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_ 413 Mayor Keckley suggested Mr . Ken Schroeter , Planning Director , give his report ( for full text SEE City Clerk ' s file - General Plan) on Development Priorities in Redwood City for the Next Few Years . Planning Director felt that perhaps if Council and Planning Commission would discuss their points of interest and concern he would be able to reply and alleviate some of their concern , and review the report at the same time . He commented on the state of the City and felt that the City should look to see where we were and how we got here and whether we would want to continue to go in that same direction . He felt that the City Council and Planning Commission shouldn ' t be looking for "pat " answers at the joint meeting , but rather to look at the discussion as a small part of the overall venture . City Manager commented on the philosophical foundations upon which staff thought about in terms of what public policy would be based upon , of which , hopefully , the two reports being presented would be classified . He noted the public policy that would have to be considered would have to go beyond the economic hard facts and go to value judgements that would have to be made in a much broader community sense than just Redwood City ; that consideration would have to be given to other municipal jurisdictions . He referred to the Planning Director ' s report with reference to page 6 on Interdepartme nt Use Preference Survey . The Planning Department had enlisted the cooperation of five departments in the City government - - City Manager , Fire , Parks and Recreation , Police and Public Works - - and had arrived at "preferences " for one kind of development over another . This background information and analysis would serve as a reasonable starting point for the consideration by the City Council and Planning Commission for a priority approach to further City development - - as opposed to " first come , first served " . After much discussion it was brought out that there was no set answer to any one or more types of land usages , however , that the situation demands very close monitoring during the coming years in an atmosphere of increasing under- standing regarding the favorable and unfavorable dynamics of urban development . It was noted that City could draw the graph of the future which wouldn ' t be a prediction but rather the program and exert their effort towards this goal , such as the General Plan could do . Mayor Keckley ordered a 5 -minute recess at 9 : 00 p . m . Concern for the social aspects of planning was discussed and Council and Planning Commission were assured that this phase of planning certainly would not be overlooked by staff in their compilation of information to be presented to them in future joint meetings . 6/19/73 Adjd . Mtg .