At the RCAC meeting November 18th you provided information about two Quick Guides for Rezoning Petitions and Preliminary Development Plans. In the information are statements that the new "Comprehensive Plan draws the distinction between "guiding" policies, intended to guide City decisions; and "prescriptive" policies, which are intended to influence private sector actions and are typically worded as "should" statements." As the complete plan is available on the web site in PDF form I did a word search on those two terms and found 0 references to prescriptive policies and only 4 references to "guiding" related to policies. Am I missing something? If this evaluation process is so fundamental to the Plan and Code why is there no mention of these terms in the Plan document. I also notice that the date on the handout says "Effective November 1, 2009. Was this ever brought forward to Council as a City Policy recommendation? Will the new Comprehensive Plan be amended to capture this rezoning case and development plan evaluation policy and in so doing provide a forum for public input to the process similar to a Text Change?

It seems to me that several of the statements in the Quick Guides will significantly diminish the ability of citizens to apply Overlay District Zoning be it Historic or Neighborhood Conservation since by intent these overlay districts are most likely to be more restrictive than the underlying zoning districts within a land use category. Your guide would suggest that since such Overlay Districts would differ from the intended future land use they would be considered inconsistent with the Plan and recommended for denial. How will you reconcile these differing objectives?