Solamente entendí.
Yo lo uso solamente para...
Ok, para la soda y el agua.
Soda y agua.
I use...
Gracias.
I use it only for soda and water.
So he's, he's, he's keeping things down, but we need to swear on it.
So he's keeping things down.
But we need to swear him in.
Right. All right. Do we, are we going to Joe? Could you have your testimony adopted, please?
And we'll have the interpreter do that. Could he? Could you call the interpreter on for me, please? Jose?
As in the state, his name is spelled for the stenographer.
Señor, por favor, diga su nombre y deletreelo para el ecografista, para el sonido.
José Dolores Vargas.
J-O-S-S-D-O-L-O-R-E-S-B-A-R-G-A-S.
this is the interpreter would you like me to ask him to do that again in Spanish so I can
spell that yeah I wanted to do it in Spanish and then could you tell us what he responds in English
thank you señor este es el intérprete por favor dele trelo una vez más en español despacio y por
For example, J de Juan, O de Oso, S de sapo, E de elefante.
Gracias.
J de Juan, O de Oso, S de sapo, E de enano, José, D de dedo, O, O, R,
so first name j as and juliette
O is in Oscar, S is in Sierra, E is in Echo, second name Dolores, D is in Delta, O is in Oscar, L is in Lima, O is in Oscar, R is in Romeo, E is in Echo, S is in Sierra.
Last name.
Listen to me.
Could he ask them to, does he swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
señor jura o afirma decir la verdad toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad
i swear okay joe could you uh you mentioned the question you'd like to ask him about
adopting your testimony um did you mr barbus did you hear my testimony to the board my presentation
yes señor vargas escuchó mi testimonio ante la junta mi presentación ante la junta
yes okay joe continue would you adopt it as your own testimony if it were if you were testifying
Señor, ¿será que usted lo adoptaría como su propio testimonio si usted estuviera testificando?
Are there any changes to my testimony or any corrections?
Any corrections that need to be made to my testimony.
¿Hay algún cambio o corrección que deba hacerse en mi testimonio?
no all right all right all right questions from the board uh yes uh venting for the exhaust uh hood
is it are you venting through the building are you venting outside
well jill is joe there joe do you know what that answer is yeah i'm looking for that photograph
i'm looking for that photograph which should show the venting one moment all right
where did that go
why don't we ask that why don't we ask that of um of uh
could you interpreter could you please ask them is he interpreting
is he uh have an event go to the roof or just outside
Señor, ¿tiene una ventilación que puede ir a la azotea o simplemente al exterior?
A la azotea, su buena quisiera.
in the rooftop okay
michael you see the photo yes so i yeah yeah i don't see event event coming outside so
i guess it's already invented through the building
Other questions from the board?
Yes. Does he also have, does someone there have a safe serve certificate from the health department?
I have a terminal.
Of course.
tiene alguien allí que cuente con el certificado de seguridad alimentaria del departamento de salud
yes okay thank you gracias i guess i have a question because it does look like there had
been previous approvals for hot food on this location um so i guess my question is was the
kitchen built under a previous permit that expired or was the kitchen just added at some
point in time and if so would you be open to a requirement of a certificate of occupancy
parece que hubo aprobaciones previas para la venta de comida caliente en este local
So my question is, did you build the kitchen under a previous permit that occurred or simply added in some moment? And so, would you be able to ask a certificate of occupation?
keep slowly so that the interpreter can interpret so i'm going to stop right now and then let
the interpreter interpret okay thank you one moment please let me clarify something this
this is the interpreter, sir, this is the interpreter.
Me dijo, cuando yo llegué,
había una pequeña
cocina, ¿correcto?
Correcto.
Un momento.
Señor, un momento, gracias.
Donde yo cocinaba,
pero cuando fue la
inspección, me dijeron
que tenía que tener el qué, perdón.
El Sony, para comida también.
¿El qué?
El Sony.
Could you give us the answer, please?
