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. October 20,2005 Gas Station Focus Group Meeting . Fall 2006 Architectural Review Committee Meetings . November 30,2006 Community Information Meeting . December 5,2006 Draft EIR Hearing . June 6, 2007 Community Information Meeting . June 19, 2007 Planning Commission and Zoning Administrator Joint Public Hearing 7A Page 7 In addition to these meetings, both the Redwood Village Neighborhood Association and Costco have engaged the public as follows: . April 2006 Redwood Village Neighborhood Petition (petition is available for review in the City Clerk's office and was presented to Council on April 24, 2006) . June 6, 2007 Costco Survey (survey is available for review in the City Clerk's office) Council Hearing Preparation Because of the volume of documents associated with this appeal, City staff has been providing them to the City Council in advance of this staff report. Prior to release of this staff report, Council has received the following items: . July 5: June 26 Appeal letter (Attachment 1 to this staff report); June 20, 2007 Notice of Official Action (Attachment 3 to this staff report); Draft EIR; Final EIR; Fiscal and Economic Impact Studies . July 26: December 5, 2006 Planning Commission staff report; June 19, 2007 Planning Commission/Zoning Administrator staff report and hearing transcript; public notices. . August 9: Addendum to EIR; e-mails received through general Planning Division e-mail address on the Costco project after joint hearing on June 19, 2007; new document from appellant dated August 6,2007. All of the above mentioned documents are now and have been available to the public at City Hall and via the City's web site. Council has been instructed to retain all of these documents and bring them to the August 13 hearing along with their report packet. Public comments made via e-mail that were not related to the environmental review; the Redwood Village Neighborhood Petition; and Costco's In-store Survey have also been available in the City Clerk's office for public and Council consideration as well. The appellants also wish to include all public hearing notices, portions of the Stanford Outpatient and Downtown Precise Plan EIRs; as well as a general reference to CEQA requirements in the public record. These items were also previously provided to Council. In total, these documents constitute the public record for this appeal and are pertinent because of the technical and project description information that they provide. New Information from Appellants On Monday August 6, 2007, the appellants submitted a 75-page document containing additional information for Council's consideration that relates to their appeal. The document is titled "Objections & Concerns with the Costco Project." This document is provided to Council under separate cover. The document does not constitute the actual appeal document, which was properly submitted within 7 days of the Planning Commission and Zoning Administrator actions and is provided as Attachment 1 to this staff report. Staff has prepared responses to the appeal in Attachment 2. We have also