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ZBA Hearing - November 17, 2020

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Nov 17, 20205h 18m

Okay, Mr. Chair, we have a Mr. Pascual Colavito whose hand is raised. I will

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promote him to panelists right now.

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Colavito, when you get on, please identify yourself with the records by your last name

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and I'll swear you in.

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Warning. Good morning, Mr. Colavito. Please identify yourself.

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Pasquale Colavita on behalf of the applicant for 329 North 11th Street.

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Please spell your first and last name for this scenario, please.

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P-A-S-Q-U-A-L-E-C-O-L-A-V-I-T-A.

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We're going to affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

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I do.

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Please proceed.

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And this is our request for a continuance.

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It's the first listing.

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We also represent the applicant for 327.

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327 what we're trying to do is consolidate to two because 327 is a corner property

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we had way back in march had placed um had forwarded to the planning commission for their

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review dealing with eclipse we finally were able to upload the documents so basically what we're

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trying to do is for judicial economy present both of them in front of the community the rco as well

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as yourself because they're basically uh mirror images of each other or two three unit um requests

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we've but we only have we only have i understand i understand so so all i'm saying is i'm just

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giving you a background saying that we need a we we have yet to meet with the rco instead of meeting

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with garcio twice and with you twice we want to meet with each of you once understood thank you uh

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am I 20 probably at least 90 days is going to be well they'll work that out for you so

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MI 2020-001432 329 North 11th Street is continued thank you chair if I could make the request

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that the attorney of Rucker contact me

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for the request to consolidate

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or any other requests.

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Of course.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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I shall.

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May I be excused?

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Yes, you may.

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Have a good day.

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Thanks.

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Me too.

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Hey, Mr. Chair.

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The next person is someone

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with the number ending in 9484.

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Again, this person's phone number

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ends in 9484.

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I will promote him to panelists right now and to the individual on this line, please wait to be sworn in.

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If I could, Jason, I mentioned that it should be audio, open up their audio.

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As a phone caller, they cannot be promoted.

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Do I allow them to talk?

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Yes, you can unmute them.

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Yeah.

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Whoever it is, male, female, ma'am, or sir, please identify yourself with the record,

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spell your first and last name, and give us your address.

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My name is Mary Catherine Bauer.

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I'm the attorney for the petition for 1665 Harrison Street.

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Hold on, please.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Please spell your last name for the stenographer.

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Bauer is B as in boy, A as in apple, U as in umbrella, R as in rabbit.

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Do you swear in the firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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Yes.

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Please proceed.

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Ms. Bauer, excuse me, this is Sharon Stiletta.

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Before you proceed, we did receive a letter from you withdrawing the appeal.

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Okay.

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All right.

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But your hearing just said anybody who wanted to withdraw or continue, and I just wanted

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to make sure thank you i just wanted to confirm that we did receive the request in writing prior

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to the hearing thank you okay thank you so am i am i 2020 that's 000220 1665 harrison street is

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withdrawn. Thank you. I see no more hands, Mr. Chair. Okay. MI 2020-000263-1383 Sanger,

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S-A-N-G-E-R Street.

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Averna Souza has her hand up.

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Averna Souza has her hand up. I will raise, I will promote them to, promote them to panelists right now, sir.

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I will raise, I will promote him.

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Please wait to be sworn in, Ms. Souza.

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Hello, could you hear and see me?

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Yes, please identify yourself, spell your first and last name, and provide us with your address.

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okay my name is verna soza v-i-r-n-a and soza s-o-z-a we're in the firm to tell the truth

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the whole truth and nothing but the truth i do uh your address 1383 east sanger street

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you are the owner correct yes along with my mother delma soza you can see oh well i'm not

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sure if you could see me let me start the video it's all right you can proceed thank you excuse

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me this is sharon saleta i have no record of having received exhibits for this case we do

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have a letter of non-opposition from councilwoman sanchez that she um and her acknowledgement that

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the rco also submitted a letter of support ma'am um we never received their exhibit

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could you please explain exactly what the exhibit is because we have someone

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um oh they okay so i just got a message from the person who speaks on my behalf

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um they said that we sent it on the 27th um and she said if she could please talk

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to further explain that because she's the person that deals with all of that

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she isn't her name is b is spelled yeah it's spelled as b-e-d-i-t-z-a and she said she is

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sorry about the confusion um but yeah she did say she was on the call

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is she your attorney um yeah she is no she's not cheers this is not an attorney

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oh she's actually calling me so i guess i'll just let her speak through that

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give me one second

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okay hello i'm gonna put you on speaker so you could clarify you heard me

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she can't speak i think because she's an expediter

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right she's she's um excuse me this is sharon she if she can speak as far as um

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letting us know if and when she submitted exhibits

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i'm sorry so she's saying that she has the expedited the package to show like of the

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plans and like the information we've sent you never sent but she needs to share and i don't

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have access to it only she does and it had to have been submitted five days in advance and

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my email address was one of those that it should have been copied to did she do that

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hold on i'm gonna put on the speaker um she's saying she did send it go ahead you could talk

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to them we can't hear her we're having a problem um we did send it what hold on what is the email

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that you sent i'm sorry ma'am ma'am yes i'm gonna promote her i'm gonna allow her to speak

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okay thank you i'm sorry about the inconvenience to you so the phone can you turn the phone off

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because it's causing feedback okay yeah yeah of course i'll turn it off is that mr pt to uh

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we're promoting i'm not promoting if you can just open up her audio okay audio's open

