Resolution in support of this Vision.
Aloha
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liIarry Kim ( _
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cc: Ms. Susan Gagorik, Friends of Downtown Hilo Steering Committee