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Verla Insko said she thought Lee Rafalow was proposing that it be <br />dealt with at this meeting. <br />Lee Rafalow said he was proposing that the group start discussing <br />it at this meeting; he didn't know if it could be finished in the <br />time remaining. He thought that it was the only thing that was <br />particularly important for the group to make progress in its <br />ability to communicate currently. <br />Elio Soldi said that since July the group had been drawing up <br />lists. He felt that at some point, they should address the issue <br />of owner rights. He suggested they try to condense what they'd <br />done, there being a lot of overlap. He thought certain areas of <br />consensus already existed. He said the group had an idea, but had <br />never gotten to specifics. He thought if a "straw man" plan was <br />put in front of everyone, then they could single out the idea, "If <br />you want to keep this open space, what does it mean to that owner? <br />How can it be done, what kind of flexibility ?" He said he would <br />like to get down to specifics. <br />Verla Insko mentioned an idea she and Gene Bell had discussed by <br />phone, subcommittees to deal with issues the larger group was <br />getting bogged down with. <br />Gene Bell then shared ideas on how one or more subcommittees could <br />be formed to deal with issues such as property rights. He <br />suggested that a subcommittee composed of a representative cross <br />section of planning group members could work through the difficult <br />points of an issue and bring back a report or position paper to the <br />larger group that addressed previously- identified concerns. He <br />also shared ideas on how a design studio could be used to get the <br />groups' ideas relative to a proposed plan on paper. <br />Lee Rafalow said it seemed that three activities had been <br />identified. The first was to put in more concrete terms, the <br />group's vision and there was a proposal, if not a consensus, to do <br />that in a subcommittee. The second activity was a design studio <br />exercise to go through and the third was identifying techniques for <br />getting landowners to have-fair value for their land and deal with <br />the property rights issues. He suggested that three subcommittees <br />could be appointed. He said the subcommittees could take on their <br />respective issues knowing that members represented different <br />perspectives, but that they had learned enough about the group to <br />try and make sure all perspectives of the larger group were <br />represented. Three "straw man" solutions could be created and then <br />brought back together for the larger group to consider. The group <br />would then have something to work with instead of vague ideas which <br />each person probably understood differently. <br />John Link said he thought it would be a valuable contribution on <br />the part of the group, and certainly the subcommittee, to define <br />what is meant by the phrase, "property rights." He thought there <br />11 <br />