Agriculture Goals
Use regenerative farming techniques to grow food and energy crops
- Restore our soil quality
- Ensure water is fairly shared and not wasted
Increase local food security and jobs
- Establish local food processing facilities (ex. Canneries, fruit dryers, juicers)
- Reduce waste of existing locally grown food
Integrate diversified farms with housing
- Support efforts to reform zoning rules to permit more farmers to live on or near their farms
Affordable Housing Goals
Build more affordable housing faster
- There has to be a balance between speeding up the process and taking in the community’s input
- Facilitate the creation of a County Affordable Housing Advocate
- Revise the permitting process to ensure affordable housing developers are able to build quicker with lower costs while still taking into account the community’s wants and ensuring a small environmental footprint
- Explore county or state purchase or lease of land for housing
- Ensure affordability in perpetuity
Create livable communities with green space corridors
- Mixed communities: rentals mixed with home buyers, mixed economic backgrounds
- Easy access to work, schools, easily walkable, public transportation, green spaces, needs pathways, small businesses, places of worship, community centers
Design for a small environmental footprint
- All development planning must take into account how required infrastructure (i.e., wastewater, roads) will impact surrounding communities (scarcity, pollution, traffic, etc.)
Conservation & Preservation Goals
Protect our special places
- Protect places listed in Maui Island Plan and Community Plans that were marked for preservation for environmental, recreational, or cultural reasons
- Protect endangered species and wildlife habitat, from mauka to makai
- Do not build in flood plain and tsunami zones
Preserve cultural sites and resources
- Support the active practice of cultural rights
- Protect important sites, such as sand dune burials in Central Maui
Enhance recreational opportunities
- Preserve our coastal shorelines and beach access