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Mr. Smith noted that in its January 6, 2012 letter, BAAQMD agreed with the changes made in the CAP and indicated that the City has the requirements of a qualified CAP. He requested the Commission, based on that letter and the changes listed in Exhibit B, to recommend to the City Council to amend the General Plan Air Quality and Climate Change Element to adopt the Climate Action Plan by reference. He added that after Council certifies and adopts the Plan, staff will be prioritizing some of the short-term, mid-term and long-term goals and will continue the community program that staff has been involved with the last few years. Commissioner Blank stated that he was pleased with the revised draft. Commissioner Narum agreed. She stated that she thinks it is a really complete document and that it makes sense. Chair Pentin told Mr. Smith that he did a good job. Mr. Smith stated that he appreciated the comment but that it was a team effort; Planning and a lot of the Operations Services staff were involved in this. Mr. Dolan stated that from the Planning perspective, the best thing about this is the fact that, as Mr. Smith addressed in his presentation, instead of every project that comes forward having to do a greenhouse gas analysis, this Plan gives Planning the clearance, and all staff has to do is evaluate the project for consistency with this Plan, and this is a great thing for applicants because it relieves them of that obligation and saves them a lot of time and money. Commissioner Blank stated that staff needs to figure out a way to communicate that to the development community, especially since there seems to be such little good news these days for developers. Commissioner Olson agreed this was a good idea. Commissioner Blank noted that City staff has really done a great job and deserve a lot of credit because of the quality of that work and there is relief. Commissioner Narum noted that it goes a little bit along the streamlining efforts of the Customer Service Review Team (CSRT) which included Peter MacDonald and Pamela Hardy. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. There were no speakers. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 1/11/2012 Page 3 of 4