Good morning, everyone. My name is Frank DiCicco. I'm the chair of the Zoning Board of the
G. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. So we may wait for three minutes for the virtual room. Okay. Yep. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, Chair, that should be good enough.
Thank you, Tanya.
Good morning again, everyone.
My name is Frank DiCicco, I'm the Chair of the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
I'll be participating in today's hearing along with our Vice Chair, Ms. Carol Tenere, Board
Secretary Confessor Plaza and Board Member Mr. Thomas Holloman. Board Administrator Mr. Jason
Han and our Board Attorney Rebecca Cole are also in attendance. For those of you who haven't yet
participated in one of our virtual hearings, I'll go through some of the basics of what you can
expect. First, we will be administering oaths to individual participants prior to their testimony.
Second, we'd like to advise everyone that this proceeding is being recorded
and that by participating, you acknowledge your agreement to be recorded
and that the recording will be made available to the public on the web or otherwise.
Third, for anyone participating by phone, if you wish to testify,
you must raise your hand by hitting star 9 and then star 6 to unmute yourself.
I'll repeat.
For anyone participating by phone, if you wish to testify,
you must raise your hand by hitting star 9.
and then star six to unmute yourself.
Finally, to make an appearance statement,
call Google 267-270-5548
and leave your email address
and the address of the property at issue.
I'll repeat.
To enter an appearance statement,
call Google 267-270-5548
and leave your email address
and the address of the property
at issue. Pardon me.
I would also like to advise everyone, please
do not attempt to testify
in the chat. Any comments
should be directed to our Board Administrator
Mr. Jason Hand.
Pardon me.
With that, I will read off a request
an attorney moving party
for a continued case for
MI 2021
000505
6743 Upland Street again that's an attorney moving party at this time I will ask if there's
anyone who's requesting any continuance or withdrawals to please raise your hand
or if you object to the attorney moving party I just read into the record
Mr. Chair, I have Mr. Darwin Bovey with his hand raised. I will allow him to speak at this time, sir.
Okay, good morning, sir. Please identify yourself with the records, spell your full name, and I'll swear you in.
Good morning, Mr. Chairman. My name is Darwin, D-A-R-W-I-N, last name Beauvais, B-E-A-U-V-A-I-S. I'm at 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I do. My request isn't necessarily for a continuance, but a shuffling of the matters that are before the board today. I understand I have 14 matters.
matters that are before the board today i understand i have 14 matters on the list
and i believe there's only 16 matters one was just continued um so i just ask that the other matter
just go before ours and and we move forward yeah that that's just a vote by the board
which i will not participate in because i wasn't at the original hearing after that we will then
go with your cases thank you i'll lower my hand now um so no request for further continuances with
that carol you'll need to uh read on the uh the hoarder street because i wasn't present for that
vote i'm sorry before we continue we do have augusta o'neill okay sorry about that augusta
o'neil good morning mr mr chair um i had please just miss miss o'neil just please spell your full
name sure my first name is augusta a-u-g-u-s-k my last name is o'neil o-n-e-i-l-l um i'm just
requesting you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
i do thank you please proceed short so i just wanted to confirm that um the board received my
request for a continuance on 915 south 18th street um both the rco and myself requested
the continuance um to afford more time to meet with rco was that scheduled for 9 30 this morning
yeah that was scheduled for 9 30 this morning what is the address again um 915 south 18th street
I don't see it on our list
we'll make note of that
Ms. Saletti gets back later this morning
I'll check with her
unless Tanya do you have anything
on that 1915
excuse me, 915 South 18th
I'm checking on it now
So we could consider it continued if it was listed for this morning.
Yeah, all I need is the MI number.
The MI number is MI-2021-001091.
915 South 18th Street.
That case is continued.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Frank, where was that?
it's not on the list so if it was if it was an error not getting put on it's in on the record
as being continued so okay thank you and with that um i believe we can proceed wait uh mr chair
yes mr jim one more uh person has a hand up on mr charles karn i will allow them to speak if that
is okay yes good morning mr karn please spell your name for the record
Charles Kahn, C-A-R-N, 3853 North 19th Street, 13 Ford RCO.
I just heard an attorney.
Excuse me, one minute.
You swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, sir.
Mr. Kahn?
I just heard an attorney state there were 16 cases.
We have a case, 3613 North 16th Street.
I was under the impression it was going to be at 930 this morning.
What's that address again? 36?
3613 North 16th Street.
Again, hold on, please, Mr. Karn. I don't see that on our list.
It was a continuance from May.
Early May.
A resumption, I'm sorry.
Resumption hearing. I think that might be this afternoon.
but we'll check. Tanya, could you shed any light on that?
It's not listed on the schedule for today. So if it's a resumption,
whenever it's time for it to be voted, Sharon will make the board aware of it.
Yeah, Mr. Kahn, do you have any documentation as to that hearing being scheduled for this morning?
yes sir um during the last um zba meeting it was stated that it was going to be um continued to
today june 2nd um no one shared well first of all um i don't have any information on it but
it was stated as june 2nd um i'm pretty sure i got the whole community waiting at 9 30 but
I'm pretty sure I've got the whole community waiting at 930, but that's what I have.
I'm not sure if someone can get back to me, I can inform everyone, but I'm pretty sure
they're on and they can probably hear it.
So if it's not today, I'm sorry.
I'm pardoning, Mr. Carn, I apologize for the interruption, but was the attorney Mr.
