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� All the meeting notes and comments are on the City's web site under Generai Plan - Public meetings and Workshops. The meetings were held in the following neighborhoods: January 13: Planning Commission general kick off meeting at City Hall February 18: Friendly Acres Neighborhood (Taft School) April 6: Roosevelt Neighborhood (Community Activity Building) May 18: Redwood Shores (Sandpiper Community Center) June 29: Farm Hill Neighborhood (Peninsula Covenant Church) October 5: Centennial/Edgewood Park (Redwood High School) December 14: Palm Park/Woodside Plaza (Redwood City YMCA) Upon completion of the neighborhood meetings, staff plans to sort through all the comments and glean certain themes and ideas for a vision statement that will be forwarded to the Planning Commission and ultimately to the City Council. Technical Updates At the same time staff has been holding the neighborhood meetings, we have also been w riting t he technical b ackground r eports for s ome of t he r equired elements (e.g. Land Use, Infrastructure, Open Space, etc.). These background documents are necessary to provide the context and information needed to help shape the goals and implementation measures. The State also requires certain technical information within each of these elements that we are currently gathering. Optional Elements Staff has also met and has been working closely with various Committees to write "optional" elements'. These elements include the Economic Development Element, Historic Resources Element, and the Cultural Resources Element. Staff also plans to incorporate by reference the recently completed Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department Strategic Plan. There is also some interest to update the City's Human Services Element. Next Steps: Upon completion of the neighborhood meetings, staff will review all the input and create the draft vision for the General Plan. At the same time we will be completing the technical writing of the document. We hope to have a draft General Plan document before the City Councit by mid summer. A tentative schedule is presented below. January, 2005: Complete neighborhood outreach and draft vision ' There are seven required elements of the General Plan: Land Use, Circulation, Housing, Conservation, Open-Space, Noise, and Safety. The State provides flexibility for Cities to write other optional elements that uniquely address subjects of particular concem. • Page 2 