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�,��r-� � Attendance at these seven meetings ranged from a low of 10 to a high of 75 people. A total of about 175 — 200 non-duplicated people participated at these meetings over a one-year period. Even though the attendance varied, the • comments and discussion at these meetings gave a pretty solid sense of the issues in each neighborhood. All the meeting notes and comments are on the City website under'General Plan -- Public Meetings and Workshops'. • Finally, staff has been working on drafting the basic 'boilerplate' parts of the Elements required by State law; and meeting to refine what we have heard from the community. . This is what has happened to-date. The following is what staff recommends as the process from this point forward. • The next step is this joint study session. There may need to be additional such meetings to discuss all the issues. We are asking for your guidance regarding process from this point on. • Ultimately, staff will draft the General Plan and bring the draft back to the Commission and Council for review, probably some time in September depending upon your input at the study session. The Commission and Council will make comments and then the Council will forward the document to the Planning Commission for formal hearings. • The Planning Commission will hold hearings to consider community input, the recommendations from other groups and Boards and Commissions, and staff. They will also consider and certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and then make a recommendation to the Council on the General Plan. The EIR cannot start until the Council and Commission have seen and given some feedback on the overall 'vision' for the General Plan because the content will not be certain; and the Planning Commission cannot recommend and the Council cannot approve the General Plan until the EIR is certified. The EIR process takes from 8-9 months and so final action to approve the General Plan will be in the first quarter of 2006. • The City Council will hold a series of hearings on the General Plan, receive input from the Commission, staff and the community, make any amendments they wish and then approve the General Plan amendment. This is the suggested process. There has been some discussion that the neighborhood meetings held to date have not involved sufficient people in the discussion about the General plan. Staff believes that the public input process used so far has produced good feedback on the planning issues but if the Council wishes to hold additional meetings some things to consider are: �. What is the agenda for the meeting(s)? What are the desired outcomes? 2. A community meeting or meetings will take additional time. Is the extra time it will add to the schedule an issue (i.e. the General Plan draft will get to the Council later than September 2005)? -5- ,_.__. _.�.,_�_ ._ _._._ � _. _