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WATANABE:Yeah. Exactly but that signalization would be up to the State no one else right? HAYASHI:Well that would be based on what the State would determine whether thats necessary or not I guess, yes. WATANABE:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Norman on the recommendations on page 4 about 60% of the way down the page its mentioned about Office of State Planning and their 5 year State Land Use District Boundary Review. Where the Water Resources Research Center, which I presume is part of OSP recommends that the high rainfall area mauka of 2,000 feet be redesignated into the conservationdistrict.Iguessifyoucouldgiveusjustalittlemore,youorMr.Yuengiveusa little more background on that. Whats the timeline of that? Is that the sort of thing-. I guess the only thing that comes into my mind as maybe a possible concern is that if it did get moved into the conservation district then these kind of rezonings you know would not be allowed to happen. So, is this something thats kind of getting in ahead of the timeline there? Just give me a little background on that since Im not aware of it. ALAMEDA:Mr. Director? YUEN:Thank you. Well this was an initiative of the Office of State Planning in the last 5-year boundary review, which was done at that time in 94. They recommended-, they had a lot of recommendations. Im pretty familiar with it. My sister actually was a, the effort. These recommendations were vigorously opposed by the mauka Kona-, this particular set of recommendations were opposed by the mauka Kona landowners and did not go through. In other words there is no pending initiative to do this. The follow-up to it was really the Kona- Kohala Watershed Roundtable, which then produced a document of policy recommendations for handling the upper areas. Then-, and this-, the actual effort to reclassify the mauka lands into the conservation district was basically given up by mid-1990s. And then on the County level what happened was 2 Council resolutions that weve generally been following in the Kaloko rezoning, which was a- we should, in the upper elevations we should allow rezoning to Ag-10 to then create 2 lots out of one but there would be conditions requiring a preservation of forest in connection with that. And at the lower elevations you would allow the Ag-3 rezonings with similar kinds of forest preservation conditions. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Thank you. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I have a question for the Director. You know, I read in the West Hawaii Today that on a similar rezoning the Council had suggested that an additional condition, which EXHIBIT C 3