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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> policies, and it provides for means to make the decisions as to where those developments could <br /> be. But, and as I understand it, the Community Development Plan is a finer or detailed <br /> explanation or expression of what is in the General Plan. And I think one of the best things that <br /> is happening now is that it's going to be adopted by ordinance and therefore making it a law and <br /> that's something that everyone has to adhere to. In the past where you have Community <br /> Development Plans, you know, you have the community working very hard on the Plan and then <br /> they find out at a later date, you know, what they've actually wanted for a certain area is not <br /> actually what the community had actually wanted. And it's only because it's an advisory <br /> document, you know, okay, this will be a, it will be a good place that we locate such and such <br /> things in this area, but then by the interpretation of the planners, you know, things have changed, <br /> things are changed. So I think the most important aspect is what I'm saying is that it is by law, <br /> and that it gives the community a sense of ownership to what the Plan really says, and that their <br /> time and the efforts that they put in would be not, would be not for not, you know, it would be <br /> something that they know will happen and something that they have ownership in. That's the <br /> bottom line. <br /> <br /> I think, as far as the time element, as Ms. Siracusa indicated, I think it's appropriate as presented <br /> at this time because, you know, you find a community has worked very hard and put in a lot of <br /> effort in the planning, and once it comes up to the Planning Commission review I think they are <br /> just waiting, you know, they are just waiting that it will just pass as they presented it; and that <br /> they'd like for that Plan to start moving on, so that it will be adopted by ordinance. You give <br /> more time, it gives people with other difference of opinion in the community or other parts of the <br /> county more time to organize and put up organized effort in trying to defeat the Plan or parts of <br /> the Plan. And I think the community has a final decision to that; and to give it more time for <br /> review I think would be just in my case inviting more, inviting problems to it through the <br /> process. <br /> <br /> WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any further comments or questions? Yes, <br /> Mr. Alameda. <br /> <br /> ALAMEDA: One more question. You know with the Plan, is there a specific timeline <br /> on when it should be revised? Because my only concern is that communities change over time; <br /> and so what might be what the community wanted ten years ago may not be the same community <br /> and they might like something different. So if we are going to make this Community Plan <br /> become, you know, ordinance, how long does it become ordinance? <br /> YUEN: I don't think, the discussion of the process for a CDP is in the Actually <br /> it's in the General Plan; the General Plan calls for them. It doesn't have a specific renewal date; <br /> but because the General Plan itself has a renewal date of ten years to do a comprehensive review, <br /> my expectation is that you would run the same cycle in, after doing the General Plan review. <br /> <br /> ALAMEDA: Okay, thank you. <br /> <br /> WATANABE: Is that satisfactory? <br /> <br /> ALAMEDA: It's good. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6 <br />