Community Created Humboldt/Jan 23 10/General Plan Update: Difference between revisions

Introduction

The following are proceedings from a breakout group at the Community Created Humboldt event on January 23rd, 2010.

How do we make the General Plan Update systems based? Proceedings

Convenor:Willow Rain

Issues are Scattershot:

• Understanding GP process
• Resource production with built in environmental community organization informs political process
• Concerns with process
• How GP facilitates or constrains local food systems
• How other GP processes can inform Humboldt County process
• How to improve planning process from professional perspective
• Understanding sustainable development in natural environment

What is systems based?

• Road networks
• Watersystems, connective element
• Soil – cycle- energy transfer
• Bio-mimicry informs systems based place (eg: effective farm is closed loop) Frank Lake’s work

Fixes – Next Steps

• Keep communication going
• Find common ground
• Look to other communities as models
• Emphasize conversation mode
• Apply open space model to GP
• What does system based planning mean relating to GPU?
• Seems to big to tackle
• Rivers are a reflection of our planning
• Human needs system with regard to long term plannind

GP Issues

• Not planning for future
• Tragedy of the commons
• Regulatory framework does not allow resource protection
• Resource use and over-use
• Length of GPU process 91/2 years – It is a living document – always being updated
• Keep all issues as relevant
• If some ideas too new or controversial to enact at present; build models to test and implement later