to show the uh support letter sure why don't you why don't you do that sure do we have their letters
i don't know if that's submitted uh by the uh community to the board yeah council we just
received it this morning yeah we while we were in session yeah we we received it while we were in
session so we thank you for the timely uh notification with that thank you again i'm
just showing the board the actual letter itself thank you all right questions or comments from the
board um there's no other sales like tire sales or anything like that that's going to take place
on the premises no tire sales they're not going to do tire work at all to avoid having uh to store
them as part of work relating to tires. Thank you. And from what you're saying, there's only
going to be limited repair work. Correct. That it's going to be more for refurbishing cars for
sale. Is that what? Correct. Mr. Gomez's and his brother's primary business is to be selling. It's
going to be a used car sales lot. All right. Okay. Thank you. Questions or comments from
Artaria? Just a couple of questions. In our paperwork, it looks like the tenants are Roberto
and Miguel Gomez. Is Mr. Giordano Gomez, I know they said brothers, are they part of the same
company or just i want to clarify that there are partners in this uh venture uh all three of them
are going to be part of the the business i don't believe they have a corporation um mr gomez do
you have a corporation formed um yes we do have a corporation that is already active in the states
of pennsylvania and it's the three of us with equal ownership okay and also you indicated um
about the the repairs would be accessory um but in your application you don't have the word
accessory just so you know it's both of the uses it doesn't say one's accessory to the other
yeah the intent was to have it as part of the uh primarily as a sales lot with the
mechanic shopping taking up the smaller portion of the work okay i'm just pointing it out to you
you used accessory not that there's a problem but you have both uses okay understood questions or
comments from the virtual audience i see no hands planning commission thank you chairman and good
afternoon david fecto with the city planning commission chairman and board members the
comprehensive plan recommends a change in zoning at this location from cmx2 commercial mixed use
to icmx industrial commercial mixed use the west side of kensington avenue still carries its
original 1933 zoning the proposed personal vehicle repair and maintenance and personal vehicle sales
and rental are both allowed with a special exception in icmx and this property has a documented
history of auto related uses including a freight terminal and a gasoline service station dating to
at least the 1940s the city planning commission recommends the board grant the proposed use
variances. MI 2026 002 520 36
MI 2026-002-520-3698 Kensington Avenue. I vote yes. Michael Johns, my vote is yes.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes. Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes.
Taya Nguyen, my vote is yes. Layla Beebe, my vote is yes. Thank you. Thank you council. Number 14,
MI 2026-002-513-5851 Warrington Avenue.
Lisa Kapla Davis is the owner applicant.
do we see lisa yes chair lisa kepler davis has been promoted okay
lisa kepler you have been promoted and you're allowed to speak please unmute yourself good
morning good good morning good morning hi could you please state and spell your name for the
phonographer? Lisa Davis Caple, L-I-S-A Davis, D-A-V-I-S Caple, C-A-P-L-E. All right. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, sir. I see you have a letter of support from the Third Ward Executive Committee. Is that correct?
That is correct, sir. And our Vice Chair has a few questions for you.
good afternoon um have you submitted your documents and exhibits 14 days in advance for
your hearing yes ma'am okay and this is your understanding that you're here for a referral
for a personal care home that is correct okay all right so um you can share your screen we
have your documents and tell us what you'd like to do so my my daughter actually is going to be
i'm the owner of the property she is going it's going to be her business her baby so she has all
the documents and she should be sharing her screen um i guess she can raise her hand so
she can be born too because she has all the documents and uh able to go through step by
step all that so you'll go through the documents and she'll just put them up for you am i correct
no she's going to go through the documents and put them up listen um hold on our attorney has a
comment here we don't have any information about your daughter all we have is information about
yourself and you indicated you were the owner applicant so we don't have any information
for her to basically have standing in this if i mean okay but you have to be doing the
presentation then we don't have any documentation about her that is fine and i'm so sorry that
didn't go through because through the whole process she has been the contact person but
that is fine she could i guess i'm assuming she still have to share her screen because she has
the document yeah and you'll just tell her when to move the documents okay okay but again you can
call her as a witness but it's your presentation now okay thank you so much and her name is she
should be in the room i guess you raise your hand so you can be brought in what's her name brittany
davis i have promoted britney thank you
britney davis you are now a panelist can you unmute yourself please and then you will be
allowed to speak good morning good morning could you please um just put the documents up
and your mom will do the testimony, okay?
All right, Mom, so you could just start,
and then I'll hear the information for, like,
the property overview and all that stuff.
So we are basically proposing to establish a 24-hour residential home
housing six girls between the ages of 12 and 18.
A little background history,
the reason why we decided to do this is because I am a medical provider and
Brittany is a social worker who's been working in this capacity for 10 plus years now.
We came up with this idea of me being a foster parent in my past,
coming up with this idea to continue our help with children in our community in the same
community in which I raised her in. So the goal for the housing for the group home is to provide
like a safe, structured, family-oriented environment where youth who have been
family-oriented environment where where youth who have been um unfortunately were able to
experience some stability guidance and a sense of belonging um we are just uh asking for the
board's approval to the to for this property to be um rezoned as we are now and um it's
is listed as a single-family home and we're asking for residential, I mean, because we're
in a residential zoning district, we're asking for the zoning to be changed to, I guess, you know.