Yes, one moment. I'm sorry. I was trying to clarify because it's kind of difficult to understand him.
So when I arrived, there was a small kitchen set up and we were cooking in this small kitchen.
But during the inspection, I was told I needed a permit that couldn't be found.
so i heart i company any other questions
questions from our sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry members of the board i think he was still
in the process of answering that question though
my answer still hasn't been my question still has not been answered yeah right he's still
in the process of answering so could you please proceed with the with answering this one's question
okay let's señor por favor continue respondiendo la pregunta de la señora this is the interpreter
one moment please señor por favor hable despacio en lento para yo poder alcanzar a tomar nota
gracias ok entonces contraté la compañía ellos me dijeron que estaba todo listo entonces el son
the company i hired they told me that everything was ready so but the permit i had was from any
other um was issue for other uh specific location not for that one so i was looking into the legal
permits needed to get my kitchen up and running okay so i guess to reiterate um and i guess the
so i guess to reiterate um and i guess council maybe you can answer this would would you be
counts.
opposed to a proviso requiring a certificate of occupancy no no objection to that okay thank you
our attorney i believe this was already answered but he might have been before he was sworn in
um it looks like the use is going to be on the basement and first floor is that correct
well in so far as the basement is concerned uh he testified that he is only storing sodas and
waters down there and it's my everything joe joe he's using the basement period yes yes yes so
first floor and basement exactly okay now i understand thank you question or comments to
virtual audience
i see no hands chair planning commission sorry chair yes we do have a hand raised
jihad ali has been promoted to panelists
jihad state your name and spell for the stenographer please
Yes, sir. Can you hear me?
I can. Could you please state and spell your name for the stenographer?
Sure. Good afternoon, Mr. Commissioner, members of the panel. My name is Jihad Ali, J-I-H-A-D-A-L-I.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
I affirm.
Please proceed.
yes counselor uh mr commissioner i'm a member of the rco and mr vaccaro and his client did come in
there i just i'm not i was surprised that i didn't uh sign up today to speak but i i know that um we
i attended the meeting and i was surprised that brian wasn't here to give testimony or i sent in
the rco notice but uh mr vaccaro did a excellent presentation in front of community it was well
attended everybody attended everybody the close near neighbors had positive uh comments to make
about mr uh the store owner and i remember the thing about the outside they only wanted an
enclosure counselor i don't think they wanted it covered whatever the law would permit if he
could do an enclosure because the issue came up uh the client the owner said that his family lived
upstairs so there was access for everybody to put trash in there but the overall feeling was he runs
excellent store people get their money's worth they were really happy with the food products that
he was providing the coal sandwiches and they overall when he supported it whatever our attendance
was majority voted for it thank you that's all thank you for taking time to calls we appreciate
it thank you very much thank you for your support anyone else planning commission
good afternoon liz fuzely on behalf of the philadelphia planning commission
the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the cmx2 commercial mixed use zoning at this
location the appellant has shown that the proposed eating and drinking establishment
will have no detrimental impact beyond what might reasonably be expected the city planning
commission recommends that the board grant the proposed special exception for an eating and
drinking establishment mi 2026 002 112 4058 west rod avenue i vote yes with proviso first floor and
basement only and are you adding the co that was a request that was the other request
oh oh yeah a certificate of occupancy to be obtained all right i'm michael johnson my vote
is yes with provisals. Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes with provisals. Tanetta Graham, my vote is
yes with provisals. Taya Nguyen, my vote is yes with provisals. Layla Bibi, my vote is yes with
provisals. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you for
your help. MI 2026-003-736-2119 St. Albans Street. David Orphanides is the attorney.
