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7.A meetings to review the document. On November 23, 2009, the City Council generally concurred with the proposed draft New General Plan and directed staff to complete the New General Plan and Environmental Impact Report (ER). The New General Plan and Final Environmental Impact Report (consisting of the Draft EIR and Responses to Comments) were reviewed by the Planning Commission on September 7, 2010. At that meeting the Planning Commission recommended certification of the Final EIR and adoption of the New General Plan to the City Council. (Please refer to Planning Commission minutes dated September 7, 2010 —Attachment 4.) To ensure clarity with respect to the action before the City Council, the following summary of documents under consideration is provided: • Draft New General Plan dated November 2009 (distributed to the City Council and discussed at joint hearings with the Planning Commission); • Draft EIR dated May 2010 (distributed to the City Council on May 13, 2010); • A New General Plan for Redwood City: Response To Comments (RTC) on the Draft EIR and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), dated August 2010 (distributed to the City Council on September 9, 2010); • General Plan Revision Matrix and Attachments (distributed to the City Council on September 30); • Resolutions including findings pertinent to EIR certification and plan adoption (Attachments 1 and 2); and • New information, correspondence and errata sheet (attached to this staff report). The Final EIR incorporates the Draft EIR dated May 2010 and the RTC/MMRP document dated August 2010. The General Plan Revision Matrix, referenced above and previously provided, identifies changes proposed to be made to the New General Plan by chapter and issue. The changes in this matrix incorporate the following: • Direction given by Planning Commission and City Council on November 23, 2009; • Modifications required by the State Housing and Community Development Department; • Revisions identified in the Draft EIR analysis as deemed appropriate by the New General Plan staff and consultant team to allow for the integration of best practices or mitigation measures into the New General Plan as a means to most effectively address the environmental impacts associated with the plan; • Changes made in response to comments received on either the Draft EIR or the draft New General Plan from members of the public or other City Commissions, in so far as they were deemed to be consistent with Council direction or identified areas where corrections or other improvements were needed; • Enhancements identified by staff, consistent with Council direction; and • Other minor edits. This matrix, the previous New General Plan dated November 2009 (with the yellow highlights); and any other revisions proposed by staff, suggested by the Planning Commission and the City Council will be integrated into one complete and final