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About a year ago as part of the General Plan amendments, we had some general rezonings done. This area was not one of those. So we had a consideration of all of the zoning on its face a year ago on what the zonings should be for this island. And we know that at that time houselots was upzoned to medium density from low density. Okay? That did not happen in this area. The zoning was kept at Ag-40 and now were being asked to downzone it to Ag-3, when all the surrounding properties including the property across the street that has nonconforming lots, all of that is still Ag-40. And were cutting out this little triangular piece, literally cutting it out, from all of that Ag-40 zoning. If thats not spot zoning, if that is not giving special treatment to a piece of land contrary to the comprehensive plan adopted by the Council a year ago, I dont know what is. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Any other questions? Lets go with Commissioner Siracusa, and then Commissioner Watanabe; and lets be -. SIRACUSA:I -. ALAMEDA:Yeah, go ahead. SIRACUSA:I want to thank Commissioner Iwashita on expanding on my concerns aboutgentlemanfarming.Irecallawhilebackwehadanapplicationbeforeus.Andoneofthe things we did there was make a recommendation or a condition, I cant recall which it was and I dont remember the name of it, but maybe someone else will, that no further rezoning would take place on those parcels if we rezoned it then. And Im wondering if something like that would be applicable here to prevent one of the parcels from coming back later on and saying, well, you know, we want to reduce it down to residential, or Ag-1, or whatever, you know, like that, to keep this process from continuing to snowball just smaller and smaller and smaller, to the point where then were taking good Ag land out of Ag. I wouldnt want to see that happen. WATANABE:Mr. Chairman? ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe. WATANABE:In response to that, I believe he should refer to Condition E that the Director has already included in that with restrictive covenants as to resubdivision. Of course, it still would lay in the hands of the County Council, meaning the County Council would be the only people that could waive that. Thats how Im interpreting that. ALAMEDA:Mr. Director, is that the intent of that Condition E? SIRACUSA:Can you hold off just a minute so I can read it again? ALAMEDA:Okay, go ahead. SIRACUSA:Thank you. 19EXHIBIT A