james hill, carolyn kennedy, christopher roach, jeff hodges, john verger and christy wang. >> good day commissioners. i am a tenant and a neighborhood council member. legislation you're deliberating today it is set forth in response to the late marilee's 2017 executive directive on housing production. unfortunately, establishing a uniform notification period of 20 calendar days to all forms of notices would reduce the current 30 day notification to the public on building permit applications. it is of no benefit to the public, and not fair because it would diminish our ability to participate in the developmental review process affecting our lives and the communities we live in. please reject this undemocratic provision. a project sponsor has plenty of time to consult with planning. why not tackle bottlenecks inherent in the system and said pampering and handicapping neighbours and neighborhood groups by shortening our time to grasp what impacts exactly as proposed to be built, and respond to it effectively and timely? the may 15th notice that we received was received late friday may 18t

my name is carolyn kennedy. thank you for holding this hearing on the proposed process improvements and thank you for the modifications that you did make to the proposed plan. despite these modifications, our organization strongly opposes several elements of these proposed changes. specifically, that 2011 notice period and the permitting for the rear pop outs. regarding the notice period, 20 days is simply too little time for residents to object to the final proposed project plans that we can only access when the 311 notice becomes available. there are several reasons, first, reducing the period by one third for the disadvantages neighbours who entered the process with -- without any training knowledge or skills in a land use, planning, or design and build. i speak from personal experience. i filed a d.r. among all the stakeholders in the planning process, we residents have the least amount of knowledge, skills and typically, money. this lopsided distribution of resources is a major process issue. it skews the p