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Home My WebLink AboutWaipio Valley HandoutWaipilo Valley Natural & Cultural Resource Protection Objective 1: Protect, restore, and enhance watershed ecosystems, sweeping views, and open spaces from mauka forests to makai shorelines, while assuring responsible public access for recreational, spiritual, cultural, and sustenance practices. Objective 4: Protect and nurture Hamakua's social and cultural diversity and heritage assets, including sacred, places historic sites and buildings WHAT HAMAKUA SAID ') "Wide open spaces for hiking, hunting, and enjoying the view." 41�%, "The pristine and distinctive plantation towns. "Perpetuate Hawaiian Culture." natural beauty." F_ Existing Policies & Plans Challenges CDP Value -Added I • Waipi`o Valley Stream Management Plan • Unmanaged access to Valley presents • Support the development of Waipi`o Valley as a sacred 2006, resource management challenges, place with a resource protection overlay zone (Policy • Private Land Trusts that purchase land or • Tourism related impacts, including 54), easements; trespassing, desecration of sacred • Develop capacity for watershed & stream • Trust for Public Land, sites, environmental impacts; management (Policy 44, 56, Community Action 19), • Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, • Viewshed impacts from development • Support community-based land management plans • Land Trust Alliance, along the Valley rim, and options (Community Action 16, 17, 18, 20), • DLNR DOFAW Legacy Lands Conservation • Lack of implementation of stream • Assist community-based initiatives to secure easement Program, resource management plans. or acquisition to protect rim viewshed (Community • PONC, Action 18), • Special Management Area regulations (HRS • Support implementation of watershed planning efforts 205A-2, HRS 205A-26, PC Rule 9), (Community Action 19), • Hawai`i Ocean Resources Management Plan. • Coordinate riverine flood mapping (Policy 93). Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 1 Heritage Perpetuation & a Place -Based Visitor Industry Objective 12: Preserve traditional subsistence practices and encourage a reciprocity (e.g. bartering) economy as a sustainable complement to Hamakua's resource-based economy. Objective 13: Promote appropriate rural tourism that welcomes guests for an alternate visitor experience. Promote Hawai'i's host culture and Hamakua's heritage, including historic roads and plantation towns, and festivals that celebrate our rich multi -cultural music, art, and agriculture. WHAT HAMAKUA SAID "Waipi'o protected as a cultural kipuka." "Have informational center at the top of Waipi'o Valley." Existing Policies & Plans Challenges CDP Value -Added • Agricultural -Based Commercial Operation . Much of Valley owned by one entity — . Support the development of a protective resource Certification (HRS 205-2(d)(15), future management of land in overlay zone, (Policy 54), • Plan permitting approval for commercial question, . Promote culturally appropriate visitor opportunities projects, . Unmanaged access to Valley presents through cultural values education (Policy 59), • Special Permit Process for non-ag uses on ag resource management challenges, . Develop of the Waipi'o Heritage Center (Policy 60, lands, . Community conflicted on whether 61,); • Heritage Corridor can promote heritage sites Valley should have visitor industry, . Link the Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center to the — Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center, . Tourism related impacts, including proposed Heritage Corridor of the Planning Area • Potential for Waipi'o Valley Heritage Center. trespassing, desecration of sacred (Policy 57, 58, Kokua Actions 26, 27). sites, possible environmental and agricultural impacts, "Educational tours in - Agricultural zoning of land allows for the Valley." agricultural uses, and ag-based commercial operations —stricter zoning would restrict agriculture (e.g., taro). Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 2 Waipi`o Agriculture Objective 12: Preserve traditional subsistence practices and encourage a reciprocity (e.g. bartering) economy as a sustainable complement to Hamakua's resource-based economy. Objective 2: Protect and restore viable agricultural lands and resources. _ "Restoration of all the taro farms." "Help keep taro farming alive." WHAT HAMAKUA SAID "Waipi`o growing kalo to feed its people." "Able to sustain ourselves - provide our own food." EAstingPo'lletes & Plans Irw 14 Challenges CDPV6]ue-Added • Important Agricultural Lands Protections, . Much of Valley owned by one entity . Support the development of tax relief measures or • Nonconforming uses on agricultural lands and leased to various farmers — incentives for growing taro (Policy 55, Kokua Action regulated, future management of land in 29) • Soil and Water Conservation Districts provide question, . Protect taro -growing lands (Kokua Action 25), support; • Tourism related agricultural impacts; . Advocate for funding future flooding g to prevent g • Agricultural -Based Commercial Operation ' Agricultural zoning of land allows for damage (Kokua Action 28). Certification (as per HRS 205-2(d)(15), agricultural uses, and ag-based commercial operations —stricter • Taro Security and Purity Task Force 2010 zoning would restrict ag uses (e.g., Legislative Report. taro); . Valley vulnerable to flooding events/crop damage. Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 3 Strong & Safe Waipi`o Community Objective 6: Develop and improve critical Challenges community infrastructure, including • Waipi'o Valley Community Action Plan, utilities, healthcare, emergency services, Improve disaster and emergency response capacity affordable housing, educational by -four only, one -lane road, opportunities and recreational facilities to Plan, keep our'ohana safe, strong, and Volunteer Firefighting teams and general firefighting healthy. and other natural disasters - capacity) (Policy 87, 88, 89, 92, 96, 97, Community • County of Hawai iMulti-Hazard Mitigation "Keep it safe." Action 32, 33); Plan. _j WHAT HAMAKUA SAID "Improve Waipi'o Access Road." "Improved disaster preparedness." Existing Policies & Plans Challenges CDP Value -Added W_ LM • Waipi'o Valley Community Action Plan, • Access to Valley on hazardous, four- Improve disaster and emergency response capacity • County of Hawai'i Flood plain Management by -four only, one -lane road, for Waipi'o Valley (increase the number of CERT and Plan, • Vulnerability to flooding, tsunami, Volunteer Firefighting teams and general firefighting and other natural disasters - capacity) (Policy 87, 88, 89, 92, 96, 97, Community • County of Hawai iMulti-Hazard Mitigation Action 32, 33); Plan. Inadequate disaster preparedness; • Conflicting views on path moving Develop mitigation and evacuation plans for Waipi'o forward — struggle for cohesive vision Valley and Laupahoehoe Point, and emergency for future of Waipi'o. telephones (Policy 90, 91, Community Action 31), • Coordinate riverine flood mapping (Policy 93), • Support community organizations in planning the stewardship and future of Waipi'o Valley (Community Actions 16-20). Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 4