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Slide 1) rather than doing a study (which could result in the County LUPAG being sent wholesale to the LUC: although Planning told the 5-25 audience that not all IAL parcels would be sent to the LUC). It is not known what kind of notice and due process owners of Hawaii Island parcels on the list may be granted (including having input on the parcel selection criteria or the benefit of a study like Kauai did). Once a parcel is on the State IAL list for the LUC, a parcel owner may lose property value (see HRS 205-43 "county ... land use plans, [and] ordinances... shall be consistent with and implement... policies .... (3) Direct nonagricultural ... from important agricultural lands .... (4) Limit physical improvements on important agricultural lands to MAINTAIN AFFORDABILITY OF THESE LANDS......). Once on the IAL list owners will be subject to multiple hardships: restrictions on the right to build and occupy houses; prohibitions on additional uses; uncertainty about being able to rebuild destroyed or damaged structures including homes, etc. Once a parcel is on the State list it will take the permission of the LUC to get off the list (a lengthy and expensive procedure) *House Bill 1361/2014 session did not pass but gives a glance at what State IAL regulations would look like once the State IAL is determined by the LUC; https://Iegiscan.com/HI/text/HB1361/id/919216; "SECTION 1. To date, the land use commission has designated 89,859 acres of agricultural lands as important agricultural lands .... [currently ... 20141 the law does not limit the uses and activities that are permitted on important agricultural lands. Consequently, it appears that all of the uses and activities permitted on agricultural lands, generally, are also permitted on important agricultural lands .... The purpose of this Act is to identify permissible and accessory uses and activities on lands designated as important agricultural lands. SECTION 2. Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended.... §205- (a) Permissible uses within designated important agricultural lands. (1) Cultivation of crops.... (2) [Game and fish propagation]; (3) Raising of livestock (4) Farm dwellings, farm labor, or farm employee housing .... (other agriculture) (b) Uses not expressly permitted in subsection (a) shall be prohibited, except non -conforming.... no subdivision or establishment of a condominium property regime on designated important agricultural lands shall be approved by the State or counties....