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/ZJ-6 designated because "there are no services proposed for this area and there is no allocation for either sewer treatment plant capacity or water". This area has since been sold to the federal government and is now a part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. This area was zoned TP at the time of the 1990 General Plan and is still zoned TP. Urban Reserve -- Leslie Salt Crystallizers The third area, newly designated Urban Reserve in the 1990 General Plan, is the area of the Leslie Salt Crystallizers. The General Plan notes that, "no services are provided to this area and there is no allocation for either sewer treatment capacity or water". The area designated Urban Reserve is estimated in the General Plan to be about one third of the land area of the salt crystallizers in Redwood City. The balance of the area was designated as Open Space. Joel Patterson who was involved with the process leading up to the 1990 General Plan indicates that the Urban Reserve designation was driven by those who wanted to create additional industrial lands around the existing heavy industry cluster surrounding the port. The zoning of this area was predominantly TP with one area of General Industrial (GI) and it was not changed subsequent to the 1990 General Plan. Westpoint Marina is under development on lands purchased from Cargill but neither the General Plan designation (Open Space) nor zoning (Tidal Plain) was changed in the process. The marina use was consistent with both the General Plan and zoning. Since the 1990 General Plan, Cargill (the successor owner to Leslie Salt) has sold much of their south bay holdings to the federal government and other agencies (while retaining the right in perpetuity to harvest salt in some of the areas). The Cargill lands in Redwood City were offered to the public in 2003 but the offer was declined due to the high asking cost of the property. In summary, with only one residue of Urban Reserve left in Area H and the largest area of Urban Reserve in South Shores now permanently part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge staff has been studying whether the new General Plan should consider keeping the Urban Reserve land use designation on Area H and the Leslie Salt Crystallizers. Staff was asked to provide some of the land use background to the major areas of undeveloped land on the Bayfront, and to discuss possible alternative processes that the Council might consider. Staff's recommendations on changes to the General Plan will be made to the Planning Commission and the Commission will recommend to City Council, after completing and certifying the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). If Council wishes to make changes to land use designations on these undeveloped lands they have two choices: 1. Deal with all the changes coming out of the General Plan Amendment process as an integrated whole, reviewing them as part of the overall General Plan document. Staff estimates that the critical path for the General Plan is the time it will take to complete the EIR - generally a 9 month process2. The EIR has not yet started 2 The broad steps in the EIR process include: creation of the draft EIR (approximately 3 months); processing the 6 -""-_..","?'....~