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MR. FUKE: That is the thing. The charter is silent. If you look at the charter, all the charter provides, right now, is'-that the County Council. . .there is a section dealing with general plan. .that is all. It doesn ' t talk about what the council ' s role is in relation to the revisions. The general plan section is section 3-16, the County Council shall adopt by ordinance a general plan. . There is no discussion in relation to revisions or amendments thereto. Then, again, you look at the Planning Depart- ment ' s function on the top of page :i2, section (b) the Planning Director shall prepare a general. plan to guide the development of the county by district or districts. There is no discussion about what you do with revisions. And, then, you go down to the Planning Commission. Planning Commission item (b) review the §,p, and other plans and modifications thereof and developed by the director and transmit such plans, etc. , etc. It ' s only in the function as they relate to the Planning Commission that there is any discussion about modifications or revisions. This is why my comment is that we should have a section dealing with how do you treat revisions. We are, right now,, studying that particular matter and hope that within the next month or so we will have a specific recommendation® What I am legally obligated to do is first of all develop an ordinance within the framework of the existing charter in terms of how the general plan amendments would be handled and in the process of developing an ordinance we are studying the whole general plan amendment process If there is a need to amend the County Charter,. I will come before the County Charter Commission and so makemy recommendation to , the County Charter Commission, But we-F2cannot, at this point . in time,. propose an ordinance which would be in violation of the existing County Charter. So,, to answer your question., directly, Mr. Cadinha, how general plan revisions do come about, the only language there is according to my understanding and also t`o Ott e understanding of the 'corporation counsel ' s office is found in the existing general plan which says , proposals to initiate general plan amendments must originate from the Planning Director, That is the only reference to revisions. MR. CADINHA: .They originate and then you don 't know what to do with them from that point. MR. FUKE: They originate and you can deny. But\\then, as I was saying earlier, there is no statement in the charter or in the language of the ordinance talking about what happens after that. Thereis a big void. - 15 -