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Dru Kanuha, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 5 subdivision into lots smaller than allowed by existing zoning. This policy is intended to prevent the rezoning of agricultural property to allow agricultural subdivisions where the primary objective of the lot owner will be to have a residential estate." Whereas, these policies encourage a clustered rural land use pattern but do not require the use of the Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines for every subdivision in the rural area. • Land Use Policy LU-3.5 states "Any subdivision of important agricultural land (IAL) lands involving 30 acres or more currently zoned at densities between Ag-I a to Ag-5a and FA are encouraged to follow the Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines in order to prevent sprawling, large-scale residential subdivision of these lands." • Land Use Policy LU-3.6 states"When granting any subdivision water variance served by a private water system to allow a subdivision involving 30 acres or more, a condition of the variance should be to follow the Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines." • Land Use Policy LU-3.8 states "Rezoning of areas currently zoned agricultural, outside of the Urban and Rural TOD areas shown on Figure 4-7 Official Kona Land Use Map, and outside of urban designations on the General Plan LUPAG, shall not be allowed, except in the following limited circumstances:... (1)the rezoning allows only a small number of additional lots, consistent in scale with the transfer of lots to family members," • Overall Economic Development Strategy 4.8.2(d) Food Industry states "The primary strategies for the enhancement of our Agricultural Industry in Kona focus on the following. 1. Protection of Agricultural Lands. The maintenance of the current overall density of agriculturally- zoned lands outside of the Kona Urban Area(UA) will discourage unplanned sprawl as well as protect agricultural lands for agricultural uses. See Policy LU-3.8.