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IWASHITA:I had a-, its like a question about the where the Community Development Plan process is for this area at this time. If were looking at completion of that process by the Department within the next year or so I dont know what kind of timeframe. Is this on? ALAMEDA:Director? YUEN:Should be a year or so till the plan is completed then it would go to Planning Commission and Council. This site is General Planned as an urban area under the current County General Plan that was approved in February 2005. ALAMEDA:Follow up? IWASHITA:The reason I bring it up is that the, the level of concerns about traffic and soforthandIthinkyouknowwehave,weeachhaveourviewsandouropinionsaboutyou know how it will, how all of those concerns will be worked out. I really believe that the Community Development Plan process with the developers and the community and getting you know everyone involved especially in this area where I agree with the Director that you know this particular area is going to be a very significant housing area and you know theres commercial development approved and I think rather than in a piece meal process which we always have to work on and you know work off General Plan urban designation and those kind of things. To me you know thats the legal basis to go forward, part of it, but it doesnt really provide a cohesive way to approach development in this significant area that the Community Development Plan process is going to take a year and were looking at here a proposal allowing developer 5 years with extensions to get this project started and completed. That I feel its probably, I would feel a lot more comfortable that this development, all the other developments in this area would go through the Community Development Plan process and then when the, essentially the community agrees on not just this particular project but this project together with the comprehensive development of this entire triangular area looking at now thats Ag and gonna be ultimately, according to the General Plan, be used in urban designation that you know were looking at right now if this is approved 500 units? More than 500 living units? SIRACUSA:562. IWASHITA:Okay, almost, whatever it is. That ultimately you know we have enough acreage where we can have a thousand, two thousand plus living units. And what we havent talked about today is where are all these, the kids that are going to be living in this, in these units, where are they going to go to school? You know I, and looking through all of this material, there is, like maybe 3 sentences that talk about the schools. I think ideally part of the Community Development Plan process should include, seems like there, theres enough living units in this area to support a school, an elementary school. And so that the kids could walk to school and you know part of the traffic analysis that hasnt been talked about is that if we have affordable housing which I would expect to have a higher, higher number of children per household, that would be of school age, that hasnt been addressed at all here. In fact I think its, I would characterize the way its been not addressed in this proposal. And all of those concerns well that is a major concern I think that, that must be addressed in the Community Development Plan EXHIBIT A 14