Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning, everyone. My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this meeting of the Philadelphia Zoning Mortar of Adjustment.
With me is our vice chair, Danetta Graham.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board secretary, Cheryl Gaston.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Board member, Michael Johns.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Board member, Taya Nguyen. I believe she'll be here any minute.
And our board member, Ryan McAdams.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Also, here is our attorney, Hilary Emerson, our executive director, Ian Haggerty, and our board administrator, Lakeisha Dandy.
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Let's look at our schedule for today.
number one mi 2025 002 821 2226 west tayoga street this case will be rescheduled to wednesday
june 10th at 2 p.m um mr chair just wanted to clarify for the record that we are reopening
the record in this case and having a resumption hearing okay next week at two so okay so number two
mi2025-002-824-2224 west tayoga street will be reopening this case and the hearing will be
Wednesday, June 10th at 2 p.m. Number three, MI 2026, 2002-2973-4723 West Sheldon Street.
sheldon street this case is continued to 6 10 26 at 9 30 a.m
This case is continued to 610-26.
number four get us here
number four mi20260029754726 sheldon street that case has continued until
8 26 at 2 p.m number five mi 2025 007019 432 east gerrard avenue
i vote yes with proviso amended refusal dated 5 20 26.
michael johns and my vote is yes with proviso
cheryl gaston my booty chefs with proviso
netta graham my vote is yes with proviso
okay thank you so let's let's look at our the rest of our schedule for today
Number one, MI-2025-004-426-2243 East Venango Street, Angel Padre or Investment Limited applicant.
We have no exhibits. This is the second listing from that case.
Good morning, Chair. This is Jasmine and I will be your co-host for this morning's session.
I see no hands up at this time.
Thank you. MI 2025 004 426 2243 East Vidango Street.
I vote to dismiss.
Michael Johns, my vote is to dismiss.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is to dismiss.
Tenetta Graham, my vote is to dismiss.
Ryan McAdams, my vote is to dismiss.
Number two, MI 2022-000456-2927-North 12th Street, Gary Peterson is the listed owner.
Mr. Peterson, this is the second listing.
We have no exhibits.
chair i see no one in the audience with that name thank you mi2025 000456 this case i vote
to dismiss michael johns my vote is to dismiss cheryl gaston my vote is to dismiss tenetta
graham my vote is to dismiss ryan mcadams my vote is to dismiss number four mi 2025
004 799 2425 west norris street this case this case has continued to 8 26 26 at 2 p.m
must mark must be heard
Number five, MI2025-004807-6227 Catherine Street, owner is Companion to Compassionate
senior living um question question pierce um no exhibits this is the second listing
chair i see no one in the audience with that name nor do i see any hands up at this time
thank you mi2025-004-807-6227 katherine street i vote to dismiss michael johns my vote is to
dismiss cheryl gaston my vote is to dismiss tenetogram my vote is to dismiss ryan mcadams my
vote is to dismiss number eight number eight mi 2025 007 519 11 080 knight's road this case is
continued until 9 to 26 at 2 p.m
Until 9-2-26 at 2 p.m.
Number 11.
Number 11 is here.
Number 11, MI 2025-007-539-5619, Lansden Street, 56, this case is continued until 9-26-26 at 2 p.m.
Just to clarify for the record, that's 5610 Lancaster Avenue?
that's continued to you said 2 p.m chair it it says here 2 p.m okay thank you
so we're going to do 12 13 and 14 together right all right number 12 mi 2025 002 007 539 56 10 um
Lancaster, right? Lancaster Avenue? Oh, I'm below that. Okay. Number 12, MI 2025-007-573-1547
Franklin Street. Number 13, MI 2023-007-577-1543 Franklin Street.
and number 14 mi 2025 007 578 1537 west franklin street all these cases are scheduled
or continued to 9 23 26 at 2 p.m
number 15 right number 15 mi 2025 007 631 7635 roosevelt boulevard this case is continuing
until 9 30 26 at 2 p.m we're going to go to our first case um mr chair we do have uh requests
for continuance on number three um i did it earlier no no no no so we have to we have to
discuss that matter because uh not it was someone other than the applicant who requested the
continuance page nine page nine okay i have a hand up by strawberry maintained community concern
I'm going to allow them to speak.
I don't believe that's not the RCO for this case.
This is 5830 Whitby Avenue.
The applicant is Henry Dorval and the continuance was from Mariko Worth.
Okay, I have a hand up by Mariko Worth.
