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A Maui County Council committee is seeking community input on lands with conservation value at a meeting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Council Chambers on the eighth floor of the Kalana O Maui Building.
The Agriculture, Diversification, Environmental Protection and Transportation Committee will meet to consider Resolution 23-146, which requests Maui County's Conservation Planning Committee to review a list of land parcels and provide recommendations to the mayor and council on actions for those parcels, said Council Member Gabe Johnson.
"As a councilmember, the public often approaches me about lands they would like to see protected for environmental and cultural reasons," he said in a news release Monday. "The point of Resolution 23-146 is to seek the Conservation Planning Committee's expert opinion on what the County should do with some of these lands that have been identified by the public and community groups."
At the meeting, the committee will consider public input to amend the list of parcels already identified to focus on the most important and endangered lands, and to include additional parcels proposed by committee members and through public testimony, Johnson said.
The committee will also hear presentations from community groups involved in conservation work on the parcels proposed for the Conservation Planning Committee's recommendations.
In-person, online and phone testimony is welcome at the committee meeting, which can be viewed on Facebook and through the council's website. Testimony instructions and meeting materials are available at mauicounty.us/agendas.