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?
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