Public Access and Trails Handout

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Public Access &Trails Access for Cultural Traditions, Recreation, and/or subsistence Objective 1: Protect, restore, and enhance watershed ecosystems, WHAT H A M A K U A SAID sweeping views, and open spaces from mauka forests to makai shorelines, while assuring responsible public access for recreational, "Access t o historical spiritual, cultural, and sustenance practices. Objective 12: Preserve traditional subsistence practices and encourage trails and fishing a reciprocity (e.g. bartering) economy as a sustainable complement to Hamakuo'sresource-based economy. routes to the ocean." Objective 3: Encourage community-based collaborative management plans to assure that human activities are in harmony with the quality of Hamakua's unique natural and cultural landscape. "Mauka to makai access." Existing Policies & Plans Challenges CDP Value -Added • Shoreline Management Area review process • Lack of resources for management of Increase capacity to establish & maintain a Public establishes public access. (HRS 205A-26); public trails and accesses, Access and Trail Program — including developing an • Hawai'i State Constitution protections for • No County agency is tasked with inventory, prioritization rating system, management native traditional rites and access (Article 12, managing public accesses, plans, funding sources, etc. (Policy 48, Policy 103, section 7); Community Action 15); • Not all publicly -owned trails corridors • Subdivision rules stipulate public are surveyed or established, Ensure regulatory approvals and permitting secures access/pedestrian travel to shoreline or • Government agencies inconsistent in public access when appropriate (Policy 50), mountain areas where existing activities or securing public accesses, Seek to secure acquisition or easement priority areas trails exist (HRS 46-6.5 and HCC 34-4(c)); for public access (Policy 16, 49, 52, Kokua Action 24), Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 1