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Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan

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Categories: Planning in Hawaii | Environmental issues in Hawaii

The 2005 Hawaii State Legislature passed legislation creating a Hawaii 2050 task force to review the Hawaii State Plan and make recommendations for a sustainability plan to the year 2050. This legislation was vetoed by Governor Linda Lingle but overridden in special session by the legislature on July 12, 2005.

According to the legislation, its purpose is twofold:

  1. Review the Hawaii State Plan and other fundamental components of community planning; and
  2. Create a sustainability plan that would envision and guide state planning to the year 2050 in the areas of environment, education, employment, health, housing, human services, agriculture, conservation lands, energy, historic and cultural preservation, natural resources, recreation, tourism, and transportation, in order to aid in the success for the future long-term development of the State.

In order to review the Hawaii State Plan, a task force will be formed, the Hawaii 2050 task force. According to the legislation, the "task force shall review, solicit input on, and develop recommendations to create the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan to ensure its relevance as a guide for the future long-term development of the State, and report to the legislature and the governor on creating the plan. The task force shall also submit recommendations that include, but are not limited to:

  1. Whether the goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for the State as envisioned in the Hawaii state plan and the quality growth policy developed pursuant to chapter 223, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are in need of amendment;
  2. Whether the existing bases for determining priorities and allocating limited resources, such as public funds, services, human resources, land, energy, water, and other resources, and improving coordination of federal, state, and county plans, policies, programs, projects, and regulatory activities are adequate and if not, a recommendation on how to improve them;
  3. A listing of Hawaii's inherent economic assets and how best to utilize those assets to define Hawaii's role in global economy;
  4. How to forecast vocational needs within the State and direct the education and training of Hawaii's workforce to ensure that Hawaii residents learn marketable skills in secondary school, university, and adult training programs;
  5. The development of a framework to ensure that traffic congestion, pollution, and other adverse effects caused by population and economic growth are mitigated;
  6. An assessment of the tools needed for the private sector to better compete in the global economy and the means to improve Hawaii's balance of trade by increasing exports and reducing imports and whether these tools would have any adverse economic or environmental impact on the State and its residents; and
  7. How best to engage the community in a public discussion to achieve a consensus on the State's preferred future, and coordinate the actions needed to sustain a growing and vibrant economy while maintaining a high quality of life for all residents and visitors."

The task force will submit a report on its recommendations to the legislature and to the auditor (Marion Higa) before the convening of the Hawaii State Legislature in 2006.

The office of the auditor will prepare the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan. According to the legislation, "the plan shall be prepared to define and implement state goals, objectives, policies, and priority guidelines using sections 226-3 to 226-27 as guiding principles. The auditor shall seek input from all state departments. The auditor shall also solicit public views and concerns in preparation of the plan and shall incorporate all or a portion of the recommendations reported by the Hawaii 2050 task force."

"The plan shall serve as guidelines for funding and implementation by state and county agencies. The office of planning shall assist the auditor in reviewing the plan."

The auditor will submit the sustainability plan to the legislature before its convening in 2007.

The auditor, with the assistance of the Hawaii State Office of Planning, will update the plan every ten years and report to the legislature.

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This page was last modified 22:19, 24 December 2007 by dKosopedia user Jbet777. Based on work by dKosopedia user(s) Allamakee Democrat. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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