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thank you guys so much i'm i'm having a heart attack here but it's your expediter for the

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case on sanger street man man slow down slow down please would you please spell your first and last

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name vedita cadillo b-e-d-i-t-z-a c-a-d-i-l-l-o we're in a firm to tell the truth the whole truth

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and nothing but the truth yes sir please proceed um we have forward the letter of uh support on

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the 6th of November. If they gave me, let me share, I could share the package. She could speak

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and I just share the package of the support, the application. It was emailed on the 11th or the 6th

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of November. We forwarded the letter of support also for the case. Okay, so Bedita, when was your

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package emailed to the ZBA and sharing the letter? We forwarded on the 6th, we forwarded the letter

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of support. And on the 13th, we also send the continuance, but we also send the packages to

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the continuous but we also send the packages to jason on october 13 when the so unfortunately

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Jason on October 13.

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i'm sorry you sent the continuance no no on on october 13 when we requested that continues we

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send the package and on 11th we send the letter of support from christine the neck frank for neck

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supporting the duplex but I did I hear you correctly that on I think you said the 13th

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you sent a letter of continuance no on October we had sent a letter to request a continuance

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attached to the letter of continuance we also submitted the packages that we had

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for the hearing because we know we had to submit it ahead of time

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and who was it sent to jason on the 10th 13th right but do you understand the requirements

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are zba rco at phila.gov sharon saletta

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those are the individuals who should have received the exhibit that's why sharon's saying she doesn't

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have it that's required before you can be heard by the board okay you're absolutely correct okay

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I just want to make sure we're clear yes so we're gonna have to continue this

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all right and those exhibits have to be sent as Tanya just described as we

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speak I'm forwarding all right MI 2020-000263 1383 Sanger Street is

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continued we know that it will be published on the calendar next week okay thank you i apologize

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about the inconvenience no worries no worries i apologize for the inconvenience too thank you

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okay calendar number mi 2020 000 370 1541 adams avenue the attorney is john sabatina

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this is sharon sletta on this one we have a letter from councilwoman sanchez in non-support

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based on the rco opposition letter thanks sharon

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okay i have a miss tina marie russell on um with her hand up i can promote it to a

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panelists if that's okay? No, Jason, that would not be necessary because the attorney of record

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is John Sabatina. I don't know if he's available or if there's another attorney or the applicant

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owner available, but Ms. Russell, I believe, is the RCO. Okay.

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I'm looking for him right now.

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I do not see Mr. Sabatina

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in the attendees list.

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Unfortunately.

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All right. We'll continue this case.

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MI 2020-000370

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1541 Adams Avenues

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continue.

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carol yep calendar number mi 2020-000699 2143 titan street

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this is an appeal for the demolition or an application for the demolition of existing

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building and for the erection of an attached building with a roof deck and roof deck access

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structure and rear deck at the second floor for use as a single-family household living and to

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include two off-street parking spaces. Jason, we have an attorney for that, if you can promote her.

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Come on to Amazon. All right. Okay, we'll promote her right now. Ms. Amazon, I'm promoting you to

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panelists please wait to be sworn in she's been promoted

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hi miss amazon can you put your name and address on the record please of course good afternoon

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chairman and members of the board my name is clementa amazon c l e m e n t a last name is a

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Last name is A-M-A-Z-A-N.

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M-A-Z-A-N

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That's at Nackamson, PC, 123 South Broad Street, Suite 1600, Villa, PA, 19109.

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Do you swear or affirm to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

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I do.

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And do you also agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?

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Yes.

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You may proceed.

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May I share my screen?

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Sure.

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Thank you.

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Okay, so can everyone see that?

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Yes.

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Perfect.

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So again, my name is Clemente Amazon, and I will be presenting 2143 Titan Street.

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So here I have a packet of exhibits.

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And the first exhibit is the deed to the property.

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and the tax clearance and here we have the notice of refusal so we have four refusals for this

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property the first being for the accessory parking is a single family home and there is

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currently accessory parking there we are seeking to demolish it and rebuild a single family home

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and include that single family will include the parking so that's the first refusal the second is

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stating that if it's attached on both sides there should be a setback for the third floor

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We are actually not attached on both sides, which I'll show on the photographs.

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And the third is for the open area, and the last is for the rear yard.

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So here I have the revised proviso plans. Originally, we intended to include a rear deck on the second floor.

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We spoke to the community and they requested that we do not include that rear deck, so we've included a proviso to that effect.

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and we also agreed that we would include mounted lights as well as security cameras because we

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have that alleyway alongside the property and here are the plans as you can see we are not

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attached on both sides you can zoom in a little bit for you guys so this is the property currently

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there is parking there again we're just seeking to build a single family home and rebuild that

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parking space and we do have that nine foot rear yard depth that's requested this is our

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application for appeal another copy of the refusal again is for the parking the attachment on both

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sides as well as the open area and the rear yard which has been resolved as a result of us getting

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rid of that second floor deck zoning map again we are building a single family home it's a single

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family area google map showing the location and here are the photographs this is our property

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currently as i mentioned prior we are not attached on both sides as you can see there is an alley

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running alongside the property.

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The view to the right of the property,

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to the left of the property.

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And here are the plans and drawings.

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So again, we would maintain the parking that we have

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and build a single-family home.

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And instead of having that second-floor deck,

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we're just going to have a Juliet guardrail balcony instead.

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And these were the original plans

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that we initially showed to the community,

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which included that deck. But again, we will not be doing that.

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