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Paul Sanfilipo, former Councilman, asked "since we have urban reserve areas of the City of Redwood City that do not have to be annexed into the City, why isn't the Council looking at rezoning our urban reserve areas? That's what I believe the Planning Commission and City Council ought to be doing instead of looking at a piece of property that we don't know what could go there since we don't really have a project." Peter Brandon, Project Manager for Pacific Shores Center, 3 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, said, "Change is difficult....(but) I am still optimistic." Mr. Brandon said that Pacific Shores was trying very hard to work through all the issues and that significant progress had been made. He said amending the General Plan was important, that it gave consistency to the prezoning vote, but it did not give Pacific Shores "an edge up on anything....The development agreement is the mechanism that gives project approval, and.....we haven't even entered into that stage of the process.....We are not going to get to that stage until we sort out a few important issues. One of the most important aspects is getting into a detailed agreement with the Port and going forward with an exchange ofIand as was proposed in an MOU that was entered into a number of years ago. That is my priority right now. My second priority is....to continue dialogue with the Port tenants....We will continue to work with everyone involved." 4) Close public hearing; MIS: LEIPZIG/CLAIRE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING CARRIED BY UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE AND HEARING CLOSED AT 8:58 P.M. MINUTE ORDER NO. 96-130 5) Council action; In response to Mayor Hartnett's questions, City Attorney Schricker said "The amendment to the General Plan is good planning law irrespective of the CEQA litigation. I would recommend that you not even consider the CEQA litigation in the context of carrying out good planning." In response to Councilman Claire's questions regarding sequence of events, Senior Planner Jany said the course of action taken so far with this project is typical; the normal procedure has been to do prezonings first followed by General Plan amendments. "There is nothing unusual with the way we are" handling this matter. "If it is a substantial project you need to look at it step by step, you just can't do everything at once," Mr. Jany responded. MINUTE BOOK NO.54 Page No. 278 MINUTES JUNE 10, 1996 REGULAR MEETING PAGE 14