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DOMINGO: Okay. Very good. WOODWARD: Commissioner Bowman. BOWMAN: If someone could show us where your lots are. Are they just abutting right below? BRANCO: Yeah. You see where that triangle? BOWMAN: Right BRANCO: Okay, those are five lots there BOWMAN: Okay. And those are yours? BRANCO: Yes. My property is the second to the last one there. But my shade house is on the first property, right on Awa. That’s where my parents own that, right off of, right there -. BOWMAN: And your shade house abuts the other -? BRANCO: It’s right there, yeah. You can see the shade house if you pass by today. And the next lot is my sister’s. They have a home there also. But that whole area is pasture. That whole area adjoining from the Awa Street there all the way back, that’s all pasture; and they’re currently using it for the cattle in there. BOWMAN: And the other lots are actively being -? BRANCO: Farming macadamia nuts. BOWMAN: Okay. And the other lots aside from your family lots are actively being used for agriculture or for -? BRANCO: For, well, for livestock. BOWMAN: Livestock. BRANCO: And there’s another residence at the last lot, the other triangle way in the back, right there. That’s my brother’s home. That home, my sister has a home on the second lot, and my parents have the original home in the front. BOWMAN: But this, you know, subdividing this property will not prohibit you from carrying on your agricultural endeavors because you still have the agricultural zoning. BRANCO: We still have the agricultural zoning, yes. So, you know, right against us, as they say we’re going to have homeowners. That’s like six lots in the back of us and -. I think it will hamper our, you know, we’ve got to use consideration for everything, you know. That’s a lot of people. That’s a lot of people there.I mean I think it would hamper, definitely hamper, 11