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Director Church said, "The other piece of our recommendation to you was that we take what Mi'. Warren was suggesting and actually do a Specific Plan for the balance of the Area so that we control the fate of it. He is right, it could go in a lot of different directions." Vice Chair Howard said, "I agree with Director Ruskin very strongly, and I agree with the motion. I would also like to suggest, I spoke with Tom Gilman today who is the immediate past president of the AlA Architect Institute of America, the San Mateo Chapter. He is also a member of the Architectural Advisory Committee. This has been coming up at their meetings each month, and they would like to offer the services of the Charrette. My concern was the time ITame. Delay could be a problem. He assured me they could whip together a Charrette by this summer, and have it completed very quickly, and the architects were as excited as could be about the prospect of giving back to the community a plan, a guideline, something that would integrate with the downtown, Sequoia Station, EI Camino Real, what Mr. Warren spoke of. The circulation is important, the streetscape is important. They would love to have the opportunity to be challenged, to offer this while we are talking with other developers. I don't see why there is any reason why we couldn't do both at the same time. I think it is something we should take advantage of. They only ask for a donation to their organization, and... the Jefferson Underpass is also something we could compliment." Director Church said, "Six months for a Charette would be about the same time, it would take us at least that long to do a Specific Plan for an area of that magnitude. I don't think we would lose time. I think what we have to be conscious of is that we have a window of opportunity right now. We might think it is going to last five or eight years, but think back to two or three years ago, no one would have even thought twice about doing 'for sale' in this area. And that time could come again. We want to try and move it as fast as we can." Director Howard said, "They don't have to do the whole Franklin Street Area. We discussed that and he said why don't we do the parcels we are speaking of, but plan for the future how it could be integrated into the larger piece, and they said they would be very willing to do that, and could have it ready to go by June." Director Church said if the motion passed, "We would then have your authorization to close out the owner participation process that we have gone through now. Then reissue an offer to participate for the larger area however we define it. That takes 30 days. We give people 30 days to respond, so by the end of May we would have the responses back. If you suggest that we plan or do the Charrette on the area we are covering, I don't think we would want to start getting responses until those developers knew what it was they were responding to. We couldn't do those in overlap or in conjunction. We would have to do them sequentially. There would be some time implications. SPECIAL REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO.1 APRIL 21, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 424 PAGE 8