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ALAMEDA:Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:So then just to make sure I understand you properly, the stress there was not on the Open or Conservation part because, you know, but to stress the notification of the property owner and to make it consistent with Council-initiated changes? YUEN:Right. ALAMEDA:Any other comments? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:Just a question of why the timing or why theres a difference, I guess, in the timing requirements between the proposed changes and the existing language in 3, which is for general public-initiated changes, interim changes? YUEN:Well, theres a separate section on, thats related to what we just discussed withCommissionerGrahamonhowifamemberofthepublicwantedtoinitiateaGeneralPlan change and theres a formal process for doing that, and rather than, I think under the 3, under the current ordinance theres a separate procedure for how that happens. And what this bill, what Exhibit 3 would do is just say if the Planning Director decides to initiate the change, and we process it the same as any other Planning Director initiated interim amendment, and if the Council decides to initiate the change, then its processed the same as any other Council-initiated interim amendment, rather than having a third set of procedures that apply to these public, initiate is the wrong word but publicly-requested General Plan amendments. Its a simplification, I think. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Iwashita, follow-up? IWASHITA:Well, so why should the period for the, your review be shorter in a Council-initiated amendment as opposed to a public, someone from the public initiating an amendment? Theres 90 days in the Council-initiated; and its 120 in the public-initiated. Why should there be a difference? YUEN:Are you talking about the C that says Upon receipt of a properly filed initiated application, the Planning Director shall have 120 days to take one of the following actions? IWASHITA:Yeah. Yes. YUEN:Yeah, thats not a change. That part is, first of all, its not a change, thats the current law. Second, the context is a little bit different. Because if the Council, if the Council is initiating a General Plan amendment by resolution, the Planning Director has advance notice of that. Its at the Council, you know whats on the Councils agenda, you see that this is happening. And then we have a timeframe, you know, once they pass it, you know, the ordinance would give you 60 days to review that. Under this procedure, though, if the public, this is just giving the Planning Director 120 days to make a decision whether to initiate the General Plan amendment that the public is requesting. All right? Then once the, if the Planning Director decides to initiate that amendment, then that goes into the same process as a Planning 10EXHIBIT B