. >> good afternoon, commissioner, my name is paul romer and i think i'm here on one of my broken record items, i know i'm usually grumpy and i do want to acknowledge that the department, the planning department particularly does a very good job of outreach, but it could be better. some years back, they embarked on the universal planning notification project, that made some headway and then it died. since that time, the various messaging tools available have only penetrated the population further. the ability to provide information and communicate to people in a timely manner has increased dramatically. i would really like to encourage the planning department to revive that and really take a look at what are we noticing people for, why they are being noticed and how much time in particular neighborhoods need to understand and respond to issues that are published, this crops up with respect to project approvals to begin with, also a lot of the issues with respect to the ceqa revisions that supervisor wiener was proposing, some of which are very good, some of which i think are very bad bec