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morning everyone my name is bill bergman and i will be chairing this meeting of the philadelphia
Zoning Board of Adjustment. With me is our Board Vice Chair, Tenetta Graham. Present, Mr. Chairman.
Board Secretary, Cheryl L. Gaston. Present, Mr. Chairman. Board Member, Michael Johns.
Present, Mr. Chairman. Board Member, Ty Wynn. Present, Mr. Chairman. And Board Member, Ryan McAdams.
Present, Mr. Chairman. Also, here is our Board Attorney, Hillary Emerson,
our Zoning Board Director, Ane Haggerty, and our Board Administrator, Lakeisha Dandy.
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Number one, MI 2025, 000479, 5236 Rising Sun Avenue.
This case is continued to 9.30 a.m. on 6-10-26.
Number eight, MI 2025, 000685, 11920 Waldemere Drive, Vern Anastasia.
11920 waldermere drive verne anastasio is the attorney and i saw also see the council
person's office in the audience
burn good morning mr chair this is jason handel will be your co-host for the session
mr anastasio has been about to speak good morning mr chair morning vern um uh alice is here from
the council person's office. So Vern, just for the record, state your name and spell for the
stenographer. Yeah, it's Vern Anastasio, A-N-A-S-T-A-S-I-O, on behalf of Mr. Farouk El-Hadi,
the owner of 11920 Waldemere. You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth,
nothing but the truth? I do. Alice, could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
You can sit down. Why don't you sit down? I mean, I know you're going to be quick, but
why don't you sit down? Good morning, Chairman, members of the board. Alice Udovich, U-D-O-V-I-C-H.
on behalf of councilman brian o'neill you swear or firm to tell the truth the whole truth and
nothing but the truth i do alice why don't we start with you i would um on behalf of the
councilman respectfully request a short continuance in this case uh due to extenuating circumstances
that being the snowstorm the uh rco meeting was cancelled so we could make it short because
we're expecting it to be a short hearing verne i do have to object mr chair we've been trying
to meet with this rco for a long time however if this board has to do a continuance since there
was no meeting held i do ask that it be a 30-day continuance because of the snow okay so judge for
both of you i'm going to give it a normal date that we do and then what we'll do is we're going
to look to see how we can get it in quicker so this is continued to 6 10 26 at 9 30 a.m
but we will get back to both of you okay thank you thank you
This paper's sticking together here.
Number nine, MI 2025, 000686, 418 North Salford Street.
That case is continued to 61026 at 930 a.m.
And number 13, MI 2025-001-865, 1758 South Avondale Street at cases continue to 610-26 at 930 a.m.
Are there any other requests for continuances?
okay mr chair i have a hand up from jennifer bazitlo i will not them to speak oh that's right
uh hello good morning council good morning would you please state your name and spell for the
stenographer sure jennifer bazitlo b as in boy a is an apple z is in zebra y g is in david l is
larry o is an oscar do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
i do you have 6320 sackett street correct all right so that's a withdrawal though am i
it's going to be a withdrawal i was just asked to put it on the record um sure thank you so number
12 mi 2025 001 864 6320 sackett street that case has been withdrawn thank you sir all right we're
to go back to number five
mi2025 000 594 73 11 to 17 oxford avenue um we have no exhibits for this this is the second
listing ling chang and jan fine lin are the listed owners and the applicant is alicia walker is anyone
in the audience chair i do not see any hands raised for that matter this is second listing
we still don't have um our documents so mi 2025 0 0 5 9 4 73 11 to 17 oxford avenue
this i recommend to dismiss michael johns my vote is to dismiss
Cheryl Gaster, my vote is to dismiss.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is to dismiss.
McAdams, my vote is to dismiss.
Iowen, my vote is to dismiss.
Number 15, MI 2025-004525, 451 to 55 East Wyoming Avenue.
This is the first list and we have no exhibits.
Annabelle Ramirez Santos is the listed owner.
USA Remodeling Construction.
Chair, once again, I do not see any hands raised for that matter.
Chair, once again, I do not see any hands raised for that matter.
So this is the first listing. So MI 2025 004-525-451-55 East Wyoming Avenue. This case
is continued until 610. Somebody's here? Oh, come on up. Come on up. I'm sorry.
Why don't you sit next to the mic?
good morning so this is your first listing uh first of all state your name and spell for the
stenographer my name is my name my name is really castillo um i want to continue my case
okay sir can you can you just say and spell your name again please you can leave leave it on it'll
say on just leave it on you spell the name please for the stenographer um okay so do you
need a spanish interpreter for your hearing yes okay are you the owner of the property or are you
leasing, renting the property? He's leasing the property? Okay. All right. So are you leasing
the property individually or through a company? Okay. All right. So you can represent yourself,
but we will make a note that you need a spanish interpreter um we do not have any of the required
exhibits um for the case so we cannot hear it today we also did not know that you needed an
interpreter so we will make sure you have it we have an interpreter for you next time right so
mi2025-004-525-451 to 55 east wyoming avenue this case is continued to 6 10 26 at 9 30 a.m
Thank you, sir, for coming in.
