mr robertson state your name and spell for the court reporter
sir are you in the virtual audience please raise your hand if so
he's been enough to speak sir sorry about that this is state your name and spell for the court
reporter this is rob robertson rob r-o-b-e-r-t-s-o-n all right do you swear a firm to tell
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes i do okay proceed uh hey rob thanks
for joining us um so um did you hear my testimony um with regard to both of these properties today
i did yes um and can you confirm um that my testimony was true and accurate with regard to
both properties yes it is and would you adopt my testimony about both properties as your own
yes okay um thanks very much and the last thing i'll note for the board is that
we have revised plans two pages each for both of these properties they just entailed additional
detail on the elevations and additional detail with regard to the curb cuts thank you questions
from the board no mr chairman no mr chairman no mr chairman questions from the virtual audience
do you know hands mr chair planning commission good afternoon chair bergman members of the board
david effecta with the city planning commission and we're going to give a recommendation uh one
recommendation uh that's going to apply to both properties 2713 and 2715 so the comprehensive
plan recommends no change to the residential single family zoning of these two properties
Old Richmond was rezoned in 2016 based on the comprehensive plan's recommendations.
Although front parking garages are a convenience, I've not heard in the presentation that a
hardship exists that would prevent the applicant from building a row home on each lot without
a front parking space.
So the City Planning Commission is going to recommend that the board deny the requested
variances for front parking.
Thank you.
MI 2021 004357 2713 Livingston Street. MI 2021 004358 2715 Livingston Street. I vote yes with two pages of proviso.
Carol Tenere, forgot my name. Carol Tenere, my vote is yes with provisos.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes to both with provisos.
James Snell, yes to both, with provisos.
Ishmael Shaheed, yes to both, with provisos.
Hi, this is how are you? I'm sorry. Rebecca Cole, are you there?
Yes, yes, I'm here.
Can I ask if you would kindly please read the proviso exactly as stated in the record?
Can I ask if you would kindly please read the proviso exactly as stated in the record?
It would be, as the Chair indicated, yes, with revised plans, two pages.
And approved today. Thank you very kindly.
Thank you.
number eight
mi 2021
002885
north 22nd street
rco tayoga
letter of support
swamp poodle rco is requesting
a continuance
mr yanoff
mr yanoff has been
promoted to panelists you'll be redrawing shortly.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the board.
I'd like to address the request for continuance first, if we may.
Do me a favor.
State your name and spell for the court reporter.
Michael Yanoff, M-I-C-H-A-E-L, Yanoff, Y-A-N-O-F-F.
Right.
Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
What I'd like to do is, if Adrienne Fernandez is here, I'd like to get her one at the same time.
Adrienne, or anyone from the Swamp Poodle RCO?
Okay, Mr. Chairman, I have a...
Please only raise your hand if you're Adrienne.
Everyone else, please put your hand down.
Thank you.
Yes, sir, as I was saying, a hand is raised for a number ending in 3552.
Do I allow them to speak?
Let's check if it's Ms. Fernandez.
They've been allowed to speak right now.
Hello, is this Ms. Adrienne Fernandez?
Caller, please speak.
Do we have anybody on the line?
Caller ending in 3552, please let us know who you are.
We can move on, Chair.
Okay, good.
Mr. Yanov, proceed.
Thank you. Do you need me to address the issue?
Before our vice chair talks, just tell me about the continuance first.
Yes. This matter was scheduled. We have three separate hearings before the RCO.
We provided all the information each of the three times.
The first hearing was postponed because there was a delay in getting us a date.
So we agreed, obviously, to get the RCO meeting done a second time.
We scheduled the RCO meeting a second time, and Ms. Fernandez, on behalf of Swampoodle, then objected to that, saying she didn't receive notice, even though we had another full RCO hearing and made the presentation.
So we rescheduled it again for December 30th.
I sent all the requisite notices out, we sent proof of bailing to the coordinating RCO, and we had a meeting on December 30th, at which time a vote was taken, and we have a letter in our packet from the RCO indicating that there was no opposition.
Even after that, the RCO contacted me and said to me that...
We're going to proceed, but first I want our Vice Chair to ask you a few questions.
Yes, sir.
Hi, Mr. Yanov. Do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
It appears, based on the notes I'm looking at, that you have submitted all the required documents.
We have, and then yesterday I submitted an updated tax clearance certificate.
I sent that in by email, and I have it available if you need it now.
That's great. You may proceed and share your screen.
Thank you. Can you ask my client, Roy Aharonovich, to share as well?
He's much more adept at sharing than I am.
Have him, bring him on.
Well, Mr. Bergman, I have not managed that skill yet.
Well, that's okay.
We all struggle a little bit.
But he's very capable.
And also there was one other glitch.
Yesterday, my scanner stopped,
or the other day my scanner stopped working.
So I had to submit all the documents
in four separate packets.
Okay, let's see if we can get him online.
so he raised his hand um mr chair was sunk is it roy roy aharon aharonovic okay mr yanoff
Roy Aharonovic.
Mr. Yanoff, is he under your name, maybe?
No, he's not.
