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factors, including how much public infrastructure is challenged by recent or anticipated growth <br />in the area. The Council also finds that conditions of approval should be imposed to <br />accommodate the impacts of development, a planned unit or cluster plan developments, which <br />consists of seven or more lots in order to manage growth and coordinate the delivery of <br />government services in the County. The proposed bill is attached as Exhibit 1. <br />The Planning Director gives an unfavorable recommendation on the bill. Reasons are stated <br />within the recommendation. Just to briefly touch upon these reasons, these particular <br />applications do require the process denoted to require notice of neighboring properties and also <br />to publish notice of these particular applications. <br />Additionally, the Planning Director recommends that the Council retain the current <br />administrative control over PUD and CPD because these applications rarely involve issues of <br />overall policy or general public concern. If PUDs and CPDs must be reviewed by the Planning <br />Commission and the Council with an open-ended possibility of various conditions being <br />attached, the timeframe for approval will inevitably be much longer than under the current <br />practice. Worse yet, the developer will not be aware of conditions that will be ultimately placed <br />on them. The result will be that developers will not apply for PUDs or CPDs and apply for a <br />subdivision according to the Code and try to achieve the same result by applying for a series of <br />variances. <br />Are there any questions? <br />ALAMEDA: Let me ask Mr. Kurokawa anything that might have been missed during <br />that background introduction. <br />KUROKAWA: You know, not a whole lot that I want to add except that, you know, the <br />PUD and Cluster Plan Development process is actually one of the tools that encourages a little <br />more creative, you know, more creativity than, you know, just sticking by the current Zoning <br />and Subdivision Codes. So by making it more onerous, you know, it actually will work against <br />that, and so I just wanted to reiterate that. <br />And, also, I wanted to recognize besides Phyllis and Darrow who you already know, we have <br />Daryn Arai who’s the ministerial program manager who actually reviews in conjunction and <br />does a lot of the background work for the Planning Director at the Planning Department. So if <br />you have any questions, in terms of the nitty gritty of the process, he’s here to answer those. So, <br />thank you. <br />ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Kurokawa. Thank you, Mr. Arai for coming out. Fellow <br />Commissioners? Commissioner Domingo, you have a question for Mr. Kurokawa or <br />Mr. Darrow? <br />DOMINGO: I was just going to make a statement. <br />ALAMEDA: Go ahead. <br /> EXHIBIT C 2 <br /> <br /> <br />