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Supervisor Sweeney recommending Board direct staff as follows with regards to the proposed design manual:
1) Wait to process the manual through the Planning Commission and Board until the proposals of the Ad Hoc Committee on Development Services Processes has made its proposal and incorporate such proposal in the Manual as directed by the Board;
2) Be aware that since the manual is an organizational tool to catalogue design information found in ordinances and implementation measures found in the General Plan, there can be no CEQA implications and such manual should be processed through the use of a categorical exception; and
3) Understand that since all design criteria, will be within (that is less onerous or impacting than those standards set forth in the General Plan), no General Plan Amendment will be needed. By example, the road design cross sections in the design manual are will carry less traffic than those in the General Plan hence they are less impacting.
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