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Exhibit "A" ScoDe of Services 1. Project Approach Hart Howerton Ltd. (Consultant) will be retained by the City of Redwood City (City) to perform an initial review and analysis of the "Saltworks SO/50 Balanced Plan" entitlement application and statement of justification submitted to the City in May 2009 by DMB Redwood City Saltworks (Application and Applicant). Due to internal staff time constraints, the City has requested Consultant to assist them in completing an initial Application review and manage a consultant and City staff team (Review Team) in the evaluation process. The intent of the City review process is to address three goals that may be defined as follows: 1. Determine if the Application is adequate for the sake of continued City review. If inadequate, then determine what information is required for an adequate Application. 2. Identify and verify assumptions within the Application, assess their validity, and identify any other issues or concerns that might be associated with those assumptions. 3. Establish a reliable and useful system for keeping policy makers, the public and the applicant informed about the initial application review process. 2. Overview As part of a previous contractual agreement with the City, Consultant designed a structure for how the process will work, a hierarchy of responsibility for Review Team members and key project issues, a public information and communication overlay, and an identification of each of the Review Team components. Central to this contractual agreement are agreed-upon roles and responsibilities for Consultant. They include the following: 1. Consultant shall be working in an adjunct role to the City staff and will assist the City in this initial Application review process. 2. The City Manager shall serve as the Review Team "sponsor" and the City's Senior Planner shall be the City's project manager and staff point person. Within the Review Team an internal review management team shall be established for the purpose of ensuring that the initial review process is effectively and efficiently executed. This oversight group shall be comprised of the City Manager and three other City staff members; two firm principals of the Consultant; and the City's public information consultant. 3. The initial review of the Application has been arranged in a hierarchical system. "Tier One" of the process represents the most critical review issues of water, transportation and jurisdictional overlays. These