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06/14/2005 0?: 47 3265597 KCO PACE P< <br /> EotY, Karen <br /> From: A.D. Ackerman [ad(~bigislandtv.comJ <br /> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 3:28 PM <br /> To: pilego, K. Angel - <br /> Subject: Opposed to Bill 60 , <br /> - c. <br /> June 13. 2005 <br /> Dear Angel, <br /> As a long time owner of agricultural ranch land in Kona, I am writing to express my family's cpncern <br /> with the restrictive language in Bill 80, specifically the ordinance amending Chapter 23, Article 3. <br /> Division 1, Section 23-23. I urge you to vote against it. , <br /> I would agree that we should protect important agricultural land in Kuna and on the Biy Island. <br /> However, there is too much land on the island designated as agriculture, which is of little or no <br /> productive agricultural use. Until there is hettar irtentification of important agricultural lands as <br /> opposed to unimportant ag lands, I believe it would not be appropriate for the County Council to <br /> restrict it's decision making ability based on the idea that all agricultural lands should be treated the <br /> same. This is particularly true in Kona where so much of the agriculture designated land in <br /> unproductive. <br /> Rather than restrictively trying to encumber all ag lands, good and bad, I think the County Council <br /> should identify the lands that are tnrly of important agricultural usage. These lands and the <br /> legitimate farmers and ranchers who sustain themselves on it should be protected from <br /> encroachment by development. Bill 80 does not accomplish this in a meaningful manner and could <br /> do more harm than good. I hope you will vote against it. <br /> Thank you. <br /> Aloha. <br /> A. D. Ackerman <br /> President <br /> <br /> Ackerman-Ranch <br /> P.O. Box 715 <br /> Kealakekue, HI 96750 <br /> Ph: 322-3672 <br /> ~ Comm. No. '2 I I.2 3 <br /> Ref. To:.f~fOeOA <br /> Raf. Dote <br /> y <br /> <br />