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� - - 2 44 Mayor Weymouth advised that the framed, sealed parchment copy of the resolution will be presented to Mr Gerfen at a dinner in his honor on January 15. Public Hearing - ' Pro osed Com rehensive General Plan continued from 11/11 and 1 8/75 City Manager Fales brought Council up to date on the status of their consideration of the proposed Comprehensive General Plan and referred to the following material from staff provided in re- sponse to Council request: 1) memorandum of January 9, 1976 from the Planning Director to the City Manager entitled "Responses to Testimony at the Public Hearing on the Proposed General Plan", and 2) letter of the City Attorney to Council entitled "Recent Pre- sentation Before the City Council Regarding the Content of Proposed Housing Element of the Redwood City General Plan" relating to statements made by Ted W Gillis before Council on December 15, 1975. Mayor Weymouth reminded Council that the public hearing on the sub�ect Plan remains open and invited anyone present who has not spoken before or who has something new to add to speak. In response to question, City Attorney Schricker advtsed that the procedure for incorporating into the Plan the recommendations con- tained in the Planning Director's memorandum is merely to direct by motion that the recormnendations be included in the Plan Harr Jackson, Attorney representing Mobil Oil Estates (Redwood) Limite and Mobil Oil Estates (Bair Island Investments) Limited, ' requested that the letter to Council of January 9, 1976 from Eugene Masciarelli, Pro�ect Planner, be incorporated into the sub�ect proceedings. There being no ob,7ection, Mayor Weymouth ordered the letter of Mr Masciarelli to Council dated January 9, 1976 incorporated into the proceedings relating to the proposed Comprehensive General Plan. In response to question as to why the points raised in the Masciarelli letter had not been raised earlier, Mr. Jackson ad- vised that Mobil did not understand the inconsistencies between the Special Area Plan and the General Plan and how they might be resolved, since it had been assumed the Special Area Plan would govern, and that the full extent of the reporting and detail sup- porting the General Plan were not known,observing that some ques- tions emerged from recent discussion with City staff Discussion followed and Mr Fales, Mr Schricker and Planning Director Schroeter corronented and replied to questions concernin9 the desirability of taking the Mobil letter under advisement for evaluation by staff, the fact that the public hearing may be closed now and final action suspended for decision pending a staff report on the cortununication from Mob�l, and the desire of Council to have additional staff information on the contents of the letter ' Mayor Weymouth again invited anyone present who wished to speak to do so. No one present wished to speak -2- Reg.Mtg. 1/12/16 .n i 7 � h r 1L. �� . 1 I� I[�lila__� r