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from surrounding property owners and residents due to excessive noise and unsafe traffic <br /> conditions. <br /> ~fhe Council, in recognition of agricultural tourism as a viable element of the visitor <br /> industry and as an expanding alternate income resource for local larmers and ranchers, finds it <br /> necessary and appropriate to define agricultural tourism and to establish guidelines to manage its <br /> impacts in a manner consistent with the social, em~ironmental, physical, and economic goals and <br /> policies of the General Plan for the County of Hawaii. <br /> SECTION 2. Chapter ?5, article 1, subsection 25-1-5(b), Hawai`i County Code 1983 (June <br /> <br /> 2005 Editiou), relating to delnitions, is amended by adding the following new definitions to be <br /> <br /> appropriately inserted and to read as follows: <br /> ""Agricuhural activities" means income producing activities or uses as characterized by <br /> <br /> the cultivation of crops, including but not limited to flowers, vegetables, foliage, fruits, forme, <br /> and timber; and farming or ranchin}~etivities or uses related to animal husbandry, aguaculture. <br /> or game and tish propa ration; <br /> "'`Agricultural tourism" means visitor-related commercial activities or periodic special <br /> events designed to promote agricultural activities being conducted on a working farm, ranch, or <br /> agricultural products processing facility." <br /> SECTION 3. Chapter 25, article 2, division 7, section 25-Z-71, Hawaii County Code 1983 <br /> (June 2005 Edition), is amended to read as follows: <br /> "Section 25-2-71. Applicability; plan approval required. <br /> (a) Plan approval shall be required prior to the construction or installation of any new <br /> structure or development or any addition to an existing structure or development in all districts <br /> except in the RS, RA, FA, A and IA districts. <br /> 2 <br /> <br />