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through the Request for Proposal process. The contract is to be administered by County Planning staff . *** A financial analysis will be prepared by or sponsored through the County Administrator ' s Office. OTHER ISSUES : With a project of this scale, there are a variety of other impor- tant issues that need to be addressed before a recommendation can be forthcoming. The EIR will address the full range of issues, from biota to housing affordability. Once an Initial Study and and a Scope of Work have been completed, a complete list of topics will be compiled. Any background reports and data that have been prepared by the applicants that will assist in the Initial Study/Scope of Work process should be submitted at the time of the fomal application submittal . PROCESSING STRATEGY: As discussed prior to the Preapplication meeting, the County Planning Division recommends that the Williamson Act Contract Cancellation be processed either before or concurrent with the General Plan Amendment application. The reasons for this have been discussed with the applicants and are borne out in the implementing language for a New Town in both the General Plan and the Planning Title. Pages 41 and 42 of the General Plan detail the implementation program for a New Town by use of a Specific Plan. Item No. 3 of this discussion states that "a Specific Plan for the New Town shall include the entire planned urban center . . . (emphasis added; see Attachment 1 ) . This implementation language is further defined and codified in Section 9-2354 of the Planning Title which states that "a Specific Plan cannot be accepted unless the time required to process the Specific Plan proposal , as estimated by the Director , exceeds the time remaining on the contract . " The combination of these provisions makes it clear that without cancellation of all contracts within the New Town boundaries, no development proposals could be con- sidered until 2-3 years remained on any contract . Thus, there exists the probability ( if the General Plan Amendment is appro- ved) that the proposal would sit there for several years with no project implementation or development occurring. Apart from this procedural constraint , it would also be poor planning practice to recommend that the GPA be processed separately. The merits of the Amendment should also merit cancellation of tl:e contracts. If the GPA is processed and approved prior to can- cellation consideration, there would be a convincing, if artifi- cial , argument that since the agricultural designation had been replaced with an urban designation, there was no longer any reason to retain the contracts . TIMING AND FINANCING OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS: Much of this discussion topic had still not been resolved inter- nally in time for it to go out with the Preapplication memo. Preapplication Review - 3 - (GP-89-11 )