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The basic thing that it would do is it would show the timeframe between the Council initiating a General Plan amendment and it coming back to them from the Planning Director and Planning Commission. The way that the Council would initiate a General Plan amendment in either, in any of the current law or under the bill is that they would have, they would pass a resolution initiating a General Plan amendment. Then the Charter requires that all General Plan amendments come to the Planning Director and to the Planning Commission for your review and recommendation back up to the Council. Under the current timeframe, the maximum timeframe would be about seven months when you add up the time that the Director can take with the time that the Planning Commission can take on it. Now, thats, it doesnt mean to take that long but that would be a maximum timeframe. Please note that actually this amendment, because the way to amend the General Plan is imbedded in the General Plan. This amendment itself has to follow that procedure. So the Councilpassedthisresolutionandsentitontome;andnowitsgoingontothePlanning Commission. The resolution asked that this be done within 60 days. Now, as I say, the current law does give us a longer timeframe; but I did try to get it up to the Commission at least promptly after we received this, after we received this transmittal from the Council at the end of August. In looking at what the Council did and looking at the current procedures, my recommendation actually is to make a broader change to the amendment procedures. Nothing really drastic but there are some things in the, if you read the present ordinance carefully, which is Section, Chapter 16 to the General Plan, there are some inconsistent elements, there are some ambiguities there. So we came up with a different version of the amendment; and thats what you have as Exhibit 3 to the attachments, and thats Planning Departments proposed re-write of the Councils amendment bill. In Exhibit 3 for Charter amendments initiated by the Council, it does shorten the timeframe from that in the current ordinance, but not so much as the Council, as the Councils bill. It really follows the timeframe for rezoning ordinances; and given, I mean, we think that a Charter amendment is entitled to at least the same timeframe as a rezoning ordinance. If I were to go through this -. GALDONES:General Plan or the Charter? TORIGOE:Charter, is it Charter amendments? GALDONES:You said Charter amendments. You meant General Plan? YUEN:Im sorry, General Plan amendments. Im sorry. Just to go through Exhibit 3, which is known as the Planning Directors bill -. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Iwashita, youre on the right page on that one? 2EXHIBIT B