Number 16.
MI 2025-004-643-6144 Van Dyke Street.
Alina Misnagat, Najin is the listed owner.
This is the first listing.
We have no exhibits.
chair i do not see any hands raised for that matter so so mi 2025 004 643 6144 van dyke
street this case is continued to 6 10 26 mark must be heard we're going to go to our add-on list
First, number one, MI 2025, 004-480, 100 East Wyoming Avenue, I vote yes.
Michael Johns, my vote is yes.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes.
Ryan McAdams, my vote is yes.
Ty Owen, my vote is yes.
Number two, MI 2025-005-590-4814 Trinity Street, I vote yes.
Michael Johns, my vote is yes.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes.
Ryan McAdams, my vote is yes.
Byowyn, my vote is yes.
So 6930 Ardley Street, Christina Kristall is the applicant.
This is a non-protunk hearing.
leonard reuter is here alan knockamson is here and uh
mr whalen are you representing the appellant in this case no i am represent sorry uh sean whalen
w-h-a-l-e-n i'm here on behalf of uh councilwoman cindy bass okay she is okay she she is not a party
to this case though uh she will be intervening in this case um but we can't even no we cannot
we cannot do that she has to file a separate appeal i understand the board's position but i
would like to make a record because i believe that it is incorrect and appealable and just
i know this is not a straightforward matter we do this why don't we we all worked out an agreement
so what was what agreement because there was no discussion why don't we do this why don't we do
this uh why don't i um leonard why don't you go first okay so uh i don't want to get your hopes
up too high we have we have let's wear people in okay give me a chance give me a chance spell your
name for this sorry thank you uh leonard reuter r-e-u-t-e-r right do you swear or affirm that
tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do mr knockamson you're a party to this
mr knockamson you're a party to this case uh yes i represent the property owner could you give me
case? Yes, I represent the property owner.
your name and alan knockamson a-l-a-n last name's knockamson n-o-c-h-u-m-s-o-n and hillary we should
probably swear in the applicant am i right correct right so why don't you you the app
okay could so christina christelle please
okay i'm sure sorry to interrupt but i also have a hand up from a richard creamer yeah
that's it why don't you let her one please understood
i promoted them they'll be coming back in shorter
good morning
mr creamer is your christina there uh christina is not there the appellate the
appeal was filed at al and i'm an equally interested party and she's asked me to speak
for the board to the board today no i'm sorry sir you you she filed the appeal in her name
we have been in communication with her she has to present the appeal is there no recognition
of the et al in the appeal filing the et al would need to be explicitly listed and in this case it
is not correct why don't is she there why don't we just not here otherwise she would be speaking
we'll have to continue the hearing then well no i would object to that i mean if she didn't show
up to the wait a minute wait wait wait um i started off by leonard could you comment here
first sure uh so just to get the main thing from our point of view the city's point of view out of
the way is um the city's not taking a position on sure the request for the non-proton because
that depends upon notice issues at the site that we don't have any independent knowledge okay in
terms of when it was suggested that there is an agreement i i just want to say that we we have
reached an agreement to make the make a request of the board which would be subject to the board
and the board's council which is to preserve i would and certainly the city would have no objection
TO PRESERVING THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT THE APPEAL A LATE APPEAL SHOULD PROCEED BUT NOT
NECESSARILY WE WOULDN'T REQUIRE THE BOARD TO MAKE A RULING ON THE NUNK PROTUNK AND THEN JUST
SIMPLY LIKE ROLL THAT INTO THE UNDERLYING CASE SO THAT WE CAN JUST HAVE WHAT AGAIN I SAID IT WAS
SUBJECT TO THE BOARD AND BOARDS COUNCIL THE IDEA BEING BECAUSE YOU KNOW IF THERE'S A RULING ON
THE NUNK PROTUNK AND THEN THAT GETS APPEALED AND THEN YOU KNOW WHO KNOWS IT COULD COME BACK
and then we're back here like a year or two years later on the underlying case we were just hoping
there might be a way to just simply just deal with everything at once and we haven't accepted
the appeal yet so we can't roll the non-protonk into the merits non-protonk is to determine
whether the board will even accept the appeal okay then then in that case um you know and
that's fine i totally respect that's why you know we weren't just saying we were doing this we were
asking the board if we could do that uh since it appears and i totally understand that we can't do
that um again we're not taking position on the non-proton but it does seem that you know if the
appellant's not here that the matter should be dismissed does it impact the board's decision
chair can i just i'm looking at the cover letter that's dated december 26th of 2025 that was
sent to the philadelphia zoning board of adjustment that's time stamp stamp december
29th, and
it states, this appeal
proceeds in the name of Christina
Christo, an affected neighbor.
That's on the cover.
So, I mean, there is... Well, that's why I stopped
up protesting. Yeah. Okay. So, do you have any other
comments? No? Okay.
I think we should continue it, right?
I think, in fairness,
the appellant, we should continue it because
she... We'll continue it for when the appellants
to be here. I just want to say, she
is not represented and did not