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YUEN:I€m not sure when this went into low density urban in the General Plan. It <br />was done either in the 89 General Plan or it possibly goes back to the 1971 General Plan. There <br />are some areas around some of the urban areas of Hamakua,North Hilo, that are general planned <br />for urban but were actually either planted in cane at the timeit was done or are potential cane <br />land. So almost all of the former cane lands in the Hamakua coast are prime in the ALISH <br />system and also the cane lands of Kau and Kohala. So, and the existing, some existing <br />neighborhoods like Wainaku or Paukaa or Papaikou, if you typed out the soils that are under <br />them, they would have been prime too. But there were these neighborhoods created; and the <br />General Plan allowed for some expansion of these areas. If you look at the General Plan now, <br />you€ll find that there are some very, actually the low density urban area goes very far mauka in <br />Wainaku. And we are, I did a workshop just in the last couple of days with a proposed interim <br />General Plan Amendment that would cut back the size of those low density urban areas from <br />these agricultural areas. But whenever, I can€t speak exact reason why this was put into low <br />densityurban;butwheneveritwasputintheGeneralPlansomebodymadeadecisionthatsome <br />residential expansion adjacent to these existing neighborhoods should be supported. <br />SIRACUSA:It has been my experience that whenever you had sugar cane you did have <br />pretty deep soil, doesn€t grow on broken up rocks the way papaya trees do, you know. But I <br />would certainly feel that this would be a prime example of when we shouldn€t follow the General <br />Plan, when we shouldn€t feel bound by it, when we have a, you know, a distinction like or <br />discrepancy like this when we do have prime Ag land. And so I€m glad that Kulana Kea is not <br />asking to go low density urban here with their change of zone, but they€re looking to keep it in <br />Ag. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Siracusa. Other Commissioners, question for <br />staff? Commissioner Watanabe. <br />WATANABE:Mr. Darrow, do you have any idea just how much of that area was zoned <br />RS-10? <br />DARROW:Yes. <br />WATANABE:Very small I take it. <br />DARROW:It was 14.6 acres. <br />WATANABE:Oh, 14.6. <br />DARROW:Are we talking about the original RS-15 zoning? <br />WATANABE:No, no, the portion that€s affected by this application for rezoning. <br />DARROW:Yes, that€s included in the -. <br />WATANABE:Oh, I€m sorry. Did I miss it? <br />DARROW:No problem. It€s 1., if I can refer to the background report, 1.372 acres. <br />3EXHIBIT D <br /> <br />