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SPRINGER:I wonder if the Director can answer the comments that Mr. Frankel made regarding those changes on the top of page 6 and the bottom of page 7 regarding public participation -. TORIGOE:In the mike. SPRINGER:Regarding public participation thats referred to in the recommended amendments at the top of page 6 and the bottom of page 7. YUEN:Well, if the public say responds to, sees the notice posted and they want to see what is the subdivision, they will be able to come into the Department and see the preliminary plat. And it will show the layout of the lots, they will have the lot sizes, it will have, it will really have all the information that you can have at that point. What kind of wastewater system is really determined by the Department of Health. And, the information, you know, what youneedtoknowaboutthesubdivisionisthere,itsthereintheplat.Sowhatthissaysisthat once its, once the subdivision has been sent out for -. What happens is that the preliminary plat comes in, its like an application. All right? It is an application, but mostly its a map. There may be pages that are appended to it but mostly its a map. All right? The staff of the Planning Department looks at it and says does this basically conforms and do they have, is it signed by the right people, does it have the right filing fee, and it conformed to-. There are some basic things that are done at the initial stages, if it conforms to the zoning and so forth. Once thats done, its then typically deferred and sent on to the agencies like the Department of Public Works, Department of Water Supply. All that this says is that once its deferred then the application is accepted as complete. And then you cannot, neither the Department nor a member of the public can come back and say oh you should not have sent it on because it did not have the northpoint, or they did not put lot numbers on the application, or something like that, something was missed. And that is the gist of this application. So it can still go through the process and be approved. But as far as the public seeing it, the public can look at it and see, you see everything thats really germane within the application. Its there. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:So nothing in those changes removes public participation? YUEN:No. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:On the motion before us, I think that the Director has gone through at least the high points of Mr. Frankels testimony, and Im not sure what continuing it would accomplish. By his comments here I dont see where there would be further amendment to the Code. ALAMEDA:Okay. Let me suggest this then. It seems like we have several options - To go ahead and vote on the motion on the table for continuance; if we dont have the majority vote then maybe a second motion could be made either way to approve or to deny, and then we could go forward with that as well. So, how does that sound, Fellow Commissioners? Should 15EXHIBIT D