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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> Current Proposed Criteria in General Plan Draft <br /> <br /> <br /> Agriculture Designations - Draft General Plan Update 2002 <br /> <br /> (Intensive Agriculture: Sugar, orchard, diversified agriculture, and floriculture. <br /> <br /> High: Fertile soil. <br /> Low: Less fertile soil. <br /> Extensive Agriculture: Pasturage and range lands. <br /> <br /> Orchar : Those agricultural lands which, though rocky in character and content, <br /> support productive macadamia nuts, papaya, citrus and other similar agricultural <br /> products). <br /> Important Agricultural Land: Important agricultural lands are those with better <br /> potential for sustained high agricultural yields because of soil type, climate, topography, <br /> or other factors. Important agricultural lands were determined by including the <br /> following lands: <br /> <br /> • Lands identified as "Intensive Agriculture" on the 1989 General Plan Land Use <br /> Pattern Allocation Guide maps. <br /> • Lands identified in the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii <br /> (ALISH) classification system as "Prime" or "Unique." <br /> <br /> • Lands classified by the Land Study Bureau's Soil Survey Report as Class B <br /> "Good" soils. (There are no Class A lands on the island of Hawaii. <br /> • Lands classified as at least "fair" for two or more crops, on an irrigated basis, by <br /> the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service's study of suitability for <br /> various crops. <br /> <br /> • In North and South Kona, the "coffee belt," a continuous band defined by <br /> elevation, according to input from area farmers. <br /> • State agricultural parks. <br /> <br /> Some areas that meet the criteria for important agricultural lands on an irrigated basis <br /> only were included in the "Extensive Agricultural Land" category due to their <br /> remoteness from potential sources of irrigation. <br /> Certain areas that could have been classified as Important Agricultural lands have been <br /> placed within urban land use categories. Generally, these are adjacent to existing urban <br /> areas. This represents a decision that the orderly development of those urban areas <br /> justifies the eventual conversion of those lands to urban use. <br /> <br /> Because of the scale of the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide maps used to designate <br /> Important Agricultural Land, the location of these lands should be verified by more <br /> detailed mapping when considering specific land use decisions. <br />