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<br />UNGER: Because I did notice one of your recommendations is to not make a gross sales amount <br />part of a requirement for a viable commercial farming or ranching operation. I think the County <br />Council is looking at 30,000 bumped down to 10,000, and the Planning Department <br />recommendation is no, no proof of income from this farming operation, is that correct? <br /> <br />DARROW: It’s, the numbers get a little confusing; the 30,000 and the 10,000 has to do with <br />visitor count. There is a, currently in the Code, if you look at the paper I was mentioning, right <br />there (d)(1) it refers to the agricultural activity having a minimum gross sales of 10,000 dollars. <br /> <br />UNGER: Okay, so that’s still even in with your proposal — <br /> <br />DARROW: No — <br /> <br />UNGER: — recommendation back to the County Council? <br /> <br />DARROW: Yeah, we’ll, if it’s okay, if I could address that question when we — <br /> <br />UNGER: No problem, no problem, I just — <br /> <br />DARROW: Okay. <br /> <br />UNGER: — I just did remember seeing that. <br /> <br />DARROW: In fact, I think that’s taken out of, in Bill 227 as well. <br /> <br />UNGER: Good, we’ll get back to that then. <br /> <br />DARROW: Yeah. So back to the commercial operations, it’s good you brought up that point <br />regarding the definition of a working farm. So we’ve been having these meetings; this whole <br />endeavor has not been without a lack of many meetings with different people and agencies. One <br />of them was with Office of Planning and different members of the County’s throughout the island. <br />They had, we were unaware of this, but apparently, the legislature when they adopted this bill for <br />agricultural based commercial operations, also included that as a farming operation. So in a sense <br />it wasn’t just talking about a farming operation like cattle and raising, you know, fruit or <br />whatever; it also said that if you are doing an agricultural-based commercial operation, that is <br />defined as a working farm. So that really put a wrench in our process there. But the nice thing <br />about the law is it does allow the counties to further restrict or define the law, and that’s what we <br />are attempting to do here. Again, to bring it back to where both ag tourism and commercial <br />agricultural operations are linked to a working farm, and that they are secondary and accessory to <br />the main use, which is a working farm. <br /> <br />CHURCH: Jeff, I’ve got a question here. <br /> <br />DARROW: Sure. <br /> <br />11 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />