the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Absolutely do.
Are you a neighbor?
I am a neighbor.
I'm also a business.
I don't only live in the neighborhood.
I have a business in the neighborhood.
I own Gerber Tax and Accounting and Stevie and, oh, sorry.
Why don't you start your presentation then?
Stevie and Tobias are longtime clients of mine.
In the time that I have worked with them, not only have they demonstrated an ability
to go over and above to not only understand what their responsibility as business owners
and people who do business in the neighborhood and in Philadelphia, but in terms of the way
that they interact with the community and the care that they show is unparalleled.
I have been an accountant in the accountant world for 24 years, and rarely do I have artistic
artist clients, people who show such initiative and are so committed to the community in the way
that they are. And so, you know, I've been able to kind of talk with other business owners. I have
a good deal of business owners on South Street, clients who live off of South Street. I'm also
the president of the Philadelphia Dragons and Sports Association, which I'm not here to represent
them but just letting you know kind of how I work in the community and I know that people
to see more of South Street occupied and especially from someone from people
of South Street occupied and especially from someone from people like Stevie and Tobias who
are so committed to the area um and I just wanted to make sure that the board know that there there
is support from the neighbors um not only I have a 10-year-old son so I'm very well aware of being
um you know judicious in in what is shown um but the way that Stevie and Tobias even told me about
it and how they want to kind of support this part of the community and also show, you know,
a reverence for it is pretty impressive. Okay. Thank you very much for taking the time. We
appreciate it. Absolutely. Samantha Thompson will now be promoted to panelists. They should be
coming back in shortly sure thank you um hello my name is samantha thompson s-a-m-a-n-t-h-a-t-h-o-m-p-s-o-n
and i'm a representative from the south street headhouse district all right all right do you
swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do please proceed with
your testimony um i want to echo everything that that miss gerber was um saying she stole a lot of
what i wanted to say but um stevie and tobias have been tremendous community members for south
street even not having their own brick and mortar they've been an awesome advocate for everything
that our mission stands for and they were very professional and answered all the neighbor
questions during their rco hearing and i'm fully confident as well as the rest of the board of the
south street head host district that that she and tobias would be a great addition to our district
all right thank you very much for taking the time we appreciate it is there any other hands
thank you no further hands mr chair planning commission thank you chairman and board members
and good morning david fecto with the city planning commission chairman of board members
the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the cmx 2.5 commercial mixed use zoning at this
location the city rezoned this corridor in 2015 in accord with recommendations in the comprehensive
of plan proposed use is compatible with other nearby uses along the south street corridor
the city planning commission recommends that the board grant the requested use variants for retail
sales of adult oriented merchandise and the proposed variances from the separation requirements
for regulated uses thank you very much um mr goldberg has said he'll have this ready to go
next wednesday we will look at an executive session and we will vote next wednesday at 9 30 a.m
Thank you very much for coming in, and thank you, Mr. Goldberg.
Thank you.
See you later.
Number six, MI-2025-002514, 181 Daly Street, Vern Anastasio.
That should be coming back in trolling, Mr. Chairman.
Morning again, Mr. Chair, members of the board.
Council, you've already been sworn, just for the record, state your name.
Vern Anastasio, A-N-A-S-T-A-S-I-O, on behalf of Ariana Akay and her husband, Adam.
Right. You've already been sworn. Our vice chair has a few questions for you.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Morning.
Have you submitted your documents five days in advance of this hearing?
And do you waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
All right. Thank you. You can proceed with your case.
Thank you.
okay we have a 97 page exhibit binder plus uh outside of the binder we have a letter of support
from Girard Estates, Neighbors Association, as well as the vote tally showing unanimous.
I just received an email, a notification from Council President Kenyatta Johnson's office
saying that he would like to see this proceed as I present.
So the application is for, on the first floor, uses consistent with CMX1 in the zoning district,
which is the minimum classification for commercial. It'll be vacant until we find a
tenant and a single family dwelling above. The property, however, currently is zoned RSA 5,
which is weird because it's never been a single family home. There's a long history going back to
2009 that we found online of it being the first floor party kitchen, sweet and savory shop,
and wolf catering. So there has been a consistent business activity.
uh and wolf catering so there has been a consistent uh business activity on the first floor
and we just want to bring it back to that here is here are the plans i'm going to zoom out a
little bit and i could always zoom back in for you at that's your and then it just went blank
so excuse me i don't know what that's about
bear with me just for one second
Okay, there we go.
And as you can see, the basement is going to be nothing more but mechanicals.
The first floor, the last particular use was a commercial kitchen.
Obviously, it's just going to remain vacant.
And when it is occupied, it'll be the use will be consistent with CMX one, which a commercial kitchen, of course, would not be allowed by right.
