have to go in between the two units as they're supporting tenants or potential tenants yes ma'am
Yes. So I know this is sort of like assisted, not like assisted living, but what types of services are you anticipating that the staff is going to do for residents?
Assistance with ADLs, like if they needed assistance with being transported up and down, preparing meals, medication administration, depending on the medication that they will be taking.
and just watch out for behaviors and, you know, mental health and reporting.
So are the tenants going to be able to cook for themselves on site
or is all cooking going to be provided by staff?
No, all cooking will be provided by staff.
Yes, ma'am.
And then what's the plan for medications on site?
So I'm personally thinking to keep all medications locked and stored.
And then once I have a medication printout list from their doctors, I will be able to get I will be able to administer day to day, whether they're like Q6 hour meds or Q8 hour meds, then that's when they'll be a minister.
And then what's the plan for the common rooms? Because it does seem like.
There's less common space in the two units to, you know, they were they were designed to maximize bedrooms.
rooms um so where where do you sort of anticipate public space they both have
living room areas okay so the living room is going to be primarily for the
tenants yes and is that also if they have visitors
like if they're yeah is it okay
i have one last question do you um do you have the support of the
your neighbor adjacent to your right i think it would be 1309
1309 is it to the right or to the left i think it's to the right um i have no neighbors to the
right of me so i think it will be to the left like yeah it will be to the last house to the
left unfortunately he's deceased
so that property is empty right now yes i think for like ever since um
january this year yeah yeah no it was october of last year okay
other questions
questions from our attorney hillary emerson
not at this time mr chair comments from the virtual audience you're not seeing your hands mr chair
no hands do we have anybody no sir planning commission amy boy with the planning commission
the comprehensive plan recommends a change in zoning at this location from the existing r1
residential multifamily to rsa5 residential single family the appellant has demonstrated
the proposed use will not cause detrimental impacts beyond what would reasonably be expected
The Planning Commission recommends that Roy Grant
their requested special exception for care home.
Thank you.
Hillary, I don't see any enforceable provisors, right?
I would like, I saw they said eight people,
but I think that the state sets that.
Right, right.
Yeah, no, there's a number of provisors,
but most of them are, yes, things that cannot be enforced.
Right, thank you.
MI 2025-004-308-1311,
butler street i vote yes michael johns my vote is yes sure guest and my vote is yes
tenetta graham my vote is yes ryan mcadams my vote is yes by when my vote is yes
thank you mr consul could you stay one please
mr consul
i'm here i'm not going anywhere yeah oh good good good sorry thank you so
I believe Mr. Michael Johns is going to recuse himself in this case.
So MI 2025-006-432-112.
So MI-2025-006-432-112 East Springer Street.
Mr. Consul, just for the record, could you state your name?
Joseph Consul.
Could you identify your client in a relationship to the property?
My client is Chivetta Property Group, LLC.
On this call with me is Michael Tomasetti, one of its principals.
And I noticed that we have an expression of no position from the East Mount Airy neighbors.
Our vice chair has a few questions.
Good afternoon again.
Have you submitted your documents and exhibits for this case five days in advance of this hearing?
But for what Director Hegarty talked about at the beginning, we received one document at the 11th hour.
But besides that, everything else was submitted timely.
Okay, thank you, and do you waive the reading of the refusals and stipulate to their accuracy?
Thank you, show your screen and proceed with your case.
All right, so it should be shared, my refusal, what my client-
We don't, Joe, Joe, we still have-
Oh, it's still the other one?
All right, so I'm going to stop and then start again.
There you go, there you go.
All right, so that's me.
It's Joe C. Now we're going to share.
All right.
All right, Joe Consul again, here for Javetta Property Group.
that should be the refusal for 112 East Springer Street we're requesting the
relocation of lot lines it's a subdivision to create two lots from one
existing lot and what will eventually be the erection of a semi-detached
structure on each lot for a single-family housing the subject the
subject property is RSA five.
Let's see if I can, yeah, there you go.
And we're here for two dimensional refusals,
which we're hoping are for the following reasons de minimis.
The total lot that we're dealing with here
is approximately 2060 square feet.
To subdivide it by right,
we would need 1440 square feet
for each of the resulting lots.
we don't have that we've got just over a thousand for each of the two resulting
lots a thousand and thirty approximately for each of those two two lots my
clients you've had a property group we've been on here before they are under
a purchase and development agreement with the Philadelphia Land Bank as part
of the city's turn the key program to fulfill the land banks mandate of
creating two affordable units at this location a compliant subdivision being
1440 per lot is mathematically impossible so what we're seeking is what
we believe to be the minimum relief necessary and that would be allowing this
to be split evenly in half not only that the if you go up and down the block the
other single-family homes are on lots this size or smaller there's none that
on lots bigger than 1,030 square feet at least as far as I can see. So what's
being proposed is, let's see if I have anything, there we go, is as I mentioned
two semi-detached single-family homes and this is in character with this part
of the block and this part of East Mount Airy and Springer Street. During the RCO
process neighbors raised primarily only one concern and that was about the the
big old tree on on the lot my client has committed to not removing the tree
unless absolutely necessary in order to develop these lots it's it was impossible
to say and it's impossible to say what the lot of look like once they start to
build in relation to the trees roots and things like that but besides that it
It seems like everyone was happy to have these lots being developed after all these years.
