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Comprehensive Plan process <br />f, A feeling that the Planning Commission had been <br />bypassed in the process <br />g. The fact that the actual process for Rebers was a <br />combination of existing ordinance authority, which was <br />allowed in Rebers* case but for which no alternate <br />provision is available for non^resident ial <br />development. <br />(Left unaddressed may have been some issues related to <br />the proposed amendment for planned developments whic** <br />were not specifically addressed by any of the Planning <br />Commission members, but may have been alluded to by <br />them.) <br />The Highway 12 process was commenced under a different Planning <br />Commission and Council in 1985. It attempted to get input from <br />the people present as to the process to be undertaken including <br />the way the process was conducted. Once the initial work of the <br />study was over the draft document was actually prepared by staff <br />(not the consultant) for presentation to the Planning Commission. <br />The Planning Commission reviewed that draft and did go through <br />area by area as to what they wanted on each of the properties. <br />There is no comment regarding the quality of the draft during the <br />review in any of the minutes or in the recollection of staff. <br />The review of the Planning Commission recommendations together <br />with those of the Council and what was submitted to the Metro <br />Council indicate only one change from the original Planning <br />Commission recommendation. This change entailed the northeast <br />quarter of the property between Willow/Old Crystal Bay and <br />Highway 12 and County Road Six. The Planning Commission had <br />recommended that it not be sewered and the Council baaed on <br />additional information concerning the marginal soils, allowed <br />that area to be included within the MUSA line, however, retaining <br />it at a two acre density. <br />With that one excei on documented, the recommendations given by <br />Planning Commissio*: »#ere identical to those eventually approved <br />by the Metro Council and adopted by the City. It must be <br />remembered that the planning document is a comprehensive plan <br />amendment and as such is drafted to meet the requirements of the <br />Metro Council based on issues they desire to be addressed. In <br />addition there were areas where definitive positions and <br />proposals were not included to provide greater flexibility for <br />the City and the developer t.. come in with a specific proposal at <br />the time of development. The intent of the Comprehensive Plan is <br />not to eliminate all the issues related to a development but take <br />into account the major issues for which the Metro Council is <br />concerned. <br />HI. Planning Commission Roles and Responsibilities - The <br />Planning Commission spokesperson indicated two specific <br />areas of concern;