Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 38, Number 3, 1 March 2021 — Input Needed on General Plan Update [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Input Needed on General Plan Update

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By Cedric Duarte

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is in the process of updating its statewide General Plan and is seeking beneficiary input. DHHL's General Plan is the first opportunity, within the Department's planning system, for beneficiaries to provide their input into future policies and strategies that are designed to guide the utilization of trust resources in the implementation of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. In March, the DHHL will begin conducting its hrst beneficiary consultation meetings related to the General Plan. All beneficiaries are asked to watch for postcard invitations in the mail that will include meeting details. As one pieee of the planning framework, the General Plan provides a comprehensive policy that ensures coordinated, integrated, orderly social, physical, and eeonomie development of Hawaiian Home Lands through the establishment of goals, objectives, and implementing actions. The General Plan is followed by detailed Island and Regional Plans that are crafted with further benehciary consultation.

The General Plan process allows DHHL and its benehciaries an opportunity to rehect on what has been accomplished, identify areas for improvement, and articulates a vision and direction for the Trust. DHHL's planning process includes the involvement of an investigative committee formed with Commissioners of the Hawaiian Homes Commission pursuant to Hawai'i Revised Statutes Section 92-2.5 and Hawai'i Administrative Rules Section 10-2-16 (b) (1). Commissioners Randy Awo, Russell Kaupu, Zachary Helm, and Chair William J. Ailā, Jr. have been selected to serve on the HHC's investigative committee. The General Plan is updated every 20 years with the last plan published in 2002. In that time, the Kaupe'a, Malu'ōhai, Kānehili, Ka'uluokaha'i, La'i 'Ōpua, Waiohuli, and Waiehu Kou homesteads are among the new subdivisions that were established. To learn more about DHHL's planning process and statewide plans, visit dhhl. hawaii.gov/po. ■ Cedric R. Duarte is the Information & Community Relations Officer for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. He has worked in communications and marketing since 1999 and is a longtime event organizer. A product of the Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, he resides in 'Aiea with liis wife and two daughters.

CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: NANAIKEOLA, WAIANAE DISTRICT, OAHU Scientific Consultant Services, ine. (SCS) is preparing a Cultural Impact Assessment (CIA) in advance of the proposed Nanaikeola Self-Help project, an 88 lot self-help housing subdivision affordable to low ineome families in Hawai'i. The subdivision will be located on a 12.388-acre property, owned by the Self-Help Housing Corp of Hawaii, known as Nanaikeola in Lualualei Ahupua'a, Wai'anae District, Oahu Island [TMK : (1) 8-7-008-076] (Enclosures 1 through 3). SCSis seeking information on eultural resources and traditional cultural practice, previously conducted or ongoing, within or near the proposed Nanaikeola Subdivision project area. Please respond within 30 days to Cathleen Dagher, Senior Archaeologist, at (808) 597-1182, or via email (cathy@scshawaii.com). CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: KA'ĀPAHU AHUPUA'A, KIPAHULU DISTRICT, MAUI Scientific Consultant Services, ine. (SCS) is preparing a Cultural Impact Assessment (CIA) in advance of the proposed Hana Highway at Kalepa Point Road Repairs project area. The project area is located in Ka'āpahu Ahupua'a, Kīpahulu District, Island of Maui [TMK: (2) 1-6-010:999], within the Hāna Highway (State Route 360) corridor near the transition to the Pi'ilani Highway (County Route 3 1 ) at the Kālepa Bridge. The project is proposed by the County of Maui Department of Public Works, Engineering Division for the purpose of ensuring that Hāna Highway remains safe and passable by rehabilitating the county road and shore protection infrastmcture. SCS is seeking information on cultural resources and traditional cultural practice, previously conducted or on-going, within or near the proposed project area. Hāna Highway (also known as the Hana Belt Road, Hāna Road, Hāna Highway, Plilani Highway), including the project area corridor, is an historic property designated State Inventory of Historic Properties

(SIHP) Site # 50-50-15-1638 and is listed on the Nahonal Register of Historic Places as 01000615. If you have information to share, please respond within 30 days to Cathleen Dagher, Senior Archaeologist, at (808) 5971 182, or via email (cathy@scshawaii. eom). CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: WAIAWA, O'AHU Honua Consulting is preparing a Cultural Impact Assessment for the Waiawa Phase 2 Solar + Storage Project. The project area is comprised of Tax Map Keys: [1] 9-6-004:024. [1] 9-6-004:025, [1] 9-6-004:026, and [1] 9-4-006:036 in Waiawa on the Island of O'ahu. The CIA team is seeking consultation with practitioners, Native Hawaiian Organizations, stakeholders, and other individuals. Specifically, consultation is sought on historic or existing cultural resources that may be impacted by the proposed project, historic or existing traditional practices and/or beliefs that may be impacted by the proposed project, and/or identification of individuals or organizations that should be sought out for consultation on the CIA. Individuals or organizations may contact the CIA team at community@honuaconsulting.com or (808) 392-1617. Additional information about the project is available on the project website at https://aesdistributeden-ergy.com/waiawa-solar-homepage/. CULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: WAI'ANAE, O'AHU Honua Consulting is preparing a Cultural Impact Assessment for the Mountain View Solar + Storage Project. The project area is comprised of Tax Map Keys [1] 8-5-003:031, [1] 8-5-003:032, and [1] 8-5-019:035 in Wai'anae on the Island of O'ahu. The CIA team is seeking consultation with practitioners, Native Hawaiian Organizations, stakeholders, and other individuals. Specifically, consultation is sought on historic or existing eultural resources that may be impacted by the proposed project, historic or existing traditional practices and/or beliefs that may be impacted by the proposed project, and/or identification

of individuals or organizations that should be sought out for consultation on the CIA. Individuals or organizations may contact the CIA team at community@honuaconsulting.com or (808) 392-1617. Additional informahon about the project is available on the project website at https:// aesdistributedenergy.com/mountain-view-solar-homepage/. BURIAL NOTICE: PUNALU'U AHUPUA'A, KO'OLAULOA DISTRICT, O'AHU Notice to interested parties is hereby given that isolated, secondarily deposited human skeletal remains were discovered by International Archaeology, LLC. Approximately 25 complete or partial skeletal elements and 50 miscellaneous small bone fragments were identified. Based on the disposition of the remains, they were determined to be secondarily deposited and not an intact burial. The find was made during archaeological inventory survey excavations for Kamehameha Schools' proposed Punalu'u Habitat Bank and Stream Restoration Project at Punalu'u Ahupua'a, Ko'olauloa District, Island of O'ahu, TMK (1) 5-3-001:041 (portion). The ahupua'a of Punalu'u was awarded to William Pitt Leleiōhoku (LCA 9971). The find does not fall within a kuleana LCA. The SHPD has assigned a State Inventory of Historic Places number of 50-80-06-8882 to the area where the remains were found. Consolidation of the remains at a nearby loeahon and subsequent preservation is proposed, and a hnal determination will be made by the O'ahu Island Burial Council in consultation with the SHPD and any identified lineal and/or cultural descendants. Individuals with information pertaining to the burial should contact Ms. Regina Hilo at the SHPD ([808] 692-8026, Regina.Hilo@hawaii.gov) or Ms. Leslie Iaukea ([808] 692-8023, Leslie.Iaukea@hawaii.gov) within thirty days of this nohee. These individuals must provide information to the SHPD demonstrating lineal descent from these remains or descent from ancestors buried in Punalu'u Ahupua'a or Ko'olauloa District. ■