how many people in the audience
good morning chair we have 13 as of right now thank you very much you're welcome
good morning everyone my name is bill bergman and i will be chairing this meeting of the
Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment. With me is our board vice chair, Tanetta Graham.
Present Mr. Chairman. Our board secretary, Cheryl Gaston.
Present Mr. Chairman. Board member, Taya Nguyen.
Present Mr. Chairman. Board member, Ryan McAdams.
Present Mr. Chairman. Also here is our board attorney, Hillary Emerson,
our zoning board director, Ian Haggerty, and our board administrator, Lakeisha Dandy.
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number three mi 2025 001 562 1315 south 47th street this case is continued to 513 26 at 9 30 a.m
okay thank you sir for coming in and let's see here yeah 513 26
and hillary i'm going to call at number six relative to the continuance and handle that now
okay and number six mi 2025 005 528 3017 west sesquahanna avenue there's a request from the
council member young's office is there anyone from council members young's office present
good morning chair this is your vet benton i'll be your co-host for today
i don't see anyone from the council member's office but alan knockamson has his hand up
that's not right okay all right um okay so for number six we will hear that case when we get
to it today we intend to hold the vote because there's going to be an rco meeting in a few days
are there any other requests for continuance
chair we have alan knockamson with his hand up he has been unmuted and allowed to speak
Good morning, Mr. Nockamson.
Good morning, Mr. Chair.
Could you just state your name for the record, please?
Alan Nockamson.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Your two cases at the end, is that what you want to talk about?
Yes, Mr. Chair.
100 West of Wall Street and 102 West of Wall Street.
So, Mr. Chair, just to give a little summary about this matter.
These are both remand hearings.
There are any appeal in front of the Philadelphia Court of Common, please.
appeal in front of the uh the philadelphia court of common please hold on a minute should i see if
Hold on a minute.
masters is in the audience all right mr masters could you come on please that's mr knockoffson
speaking he's been unmuted and allowed to speak chair good morning mr masters good morning could
you please state your name and spell for the stographer steve masters s-t-e-v-e-m-a-s-t-e-r-s
all right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
All right.
So, Mr. Nockamson, could you start over, please?
So, this is a hearing today, a remand hearing, where it was limited in scope, where the appellant was going to be given an opportunity to question, question, examine, and rebut the testimony of our expert witness, Ray Rolla.
I do believe we may be close to a settlement, and we're asking for additional time to have that heard, and rather than waste the board's time, we're asking for a continuance of this matter, you know, but it's a non-traditional track.
We don't want to, like, have a...
I understand. Mr. Masters?
We are in complete agreement, Mr. Chair.
We are very close to a final settlement, and a continuance would be necessary to make that possible.
All right. Thank you very much. So number seven, MI 2025-005-709-102 West DeVal.
And number eight, MI 2025-005-712-100 West DeVal Street. Both cases continued. The date that we
will give it at this point is 5-13-26 at 9.30 a.m. And Mr. Chair, I just want to note for the record,
We did receive a continuance request in both of these cases from the Pomona-Cherokee Civic Council.
I think they had some concerns about the process.
I don't know if anyone from the council is listening, but this is a remand hearing.
It is not a typical variance case where it would go through an RCO meeting and such.
So I just wanted to note that for the record.
I agree with the continuance. Thank you. Thank both of you for calling in. We appreciate it.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
So we'll start with number one. Anyone else having a continuance request?
Chair, we have someone with the phone number ending in 3552. They've been unmuted and allowed to speak.
hello good morning i please state your name is spelled for the stenographer
adrian fernandez my last name is spelled s-e-r-n-a-n-d-e-z and i'm chairman to ask
if you hold on one minute you swear we're firm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but
the truth yes in what case do you want to talk about i wanted to ask about 26 18 north 22nd
the street, if you had called that in the continuance section?
We intend to hear the case when we get to it.
We are requesting a continuance or dismissal because there's been no public meeting.
We didn't learn about today's hearing until yesterday evening, and the property has also
not been posted with ZBA hearing posters.
All right. So what we'll do is we're going to call the case and we'll try to work through those issues.
OK, we are going to call the case and then we'll bring all those issues up then.
OK, thank you.
All right. Bye bye.
OK, so number one, MI 2024, 005, 585, 4022 North Rees Street.
Polino is the
owner applicant
this is a resumptive hearing
do we have a Spanish interpreter
online
here I see
no hands
and do we have an interpreter
okay someone
Joshua Orega
just raised their hand
They should be coming back in as a panelist here.
Thank you.
Good morning, everybody.
My name is Josue, and I'll be your Spanish interpreter.
My D is a Delta.
X is an X-ray 156.
Good morning, Mr. Chairman.
Did you spell your name?
Did you spell your name?
It's J-O-S-U-E.
It's J-O-S-U-E.
My last name, Arriaga, is A-R-R-E-A-G-A.
All right.
Do you soundly swear or affirm that you will interpret accurately, completely, and impartially from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English to the best of your ability?
I do, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you.
Could you call Lydia Polino?
Could you please ask her to come on?
Muy buenos días con la señora Lidia Polino
Por favor, si se puede
Unir a la reunión
Le van a mandar una solicitud para que pueda entrar al panel
I see no hands, Chair
I don't see Ms. Lidia Polino in the roster, sir
OK. Yeah, sure. Sure. Just hold on a minute, sir.
I'll be standing by.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, yeah.
she's trying to log on now
all right what was that sir she's trying to log on right now oh okay oh yeah there she is
lydia paulino she's raising her hand right now sir thank you i'm about to promote her to
panelist here. Thank you.
Good morning. Could you please say to her, do you swear or affirm to tell the
truth, the whole truth, nothing but the
truth.
okay all right so this is a resumptive hearing and this is how the hearing is going to
go the applicant will discuss the updated plans we will then have questions from the board in
our council we'll take public testimony limited to the supplemental information we have today
and we'll look at whether planning wants to give us an update so could she please start her
Now, you want me to go over that again a little slower for you?
So it'll be the discussion of updated plans by the applicant, and we can start with that first.
So could you ask her to please start that?
And if she would, make sure that she shows us her documents, all right?
I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman.
She was just mentioning that her camera – she's apologizing because her camera is not working at the moment.
So just to start with that, and let me tell her what you said.
In este caso, señora, you were saying, sir?
you were saying sir yeah um does she think that the camera will work
Yeah. Does she think that the camera will work?
that's not working right now
okay um why don't why don't we do this um interpreter could you um we're going to go
on with a couple other cases and we'll come back and see if she has that okay so let us handle two
a couple cases, then we'll call you back
and tell her we'll call her back, too.
Vamos a ver si a lo mejor se puede salir y volver
a unir a la reunión para ver si usted puede
arreglar la cámara. Vamos a llamar a otros casos
actualmente por el momento
y ahorita regresamos con usted.
La vamos a volver a llamar, sí, para ver si podemos arreglar
su cámara. No hay problema.
Okay. No problem.
All right. So, number two.
MI 2024-006-713-2618
north 22nd street bianca and bobby bosquette are the owner applicants is this a pro se
oh oh you're here
whatever one you want how's that
okay do we have her documents and okay thank you all right um could you please state your
name and spell for the stenographer um bianca bosquette my first name is b i a n c a my last
name is b-o-s-k-e-t great um do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth and
nothing but the truth yes so this application is for use as a personal services in an existing
structure were previously approved second floor apartment to remain whereas the proposed use
personal services in the prohibited in the rs are prohibited in the rsa fine zoning district