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The best way to accomplish what you are talking about is to create protective covenants which are restrictions from the person who owns the property and sells it to someone else, they are limited to use in just a certain manner. That can be done by protective covenant which is a legal procedure that controls the use of the land. Now, that is not in the general plan form. MR. SCHUTTE: That is just for a specific property. MR. ZUZAK: Yes , sir. Just for the property that you may own . If you own a hundred acres or a thousand acres of land you can do it on your land but you can ' t do it , on the land that is owned by your neighbor. MR. SCHUTTE: Then that doesn ' t necessarily help the overall situation because if you have a general plan condition to go by. If one is not going to go by the general plan in its adopted use and forum then why have the general plan at all y That 's my way of- thinking. You know, if you are going to designate cert aiW°-1=and`s!"as ag lands ; certain lands as ,resort ; hotels ; residential or what have you, then I think that 7-'-sh6 dl heiad.bered to as best as possible. Otherwise there is Map sense in having the general plan and all I 'm saying is that with this in mind you would tend. to stop this speculation if a buyer knew that if he bought into ag land he is not going to change it into residential lots two weeks from now. But if he bought into a residential lot he is not going to turn around and put up a pi?ggery right next door to my lot. And I think the same thing would be down in your resort areas. All that western side of the island is all heading for that. They say lava land, but , believe me, it is not that expensive to change lava land into very productive tourist properties MR. ZUZJ K:T That part is correct and that is exactly what they are proposing to do because it is not usable for many other things than that. That produces the greatest number of dollars . The only thing that we are trying to do is when that- does b'appen so that it does not adversely affect other properties by reason of the change of as8"essment , we feel that the prices are going to continue to increase on the l'aua land areas that are good for visitor development . They will continue to go up. We will derive income for it for the County of Hawaii but if we are not careful by something similar tothis to protect it those increased values will find themselves being reflected in. other properties that the use has not changed. And that is really what ive are talking about. Now, with respect to Daae other area, that is a matter of possibly control in speculation outside of the purview of what we ' re referring to as the tax approach to it to protect the local people who are here from those who are speculating in use of the property. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: We would like to thank Mr. Moss and Mr: Zuzack andMr. Fitzgibbons for presenting . their views to us today. MR. ZUZAK: ' Thank you very much for letting us be with you. 37