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SIRACUSA:Okay. But if it was a restaurant like -. YUEN:Then youd need another, youd need a separate permit. It wouldnt be called a bed and breakfast. You could have a restaurant permit under, you could have a restaurant under a special permit; but we wouldnt call it a bed and breakfast, cause a bed and breakfast is limited to uncooked, like continental breakfast, because of Department of Health Food Service regulations. SIRACUSA:I was thinking specifically of these fancy country inns in New England that have the big gardens and you go around and pick your produce and then they cook it for you as part of the menu items. And you get to choose what tomato or all those tomatoes are going into your salad; and you cant complain afterwards, oh, I found a worm in my tomato. Well, you should have, you know, found it when you picked it. But those are things that are becoming increasingly popular. And I can foresee that with Ag Tourism coming on. I know the Ag Departmentispushingit.Youknow,theyhad,thelastyearsfairatKomohanawastalking about Ag Tourism and they had a fancy glossy brochure. So I imagine its just a matter of time until somebody comes up with something like that. YUEN:Yeah, it is becoming a big deal. And a lot of farmers are, there are a lot of people that are doing it and there are a lot of people that are interested in doing it. What happens though is youre a little bit at risk. And if somebody makes a complaint, then we go out and investigate, and you may wind up getting cited for a violation. So what we want to do is really lay out what level is definitely okay, and youre not at risk if you stay within these bounds, and you dont need a special permit but you can operate this kind of facility. SPRINGER:Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA:Mr. Director, the restaurant scenario, that would require, if its in an Ag area it would require a special permit, right, or a use permit? YUEN:Thats right. It would require a, it wouldnt be covered under this Ag, under the Ag Tourism itself, so youd have to get a special permit. You could combine it with Ag Tourism but the restaurant itself would not fit under the Ag Tourism. It would need a special permit, still need a special permit. SPRINGER: Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM: I guess my first reaction reading this bill is rather negative, and its negative for infrastructural reasons. And the sense is its all done at plan approval. In other words, 40,000, a hundred a day, 40,000 a year visitors can come to the facility and participate this without the public ever having a hearing or a meeting to say the road is not adequate, the turn-around is not adequate or anything. It all takes place in the County offices. And, you know, like just looking at a specific instance, I think maybe only Commissioner Springer was with me on the Commission when we did the Doutor Coffee one. As far as I know, the Planning Department had no problems with tour buses going along the Holualoa Road, which for me was a very substandard road and had no place for tour buses. But they didnt get a recommendation for tour buses, only because they didnt get the turn-around proper. But I think it was a real community issue whether tour uses should be coming to an agricultural tourism situation on that 4