Now we're live. Thank you. Good morning everyone. My name is Frank DiCicco. I'm the chair of the
zoning board of adjustment. I'm sorry chair. This is when we need a few minutes. Once we go live
we need three minutes. Yep yep. They're slowly coming in.
Thank you.
seems like we're ready chair
thank you good morning everyone my name is frank d chico i'm the chair of the zoning board of
adjustment i'll be participating in today's hearing along with our board secretary mr confessor plaza
and board members Mr. Thomas Holloman and Mr. James Snell.
Board Administrator Tanya Sunken and Board Attorney Sharon Saleta are also in attendance.
For those of you who haven't yet participated in one of our virtual hearings,
I'll go through some of the basics of what you can expect.
First, we will be administering oaths to individual participants prior to their testimony.
Second, for the benefit of anyone participating by phone,
we ask that attorneys and witnesses identify themselves prior to speaking or testify.
Third, we'd like to advise everyone that this proceeding is being recorded
and that by participating you acknowledge your agreement to be recorded.
Fourth, anyone participating by phone.
If you wish to testify, you must first raise your hand by hitting star nine
and then star six to unmute yourself.
I'll repeat for anyone participating by phone if you wish to testify you must raise your hand
by hitting star nine and then star six to unmute yourself finally to enter an appearance statement
call google 267-270-5548 and leave your email address and the address of the property at issue
I'll repeat that as well. To enter an appearance statement, call Google 267-270-5548 and leave
your email address and the address of the property at issue. Before Professor Plaza calls our first
case, we'd like to ask if anyone is going to be requesting a continuance or withdrawal of an
appeal listed for this morning's session if so please raise your hand
Hank Clinton chair or Henry Clinton you can unmute yourself and speak to a
continues, but wait to be sworn in. Good morning, Mr. Clinton. Please identify yourself with a
record. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Henry Clinton, 1313 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia PA, 19146.
And you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I do. Thank you. Please proceed. This concerns calendar number MI 2020-000-376-6463 Malvern Avenue.
Okay, give us a second to find the case.
I don't have that. Sharon or Tanya, you have that case? I don't see it.
No, I don't. Mr. Clinton, this is scheduled for today?
Yes. 930, correct? You know what? I have two, I have two notices in front of me. One is 930 and
one is 3.30 so I thought I would be very conservative and call at 9.30 but it may be on your 3.30
but it may be on your 330 list. Yeah, it might be. Okay, so I apologize, but I just wanted to make
list. Yeah it might be. Okay so I apologize.
sure. Hold on. It is on the 330 list. Okay, so I will call back at 330. Yeah, it's on the 330.
Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any requests for continuances or withdrawals, please raise your hand.
here we have jennifer basilow jennifer you can unmute yourself and wait to be sworn in
hi jennifer basilow 4500 worst street suite d202 philadelphia pennsylvania 19124
would you please spell your full name for the stenographer sure jennifer and then
visit low b as in boy a as in apple z as in zebra y d as in david l as in larry o as in oscar
We're going to affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Please proceed.
All right.
I'm requesting continuance for 2116 West Tioga Street, calendar number MI2020-00262.
Number seven on our list.
Calendar number MI-2020-000262, 2116 West Tioga is being continued.
thank you thank you any other requests
uh chair i believe i have a request
it's a lot of pages today i have a request for number 13 from the attorney of record 33
that's 3625 north 22nd yes okay uh mi-2020-000247 3625 north 22nd street is continued
I believe that's all I have. If they come up, I'll put them on record as they come up.
Thank you. Before we begin with our regular calendar, we'll go through a list of cases
that were on the delay list mi-2020-000849-5655 carpenter street my note my vote is no to
reconsideration no to reconsideration no to reconsideration no to reconsideration
calendar number 37967 1501 north 33rd street we're reopening the the case is being reopened
uh pending uh feedback from the rco this case is being continued uh pending feedback from the rco
It'll be heard next Wednesday, October 14th at 9.30 a.m.
Calendar number 39.
Mr. Mattione will be here on this one.
Let me skip that.
Case was remanded back.
Calendar number 34920, 1550 Lardner Street.
My vote is no.
