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KONA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE
December 3, 2012
TO: Fellow CDP Chairpersons and Members
Thru: BJ Leithead Todd,
Planning Director
SUBJECT: Islandwide Action Committee Council
Aloha all. The Kona CDP AC has finally been able to agendize and consider the 9/11/12
proposal by the Puna CDP AC Chair to create an Islandwide AC Council.
Our Kona CDP AC has been wrestling with some pretty complicated topics unique to our plan
and which have created real challenges to effective implementation thereof. Our membership
often struggles to get quorum and a majority of our members are holdover from expired terms or
remaining vacancies. Our present focus has been on finalizing our work plan for the coming
year, submitting our CIP list and the interface with the Planning Dept. on resolutions for the �,
unexpected technical outcomes of adopting Smart Growth principles in the existing regulatory
framework. I as Chair and our other members do not have the time or energy to become involved
in another CounciL
Our Kona AC does see areas of common interest with the other AC including: adopting
Complete Streets policy and standards; integration of Smart Growth principles; Transit planning:
and, the integration of adopted CDP into the upcoming General Plan update. We feel initially the
best way to collectively address these is in an informal,collegial way. Perhaps done through the
Planners Forum that meets fairly regulazly or best through a conference like HCPO, where
sunshine law does not apply. We will be encouraging our Planning Dept., which this year is to
host the Hawai`i Congress of Planning Officials (HCPO) conference,to structure its agenda
including these topics AND to provide ali the AC members scholazships, like done for Planning
Commission members, to attend the HCPO conference and participate in the discussions
Sincerely,
Ken elrose
Chair
Kona CDP Action Committee
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