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you have something in particular that could transpire between now and the next meeting that would change? RHO:Yes. Actually I was going to ask for a workshop for myself. But, you know, just to satisfy me just by taking another minute or two, on the last stapled document that we just got today on page 5 it refers to Planning Director, in, I guess, its called paragraph 2. So I guess my question is whether or not what were attempting to approve and submit to the County Council is an interim amendment or interim amendments to the General Plan? Is that we were thinking of doing? Is this what this whole thing is about? YUEN:Yes. Yes, it is. RHO:So then if you go to 2-B it says the Planning Director shall conduct a workshop on the proposed amendment prior to submitting it to the Planning Commission. So I guessmyquestioniswhetherornotthatwasdone. YUEN:No.AndthisisagainamatterIdiscussedwithCorporationCounsel.The Planning Directors version is a proposed redraft of the County Council-initiated amendment. And so the County Council-initiated amendment does not require a workshop. RHO:Okay. But, you know, if, and Im getting confused with all the discussion. But if in fact Commissioner Iwashitas objections are half-way valid then it does impact a and b. It allows you to initiate and b basically requires that a workshop be held. And theres no workshop for the first section, which the County Council never, according to what Commissioner Iwashita says, never mentions in their resolution or their whatever. So half of it, the second part, number 2, 16.2, I guess, is okay; but 16.1 requires, in my reading anyway, requires a workshop. GRAHAM:Mr. Rho, my understanding is we have an existing law that were operating under and were considering a future amendment to that law. So the content of the future amendment doesnt direct what we do now. We now operate under existing law. RHO:The future amendment is not underlined or boldfaced, so Im assuming that we have to follow Planning Director, a, b, c and then in d it starts to change. YUEN:No. May I? You know, Commissioner Rho is asking a very valid question that we actually discussed with Corporation Counsel in-house, you know, and that is, just to walk this thing through -. Okay, the County Council sent a proposed change on how to do Council-initiated General Plan Amendments, coupled with a resolution that says look at it more broadly. Looking at it more broadly, there were some other changes that if youre going to make some changes to part of the section, theres some other things that should be changed. So I redid a proposed redraft of their amendment that affected the other sections. Then the question comes up is this, can this just be sent back to the Council as a redraft, a proposed redraft of their Council-initiated amendment which does not require a workshop; and then the Council could if they wanted substitute this as Draft II at Council and pass it? All right? Or does this have to be a Planning Director initiated General Plan Amendment which needs a workshop before it comes to the Planning Commission? And this is a question that I submitted to the Corporation Counsel; and the response was that it could be considered as a redraft of the County Council-initiated 14EXHIBIT B