adopting findings approved and stamped today my vote is no with proviso my vote is no with proviso
my vote is no with proviso you and uh sharon and or tanya 1706 north second calendar number 36463
um that was the one we were trying to find out why it was continued correct
was it this the one where it went i'm sorry what's the address again for you 1706 north
second street i think this was alan notkinson's case
where we weren't sure if we were holding it just a tax cert oh yeah that's what the one we're gonna
where we weren't sure if we were holding it just for the tax cert oh yeah that's what
have to research and get back to you okay and then 1701 south 24th calendar number 39865 mr
manioni i believe will be testifying uh on to uh as to his attempts to have conversation with
either the councilman's office or the rco
did i leave anything out not to my knowledge sharon what you think
i guess you'll chime in as necessary i do have another request for continuous um it's number
11 on your list the request came in though from the um community so if you wanted to ask if
the applicant was present is the applicant present for 335 east price street mi-2020-000258
there's a request from the rco to have this case continued
if you're requesting a continuance for price street raise your hand at this time please
so i guess that's no one's chiming in for that we'll be continuing um yes i do have a call and
use uh call in person let me see it's the uh call in person there's no name attached
you can unmute yourself and speak to a continuance
hello can you hear me okay yes please identify yourself ma'am name and address
yes this is adrian fernandez for swamp little neighborhood process association rco
with a um i'm calling to confirm that you received and acknowledge our request for continuance
for 2116 West
Tioga Street and it's possibly
I'm sorry
2217 West
Tioga Street and it
possibly is mixed combined
with 2215
West Tioga Street and we did send in
our letter requesting continuance
We already
continued that
I don't think it was announced in here
so that one is continued
I didn't have that one
i'm sorry 2116 west tayoga no cheer 227 can you just could you hold one minute please let us
i missed i looked at the 2116 so 22 number eight yeah 2217 west tayoga if we can request to see
who the uh attorney or applicant is there an applicant is the applicant and or the attorney
for 2217 west tayoga street on jennifer are you here for this case no i just wanted to clarify
that 2116 west tayoga and 2117 west tayoga are two separate applications with two separate
applicants and i only represent 2116. that's all we have on uh we only have 2116 i believe
when the calendar is 2217 that's a different case that's a different case
just separate but we requested a continuance for 2217 west tioga because there was no meeting
just hold just hold one second please we know that we're asking if the applicant and or attorney
is present and do they concur with the request for continuance i don't have hands up here chair
for that one all right so okay guys so you said no two addresses for that no we can only go with
what we have on our list adrian okay okay i don't want to confuse things okay
on the calendar there was one but the rco given it is one one case we only can go by what
we can only go by what's on the calendar and i apologize to the stenographer talk for talking
over uh mi dash 2020 dash 000374 2217 west tayoga is continued
any other requests no other hands are up at this time we can proceed okay um i believe we're ready
to go mr positive all right calendar number mi 2020-000514 1307 germantown as an attorney is
1307 Germantown as an attorney is Ms. Dawn St. Creedence.
Dawn, you've been promoted to a panelist.
You can unmute yourself, wait to be sworn in, and share your screen as necessary.
Good morning, Ms. Tincredi.
you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do. Good morning. And I would ask that the architects be able to share their screen,
and that would be Rustin Oler. Awesome. Do you agree to waive the reading of its refusal and
stipulate to its accuracy? I can agree to the waiving of the reading. However, there are some
minor inaccuracies on the refusal. For example, it indicates that there's nine OPA account numbers.
There's actually six. Okay. And have you emailed an exhibit packet with the required documents,
proof of ownership, proof of tax compliance, copy of the refusal or referral photos and plans
five days in advance of this hearing? We have. And as for the tax compliance,
We did submit an agreement of sale.
I represent the equitable owner in this matter.
Awesome. Have you met with the RCO and have a letter?
We did meet with two RCOs, yes, and there are two letters in the packet.
You may proceed.
Thank you.
So good morning.
Dawn Tancredi, 2005 Market Street, Philadelphia, 19103.
I'm here today on behalf of the equitable owner and applicant.
wood capital investments eight which is a streamlined entity with me here today
are keith casey and jesse lawrence on behalf of the applicant also here is ruston oler the
architect that will discuss the plans and the current owner of the property ron ramstad is
also here so whoever you need to come forward will have to raise their hand okay okay thank you
I would ask that the packet that we turned in be incorporated into the record.
So, as you see, we are here today seeking approval for a mixed-use project.
The proposal is to provide a 190-dwelling unit building with one commercial space.
And the project also includes 106 parking spaces and 80 bicycle spaces.
To provide some context for this site, the site is zoned ICMX and it's approximately
77,000 square feet.
It's located north of Girard Avenue between Germantown and North American Street.
As I mentioned, we did meet with the community and we have letters of support from both South
Kensington Community Partners and Old Kensington Neighborhood Association.
We did complete the CDR process as well.
I would point out that throughout the process, recommendations from both city planning and
the community were made.
We took this into consideration and incorporated changes into the plans.
For example, the density has been reduced and pathways have been added.
The plans before you today have been re-reviewed by the L&I examiner, and there are no new refusals.
With that, I would ask Rustin to describe the plans. Thank you.
Hi, everybody.
Please identify yourself, Rustin. Spell your name.
Yep, Rustin Oler, R-U-S-T-I-N, last name Oler, O-H-L-E-R, address 1225 North 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA.
1-9-1-2-2.
And do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth? I do.
Mike, please proceed.
All right. Can everybody see my screen?
Yes. Okay.
So here's the site, 1307
Germantown. As Donna
mentioned, it's just under two acres. We go
from American Street on the east
to Germantown on the west, and
we are mid-block, not touching
Master Street or Thompson Street.
The site is currently, it's a tenant that's actually moved out or moving out.
It was like a poultry processing plant.
I'll just, this is our full CDR presentation, so I'll get through it pretty quickly.
Here's our lot consolidation plan.
This will basically describe the overall site to you.
This will basically describe the overall site to you.
The blue is 26 two-family dwellings, all with one-to-one parking, access off a reared
shared drive aisle.
The green are two nine-family dwellings for a total of 18 units there with nine parking
stalls in front of them, including one of which is ADA.
and then the uh peaches color building to the top of the page running on american street
is a mixed-use structure with 120 dwelling units above in the top five floors and the first floor
is a commercial space just under 10 000 square feet as well as residential amenities
with underground parking under it and then between the mixed-use building and the two
family dwellings we have a open public park and community space. What we've done is design the
project so that the larger scale mixed-use building is facing American Street where we have
a new eight-story building under construction across the street and then the
row home style buildings which are four stories in height are facing Germantown
which leads to the more residential part of the of the neighborhood and rooms