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Fred Soderer said that when the HCC was further along on the Housing Element , perhaps the conclusions reached would help the Council evaluate the Mobil proposal . An all-out citizens investigation at this time might "blow the ,:hole thing . " Mary Henderson said that the HCC and the City Council had made some strong statements concerning the County Housing Element and that she thought in the absence of a City Housing Element the County Element would be taken as a guide- line . Bill Floyd said that he thought that the housing proposals Mobil had made to the Planning Commission had been included in their proposal to keep people from looking at other things they were doing . Some of those other things "made me sick, " he said . Kathy Mahaney , who had come in while this discussion was underway , asked why the Housing Concerns Committee had decided not to look over the proposal . Paul Keckley said that the HCC would look over the proposal when and if the City Council refers it to the HCC . Jim Smith said that the proposal the City has from Mobil now is essentially on financing and might take the HCC six months to go through . Land use and planning are only touched on tangentially in the proposal , he said . Kathy Mahaney asked if there were any reason why the low/moderate-income part of the Housing Element could not be rather quickly prepared . Housing Aide David Ransom said that he thought perhaps the City needed an interim statement on low/moderate-income housing such as Palo Alto had . Mary Henderson said that she thought the City had such a statement in its statement on the County Housing Element . Ransom asked to what specifically she referred . Paul Keckley indicated the requirement that low/moderate-income housing be disseminated throughtout all communities equally . Lou Knowles said that the request of his group had been that the City publicly discuss the Mobil plan. Was that going to be done , or was the decision going to be made behind closed doors ? Bob Norris said that there was no way that the decision was going to be made behind closed doors . Paul Keckley said that closed-door decisions may be what Mobil is used to in other countries , but it would not be the way in Redwood City . Max Rice asked to hear the Committee respond to the suggestion that public hearings not be held until the Housing Element is completed . Mary Henderson said that she had heard no suggestions for public hearings . She said that the City may not want to hold public discussion on this plan but may reject it out of hand ' MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE OCTOBER 25 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 5