Counsel for this?
Because I do have Mr.
Counsel with his hand up.
No, I'm sorry.
it was um uh rachel pritcher as the attorney um okay so we'll revisit it um with uh mr letta
because she prepares everything for the board and we'll revisit it and get back to you
okay do you have my information always okay sorry for the confusion okay thank you
all right any other hands up that was a good one time here mr chair joseph console has his hand
up i will allow him to speak at this time mr console please identify yourself and i'll swear
you in good morning joe console uh c-o-n-s-o-l-e that's it you swear for him to tell the truth
the whole truth nothing but the truth please proceed uh on the topic of resumption hearings
i was seeing if um the 4204 and 4206 parkside resumptions were being held this morning it was
a similar thing two weeks ago you guys said uh 9 30 on the second i just wanted to see if that
made the list before i stuck around i apologize there's obviously some confusion we don't have
that on our list either uh just hang in there a moment okay thanks
so let me touch base with mr letter um regarding the resumption hearings that were mentioned
and then as necessary i apologize we could always um vote them as necessary at the two o'clock
session if that's agreeable with the chair and the board. Okay yeah obviously there's some
technical issues. We apologize for anyone who's listening in. It's been a challenge as you know
for several months. Chair if I could if you don't mind if I could ask as as we're speaking now if
there is any other cases that were supposed to be heard as a resumption this morning and then we
we can make sure we gather them all and discuss with Ms. Noletta.
I see no other hands, so we're going to go with those.
Sloan, folks, raise your hand.
Folks.
Good morning, Chairman Hiko at ZBA Ward, Vice Chair Tadere.
Sloan, folks, Office of Councilwoman Maria Canelo Sanchez.
is room 508 city hall by your name and i'll swear you in yes sir sloana f is in fire o l k s
you swear if i'm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth yes sir i do i'm
just we don't have a resumption hearing we're just um circling back around to letters that
i'm sorry the property is 1640 um with hancock street the zb calendar is mi2021-000959
um just uh wondering whether i whether the uh we were supposed to be us our office and the
attorney um hercules griegos for support or supplying letters uh as to the outcome of the uh
of the uh of the um meeting with with the rco and we were wondering i was wondering whether that was
going to be held this morning or later this afternoon that's simply the question i don't
have the afternoon list in front of me i don't tanya could you shed any light on that
no not yet it's not it's not prepared totally yet um so we'll take that one into consideration
as well thank you very much i'll uh i'll hang on for the day thank you if i could make a request
last final request here is that all those who are looking for resumption hearings
um for this morning or this afternoon um and you're uncertain if they're going forward if
You can email them directly to me, tanya.sunkett at philip.gov,
and we will follow up with a response from Ms. Saletta
so that we can assure that everything that should have been prepared for today will go forward.
Thank you very kindly, and I apologize for the confusion.
And that's tanya.sunkett, S-U-N-K-E-T-T, at philip.gov.
okay any other business before we proceed with the list
Okay, any other business before we proceed with the list?
No further hands at this time, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.
Carol, you want to do the add-on and then we'll get to the regular list.
Calendar number MI-2020-003326, 265 East Porter Street.
my vote is yes with revised plans stamped today yes for proviso yes with proviso
okay that with that we can go on to the regular list
do you want me to call them all out frank yeah if you'd like to yeah be my guest
I'd love to. I figured you'd say that. Calendar number MI 2021-000530, 1545 Page Street,
and calendar number 0532, 1522 Fountain Street, calendar number 0529, 1713 West Montgomery Avenue,
calendar number 0524 1800 north 18th street calendar number 0527 1828 north 16th street
calendar number 0525 1812 north 16th street calendar number 0514 1940 north 17th street
calendar number 0515, 1934 North 17th Street calendar number 0517, 1928 North 17th Street
calendar number 0516, 1930 North 17th Street calendar number 0521, 1924 North 17th Street
calendar number 0520 1922 north 17th street calendar number 0522 1926 north 17th street
and calendar number 05132005 north 17th street on all of these cases we are holding the vote
for tax compliance the record is closed
do i read uh number 16 mr chair um no i think what i think you got maybe got ahead of ourselves
we got to hear the testimony and then we will make the statement that the record will be closed
pending tax cert okay i believe are we correct on you that is totally correct so we are going
to hear these cases and at the end then the announcement can be made but we're going to
go forward and have Meredith promoted for her to handle these cases. Okay, then that's you, Mr. Chair.
What was that, Carol? I guess that's you calling Meredith or either Darwin. I'm not sure who it is.
Darwin. Darwin, I believe, is one of the heavy cases. It's presenting the case.
is darwin or meredith available which one is going to present we're ready for you now
i'm voting in the panelists thank you kindly jason
looks like darwin
good morning he's still he's still under oath thank you thank you mr chairman for quickly
reminded me that I was still under oath. I appreciate that. Mr. Chairman, members of the
board, again, my name is Darwin Beauvais. I am at Dilworth-Paxson, which is located at 1500
Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102. Before you today are 16 applications,
all for a special exception. Within existing structures, and I'm sorry, 14 applications
within existing structures, and they're all at the edge of Temple University. So in essence,
they've been marketed and they're mainly occupied by students.
we are in front of you to legalize the use what historically that area before the new code came
What, historically, that area, before the new code came into effect, was R10, and it allowed for this type of use to exist.