I'm going to allow them to speak.
hi um i'm a nearby resident okay excuse me excuse me we need to we swear you in we also
need the applicant is mr durval in the audience henry durval for whitby avenue
so mi 2025 004 680 5830 whitby avenue
i see no other hands up at this time um i do not see a hand up from henry henry henry dorval
nor do i see them in the audience chair
so the exhibits were submitted by kenneth johnson i don't know if mr
dorval is under i see a couple of kenneth johnson's in the audience i don't know if
if Mr. Durval is in one of those.
Do not.
All right.
Henry Durval, if you are in the virtual audience,
please raise your virtual hand.
Okay, I have a hand up by the name of Kenneth Johnson.
I'm going to allow them to speak.
Thank you.
And then we have someone else too, right there.
hello mr johnson yes mr johnson could you please state your name mr johnson is mr dorval with you
Could you please state your name? Mr. Johnson is mr. Dorval with you
He's trying to log in right now, okay, we need him to get on because he's there he is the property owner
No, he stays in front of the computer he's trying to log in okay
We can swear in Mariko worth while we're waiting what's his name Mariko worth
hi yes i'm here hi could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer
uh my name is mariko worth m-a-r-i-k-o worth w-i-r-t-h do you swear or affirm to tell the
truth the whole truth nothing but the truth yes i do thank you
we'll wait for the other person to get on so he can hear at least what the issues are
We see the appellant on.
He's trying to come.
He's trying to come on, apparently.
I see no one in the audience with that name as of yet.
Oh, no.
Actually, I see him on now.
Mr. Dorval?
I'm allowing him to speak.
good morning sir
henry durval you have been allowed to speak please unmute your mic
mr durbell yes can you hear me now yes i can sir could you please state your name
and spell for the sonographer henry durval h-e-n-r-y-d-o-r-v-a-l
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Sir, could you please turn on your video if you can?
It's on.
All right.
And we have someone who wants to, they're requesting a contingent for your case.
So we're going to bring them on and let them testify what their issues are, okay?
Maurice, is that, what's your name?
mariko yes mariko could you please give us your issues why you want this case to be continued
yes um i was on the original um notification list as a nearby neighbor for this case and
i went to the first rco meeting and there was a continuance because we didn't get our
notifications in time so a second meeting was scheduled um i tried to attend that meeting the
The developer sent me their plans, which I requested, so that was great.
And then I went to the second RCO meeting, and it just was never held.
The Zoom link was broken.
I had also reached out to all those RCOs, which I have the emails for.
I sent in the documents of the exhibits of the screenshots for the missed meeting,
But no one responded to me except for a rep, Andrew, from Jamie Gautier's office, to even let me know the meeting was happening.
And then they told me that it was the RCO's fault or something.
I mean, not the RCO's fault, but the RCO was responsible.
But I'm requesting a continuance because we didn't get to have the meeting.
We never got to have the RCO meeting.
So let me tell you where we are with this.
We're going to go on with the case today.
Respond to the request for continuance?
Mr. Deval.
Yes, I'm here, sir.
Could you respond to the comments we just made?
There's nothing to respond to.
I mean, I was here waiting for the meeting.
The last meeting on May the 21st.
It was canceled without even me knowing it was canceled.
i understand the gentleman case because uh that thing was scheduled on may the 21st
and then uh the architect had to call me he had to call somebody to find out what was going on
then we found out that there was some uh all right so mr deval listen are you ready to go on today
oh yes that's why i'm here all right so sir what we're going to do is we're going to hear this case
We're going to hold the vote on it.
we're going to hold the vote on it we're going to hold the vote and then we'll bring this back
We're going to hold the vote, and then we'll bring this back on July 8th, where we will vote on it.
There will be time in between to go back to the RCO and see if we can't have a meeting between now and then, okay?
So why don't we start this, Mr. DeVal, why don't we start your case?
Number one, could you please turn on your video?
uh it's already on because i can see you can you see me um no
uh uh i can hear you but i i don't see any manual where i should turn it i mean
it's about it should be on automatically you have to accept the request to become a penalist
oh okay okay where that request let's see okay okay all right i see
is it better now
um i i don't see anything
let's see everybody uh okay hold on a second
um no hold on hold on no it looks like you've been promoted to a panelist um but i i don't
know if there's something covering your camera you need to activate your camera because we don't we
don't see you um so everything is clear in front of me there's nothing cover anything uh let me
see all right so so here mr val let me tell you what we're going to do we're going to come back
to you in about 20 minutes and by that time see if you can get your computer working the proper way
okay i can see you you can you can hear me um but i can't we have to see your documents right you're
have to put them up on a computer we cannot see you sir oh the architect has all my uh all the
documents who's who's the architect uh mr johnson yeah mr johnson he can he can come on and show
the doc mr johnson you can show the documents johnson has been promoted to panelists thank you