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So thats my suggestion with how to proceed and if thats fine with the Commission then I can start taking questions. ALAMEDA:Any objections fellow Commissioners with the proposal made by the Director on how to proceed? Seeing none any questions? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Yeah I have a question on the Hokulia area and I raise that because it seems that were designating that either, on the maps now, either as extensive Ag or orchards and what is that? I dont know what else we got there but you know Im referring back to the settlement that was recently reached and I believe the settlement directed Hokulia to go back to the State LUC and request a Rural designation. And I also seem to recall that within the workshops you had talked about Rural designation from 1,000-foot elevation and below but I think I need some clarification on that. Is Hokulia included in the Rural designation? It doesnt seem to be reflected on the map that way. YUEN:This set of interim amendments does not have any change to the present GeneralPlandesignationofHokulia.Hokuliaisnotreallysetasideonthemapspecificallyasa project. When-, it is referred to in the text of the General Plan as a approved project. We are considering whether to do an interim amendment to the General Plan for Hokulia in a different set but there is nothing in this set that actually changes what is in the current General Plan for Hokulia. WATANABE:Okay so then for clarification youre saying that the Planning Department is considering making some change but you need a little more time on that so its not included within these proposed interim amendments? YUEN:Right. WATANABE:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Other questions Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Chris I dont think this is covered by what we just discussed on Hokulia but I think some of our testimony that we may get today and all relates to that Kealakekua Bay going mauka and wheres the boundary between intensive Ag and extensive Ag and the Conservation Zone. Could you just give a little refresher on what we have planned for there so that if we catch any testimony on it we have (inaudible) in mind? YUEN:Okay well thats the slide that we have here, in the first, not of the Kealakekua Bay site but lets start from Keauhou side and the North Kona side. What happened this orientation here, this is Halekini Street is right here. This is Keauhou Bay here. This is the Mamalahoa Highway up here. This line here is the old railroad right of way or the railroad grade. So this is most, this is currently open land used for grazing and zoned Ag-5. Our original proposal in the 2001 General Plan based on some soil information that we had was to have, theres quite a bit of important Ag land in this area. In some places going down to the ocean. There was some challenge to that at the General Plan level by a number of the landowners EXHIBIT D 3