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the 1000-square foot limit for major operations. I'd like to keep the requirement that ag tourism revenues shall <br />not exceed the agriculture revenues. <br /> <br />And also I'm a bit concerned that stakeholders not involved with ag tourism, they didn’t seem to be involved in <br />the discussions. Perhaps some of that will take place now as it moves through the Planning Commission. So <br />again thanks again for your hard work, and those are more concerns to throw into the mix here. Thank you. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you very much. Any questions? Commissioner Ono? <br /> <br />ONO: Yes, and I hope I phrase this question properly. You’re up in Mt. View. Are you a resident or are you in <br />the agricultural business? <br /> <br />HARDEN: I’m a resident. <br /> <br />ONO: Okay, thank you. <br /> <br />KERN: Any other questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you very much. Okay, does anybody want to <br />take a minute to go over it, or we can move into making a motion. Okay? Well, I’m willing to entertain a <br />motion. Daryn, do you have any recommendation on whether maybe to potentially defer it and give it a little bit <br />more time to gather more input, or any recommendation? <br /> <br />ARAI: The Director indicated earlier in her presentation that there may be opportunities or necessity to further <br />amend the bill based on testimony presented. We still have to take this bill to, before the Leeward Planning <br />Commission again in Kona. So, again, that may result in additional testimony information that could lead to <br />subsequent amendments. So at this point I defer to you. Director, you have anything -? <br /> <br />LEITHEAD TODD: Yeah, I was going to say I don’t have a problem either. You’ve got the draft fairly late, I <br />don’t have a problem with you folks deferring since there’s no rush on this. This is just, you know, it was a <br />request of the ag community. I’ve been sitting on it for a while and I just started looking at my list of things to <br />do and I said I better get this off my desk and get it out. But, you know, the process in our office is, you know, I <br />might draft something and then, you know, we’re trying to move it ahead, and staff will look at it, and we’ll get <br />comments and we’ll tweak it. And sometimes the tweaking occurs very last minute, and that’s just the process. <br />But I understand that you may want time to digest this and look at it, and that is not a problem. There is no <br />timeline, there’s no, you know, specific urgency on this at all cause it’s a Code amendment. You know, it’s not <br />somebody’s application to start running a business or anything like that. <br /> <br />KERN: Very good. Thank you, Madam Director. On that note, I’m willing to entertain a motion. <br /> <br />AU: Mr. Chair? <br /> <br />KERN: Commissioner Au. <br /> <br />AU: I move to defer amendments to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) relating specifically to ag, agricultural tourism. <br /> <br />KERN: To the next meeting? <br /> <br />AU: To the next meeting. <br /> <br />KERN: Our May meeting? <br /> <br />AU: A deferral or postpone to the next meeting in May. <br /> 6 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />