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reserve and dedicate more frontage than is matching the neighbor's rock wall setback. As long as it's developed into a wide pedestrian bicycle shoulder separated pathway, that should be sufficient. Mahalo for your time and dedicated service. VITOUSEK: Thank you very much. Next, we have Janet Matlock. MATLOCK: Aloha. I wanted to express my concern about the way this particular parcel is being marketed, if you will, to you as being a way to expand agriculture when, in fact, it, it's really just chopping it up into smaller parcels that are not intended, really, to be agricultural. They are intended to be sort of a gentleman's farm; they're intended to be 1- acre little oasis. And, and so, it's not so much the idea of going from ag to ag, it's the way it's being done. If you look at the map, there are some very long narrow driveways that lead to it and just to quote a little bit here, it says that leaving it an Ag-5a land "greatly restricts the potential of beneficial use of the property allowing at most two lots with limited association--associated farm dwellings." They argue that changing to family ag would offer diverse small agricultural pursuits, but it doesn't make any sense. How does chopping it up make it more [indecipherable]. And then when you look at what they really expect to do they say, so, "the commission on water resource management questioned if there would be water for this. The commission recommended conservation strategies and that Water demand that calculations be done, and I'm assuming that's because they can't actually mandate when they just request them. The response from the developer's agent was that they recorded some rainfall averages from 2014 and said they would do additional calculations if they were required. So, I guess that's up to you to actually require them. Because this is, you know, water is scarce, we are in drought conditions, the more people you add the more demand on water, the less and less we're going to have for agriculture. The response to recommended conservation strategies was to agree they were a good idea and it said they would encourage their use throughout the development. They said, "native drought tolerant landscaping would be encouraged in the proposed subdivision." I notice they're not encouraging agriculture. So, if you're going to do this, fine, but be genuine about it. I think it should be left to a larger agricultural zone that it is now, and actually use it for agriculture. We're trying to achieve food security as an island, as a state, so we don't have to barge everything in, but we keep chopping it up, and chopping it up into smaller and smaller parcels that are not going to feed much of anybody. So, that's, that's my—I encourage you to consider that when you think about this rezoning. Mahalo. 6 EXHIBIT F