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an amendment. So this gives the County Council notice that the comprehensive review has begun; and then the Council can put amendments into the comprehensive review, or propose amendments for the comprehensive review. They would do this by resolution. Then there is some tightening up of timeframes for the Planning Director. The first one is that the Planning Director has whats called a public workshop on the new General Plan, actually well have more than one workshop. But what it says is, and this is the time for the public to weigh in on this before it even gets to the Planning Commission and before it gets to the Council; and this simply says that instead of having a 60-day timeframe after the close of public workshops for the public to submit comments to the Planning Director, theres a 21-day timeframe. Then the next thing that happens is that the amendments that are proposed by the Planning Director and the County Council goes to the Planning Commission. And, again, the timeframe for the Director to do this has been shortened from 60 days to 30 days from the deadline for public comments to submitting it to the Planning Commission. The next real change is in 8; and this actually doesnt significantly change the timeframe for the PlanningCommissiontodealwiththecomprehensivereviewoftheGeneralPlan.Itsstill roughly a 5-month timeframe. But the current ordinance breaks it up into the public hearing portion; and then it says close of public hearing and shall act within -. If you look at the current 7 and 8, the current 7 and 8 gives a 90-day time period for the Planning Commission to hold public hearings and then a 60-day time period for the Planning Commission to take a vote and make its recommendation. This close of public hearing thing as people who have been on the Commission a while have noticed is a little bit confusing because of the State Sunshine Law. The Planning Commission continues to hearing public testimony on all agenda items, even though the public hearing has been technically closed. So rather than say the public hearing has closed and then were considering it and then youre still taking public testimony, we just folded the whole timeframe together and said that the Planning Commission will do its review and recommendation in 150 days instead of saying that you have 90 days to do the public hearings and 60 days to make a review and recommendation. So the overall timeframe has not actually changed in this respect. Then theres a change on the next page, on the top of the next page, thats meant to clarify the extent of changes that the County Council can make when these amendments get up to the County Council. And the basic idea here is that the Charter says that all General Plan changes are supposed to be reviewed by the Planning Commission. Now what happens at the County Council, clearly the County Council can make wording changes, they could scale back the extent of the map change from, say, covering 100 acres to covering 50 acres, because those are not new amendments or new changes. But we wanted to really give guidance to the scope of changes that can be made at the County Council and make it clear that they cant make a change that has the effect of being a new amendment without sending it back to the Planning Commission for a review. So that covers the changes to -. WOODWARD:Mr. Yuen -. YUEN:Yes? 3EXHIBIT B