and just for the note for the interpreter interpreter you dismissed thank you for your
help today if there's nothing further interpreter will disconnect now but as opposed to services
thank you for general services interpreter disconnecting Mr. Orphanides could you please
state and spell your name for the stenographer certainly certainly my name is David Orphanides
last name is spelled o-r-p-h-a-n-i-d-e-s you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing
about the truth i do you identify your client a relationship to the property sure allison charles
you identify your client a relationship to the property sure allison charles and dave matthewson
and dave matthewson
uh 2119 st alvin street our um vice chair has a few questions good afternoon have you submitted
your documents and exhibits 14 days in advance of this here yes okay and and do you wait to read
that your refusals are simply to the accuracy yeah i think you're good my mic is off oh here
okay so hopefully we don't have any other issues yeah okay do you wave the
reason that your refusal is simply to the accuracy uh yes okay all right thank you
see your screen and proceed with your case certainly hold on council we have anything
late on his uh yeah i have a revised proviso plan for him letters coming in i'm just saying what the
letters are coming i sent it late i sent it this earlier this afternoon it was just what you said
huh yeah yeah yeah okay no other revised provided we're here in hearings so yeah okay all right
well you can hold the boat and have it yeah we're gonna yeah i mean the changes were made based upon
what the community wanted us to do okay so i'm gonna put this on the record again when we're in
hearings we're not gonna we're not doing stuff yeah we're not trying to be difficult but just
understand so we might have sent it we looked at it before we started too it's all i want to get
going to leave that sure and then i have we have a letter from sasna yeah i did not noak was also
uh designated as a co-coordinating rco i have not received anything from them and then i did reach
out by telephone via email to council president johnson's office but i haven't received anything
of position from them maybe you have but we got noak we did not get sauce oh yeah that never
received no x so i don't know what that um it's non-support okay i'm not all right i don't know
why but okay i haven't seen it but i'm not surprised why don't we yeah no problem so um
can uh everybody everybody can see my plan so let me just scroll up here let me reduce that
let's get one minute
there we go all right all right the subject property is 2119 St Albans Street it's located
on the north side of the street it's a tree line street on the north side so there's street trees
on the north side no street trees on the south side here is a picture of the property it's an
existing two-story single-family dwelling and you can see uh extending this is a view extending to
the east on the north side and then on the west also on the north side you can see this picture
here seems to be a little bit of a lag um but all the street trees on on our side of the street there
no street trees a very few street trees on the south side very mature trees that provide shading
of the upper floors and above the roofs of the uh the existing two uh buildings
um my volume is all food so um so anyway the proposal is um to uh fill in the back there's
a notch at the back of the building and you can see this in the aerials um right here if i show you
you can see right there that there's a notch in the northwest corner of the building so the
proposal is to fill that in similar to the property to the left of us which goes a little
deeper and similar to the property to the right of us to the east of us which is a little shallower
but you can see that most a lot of the buildings and most of the buildings are either the same
depth as the property to either to the left of us you can see it goes deeper as you extend further
to the west and the same thing with the properties heading to the right so in the back we'll be at
about the same depth and that's where our open area refusal comes from so filling in that notch
we go from 75 open area to 80 open area but again it's to create a condition that exists up and down
the back street which is climber street the property goes from st albans on the north side
to the south side of climber which dead ends to the west from 20 uh 21st street um after filling
that in, we're going to put a third and a fourth floor addition on top of that. The third floor
addition has a refusal for not being the eight-foot setback. The fourth floor is setback way
more than the eight feet. It's setback so far back, and this is one of the revisions, that
initially the original design, in certain circumstances, you would have been able to view
certain portions of the edition um and what happened during the um
of the addition. And what happened during the process, you can see here in the bottom, and it's
a little hard to see because the line's a little faint. These are the zoning drawings that were
submitted originally. And you can see with the line of sight, the bottom right-hand corner,
that it clipped a little bit of the fourth floor and the deck that's above that. So there's a deck
at the front of the third floor and the deck above the first floor no pilot house just an open
staircase leading from the deck at the front of the third floor um to the deck on top and based
upon we met with the sasna architectural review committee and then we went in front of the full
community the um at the architectural review committee we had already kind of made this
determination but it was reinforced to push everything back at the upper floors um at the
fourth floor and then with a deck so that none of it is visible from across the street. And you can