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. . I . - that was designated as a special meeting rather than a regular meeting. Tonight's meeting is in part to rectify that from a technical point of view, but there were in ~ addition, in the meantime, two areas of changes that were recommended as wel!. One was changes that had been recommended by our staff, and they were in our packet as well. Additionally we were apprised recently of other changes to the Development Agreement that might be occasioned by an agreement between those persons who had initiated a law suit against Electronic Arts and the City of Redwood City with respect to the Environmental Impact Report and the same people who had made public indication of efforts to circulate a petition for a referendum regarding the City's approval of this project." Mayor Hartnett said "The issues that have been under discussion were reported to the Council before this evening. They were reiterated to us in written format for purposes of this evening and the Development Agreement as revised that is before us tonight is an Agreement that reflects all of the changes that have been discussed between the opponent parties and agreed to between them as wen as those that have been recommended by our staff." 2) Open public hearing; Mayor Hartnett declared the public hearing open at 9: 14 p.m. 3) Hear public comment; ~ Joe Keene, Attorney for Electronic Arts, Redwood, Inc., said he was aware that the at least some of the Council "had been informed by staff as to the status of our discussions and finally our agreement this afternoon with the various members of the Coalition for Compatible Land Use and the other plaintiffs in the pending action against the City, Flatirons and Electronic Arts." Mayor Hartnett asked Mr. Keene "Can you represent to us that there has been a settlement between and among the parties that you have mentioned, that is signed by the parties that disposes of the law suit that has been filed that contains the compromises that have been presented to us in the form of revisions to the Development Agreement?" Mr. Keene said "That agreement has been signed. It does exist. I have a copy with me.... I want to describe briefly the structure of the agre~ment because Electronic Arts Redwood is the only party to the agreement that is signed by what I win call the defendants in this action. Because we don't have the power to accomplish on our own all the things that need to be accomplished to dispose of the law suit the agreement is structured as follows: We have agreed to undertake best efforts to see that two things happen. The first is that this Council approve tonight and adopt in a subsequent meeting after second reading, the amended version of the Development Agreement that ~ incorporates the changes that were discussed and agreed to in the spirit of compromise REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 AUGUST 26,1996 MINUTES Page No. 452 PAGE 15