Carl Teneri, my vote is yes.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes.
James Snell, my vote is yes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Number three, MI 2022-004-587-2108 South A Street, Jeffrey Young is the attorney.
Letter of support from the 7th Street Community Civic Association.
Okay, sir. Mr. Young will be rejoining us as a panelist.
Good afternoon, members of the board.
Hi, Mr. Young, how are you? Could you state your name and spell, please, for the court reporter?
Yes, Jeffrey Young, J-E-F-F-E-R-Y-Y-O-U-N-G,
counsel for the applicant, Ms. Cabrera-Thomas.
All right.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Our vice chair has a few questions.
Hi, Mr. Young.
Do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal
and stipulate to its accuracy?
I agree to read the reading and stipulate, yes.
Okay, great.
Have you emailed the exhibit packet
with proof of ownership
tax compliance refusal or referral photos under plans of the property five days in advance of
this hearing and have you met with the RCO and do you have a letter? The documents have been
submitted however they were submitted late because of the holiday but we do have a letter from the
RCO. Okay great you may proceed and begin to share your screen. Thank you. Hillary before we started
Are we straight with the address?
Yes, Mr. Young and I have discussed over the email, and we're all good.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Young.
No worries, members of the board.
Again, my name is Jeffrey Young.
I'm here today representing Ms. Cabrera Thomas.
She's a tenant at 2108 South 8th Street.
We are here today to present an application for use of the property as a daycare facility.
Here is a brief couple of pages of her lease. Again, her lease is technically for 2108-2110, but here again, we're just going to specifically talk about 2108.
Here again, we're just going to specifically talk about 2108 South 8th Street, and I'll switch over to Paige, her lease.
I did send the lease separately as exhibits. I do not have the full lease in my exhibit package, but it was sent separately.
As you see here, clause number 13, our use permitted for the tenancy is a child care and day care facility.
Here is our tax compliance of Ms. Thomas.
And I'm going to address the refusal.
So we are in a RM1 zoning district, and child care facilities are prohibited in this zoning district.
This particular property is located in the South Philadelphia neighborhood on the west side of 8th Street near 8th and Snyder between Snyder and Cantrell.
So this area of property has a history of commercial usage, and as such, you know, we feel that this variance should be granted.
Again, if you look across the street, those CMX designated properties, we were located directly across the street.
Again, this would be a buy-write project.
here. These are pictures of the front facade of the properties on 8th Street. Again, historical
use of commercial businesses and office space on these particular properties. And as I go through
the historical use, you'll see that this particular space has not been used as a residential,
has not had a residential use in its history.
So I'm going to start here.
As you can see, this application was in the year 2000,
where this property was actually zoned C2.
So it previously had a commercial zoning designation.
And the use of this property was a toy store with apartments above.
Again, in 2005, again, another application for use as a retail grocery store.
And as far as back as 1978, the property was a carpenter shop.
And even there are also use permits on file for 1933 as the property being used as the carpenter
shop as well. Here are some interior pictures. I see my client has done some renovations to the
property to be able to use it as a daycare. Here's the ADA compliant bathrooms, changing stations,
again, pictures of the bathroom, the industrial refrigerator,
and then also the heating, the cooking, excuse me, the heating area for food. There will be no
cooking food at this establishment. Again, all exit signs illuminated. This is another
half-bathroom located at the facility, and then another angle of the room.
uh here is a layout um of the uh facility here for uh 2108 south 8th street um as you see there are
um multiple uh egresses um uh from the property from the front and also the rear that leads to
an alley that leads to uh can chuck can't trail street excuse me um this here is in our notification
that was sent out to the community we held our meeting on august 19th um at the ford powell
center um on six and snyder um and we do have a letter of support um from mr i believe mr bruce
um uh johnson is his name um and uh with that uh members of the board i uh also sorry we have
pictures about zona notice as well that we posted on the property um and with that um you know we
would take any questions that you
have. Mr. Young, do you want to have
your testimony adopted?
Yes, I would like my client, Ms. Cabrera
Thomas, to be
appointed as a panelist.
There is a telephone number that I believe she's on
the phone.
Ms. Thomas, can you raise your hand?
Do we see anybody?
I'm sorry, the last four digits.
I'm sorry, the last four digits.
