Anyone else requesting a continuance or withdrawal?
Please raise your hand.
We have a Mr. Albert Littlepage.
We should speak.
I'll introduce her right now.
Mr. Little Page good afternoon chair afternoon please identify yourself for the record and I'll
swear you in my name is Albert Little Page I'm with the Point Breeze Community Development
Coalition the coordinating RCO you swearing for him to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing
about the truth yes I do please proceed uh chair I'm just uh on the continuance we were requesting
the continuance for 2027 Ellsworth Street.
Is the applicant and or his or her attorney available?
Chair, I'm not sure.
Is that for 2 o'clock?
That's a 3.30 case.
Yeah, it's a 3.30 case, Albert.
Am I jumping the gun?
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to go home.
I'm sorry.
No problem.
I wish we were at 3.30, but unfortunately, no.
I'll lower my hand.
Thank you.
We'll talk to you later.
anyone else
okay mr chair we have a mr george felici that i will i'll just speak right now
mr felici please wait to be sworn in sir good afternoon sir please identify yourself with the
record spell your last name and provide us with your address yes uh george felici uh i am uh with
the applicant at 2616-26 South 18th Street. Ron Patterson already spoke up on our behalf there.
So who are you? Who are you representing? We're representing the applicant for 2616-26
South 18th Street. Your co-counsel? No, no, I'm sorry. Maybe I used the wrong term. We are the
applicant if you will ron is okay okay we'll get to you we'll get to you shortly thank you
anyone else
ready to proceed thank you before we begin i just want to make sure
Thank you. Before we begin, I just want to make sure. We had a case that was going to be the first case this afternoon is 0889-3929 Ridge Avenue. Am I correct on that?
Thank you.
That's correct. That is a resumption hearing and there is also a request for reconsideration on another case. I can read that out.
yes 36 streets reconsideration yes as it relates to ridge avenue are we prepared to go forward with
this case it's the attorney is alan knockinson what number is that case well that's an add on
from this as an add-on. It was a case for reconsideration and Mr. Nockamson has contacted
me about this so I know he is planning to be here. Let's move it back. He's on right now.
Good afternoon Mr. Chair, members of the board. Alan Nockamson of Nockamson,
MPC, 123 South Broad Street, Suite 1600, Philadelphia, PA, 19109.
Learn to affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Carol?
Mr. Nockamson, do you agree to wait the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
Have you emailed an exhibit packet with the required documents?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Carol. I just wanted to mention this is a resumption.
So we don't do that?
No, it's not necessary.
That's not necessary.
Okay, cool.
You may proceed.
I'm going to share my screen.
Thanks, hon.
Yes, sir, you can.
Do you see my screen?
Oh, there it is.
I didn't see it.
Again, Alan Ockamson and Ockamson PC.
I'm here to present 39-29, 39-31, and 39-33-35 for Ridge Avenue.
We were here a month or so ago regarding this property. We were waiting for community input.
We met with the Ross Civic Association and I'm glad to say that we have their support
and I have exhibit number eight which has a letter of support as well as a letter of support from
Councilman Jones as well just a little background so if you may not remember this project we are
looking to now put based on revised plans and I'll go to far back because we presented all these
materials before by the way this is an RSA 5 property and that's why essentially we're here
today. But we have revised plans where we are reducing the height of the building, which will
eliminate one of the refusals, reducing it from 55 feet to 35 and a half feet, making it from a
five-story building to a three-story building. We're reducing the amount of units from 14 to
eight uh so on the first floor uh there will be uh two commercial spaces on the corner of allegheny
and ridge and then on the on the second and third floors there will be a total of eight units four
in each uh four on each floor we're also as part of this revised proviso plan we're also eliminating
the roof deck and the three roof deck access structures uh so that eliminates another refusal
AS PART OF OUR NOTICE REFUSAL. WE ARE ADDING RESIDENTIAL BALCONIES AS PART OF OUR PLAN.
AND WE ARE SHIFTING THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT, BUT WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE ADDED ANY
REFUSALS. NOW WE DID, AS PRECAUTIONARY MATTER, SUBMIT A SECONDARY ZONING PERMIT APPLICATION
WITH L&I BY WAY OF AUTHORIZATION FROM THE ZONING BOARD. WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM THEM,
despite my repeated emails from them, but we do not believe that it would cause any additional refusals.
So we have, as part of this, as part of the revised proviso plan, we have one, two, three, four, four pages.
And then here's our letter of support from Ra, as well as the letter of support from the councilman.
And then just to push up way forward, this is our notice.
you know just to push up way forward this is our notice of refusal for ridge and again
one of the refusals has to do with the fact that we're an RSA5 property and that we're looking to
put a commercial component in there as well as a multi-family component in there. The other
refusals have to do with the deck access structure and the height. The only refusal that's in any
way a dimensional one is the rear yard depth. But as you can see from the irregular shape of
you can see the regular shape of our lot. That's the reason why we have the dimensional refusal.
