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Good morning, Chair. We have 52 attendees.
Good morning, everyone. My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this meeting of the
Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustments. With me is our Vice Chair, Ismail Shahid.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board member, Cheryl L. Gaston.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board member, Tanetta Graham.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board member, Michael Johns.
Michael will be on shortly.
And our board member, Taya Nguyen.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Also present is Hillary Emerson, our attorney, Ian Haggerty, the executive director of the zoning board, and our supervisor, Lakeisha Dandy.
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outside the double doors to the right thank you thank you let's look at our schedule for today
number seven mi 2024 005 506 53 20 53 51 wayne avenue that case is continued
And number 17, MI 2024.
And number 17, MI 2024-005-575-1005 North 6th Street.
That case is continued.
Are there any other requests for continuance?
Good morning, Chair.
This is Jasmine, and I will be your co-host today.
I have a hand up by the name of Vern Anastasio.
They have been promoted to panelists.
Good morning, Counsel.
Council, could you please state your name and spell for the stonographer?
Council?
Chair, he may be having technical difficulties.
Hello?
I'm not Vern, but.
Could you please state your name and spell for the court synographers?
David Orphanides, last name spelled O-R-P-H-A-N-I-D-E-F.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Your case number one, MI 2024, 000790324 South 17th Street.
That's correct.
Could you give us the status here?
Yeah, I believe my client wants to withdraw this appeal. However, I have an email from him, but I don't have his final approval of the letter I intended to submit to the board requesting the withdrawal or my appearance today to withdraw. So I'd ask for that the matter just be continued or so that I could submit that paperwork.
Thank you. MI 2024 00790324 South 17th Street. The case is continued.
Mr. Chair, this is Hillary. I would suggest that one be marked
attorney moving party. Attorney moving party.
Do we see Vern?
Good morning.
Good morning, counsel. Could you please state your name and spell for the
sonographer? Yes, sir. Vern Anastasio, A-N-A-S-T-A-S-I-O.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
What case, sir?
2307 Naudain Street, Mr. Chair.
Please give us status, sir.
Yes, sir. We need to meet with the RCO. We were unable to meet with them prior to today's hearing, so we've set that up now, which is why we need the continuance.
Thank you. So MI2024-005-489-2307, North Dane Street. Cases continued until 6-11-25 at 9.30 a.m.
Here for the record, Mike Johns, I'm here.
Vernon, you represent the people at North Dane Street?
well he's got the case okay all right any other requests for continuance
i see no more hands at this time chair sorry mr chair i keep getting uh uh un unpromoted so yeah
so so you represent the people in the age because originally that was pro se right
that's correct thank you very much thank you okay so let's go through our list here number
number three mi 2024 002 966 20 jackson street joseph vicaro is the attorney
um no exhibits second listing mr vicaro you here i see no one in the audience with that name chair
Okay, so MI 2024-002-966-20 Jackson Street, that case is continued until 6-11-25, Mark, must be heard.
number four mi 2024 005 488 1323 north 60th street no exhibits first listing
donna bruce is the listed applicant hudson auto tags is the listed owner
i see no one in the virtual audience with that name chair so mi 2024 005
488 1323 North 60th Street. Cases continued. Mark must be heard.
Cases continued, Mark, must be heard.
And, Mr. Chair, what is the continuing state for that one?
06-11-25.
Thank you.
At 930, correct?
Thank you.
And number 14.
MI 2024-005-525.
1222 West
Luzerne Street. Tito
Reynolds is the listed
owner. E.B. Riaz
is the listed
applicant. No exhibits, first
listing.
I see no one
in the virtual audience with that name,
Jerry. So MI2024
005-525
1222 West Luzerne
Street.
Cases continued until
6 11 25 at 9 30 a.m mark must be heard
we're going to go we're going to go to our add-on list
number one this is a revote mi 2022 006 213 25 51 west silver street
I vote no proviso per amended refusal dated 8-24-24.
Michael Johns, my vote is no with proviso.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is no with proviso.
Teneda Graham, my vote is no with proviso.
Tyowin, my vote is no with proviso.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is no with proviso.
Number two, MI-2023-006-909-1443 Tasker Street, do we have a Mandarin interpreter?
Chair, I have two hands up.
The first hand is by the name of Renee Felder.
mike wang is the mandarin interpreter for for this case in the next case
okay his hand is raised thank you no problem mike wing has been promoted to penalist
good morning could you please state your name and spell for the court stenographer
i'm sorry mr chairman were you just addressing me yes i am please could you state your name and
spell for this demographer? Sure. My name is Mike Wang, last name W-A-N-G. Do you soundly swear or
affirm that you will interpret accurately, completely, and impartially from English to
Mandarin and from Mandarin to English to the best of your abilities? Yes, I do. Okay, so number two,
MI 2023-006-909-1443 Tashkar Street, I vote no.
Michael Johns, my vote is no.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is no.
Teneda Graham, my vote is no.
Iowen, my vote is no.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is no.
Mr. Wine, could you please interpret?
案件号码230069091443Tesco这个地址 刚刚委员的投票都否决
Thank you, sir. And number three, MI 2024-005-351-4242, Cotman Avenue, I vote no.
Michael Johnson, my vote is no.
Mr. Wang, thank you very much for your help. We appreciate it. We're going to go to our regular list.
We're going to start with case number 18, MI2024-006-488-5419 Chester Avenue.
Renee Felder is the owner applicant.
Renee Felder will be the owner.
Renee Felder will be rejoining us as a panelist.
Ms. Felder.
Hello, everyone. How you doing?
Good morning. Could you please state your name and spell for the court stenographer?
Renee Felder, R-E-N-E-E, last name Felder, F as in Frank, E-L-D-E-R.
You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
So this application is for two-family household living in an existing structure.
The proposed use two-family living is prohibited in the RSA 5 zoning district.
our vice chair has a few questions for you okay good morning miss velger have you emailed in all
the required documents and exhibits that's needed to proceed with this case five days in advance of
this hearing yes thank you you may proceed and share your screen
oh i thought you guys had all the documents so i have to show you guys the
Oh, okay. All right. Bear with me. Let's see.
Show your knee and share your screen.
You go to my folder. I didn't know. I apologize.
Ms. Felder, if you have a hard time getting it up right now, we can come back to you.
That way you can take your time and have your documents ready, okay?
Are you ready to go now?
Okay, please proceed.
Share your screen.
I did hit share, but I don't know which one.
Thank you for coming out.
All right.
Can y'all see it now?
Not yet.
we see a list of you're going to have to open up what your documents are,
right? Can you see what's up on our screen?
I can see you guys over here to the right. Okay.
So this is one of my pictures that I sent.
That's like a block up from the parcel.
They're building multifamily units. They have them all on this block,
new developments um that's just one picture and i'm asking for it to be grandfather back
into the original cold and coding which is the multi-family unit and i can bring that up also
for as um why don't you start with pictures of your of your building
oh gosh i thought you guys would have all that i'm so sorry all right good just
why don't you do this i'm going to come back to you in about a half hour
and that way you're going to have all your documents lined up and ready to go okay
so we'll be back to you in a half hour okay thank you thank you
we're going to go to number two mi 2024 002 922 21 23 to 25 clearfield street michael
michael hanny is the attorney um there's a recommendation of support from southport
Richmond, and a letter of non-opposition from Council Member Squilla's office.