And as mentioned, we met with East Mount Airy neighbors on January 20th, and we ended up
with a position of non-opposition, I guess kind of a divided opinion.
So, with that, I will call Mike Tomasetti.
They're going back in as a panelist for me.
Joe, did you show floor plans?
I don't know if I have floor plans for these two properties.
Mike can talk about what's going to be built, but I believe the first step for these subdivision plans just includes showing.
But I believe the first step for these subdivision plans just includes showing the model they're using, which is the two-story.
And again, Mike can comment on that and the subdivision itself.
No basement?
Yeah, these homes have basements.
All right, sir, could you state your name and spell first?
Yeah, my name is Michael Tomasetti, T-O-M-A-S-E-T-T-I.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, to hold the truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Good afternoon, Mr. Tomasetti. Did you hear my testimony just now about this proposed subdivision?
Yes, I did, Joe.
Do you adopt what I said thus far as your own?
Could you describe a little bit about the layout of these properties?
Yeah, I mean, they're three bedroom, two bath. These homes lie anywhere between 1,350 and 1,400 square foot.
i have nothing further pending any questions questions questions from the board
questions from our attorney hillary emerson not at this time mr chair questions or comments
from the virtual audience i do not see any hands mr chair planning commission
amy boy with the planning commission the comprehensive plan recommends no change in
zoning at this location from the current rsa 5 residential single family the proposed undersized
lots are consistent with other properties on this block when commission recommends that the board
grant requested variances for lot size mi 2025 006 492 112 e springer street i vote yes
cheryl gaston my vote is yes tenetta graham my vote is yes ryan mcadams my vote is yes
i win my vote is thank you joe thank you board thanks everyone i appreciate your time thank you
november 12 mi 2025 007 537 1026 to 44 market street john mcshane is the attorney mcshay is
the attorney there's unanimous non-opposition from west washington square west and a letter
of non-opposition from council member squill
they'll be back in as a panel shortly mr chair okay thank you
good evening can you see me and hear me i apologize i can sir could you please state
your name and spell for the stenographer yes my name is john mcshea j-o-h-n-m-c-s-h-e-a
right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
i do mr mcshea could you identify your client a relationship to the property
yes my client uh is the uh is ross dressed for less and coastal science services incorporated
ross dressed for less is the tenant of the property okay our vice chair has a few questions
for you sure good good evening have you submitted your documents and exhibits five days in advance
of this hearing I have with the exception of the RCO meeting summary which we received
last night and we submitted once we received it thanks for sharing it and do you waive the
reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy I do I think you can show your screen
proceed with your case. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Good afternoon. As I stated, my name
is John McShea. I'm here on behalf of Ross Dress for Less, who is the clothing retailer
and is the tenant of the property located at 1026 Market Street. And the application
here today is for proposed signage for their building. I'm going to pull up. What you're
looking at here is the notice of refusal, and this document here is the memorandum of lease
for the building. A couple of photographs we're talking about. This is just an aerial photograph
of the property. We're talking about this. I'm going to highlight it here on our screen. This
this building here located on Market Street, the corner of 11th Street and Market. It's historically
used as a commercial building, and there's three tenants in the building, including a CVS Pharmacy,
the Ross Dress for Less, and there's also a charter school located in the building.
The next photograph, I'll zoom out a bit. This is a photograph taken from the intersection of 11th
and market street looking at the building uh you can see here um there's the raw stress for less
there's raw stress for us has been in the building um for about three months um and so they do have
um for about three months um and so they do have some signage and the application here tonight is
some signage and
to locate one accessory wall sign um at the roof line which i'll highlight right here is the proposed
location and the variance is uh required where in the cmx five zoning district the the maximum height
for a sign, for an accessory wall sign, would be the second floor windowsill.
And so what we're asking to do is put a sign in this location where actually the prior
tenant of this building had located a sign.
That was a Marshalls, another clothing retailer.
This is a photograph taken while they were in the building.
and you can see here Marshall's had a sign at this exact location where we are requesting to
put our sign. I'll show you how you will pull up a sign plan showing some of the details of
the sign in a moment, but I'd represent to you now that the sign we're proposing is identical
in size and location as the prior tenant Marshall's had. I'll bring that up now.
So what we have here is the sign plan. The first page here is just a layout of the floor plan of
the building. I'll zoom in so you can see it. But on the first floor, you have the CVS's retail space
on the right side of the building, raw stress fronts in the middle. Then the charter school
is really on the third floor of the building, but this is their entrance. And the second floor
floor plan is on the right side of this photo of this site plan here and this shows just again kind
of where the the tenant space is but as far as the signage that's the details here are on the
second page and i'll zoom in for you in a moment but there are three signs associate or that
that are being proposed for the building one of them is the large wall sign which exists today
there's a canopy sign that hangs from the canopy in front of the front entrance
and the sign which is that issue this application is right here the roof sign
you can zoom in a bit so you can see some of the dimensions here but as you can see it's a
It is a 23-foot-feet long, 24 inches tall, has white channel letters that are eight inches tall, each letter.
It's a static sign.
It's not electric.
It is illuminated.
and part of the reasoning for a request for a variance one moment I'm trying to see if I can
get back to the photographs is because as you could as you saw on the the colleges trying to
get back to okay if you can see from the the the the building photograph on the
corner where the the sign is being proposed the other tenants are also have
signage include obviously you have the CVS pharmacy signage above here is the
free air charter school sign and so it's a bit cluttered in this corner and so