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KERN: Right. And so if we support the letter, that in turn actually is supporting, that is kind of giving it a favorable recommendation to all of 194? LEITHEAD TODD: Pretty much. KERN: Pretty much, yeah. Okay. WOODWARD: Any other questions? KERN: IÓm just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one. ThereÓs a lot of beef there. I was part of the CDP process early on. I disagreed with a lot of parts of it, I agreed with a lot of other parts of it. IÓm glad to see that the folks we had some disagreement with at times are at least showing up and trying to push the whole process through. I would personally like to see it come in a little bit more piecemeal. ItÓs a lot of information in one bill, myself. IÓm just going to throw that out there. IÓm not making any moti WOODWARD: All right. Let me ask the Planning Director, what was the genesis of this bill in the first place that they decided that they had to have one all encompassing bill to have 83 different amendments? LEITHEAD TODD: I donÓt know what the genesis of the bill, other the fact that Council Chair Yoshimoto felt that certain amount of time had lapsed from 2008, and he thought that the better way to do it was in one comprehensive bill. Because then itÓs one cohesive document as opposed to multiple different ones, and then youÓre trying to see, you know, what changes. So my understanding is he kind of went through what had been proposed earlier and tried to incorporate it into one bill. But it is what it is. ItÓs the way it came from the County Council. It didnÓt come piecemeal. And so you have to make your recommendat front of you. What IÓm choosing to do with the other recommendations that came is I will introduce separate amendments to implement the differe rather than throwing all of them into one bill. But that, you know, is going to be my decision in terms of how I initiate it. But Bill 194 is what it is. It came to us from the Council; and thatÓs you either go pretty much up or down on it or make your recommen those sections that you donÓt like or those sections that you do like. WOODWARD: Okay. Any further questions? Well, I have one other further, one other question. And that is apart from the genesis who, where did the input come from to get this bill? I mean who crafted it. Obviously Councilmen didnÓt. LEITHEAD TODD: Actually the Council Member staff put it together. The table that compares the different provisions was voluntarily done by Steve Lim. It came forward because he thought it was difficult to understand without having kind of a table that showed you where the 14 EXHIBIT B