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Ms. Rygas said she agreed with that suggestion. She further suggested that the committee include not just a set of specific recommended tools in its report, but also overarching principles for its recommendations that could be valuable to the City Council and to future groups working on the unfinished questions. With assent from the committee, Ms. Smith moved to the next agenda item. VI. GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO THE ZONING CODE Mr. Coyle reminded committee members of their previous discussion of a May 6, 2004, memorandum from Susan Muir, Planning Division Manager, on guiding principles for zoning code revisions. He said at that time the committee asked staff to make some changes and refinements to the document, and the revised draft was in the agenda packet. He reviewed the changes. Mr. Bowerman, seconded by Mr. Korth, moved to approve the draft. The motion passed unanimously. Mr. Kahle pointed out the following typographical errors in the draft: (omissions in italics; additions in bold): · Page 1, paragraph l, next-to-last line: "...to include the suggests suggestions and hopes .... " · Page 2, paragraph 2, line 2: "...processes that allow us to be differential deferential .... ' · Page 2, paragraph 3, line 1: "... stakeholders stakeholders' needs .... " Mr. Kahle said he would also like to see some language in the last paragraph of the draft that acknowledged some of the stakeholders might not be immediately adjacent to the property in question, but might be commuters, taxpayers, or others, in addition to the applicant, neighbors, and the City, who most people would see as traditional stakeholders. He said he thought that would reflect the spirit of the request Ms. Rygas made at the last meeting. Ms. Rygas said she understood that Mr. Bowerman had authored the paragraph, and she had had input on it. She said the draft was considerably different from what she had last seen, and she wondered what the reason was. Mr. Bowerman said he was involved in editing the paragraph with staff, and the current language was an attempt to put stakeholders in a broader context. Mr. Bowerman and Mr. Coyle explained briefly how the draft was edited. Ms. Rygas, seconded by Mr. Kahle, moved to change the first sentence of the third paragraph to read "The code must recognize there will be a variety of different stakeholders' or community needs that must be met." (addition in bold) Ms. Smith called for discussion. Answering a question, Mr. Coyle said staff tended to see community needs as applicable to all zoning decisions, and making community needs explicit in the zoning principles was fine if the committee wanted to do that. MINUTES--Mayor's Committee on Economic Development June 14, 2004 Page 4