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t Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - April 20, 1992 Page - 6 - PUBLIC COMMENTS (continued) Council Member Glaze said the Committee is simply making a recommendation to the City Council tonight, and nothing would be approved at this time. Ms. Nielsen said she did not feel the Committee had received all the input from all of the owners. She said she is offering an arbitration clause to her tenants. Council Member Perry asked if Ms. Nielsen allowed flyers to be distributed in her park. Ms. Nielsen said park owners are tired of government intervention. She said rent control won't help people who really need the help. She said people who really need help cannot afford additional fees to pay for rent control . She said the owners don't want to pay for rent control , and it could cost from $6,000-$8,000 per year per park. She said she doesn't think there's any rent gouging or reason for expensive, rent- control ordinances. She said she thinks this will spread to apartments as well . I . Christine Scobee, 495 Fortuna Avenue, asked Mayor Karp to clarify his statement that there had been a number of Hearings related to Robert's Landing. She said there had only been one Hearing since the Final EIR came out and speakers were only allowed three minutes each after 11 :30 at night. Mayor Karp said he had extended the time allowed each speaker. He said the Planning Commission held four Public Hearings in addition to the City Council Hearing. He said he had offered to give Ms. Scobee more than three minutes to speak. Ms. Scobee said since the Final EIR only one Hearing had been held, with the three-minute time limit. She said she had only prepared for three minutes of testimony at that time. She said, had she known she'd have had more time to speak, she would have prepared more testimony. Mayor Karp noted there were four Public Hearings on Robert's Landing and her comments had been documented. He said there had been more than ample time to submit letters and documentation. He noted he had extended the three-minute limit for her at the City Council Public Hearing, but she refused to take more time. Ms . Scobee said the project was not described until the Final EIR came out, and since that time there had only been one Public Hearing. She said someone who wanted to make a thoughtful comment on the project could not do so based on a draft document. She asked for clarification that there had been several Hearings on the project; she said the Hearings concerned the project but were not on the project itself. She said there was only one Hearing on the project which was not held until the FEIR was produced.