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do an Interim Amendment that would put those roads on the facilities map. Theyre not currently shown and theres no interim amendments that affect those. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham, follow-up? GRAHAM:In the last sentence you said there --. So is that something you will be doing in the near future then, assuming this report comes back the way you think it will? YUEN:Yes. GRAHAM:Thank you. YUEN:And theres one thing that came up in the testimony and theres a point of misunderstanding of the General Plan, that where people say that Rural allows subdivision down to9,000squarefeet.Thereasonthattheresamentionof9,000squarefeetinthedescriptionof Rural in the General Plan is that we took Rural to encompass a lot of non-conforming subdivisions that were granted in the 50s and 60s. The problem with the previous General Plan was that these were simply not shown as rural communities on the General Plan. So a place like Ocean View or Hawaiian Paradise Park which are major, becoming major population centers, were shown as Orchards on the General Plan. Many of these subdivisions were as small as 9,000 square feet. Ainaloa Subdivision, for example, although its in the State Land Use Agricultural District, most of the lots are about 9,000 square feet. So this statement is a descriptive statement rather than, its a description of what is there rather than a prescriptive statement, a statement of what you should do in the future. And thats why theres this additional statement in there that the Rural designation does not necessarily imply subdivision or rezoning to allow lot sizes smaller than already exists in the area covered by Rural. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: As a follow-up to that comment, you know, I understand what youre saying. But, so what would we consider for the record, you know, a minimum size in a Rural going forward? YUEN:Thatll be decided at the zoning level. The General Plan itself does not have a minimum lot size in Rural. You would do it on a zoning level. WATANABE: But we havent formulated that yet, that guideline? YUEN:No, no. ALAMEDA:Other questions, Fellow Commissioners, before we start taking action on these amendments? We have eight amendments that Id like to take action today. I believe weve covered from north, east, south to west in terms of perspective and opinion on this particular amendment. So Id like to just ask that maybe we take action and just simply let your vote be your perspective, at this point. Could I entertain a motion for A-1? YUEN:Let me just mention for the record one thing that all these map amendments have corresponding text amendments that weve not talked about, but theyre just in 18