He should be separate.
Allow him to speak.
There's another Mr. Yanoff.
Yeah, I'll do that right now.
Yeah, his hand is raised.
That could be him.
Hey, everyone.
Michael, I guess for some reason it's coming up as Yanoff.
Hey, sir, do me a favor, state your name and spell for our court reporter.
Roy Aronovich, R-O-Y-A-H-A-R-O-N-L-V-I-C-H.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do. Proceed.
Okay, we're going to have to pause.
Mr. Hand, could you promote him to a panelist so he can share his screen?
Right away.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
thank you hold on a second
hello everyone can you see my screen we can what we have here is the tioga united uh acceptance
why don't you go back to packet number one
okay what you have now uh mr chairman and members of the board this is a notice of refusal this is
an application for a conversion of a single family residence into three separate dwelling
units in the RSA 5 residence district. Essentially, there are no exterior renovations to the property
whatsoever. The only thing is changing is the interior renovations, which my client can explain
to you. The notice of refusal is in front of you, and it's plain that the three dwelling units is
expressly prohibited in the rs5 rsa5 residential zoning district can you move to the plans roy
all right here we have here we have the plans um can you roy can you take the panel through
so as michael mentioned before this is currently a single family home um we're not planning on
doing any additions and all this is going to be you know interior alterations so essentially you
know it's going to be demoed on the inside and be transformed and framed out as a three unit
um building um it'll be divided into three floors each floor will have a two bedroom one bath
unit um after having you know our rco meetings we allowed it only we'll have you know four
four um individuals pair apartments that way we're not making any um density in the area
um reviewed trash trash will be in the inside of the prop inside and outside of the property
um anything i can add here um we can go into more you know specific details of this
but essentially from a single family home our goal is to transform this into a three-unit building
you know the the application is made in the name of a of a hillsford vidal v-i-d-a-l but you you
your llc is now the owner of the property as of june 30th of 2021 is that correct correct and we
we attached a a general warranty deed to our zoning packet which indicates that the closing
was made on june 30th 2021 to your llc is that right yep and you are the managing and sole member
of that llc correct okay that's essentially that's essentially we rest mr chairman that's
essentially what the application is about okay um questions from the board
no mr chairman no mr uh questions from the virtual audience
mr chair we have a charles richardson with his hand raised i can about sure
hi state your name and um spell it for the court reporter please sir
Charles Richardson from the Office of Councilwoman Cindy Bass.
Richardson is R-I-C-H-A-R-D-S-O-N, Room 312, City Hall.
Do you swear or firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Proceed, sir.
I have a question for Mr. Yanoff.
I am looking at the correspondence that we received from Tioga United,
and I note that there were 10 people that attended.
Only four were in support, and that was actually the RCO committee themselves.
Were there any near neighbors there?
There were neighbors present at at least one of the three hearings that we had.
There were neighbors present at at least one of the three hearings.
Near neighbors, Michael. Near neighbors.
Yes. And in fact, what I started to say when we started this presentation is the immediate next door neighbor asked for a separate Zoom conference after the December 30th meeting, which we just had last week.
And we answered all of her questions as well on an individual one on one basis.
Okay. We weren't included on any of that, though. I guess the question and the situation that we're facing here is that it appears that the committee themselves made the determination that they would be allowing the...
well we sent we sent notices out to all of the surrounding property owners uh all three times
and invited them to attend the hearing giving them specific dates and times of the rco meeting
and there were people present but there were there were very few questions if any at all
okay most most of them just so you would know mr richardson most of them were related to
security of the building, fire protection for the building, and trash removal.
Okay. For what reason was Ms. Swan Poodle asking for a continuance?
She says that she didn't get notice of it. And then when she told me she didn't get notice of
the last meeting, she asked for, and I sent to her, a complete packet that I submitted to the
ZBA. All of the packets, all of the information, and all of the plans, and heard nothing else after
that. Okay. Weighing whether the councilwoman would be willing to support this or not at this
point in time, because there were no near neighbors involved in this. No near neighbors were actually
included on the meeting summary as well. And of the 10 individuals that were there, I'm believing
that there were UNNA RCO and a couple of other RCOs that might have been included, but there
were really no near neighbors that were included in this meeting. Well, Mr. Richardson, that's not
really so. There were neighbors on the block who were present. Unfortunately, I don't know their
names off the top of my head. I remember one specific woman, and I'm sorry, I don't remember
her name, spoke and asked very specific questions relating to this matter. So she was there.
And we had that conversation with her. Well, I guess the issue is that the coordinating RCO did
not include any of those folks on that meeting summary. And in fact, they are saying there was
no opposition but they don't list that the neighbors were there in actuality so uh you know
with all due respect to the coordinating rco i think that they're relatively new to the process
and it was it was their newness to the process which caused us to have three separate rco meetings
because at each one they said we have no opposition but they made us come back anytime
because they didn't have proof of mailing whatever the reasons were but i i think their
inexperience has resulted in this but we have we've had this application outstanding since
April I think April of last year April 2021 actually I'm sorry June of 2020 and we've complied