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