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KUBOTA:Maybe IÓm being overly simplistic in my thinking. But if your goal is to prohibit smaller sized, what shall I say, breakup of the land itself, couldnÓt you do it by raising the minimum acreage, instead of 5 you can say, well, no I guess you canÓt do that. IÓll get back to it again. I think IÓm kind of mixed up in the explanation. YUEN:Yeah, you could, if you didnÓt have a project -. An alternative, for example, would be a 10-acre, you know, rezoning for 20-acre minimum lot size to 10-acre minimum lot size; but that would mean that all lots would inflexibly have to keep to a 10-acre minimum. There wouldnÓt be a mix of sizes where some would be b max out the number of lots, they would have to make them all 10 GRAHAM:Mr. Chairman -. FUJIKAWA:Graham. GRAHAM:This question would be for the Planning Director, or for Norman, whoever is appropriate to answer it. Because this is kind of a controversial in the sense of breaking new ground in the actions of the Commission, Òcause in the items here you have not reduced the lot sizes on prime agricultural land. I would wonder if the Director could give us a little context in the Kau district here in the sense of letting us know if there are any other similar intentions that have been expressed to the Planning Department for similar types of agricultural project districts or, and I believe I heard that Peter Savio was having put together a project to make more affordable land available in the district, if you could just give us a little update on what else in this district regarding large scale agricultural land might be afoot or what might have transpired already so that we have a context in which weÓre understanding this application. FUJIKAWA:Go ahead, Director. YUEN:The only other proposal that IÓm aware of right now is the Savio proposal which is for areas that are, on looking on the map, to the left of Pahala town, or in the South Point direction from Pahala town, that would involve about 1700 acres. And the proposal would result, would also be an agricultural project, would also involve a 5-acre minimum and a 10-acr average. ThatÓs what is being proposed. The application is being prepared. The application hasnÓt reached the Department yet. GRAHAM:Thank you. YUEN:And besides that, IÓm not, we donÓt have anything else in the shop; and IÓm not aware of any, I donÓt think weÓve had any specific inquiries from other landowners. ThereÓs a fair amount of zoning, the sugar lands, the former sugar lands, are just about all 20- acre zoning. I think as you get more towards South Point, thereÓs a fairly large area with 5-acre zoning in Kau, and some of thatÓs not subdivided. I could be wrong on that, though. 5