and this is by the way is spruce hill civic the side yard was requested and we provided
the side yard, but it does not meet. For some reason, there's an eight-foot side yard requirement,
which for a row home, like a lot, is very difficult to meet. But we do have a side yard.
We do have trash storage in the rear. Like I said, there's only a net increase of two bedrooms,
and it will allow the units to be rented. Mr. Greenzang will verify that the current units,
he's having extreme difficulty in renting because there are two and three bedrooms with minimal
bathrooms and it caused a huge problem for him seconds this simple so mike um tonight
uh there's a little bit of feedback mike you may want to okay well let me just try to go ahead here
mike can you hear me yes yeah he's already been sworn in too mr demarco can you very very good
mike did you hear my um my testimony to the board just there just now yes can you verify it as true
and accurate and can you adopt it as your own testimony yeah yes definitely okay and by the
way you have no basement living it's just storage and utilities and everything is above grade and
you have trash storage for all tenants in the side of yard area correct yes correct and your
matching your addition is matching the footprint of the next door building isn't that correct
yes correct it's not it's actually not extended a lot of coverage
right and there's a slight decrease in the open area with the revisions as well
so Mr. Chairman I wish I could share my screen and show you that's fine so let's let's see
questions from the board no Mr. Chairman okay no Mr. Chairman no Mr. Chairman questions are
comments from the virtual audience? Mr. Chair, this is Hillary. I just wanted to note that
there do not need to be revised plans in this case because of the amended refusal,
but if you are granting, you do want to include a proviso for the amended refusal.
On 4A22? Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Planning Commission. I'm sorry, Chair. Yes.
This is the audience by the name of Mr. Xi with his hand up. Mr. Xi, you can unmute yourself and wait for the chair.
Yes, can you hear me?
Hi, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter, please?
Yes, my name is Benjamin Xi, B-E-N-J-A-M-I-N-C-H-E.
Right. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
You want to talk about this case?
uh it's 525 south 42nd right yes yes cool yes um yeah i am yeah a resident of 42nd street i can
see the property outside my window right now uh i am in support of this project as um the proposed
units are going to bring more supply to an ever increasing amount of student population especially
in uh west philly um and 42nd street is you know the widest street uh in the area and i i i definitely
um think that it will not be a uh burn in this uh i think development uh towards the general area
which is already um increasing influx of demand so yeah i'm in support thank you thank you so
much for calling in we appreciate that yeah thank you any other comments from the virtual audience
okay i see no hands at this time planning commission this is uh ron bednor city planning
property is indicated for residential on the city plan given the revised plans we recommended.
Property is indicated for residential on the city plan.
Given the revised plans, we recommend a request for marriage granted.
MI 2022-000280-525 South 42nd Street.
I vote yes.
Her amended refusal dated 4-8-22.
Carl Tenere, my vote is yes with Proviso.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes with Proviso.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes with Proviso.
Thank you, Mr. DeMarco, for bearing with us.
Yeah, thank you for bearing with me.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Have a good afternoon.
Is there anyone else in the virtual audience?
Is there anyone else in the virtual audience who has a case today?
Chair, I see no hands at this time.
Thanks, everybody.
We got those last two in, and I appreciate what everybody did.
And hopefully Zoom will be a better day tomorrow.
Thank you, everyone.
Sorry.
Hi, Bill.
I'm calling you.
have a good one everyone have a good one um tanya will work on um abby they're having um issues in
our other zoom meetings as well okay we i had a problem this morning i could barely get in
so it is a zoom issue but thank you always for all your it yeah but what we'll do is we're going
to try to contact them today so that we can get it ready for tomorrow sounds good all right thanks
miss pauline you're welcome bye