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5-4 Amendment Pursuant to Comprehensive Review (a) Within forty-five days of a ten-year lapse from the date of adoption of the General Plan, the Director shall, upon notification to the County Council, initiate the comprehensive review of the General Plan. The scope of the review includes, but is not limited to, the basic elements of the General Plan; goals, policies, standards and courses of action of the various elements; land use designations of the land use pattern allocation guide map; facilities map; and urban land use pattern acreage and zoning acreage allocations. (b) Upon completion of the review, the Director shall submit any proposed amendment to the Commission. (c) Within sixty days of receipt of the Director’s proposed amendment, the Commission shall hold a public hearing. The Commission, through the Planning Department, shall publish a notice of the public hearing and its purpose in a newspaper of general circulation in the County at least ten calendar days prior to the date of the hearing. (d) During the hearing and based on public testimony received, the Commission may request the Director to consider specific modification to any proposed amendment or to initiate within sixty days any new proposed amendments. (e) If the Director modifies a proposed amendment or initiates a new proposed amendment upon the Commission's request, the Commission shall hold further hearings on such matters, together with any proposed amendment originally submitted. (f) Within sixty days of the conclusion of the public hearing, the Commission shall submit to the Council its comments and recommendation on any proposed amendment initiated by the Director. (g) The Council shall review the Commission’s recommendation and act on the Director’s proposals. (h) The Council shall request the Director to consider its specific modifications to any proposed amendment or to initiate a new proposed amendment. Within sixty days of the request, the Director shall forward to the Commission either a recommendation for a denial, modification to a proposed amendment or shall initiate the new proposed amendment. (i) A public hearing on the proposed revisions and/or recommendation by the Director shall be conducted by the Commission within sixty days of its receipt from the Director. Within sixty days of the closing of the public hearing, the Commission shall forward the Director's proposed modifications, amendments, and recommendation together with its recommendations to the Council for action. (j) Failure by the Commission or the Director to respond within the designated time period shall not preclude the Council from acting on its proposed amendments. 5-2