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t Fred Soderer asked how long that might take . Jim Pales said that there would be three phases to the study . The first would be the analysis of human components from Census data . The inspection of physical condition would take the longest time--three months- -even though there would be no inside inspections . This exercise would be used to expose the Committee to the various federal programs and what they ' re supposed to do when they ' re applied . He estimated that the project would take four to six months . Fred Soderer suggested that the study be kept on a low-key basis . Jim Fales said that if somebody wants to make a political thing of the program, "you ' ve got two choices : either explain the program thoroughly to everybody in the neighborhood or drop it . " The program will not " do" anything to anybody , he said , and it could just as well be going on in some other neighborhood . Mary Henderson asked that there be a review of how the Committee should be thinking about the program for the next meeting . She said she hoped that the study process would include itemizing the costs of not doing something in the neighborhood as well as the costs of doing something . Sylvester McGuire said that his statements hadn ' t been meant to suggest that the City shouldn ' t start the project , but what the problems were in getting it started . "When you go out and start something , they ' re not going to take your word for it . They ' re going to tell a neighbor . Things swill come back to us totally different than they went out . " Jim Fales said that the study would be as unobtrusive as possible but that "as possible " meant that it wouldn ' t be totally unobtrusive . Max Rice said that he understood that the purpose of the study was as an education process for the HOC to enable them to make cogent recommendations to the City Council . He said that he thought this was a critically important area that the HCC must look into . But the reason the Staff has chosen to pick this neighborhood points out that the HCC sees itself more as a redevelopment group than a development group , he said . He said that he hoped the City would spend as much time on development , specifically the development of Redwood Shores . Mary Henderson said his point was well taken . Ken Schroeter said that the project was not solely educational . If problems were found , programs would be gone after to solve them. Jim Pales said that the problem of taking bare land and doing something with it was no more or less difficult than taking some area that has already lived a life and doing something with it . But the process by which decisions are made for a place like the Shores are not self- starting in the same terms as a neighbor- hood program in which the town is able to consider programs by its own volition . The decisions to develop bare land begin outside the community. Mary Henderson said that nonetheless the HCC hasn ' t made any recommendations to • the Council about development . MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 8 , 1972 PAGE 5 OF 7