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Objective LU-3: Rural Area growth Management. To preserve the rural character of the existing rural towns, the agricultural lifestyle, and the open landscape. Objective HSG-: Build More Units. To build more units that offer a variety of housing types, tenures, and affordability. Policy LU-3.4: Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines. The Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines in Attachment C apply to proposed subdivisions outside of the Kona Urban Area (UA). The intent of the guidelines is to minimize grading, preserve the natural appearance of the land to the maximum extent possible, ensure agriculture use in the State Land Use Agricultural District, and create a rural setting for residences. Towards this end, the guidelines shall, at a minimum, specify: 1. Minimum lot sizes,- 2. izes;2. Natural and cultural resources meriting protection and associated buffer areas, as applicable; 3. Minimum standards for roads and wastewater disposal; 4. Legal tools for permanent protection, maintenance of open space, and/or agricultural lands; 5. Connections to the open spaces of surrounding areas. Policy LU-3.8: Rezoning Outside of Urban and Rural TODs and Outside of GP LUPAG Urban Area. Rezoning of areas currently zoned agricultural, outside of the Urban and Rural TOD areas shown on Figure 44-7 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, (2) the rezoning does not create a net increase in the potential number of agricultural lots (such as a rezoning that increases potential density in one area but also reduces density in another), or (3) the rezoning is to permit a subdivision consistent with the Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines, while preserving the majority of the properly in non- residential use dedicated to agriculture, open space, or other conservation purposes, and does not have the primary effect of allowing 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. a