Each year, the APA Hawai`i Chapter recognizes significant contributions to the planning profession and to the advancement of planning issues and awareness in our communities.

The annual awards are given to recognize individuals, communities, private organizations, public agencies, and professional planning and design firms whose work exemplifies the planning profession’s highest goals and ideals. The awards program further serves to raise public awareness of the benefits of good planning by highlighting significant contributions that planning practitioners and professionals make to the State of Hawaii.

The APA Hawai`i Chapter is pleased to announce the following winners of the 2007 awards competition.

Community-Based Planning
Recognizes a citizen-based and initiated planning effort that establishes and enhances a sense of awareness of a community’s character, values, and aspirations.

Moloka'i Island Plan, Molokai, Hawai'i
Client: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
Nominee: Group 70 International

Environment/Preservation
Recognizes planning work done to nurture, perpetuate, or enhance the environment or the preservation of an area’s historic, and/or cultural resources.

Kapalua Coastal Trail, Kapalua, Hawai'i
Client: Maui Land & Pineapple Company
Nominee: Helber Hastert & Fee, Planners; Charlier Associates; PBR Hawaii & Associates

Outstanding Planning
Recognizes a project, process, or program that exemplifies excellence in planning.

Harris Ranch Specific Plan, Boise, Idaho
Client: Harris Ranch
Nominee: Belt Collins Hawaii Ltd.