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(2) The land is within the County zoned district of agricultural, residential and <br />~ricultural, family agricultural, intensive agricultural, agricultural project district, <br />or any other County zoned district meeting with the approval of the director of <br />planning <br />(~ The owner of land under the 20-vear agricultural dedication at Julv 1, 2003 may <br />continue to be assessed at fifty percent of its agricultural use value and shall be subject <br />to the conditions and provisions of the effective commercial agricultural use dedication. <br />(c) Determining Agricultural Use Value. <br />1) In determining the value of lands which are classified and used for commercial <br />agriculture use, consideration shall be given to rent, productivity, nature of <br />actual commercial agricultural use, the advantage or disadvantage of factors <br />such as location, accessibility, transportation facilities, size, shape, topographv, <br />quality of soil, water privileges, availability of water and its cost, easements and <br />appurtenances, and to the opinions of persons who may be considered to have <br />special knowledge of land values. <br />(2) Four general agricultural categories shall be used in determining the value of <br />lands which are dedicated for commercial agriculture: <br />(A) INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE, which includes such crops as vegetables, <br />(B) ORCHARDS, which includes such crops as macadamia nuts, guava, <br />banana, papaya, avocado, grapes, passion fruit, coffee, citrus, cacao, <br />pineapple and tropical specialty fruits. <br />(C) FEED CROPS AND FAST ROTATION FORESTRY, which includes forage <br />crops, seed crops, cane, short rotation forestry, biomass, grasses, etc. <br />(D) PASTURE AND SLOW ROTATION FORESTRY, which includes pasture and <br />longer rated forestrv. <br />(3) Lands classified as tree farm property pursuant to chapter 186, Hawaii Revised <br />T Statutes shall be considered for classification and valuation as agricultural. <br />(4) The portion of land that is not dedicated for commercial agriculture use shall be <br />assessed based on the proportional market value of the total property <br />(5) A farm dwelling site shall be assessed at the highest commercial agricultural use <br />value provided that the maximum farm dwelling site area to be assessed at the <br />h~hest commercial agriculture use value shall not exceed one-fourth acre. <br />13 <br />