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Now I do want to address that and look atthat in the Subdivision Code, and have road standards for subdividing off of the existing County roads. I think that is a weakness in the standard. That isnt anything thats covered by any of the proposed bills. Its not something that would be dealt with by level of service standards, these LOS A to F, because those strictly relate to congestion. Typically in these country type roads that may be really substandard even for the subdivisions that are there. Even if you subdivide out youre not going to have congestion on the road in the sense that these level of service things are measured. The problem is the road itself may be, you know, 9 feet wide. But there may be 20-acre lots along that are zoned Ag-3 and there is potential for further rezoning. I think that is a valid issue. Its something that, as I say, Id like to address. Its just not something I jumped on this round of revisions todo. Ideally it would be done in an overall look at the Subdivision Code. SIRACUSA:May I follow-up? GRAHAM:Yes, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:Yes, because there wasanother, at the bottom of that same page where you say, Often the final uses on the property are not clear at the time of zoning. We all have examples of that in our heads. For example, commercial zoning allows a wide range of uses that generate different traffic demands, including homes, fast food, blah, blah, blah. And, to me, this says well this is all the more reason to review the list of permitted uses for the different types of zoning; and yet when you gave the talk to us at our year-end meeting in December I think it was that you indicated that the Department had no intention of going there. And so it seems to me that, for one thing, youre saying were not going to go there, but on the other hand youre admitting that the problem exists. And I dont understand why we cant look at addressing some of these problems. YUEN:We have had some site specific types of commercial zoning and if you -. Lets step back a little. Text book zoning, if you pull out a text book on how you do zoning, the text book will say something like the idea is you zone the property for commercial use and then you let the market determine what exact types of uses are going to be on it; and there should be a flexibility of this over time. The needs change over time. The goal is that you, is the site appropriate for a commercial type of use, make sure that the infrastructure is appropriate for it, you go through the range of things that can be allowed, and then you zone it; and you dont worry whether its a restaurant, an office building, a retail store and the like. Thats a classic text book zoning. Weve had many circumstances where people come in for commercial zoning with an idea of I want to do X. Like a gentleman in Kau a couple of months ago, he had an existing home, he wants to keep the home, he wants to convert it to an office. It wont qualify as a home occupation because he wants to have more people there than you can have as a home occupation. This is all he wants to do. If we look at that picture it looks very attractive. If you do the whole analysis of, well, what if he made a 7-Eleven, you know, then you start to maybe look at it a little differently. So in realizing that and seeing a number of these situations over time, we have deviated from what I would, you know, say zoning textbook and had various site specific 7EXHIBIT D