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ACKERMAN:Thank you for your comments. I agree with you. Id like to see Kohala stay beautiful and serene. On this particular piece of land, Id like to just make two comments to note and that is that my father owns a piece of land directly across from Kokoiki Road, and so making it stay in the family is one reason why Id like to live in Kokoiki. Kokoiki is the place that my heart is and why Id like to take a piece of land and nurture it. The other thing Id like to point out is that Im going to increase the agricultural use on this land, unlike Im not asking for residential, Im asking for family agricultural one because I intend to take it from a pasture land right now to a more farm type of environment which the details are listed in my report. GALDONES:Mr. Bryan? BRYAN:Id also like to point out that I think, you may have a better map.Imademyownsketchhere,butIthinktheres14propertiesonthisroad.Its about a quarter-mile along this road and to my knowledge all of them are two acres or less, except three of them, some are half an acre and one acre. So its not out-of-line with the current usage. GALDONES:Mr. Mitchell? MITCHELL:Just, again, to reiterate my comment. It seems to me, and were relatively newcomers to the North Kohala area, but it seems its becoming the parcel of the rich and famous or not so famous but rich. I mean, the people who are able to come up now and buy five acres at $500,000 or ten acres at a million dollars, it just seems that its going to be coming increasingly more difficult for people who want to be able to establish some kind of agricultural opportunity there to do so. And, again, I just, from my limited experience, Ive not met one individual thatd be more worthy of your consideration than Ms. Ackerman. GALDONES:Thank you. Mr. Yuen? YUEN:Well, I think Bill has pointed out some of the real dilemmas of this kind of decision and this kind of zoning; and the biggest, of course, is the question of precedent and what happens in the future. Were all sitting here, and where Im going with this is I am still justifying our recommendation of approving this, were all sitting here feeling Im sure that this individual and Im not judging this on the level of a personality but we feel, okay, that this is not a terrible thing to happen for this individual to rezone the property. We are all concerned with what happens if you do this 5,000 times on the island or 500 times in North Kohala. Sometimes I wonder, you know, you sit, they say, Ive never tried this, of course, they say if you put a frog in a pod and slowly turn up the heat, the frog will never jump out until it boils. 6