Yes, the last four digits.
And it's star six to raise your hand.
The last four digits are 0031.
Mr. Johnson, Mr. Young, you're an officer of the court.
We will take your testimony.
Oh, good, good.
But could you state your name and spell for the court reporter, please?
Hi, good evening.
My name is Maria Chante Thomas.
Could you spell for the court reporter, please?
C-A-B as in boy, R-I-A, last name T as in Tom, H-O-M as in Mary, A-S as in Sam.
All right.
Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I swear.
Proceed, counsel.
Thank you.
Ms. Thomas, are you the tenant at the subject property?
All right, yes.
And did you hear my presentation to the board?
Yes, I did.
And do you stipulate to its accuracy?
And do you adopt my testimony as if it were your own?
Thank you.
Okay, questions from the board?
No, Mr. Chairman.
No, Mr. Chair.
Questions or comments from the virtual audience?
I do not see any further hands, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. Planning Commission.
Ron Bednar, City Planning.
While this property is currently indicated for residential use on the city plan,
given the physical conditions of the site and its documented use history,
we recommend the request of variance be granted.
Thank you.
MI 2022-004-587-2108 South A Street, I vote yes.
Thank you.
my vote is yes
Thomas Holloman my vote is yes
James Snell my vote is yes
Ishmael Shaheed my vote is yes
thank you counsel
all right have a good one
number six
MI 2022
202-003-699-1709-North Marshall Street, Vern Anastasio, waiting on RCO letter, APM meeting was held on 10-19-22.
turn back in as panelists sir
hello mr chair how are you i've earned just state your name please you've already been sworn
verne anastasio 2016 spruce street philadelphia pa 19103 could you identify your client in
relationship to this property sam to creevy uh who's the owner of the property yeah okay um our
Vice Chair has a few questions. Yep.
Do you agree to waive the reading
of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
I do. Have you
emailed the proof of ownership, tax
compliance, refusal referral,
photos, plans of the property
five days in advance of this hearing,
and have you met with the RCO, and
do you have a letter?
All of that, but I don't seem
to have a letter yet, which
is unfortunate, but
I have tried.
You may proceed and begin.
Burns, we have the tax rate?
Yeah, I think I did send
Attorney Emerson
clearance on this one.
It basically is for
an erection of an attached structure,
roof deck for a two-family
dwelling.
by the way,
I do have an architect here
uh on call if joe joe if you could raise your hand so we can walk through the project i would
appreciate that mr anastasio this is hillary um the last um correspondence i had with you
um was that you uh you said the posting photos and you said the tax
certifications were being worked on um so i have not received it yet that's correct i have not uh
The tax rate that I have did expire 1026.
My client is working on the tax certification and we're working on getting it from the city system.
I think it's been cleared up. Just a matter of getting it cleared with the city.
Well, while you go through your presentation, I'll just I'll just double check the city's the city system and see if it's been cleared up.
the city system and see if they're thank you thank you attorney emerson thank you
Thank you, Attorney Emerson.
we have proof of posting i'm mailing from 124 individual uh households here's the flyer that went
out and if joe the uh the architect could uh please raise his hand we could present him so
that he can walk through the the presentation he's been allowed to speak but i will promote him
hi hi joe could you state your name and spell for the court reporter
hello he's coming back in as a panel okay sure thank you but it's the erection of a
of an attached structure for use of as a two-family dwelling.
And he will go into the design of it.
But it's a, you know, standard two-family dwelling
with a basement plan or first floor plan.
Sir, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?
Hold on, Mr. Chair. Let me see if I can get him.
It's adjacent to new construction. There's lots of empty space to the east of it. So it's certainly in need of some density. It's been disinvested for quite some time.
but i do want to have the architect talk okay about the uh is the architect
i'm here i'm here okay could you hi do me a favor please state your name and spell for
court reporter joe jankishay j-a-n-c-u-s-k-a right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth
the whole truth nothing but the truth i do proceed counsel thank you thanks joe so unit one is over
a thousand square feet is that right correct and unit two is over a thousand square feet
correct okay and i'm going to uh walk the board through the plans so you could talk to them about
the actual design if you don't mind no problem just just very briefly yeah and go ahead why
don't you do that with uh what i have up okay it's a three-story building the first unit is