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PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Transportation: 2.2 Native Forests and Geological Features
Action 2.2.3.a (page 2-5,6)
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district
for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Standards for maximum land disturbance within the BRBZ;
A system to monitor the 'Ōhi'a
forest canopy within the BRBZ;
A set of economic incentives designed to reduce forest clearance and the number of developable lots within the BRBZ;
Mitigation standards and procedures
that provide guidelines for the restoration and replanting of disturbed areas;
A study to mitigate localized flooding in ecologically friendly ways, such as using vacant, forested lots
to absorb floodwaters (see also Action c. in Section 2.3.3);
Use of “small-footprint” septic tanks to reduce lot grading;
An expert advisory committee to assist in developing standards,
project reviews and public education programs related to the BRBZ;
Designation of unencumbered State-owned lands near Wright Road for either Natural Area Reserve or Forest Reserve status;
Amendment
to the General Plan to recognize the purpose and intent of the BRBZ and designation of State-owned lands in the BRBZ to “Open”
Prohibition of 'Ohana Dwelling Units within the BRBZ; and
Within the Volcano area, propose re-zoning agricultural- and residential-zoned lots to an appropriate designation to prevent further subdivision.
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation
guidelines related to this action.
(2.2.1) Goals:
a) The connection between intact native forests in Volcanoes National Park and nearby State forest reserves and natural area
reserves in preserved while allowing for more limited orderly development of the residential and agricultural areas in between.
b) Destruction of native forest through development activity
is abated.
c) The spread of invasive species through abandonment of previously cleared areas is reduced.
d) Residents, those employed in the real estate and construction industries,
and the general public are made more aware of the value of the native forest, the threats to that ecosystem, and actions that can be taken to sustain the forest.
(2.2.2) Objectives:
Adopt a Biosphere Reserve Buffer Zone (BRBZ) and designate a BRBZ Advisory Commission to guide development within the region’s native forest through regulatory measures and economic
incentives.
Adopt regulatory measures, educational programs and incentives to preserve remnants of native ecosystems in Puna subdivisions, especially remnants at lower elevations.
Modify
and enforce Chapter 10, Hawai'I County Code (HCC), to prevent storm water diversion to other properties.
Increase the County’s role in helping to sustain the native forest, primarily
through tax incentives, new regulations and zoning changes.
Provide tax incentives to encourage more landowners to participate in programs to preserve native species and to remove invasive
species.
(2.2.1) Goals:
a) The connection between intact native forests in Volcanoes National Park and nearby State forest reserves and natural area reserves in preserved while allowing for
more limited orderly development of the residential and agricultural areas in between.
b) Destruction of native forest through development activity is abated.
c) The spread of invasive
species through abandonment of previously cleared areas is reduced.
d) Residents, those employed in the real estate and construction industries, and the general public are made more
aware of the value of the native forest, the threats to that ecosystem, and actions that can be taken to sustain the forest.
(2.2.2) Objectives:
Adopt a Biosphere Reserve Buffer
Zone (BRBZ) and designate a BRBZ Advisory Commission to guide development within the region’s native forest through regulatory measures and economic incentives.
Adopt regulatory measures,
educational programs and incentives to preserve remnants of native ecosystems in Puna subdivisions, especially remnants at lower elevations.
Modify and enforce Chapter 10, Hawai'I County
Code (HCC), to prevent storm water diversion to other properties.
Increase the County’s role in helping to sustain the native forest, primarily through tax incentives, new regulations
and zoning changes.
Provide tax incentives to encourage more landowners to participate in programs to preserve native species and to remove invasive species.
Action 2.2.3.a.1
Enact
a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Standards for maximum land disturbance
within the BRBZ;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed
Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other
PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
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Reference Documents
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Action 2.2.3.a.2
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
A system
to monitor the 'Ōhi'a forest canopy within the BRBZ;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee
Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other
Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
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Action 2.2.3.a.3
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
A set of
economic incentives designed to reduce forest clearance and the number of developable lots within the BRBZ;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action
Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next
Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
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Action 2.2.3.a.4
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Mitigation
standards and procedures that provide guidelines for the restoration and replanting of disturbed areas;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action
Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next
Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
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Action 2.2.3.a.5
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
A study
to mitigate localized flooding in ecologically friendly ways, such as using vacant, forested lots to absorb floodwaters (see also Action c. in Section 2.3.3);
Refer to Chapter 5 for
implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion
Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed
before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
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Action 2.2.3.a.6
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Use of “small-footprint”
septic tanks to reduce lot grading;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP
Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related
Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
Page #
Action 2.2.3.a.7
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
An expert
advisory committee to assist in developing standards, project reviews and public education programs related to the BRBZ;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to
this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific
Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
Page #
Action 2.2.3.a.8
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Designation
of unencumbered State-owned lands near Wright Road for either Natural Area Reserve or Forest Reserve status;
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action
Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next
Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
Page #
Action 2.2.3.a.9
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Amendment
to the General Plan to recognize the purpose and intent of the BRBZ and designation of State-owned lands in the BRBZ to “Open”
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related
to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding
Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with
this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
Page #
Action 2.2.3.a.10
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Prohibition
of 'Ohana Dwelling Units within the BRBZ; and
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee
Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other
Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
Page #
Action 2.2.3.a.11
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Within
the Volcano area, propose re-zoning agricultural- and residential-zoned lots to an appropriate designation to prevent further subdivision.
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines
related to this action.
Action Status:
Lead Task Group(s)/Champion(s):
Subcommittee Chairperson/Members:
CDP Proposed Timeframe:
Start Date: Completion Date:
Budget: Funding
Source:
Progress to Date:
Next Step(s):
Description:
Champion:
Goal Date:
Other Notes:
Related Actions
(Other PCDP Actions that need to be completed before or concurrent with
this specific Action)
Page #
Reference Documents
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Action / Tasks
Progress Status
Champion/
Task Leader
Date of Implementation
Action / Task Results
Additional Information
Action 2.2.3.a
Enact a BRBZ, either separately or as an
overlay district for the Volcano area, to include proposing the following provisions and other supporting measures:
Refer to Chapter 5 for implementation guidelines related to this
action.
Standards for maximum land disturbance within the BRBZ;
A system to monitor the 'Ōhi'a forest canopy within the BRBZ;
A set of economic incentives
designed to reduce forest clearance and the number of developable lots within the BRBZ;
Mitigation standards and procedures that provide guidelines for the restoration and
replanting of disturbed areas;
A study to mitigate localized flooding in ecologically friendly ways, such as using vacant, forested lots to absorb floodwaters (see also Action
c. in Section 2.3.3);
Use of “small-footprint” septic tanks to reduce lot grading;
An expert advisory committee to assist in developing standards, project reviews
and public education programs related to the BRBZ;
An expert advisory committee to assist in developing standards, project reviews and public education programs related to the BRBZ;
Designation of unencumbered State-owned
lands near Wright Road for either Natural Area Reserve or Forest Reserve status;
Amendment to the General Plan to recognize the purpose and intent of the BRBZ and designation
of State-owned lands in the BRBZ to “Open”
Prohibition of 'Ohana Dwelling Units within the BRBZ; and
Within the Volcano area, propose re-zoning agricultural- and
residential-zoned lots to an appropriate designation to prevent further subdivision.