There is a corner entrance very much akin to what what a commercial space would would have.
And then, of course, the existing.
One bedroom apartment at the top floor.
I'll take you into some photos
there's the corner as you can see
it looks like it would have been a commercial space
and in this particular neighborhood
corner properties are either
Many of them are either commercial or multifamily.
And then we'll get you some photos here.
One bedroom apartment is very nicely appointed.
K's managed this property, among several others that they have in Philadelphia.
They are Philadelphia residents.
They live here.
This particular property is in South Philadelphia that I happen to be particularly familiar with.
Here's the commercial space.
And the neighbors are very excited to have commercial space back up and running here.
We have our mailings that went out, our proof of mailing.
201 individual households were, in fact, mailed.
And I believe you have the letter of support and the boat tally from Girard Estates.
I moved both of those into evidence as well as the 97-page exhibit packet.
And with that, I'd like to call my client.
Vern, did you put the posting up?
Maybe I didn't see it.
Yes, I sent that separately.
Yep, board council has that.
Did you send it over to us?
Yes, I did.
Yes, Mr. Chair, we did receive it this morning.
Good, thank you.
And I attest I took that photo myself.
Let me bring your client on.
Thank you.
Ariana, okay, if you could please raise your virtual hand.
They're being promoted to panelists.
Hello, good morning.
Hi, good morning.
Could you please state your name as spelled for the stenographer?
Sure, it's Ariana Akay, A-R-I-A-N-N-A.
last name a c c a y you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
yes please proceed counsel thank you mr chair ariana did you hear my presentation to the board
today yes i did is it true and accurate to the best of your knowledge yes do you adopt it as
your own testimony yes thank you i have nothing further mr chair questions from the board yes
can you go back to the floor plans sir
Sir. Okay. This is good. This is good. I just want to just quickly remark that this is a nicely laid out building.
Here we go.
The unit on the second floor makes sense, unlike some of the other ones we see, and the ground floor commercial, I think, works.
So, I have no problem with your question.
Thank you.
Other questions?
I think my only question is about the storage of trash for the upstairs unit.
They keep it inside the unit currently, as they always have.
There have been no 311 complaints at all at this property.
and there's a tenant in the upstairs property already oh yes all the questions
questions or comments from our attorney hillary emerson not at this time mr chair questions or
comments from the virtual audience no hands at this time chair planning commission thank you
chairman and good morning david vecto with the city planning commission chairman and board members
the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the rsa5 residential single-family zoning at this
location this property has a documented history of commercial use with residential above the city
planning commission recommends that the board grant their proposed use variants for multiple
principal uses and for uses as defined in cmx1 thank you mi2025 002 514 1801 daily street i vote
yes. Michael Johns, my vote is yes.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes. Tanita Graham, my vote is yes.
McAdams, my vote is yes. Iowyn, my vote is yes. Thanks, folks.
Okay. Let's see here. I got one more.
One, two, three, four.
Yep. Where's that? Here it is. Yep.
Number 10, MI 2025-002-667-5045
Jackson Street. Henry Clinton is
the attorney.
They're being
promoted to panelist here. Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the board.
Good morning, counsel. Could you please state your name
and spell for the stenographer? Sure. My name is
Henry Clinton, H-E-N-R-Y
Clinton, C-L-I-N-T-O-N.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do. Could you identify your client,
the relationship to this property?
Certainly. My client is an LLC, C&B, Legacy, Enterprises. Two members are on the call, the sole members, Mr. and Mrs. McFadden, capital N-C, capital F-A-D-D-E-N.
Our vice chair has just a few questions for you.
Good afternoon. Have you submitted your documents five days in advance of this hearing?
I have not submitted all the documents five days before there were last-minute lease negotiations between the two parties.
My client is the owner, and there's a tenant in this child daycare center.
So we just finalized a lease amendment last night right before the community meeting, and I've submitted that.
Okay, thank you.
And do you waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate you as accuracy?
I do, Ms. Graham.
Thank you.
You can proceed.
Is that visible?
Let me start again.
Not yet, Henry.
It's coming up now, Henry.
It should come up.
Yep, more than maybe not.
It keeps going to the Zoom.
I'm not sure why.
Is that visible now?
We see you, Henry.
That's not good enough.
And you start again from the outset.
Should be coming up.
No, it keeps, it keeps, starts to come up, then it goes to Zoom.
Yeah, I don't know what. We do this routinely, so only Zoom is showing.
Let's just show Zoom. Anybody have any ideas? Bill?
Hey, Mr. Clinton, this is Ian Hegarty. It seems like you're sharing the web browser only instead of your whole screen or the application documents.
So, yeah, go back and start over again. Just make sure you're picking the right window when that share screen dialog box comes up.
How about that?
How about that?