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is a working group that is considering revisions to the State land use law, mostly in the agricultural area. One of the suggestions that we are making as a Department is that the system should work more to encourage redistricting of land use -, say from agriculture to urban, on a pro-active level in advance of individual applications so that you can look at these things in a group rather than on a one-by-one basis. So the specifics of how to do that, like everything, the tricky part is the details, but it is -, as a matter of overall approach and policy, something that we're trying to do. SPRINGER:Mrs. Kubota, any follow-up? KUBOTA:Yeah. Well, no, I was just reminded that at the last meeting that the past practice is not necessarily the best practice, so I thought well, we could find a creative way to attack it, go for it. SPRINGER:I share Mrs. Kubota's concern, and even changing the zoning of large tracts of land would not necessarily address the issues of infrastructure development, would it, Mr. Director? YUEN:No, it wouldn't, but you -, it enables you to say -, I mean the ideal way to do it is to have -, when you're having -. The problem is that you have scattered pieces of property that in themselves are not going to support major improvements, so we need a more -, as far as infrastructure planning and implementation, we need more effective ways of bringing in these various properties to fund the improvements that cannot be justified by the individual projects one by one. SPRINGER:Thank you. Any other Commissioners, questions or comments? DARROW:Ms. Chairman? SPRINGER:Yes, Jeff Darrow. DARROW:If I could just follow up on Commissioner Graham's question, it appears that you're looking at approximately 400 to 500 lots located in this area. That's not including The Pines, which has quite a number of units, as well as Aloha Kona, and so you're looking at quite a number of impact -, lots that are impacting this particular intersection, as well as the areas that are obviously going to be coming in for rezone and subdivision in the future. GRAHAM:Thank you. DARROW:If I also can bring up one point, and I'll defer the rest of that to the Applicant's representative, they did bring up the fact that there's a possibility of putting in ` another mauka-makai access road to Queen Ka`gtl`mtGhfgv`xhmsgdetstqd+`mcHllmns completely, have all the details on that, but I know it's to the south of these particular subdivisions. And so that may be a possibility that may be able to alleviate some of these 5