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putting the cart before the horse. Regarding her neighborhood, the City may revise the gross developable acres definition to exclude areas with steep slopes, land slides, etc. In 1998, a previous Council approved a General Plan amendment for 75 medium density homes outside the urban growth boundary line and in an area with a landslide and earthquake fault. Now this Council is in the process of undoing that and moving those 75 units some place else. Unfortunately, those units will probably be moved to the flat land of her community. These issues have not been addressed, but the scoping session is moving forward and the public comment period ends at the end of that scoping session, so the residents may not be able to make comments. Vice Mayor Sullivan asked staff to elaborate on the scoping session as well as the fact that the workshops beyond that session may identify potential issues that should be address in the EIR, and asked if they could still be included in the EIR? Ms. Stern said staff issued the notice of preparation of the draft EIR. Even though the official comment period closes at the end of the scoping session on Monday, staff would be developing the actual project for a long time into this process. There is no project description at the moment, so obviously a more definitive description will be provided to the consultant and any information received on additional issues that come up will be included in their analysis as well. When the remaining land use workshop on the west side properties and southwest hills occurs, staff can include any remaining issues. Ms. McGovern hoped that Council and Planning Commission would have an opportunity to review what is included in the draft EIR and provide comments on things that they may want to add. Ms. Stern said staff would be presenting the altematives for project descriptions and that discussion could be held at that time. Council could make any comments on what it wanted to have added to the EIR at that meeting. Ms. McGovern asked if the January 30 meeting was the only meeting where the public could comment on the EIR? Ms. Stern said it is the formal meeting required by CEQA, but staff reviews the notes of every meeting to catch issues that need to be analyzed. Mr. Iserson said the purpose of the scoping meeting is to get issues from the public to make certain they are addressed in the EIR. There are other opportunities as the EIR draft is completed and reviewed for the public to review the document and make comments all along the process. Ms. McGovern had concerns that all the areas of the community have a chance to discuss their issues. Mr. Fialho said once we get through this process and if a workshop or scoping session has not addressed a particular issue, then another workshop could be held to hear their concerns. Ms. Maas pointed out that all correspondence, emails, etc. are included in the EIRs. Joint Workshop City CounciVPlanning Commission 15 01/24/06