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with the revision that Commissioner Siracusa has suggested that we have 90 days to review Community Development Plans. RHO: Second. WATANABE: Okay. It’s been moved and seconded. If we do have a revision in here, I’d like to add Mr. Yuen’s comments maybe to the revision. YUEN: My comments are the same as before. I do prefer the 60 days. WATANABE: Okay. But in spite of that the 90 days does not present any additional problems as far as processing, etc. YUEN: No. WATANABE: Not in particular -. YUEN: No, it does not. It also, I mean, actually you know, both of these, the Planning Commission can move more quickly. But it’s not tied to anything else; I don’t think there’s any other clauses that we have to change. WATANABE: Okay. YUEN: And I, you know, I continue to wish that you go for 60 days. But I, unless you have questions, I’ve said what I have to say on that. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Mr. Domingo, it looks like you have some comments. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah. I’m not going to attempt to change the Commissioners’ minds and I think you already kind of agree with the 90 days. But you know, I don’t know how many of us have been involved in drafting so-called Community Development Plans or urban design plans for particular areas in a community and the original plans, you know. You have a wide array of people with various backgrounds, who come to those meetings. And they are very serious and sincere about what they really want accomplished, and they’ll never let their concerns or their ideas go unnoticed. So you know, through all the vigorous efforts and time that they put into coming up with a plan, what I see coming up to us in a form of a Community Development Plan is what the community really wants. And if at any time when we receive a plan like that and we attempt to amend it or change its course of the planning and the process that it’s involved, you know, we will certainly hear from the community. But I think even before it comes up, we have people in the Planning staff who would have been at the very beginning with the community sitting as a resource person in an advisory capacity, guiding and giving them direction. And of course, we also have consultants who come in and actually put, you know, put all the plan into its proper order, so that in a final analysis when we review it, it will be something that is appropriate as a matter of kind of technical aspects of the plan is concerned and the application of their desires in keeping with the General Plan and everything. So as I view a Community Development Plan, it comes to us as a document practically almost perfect, you know. It then becomes a sacred document for the community. And I think for me EXHIBIT B 10