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Con: Requires extensive staff resources to coordinate both advisory committee and steering committees. Will also take the most time of all the models. d) Community Involvement In addition to the above committee structure, it will be important to have a community network for the public to participate in, either through the public hearings at the committee levels, City Council meetings, or through some other means. Staff will have to prepare notices and updates to those interested parties. Staff intends to establish a City web-site dedicated to the General Plan. Staff will put policies or background reports on the web, for the public's general comment and review. (Staff has already established a part of the City's web site for this purpose, and it will be expanded). There also can be direct links to the Neighborhood Associations, Chamber of Commerce, Boards and Commissions, and other interested parties. The City intends to use other resources such as Redwood City 2000 and Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group for their guidance in policy formation. Alternatives - . 1) Prepare an area plan for the downtown surrounding the theatre site and select other areas as deemed important; and follow a comprehensive public input process consisting of a combination steering and advisory committees. Such a process would be the most time consuming and costly, but will assure the maximum public process for the preparation of the document. (Staff recommendation) 2) Not prepare any area plans and utilize just a steering committee approach with very minor revisions to the General Plan. Once a decision is made, staff will begin the preparation of the appropriate area plans, and set up the public process. Staff will also report back to you on the details of 1he budget, various aspects of the revisions, and other information. Fiscal Impact Planning and Redevelopment staff will be orchestrating the General Plan update. In addition to staffs time, the City will hire consultants to help facilitate the numerous public meetings, help to prepare the Environmental Impact Report, and possibly write portions of the area plans. (A consultant, under the supervision of the previous Planning Director, prepared the last General Plan.) Staff could either conduct a major overhaul (rewrite every element and/or policies, update data, with new graphics and format) or just tweak and update the existing document with the added area plans. Some elements of the General Plan such as the land Use and Safety Elements will require more work than others to conform to State requirements. Staff will return with alternatives on what elements could/should be included in the update. The entire General Plan update process may take anywhere from 1 % years to 2 % years to undertake, depending on the type of process and model which is selected, and number of area --r