okay thank you any questions from the board no no no anyone else to testify in this case if so
please raise your hand at this time chair thank you uh planning commission this is uh ronald bednar
city planning uh ronald do you swear and affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the
truth i do thank you ronald based on the revised plans we have no objections thank you 0889 3929
ridge avenue my vote is yes with the proviso revised plan four pages approved today
my vote is yes with proviso yes with proviso yes with proviso yes with proviso
thank you we now have a reconsideration i believe and chiron you'll correct me if i'm wrong
000886 615 north 36 street i believe it's 650 north 36 615 i'm sorry 615 north 36
um no i thought that it was 650 north 36 is that wrong it might be right i don't know
yeah that's correct says 50. 650 north 36th street uh i honestly don't recall any of the
this case uh at least not at the moment and i understand that there were three no votes
prior to this were those no votes on they weren't for reconsideration they were votes on the
you voted no to the variance to the variance
um if you want chair and um wait a minute i can pull up some information for you it's your call
might be helpful i know there were three no's myself jim and tom i believe i don't know why
we voted no not if you'd like to wait until 3 30 i can send you the supporting documents for
the reconsideration that would be helpful okay and then sharon what if we're going to do the
the only case at uh at 3 30. okay all right i'm sorry if anyone's confused but honestly actually
we don't we don't know what we're doing right now all right uh okay i think we can begin with the
first case uh zero zero two zero four three five one two parker avenue
brettfeldman has raised his hand i will uh promoting the panelists right now sir
i'm sorry say that again
mr brett feldman had raised his hand i just promoted him to panelist
thank you good afternoon mr feldman please identify yourself with the record then i'll
swear you in uh good afternoon uh mr chairman members of the board brett feldman 1835 market
street philadelphia pennsylvania i represent the applicant uh legacy living llc
do you swear in the firm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
i do please proceed do you agree to wave the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its
accuracy i do have you also emailed an exhibit packet with the required documents consisting
of proof of ownership proof of tax compliance copy of the refusal or referral photos and plans
five days prior to this hearing and have you met with the rco and did you get a letter
yes to all we have a letter we also a letter from the district council person and we also have
revised plans I believe there are two or three pages and with the proviso form that we would ask
that the board approve if the board approves this application thank you you may proceed
uh that the board approve if the board approves this application thank you you may proceed
thank you if i may i'll share my screen
can you see my screen now
yes we see the desktop now your exhibits are coming up okay thank you here
the setup I didn't realize we were number one um so could you make those a little bit larger
please yeah hold on here
Mr. Feldman, if you want the 45.8% up at the top, if you could just enlarge that to maybe
See how we do.
That's good.
That's better.
Thank you.
And I'll move it around as we go.
I'll get right to this one.
I represent the Applicant Legacy Living LLC, Principal Doug Pfaff.
We also have our project architect, Rustin Oler, who should be on the line as well.
And then we have our engineering consultants.
This is a project in the Ridge Park neighborhood of Philadelphia off of Ridge Avenue.
It's been about a year and a half in the making with extensive work with the streets department planning, the community, as well as the district council person.
And it also involves a city council ordinance.
So that's actually been approved already.
So there's been a lot to get us to this date. What we're basically doing here is we're taking four lots.
We're consolidating them down to two lots. On Parcel A, we're creating 12 single-family, three-story townhomes.
And then on Parcel B, there's an existing home.
So you have in front of you your exhibits, Exhibits 1 through 15, which involve, including
among other things, all the photographs, but as well as our letter of support from the
councilperson, as well as the letter of support from Ridge Park Civic Association.
So let me go to the pictures.
this is this is the site itself you can see here in the blue off of Ridge Avenue which is right
here and this is a good photograph to give you a sense of what it is so there's this
parker avenue which is right here um and it continues on as a paper street uh where that
where that hydrant is and what working with the streets department and that's our site the green
you see in front of you working with the streets department and planning and the council person
parker street is a paper street uh we have that stricken um so we'll be creating a condominium
here with the 12 homes on the site. And almost all the refusals that you see here are all because
of instead of us, we initially tried to have Parker Street extended. We would have homes on
the right and homes on the left. The streets department did not want to take ownership and
have to build a new street. So we're taking that on our own. And as a result, need to create a
condominium, a PUD for this property. So it's treated as if it's multifamily, but the homes
are traditional single-family look and feel, and that's what created the main refusal for
multifamily. If we had been able to just subdivide this and create the homes on the street, most of
the refusals that you see would not have been in front of you, but that was part of an extensive
of discussion that we had with all the different city agencies in the community.
And then I'll just get, you know, here's some of the posting photographs here.
Refusal.
Let me go right to, this is the letter of support from the community.
Their proviso was no roof deck, and you'll see that on our revised plan.
letter of support from the councilman, but I'll get right to page 34, which is our
rendered site plan here. And this is really kind of the best way to see it. At the top here is
Parker Avenue. We're going to be creating this street below, as I mentioned, and then you have
the homes six on the right, six on the left here with a.
Six on the right, six on the left here with a drive aisle that accesses rear parking for each one of these.
And then another drive aisle curb cut that accesses parking in the rear of these homes.
So that gets you to 12 homes here.
And then this is the other lot where there's one home that remains.
It looks and feels as if it's just, you know, fits right into the neighborhood, a single family.
But this is actually on one lot. And again, that's that's why you have the multifamily refusal and some of the dimensional refusals that you'll see.
Looking at the elevations, you know, here are the elevations, you know, nice, high quality materials, three stories we've removed.
And on the revised plans, we've removed the roof deck.
There's a balcony area atop atop the second floor at access by the third floor, which is in negotiation with the community.
And I'll just take you through some of these additional floor plans.
Again, the parking is in the rear for these homes.
So there's ample space for the homes, three stories.
And then we have the revised plans.
Rustin, as a project architect, are you on the line?
It's been a lot of talk.
Do we need Rustin?
I don't know if we do or we don't.
And I just, you know, I don't know if there's anything else.