Why don't you, why don't you have the documents you need to present put up?
Okay. Brittany?
Yep. Am I able to, am I able to share my screen?
You should be.
Can you see my screen?
Yeah, I see it now, yeah.
Why don't you just put it up?
It's got a...
okay so that's the location I see that yes and this is the um schematics of the apartment
so why don't you explain what's up now so what's up now is the the house as it stands now um um
which was presented by um an architect so if you look there's it's got to make it bigger I'm on my
phone i'm sorry so you if you look from the first screen it's showing the lower level which is the
basement which has an attached garage in the in the basement there's an exit to the outside from
the basement and there's an exit for to the outside from the garage as well and then there's
an opening from the garage into the basement inside on the first picture on the second picture
is showing the first floor where in the entry there's an enclosed porch then you
come into the common area which is the living room and then there's a dining
room and then there's a kitchen off to the back if you see where the lines are
there's an exterior deck from the dining room there's a door that leads off to a
small deck where you can store a trash can, a grill, you know. And then on the
third picture is showing the upper floor, which is the first bedroom, which the
plan is to house three young ladies. The second bedroom, which is the smallest of
the three, we said that we can put one in the back room which housed two females.
and there's a bathroom on the second floor which is a full bathroom with the
shower tub combo to go back to the first floor I'm sorry there is a half bathroom
on the first floor was just a sink and a toilet off of the dining room like sits
between the living room in the dining room area you know we have photos we
should
All right. These are some of the photos that we have.
Explain what that is, please.
Yes. So this is the property as it stands. If you see when you come in,
there's a step up from the enclosed porch that's open to the living room and then the dining room
and then the kitchen towards the back. That fireplace is just decorative. There's no
venting or anything or fire use to it. Then you have the the bathroom that's on
the side which is just a toilet sink a powder room you know as you would say.
This is the exterior of the property. Small front yard this has been cemented.
It was grass like the neighbors on each side of me but during my occupancy I
had it uh uh concreted over um go to the next picture
or more pictures of the powder room this is just going up the steps
okay kitchen
so this is the back bedroom that we plan on housing two
occupants in this back bedroom if you can see from the other end there's a
closet and this alcove there's a closet on each side so it'll be two closets to have them um
have their um clothing and you know storage of their personal properties in each of those closets
this is the middle bedroom which is will be a single bedroom located
This is the middle bedroom, which will be a single bedroom located where you see the doorknob to your left, there's a closet there.
I'm not sure we have a picture of the inside of it. This is facing from the top of the steps from the back bedroom.
This is the full bathroom that's on the second floor, like I said, the tub shower combo.
I don't know if we have a picture of the other angle, there is a storage closet in there
to provide for towels and washcloths and all.
This picture we're looking at here is the main bedroom, which we, based on the square
footage, we assume we can get three children in that room.
This is a wide closet, okay, this is another angle of the bathroom.
This is back to the hallway.
middle room going backwards but it's just not in order sorry
all right back to the front bedroom this is the footage of the square of the bedroom
babe we're talking about the the main bedroom which um could occupy um up to three uh girls
back to the front of the house from the living room looking outside
it's at the end of the pictures yes that's all the photos okay and then this is the rco how let
me at least let me ask you this how is your next door neighbors on either side so the the the
neighbors on the left of me um their that that property is owned by um a private owner just
boarded from an LLC and he does a rooming house so those neighbors aren't
concerned about us having a group home and my neighbor to the right of me is
actually an elderly neighbor who is one of my good friends who was theirs when I
moved there for the house in my in my 20s when my children were old younger
with that used to watch my children who is has my back in this project all right questions from the
board okay so you said um you're gonna have um six girls you said from 12 to 18 yes ma'am is that okay
Okay. And where will these young ladies come from?
So they will come from DHS. So we plan to obtain a relationship with DHS and the services like Kua.
My daughter, because like I said in the beginning, she's a social worker. She has a lot of relationships already with those companies and her daily workings.
So that's why I wanted her to get on here and I can call her as a witness to testify
to that part of the question because that would be her part of working on that.
And have you done this before?
Have I ran a group home before?
No, I have not, but I have raised five children, four of my own.
I've raised my godson since he was two months old and I was a foster parent for about six
years back in the 2000s so i am well versed in raising children i am a nurse practitioner so i
have the medical background and you know about you know health and healing and raising and you know
what i mean the things of that nature that because we wanted to be not like a group home in a sense
of a institution we wanted to be more home home based so you feel more like home like a family
You know what I mean? And now I've never done a group home, but I've been a mother for many years and, you know, some things just come, you know, naturally and tending to children and making them feel loved and at home is something I've done most of my life. Like I said, I even was a foster parent at a point in my life.
Okay. And how many employees?
I'm going to divert that question to Brittany.
You can.
We have to call her.
with this we'd have to call her as a witness so so i can call britney as a witness i'm sorry please
state and spell your name britney um britney davis b-r-i-t-t-a-n-y last name d as in dog a-d-i-s
do you swear or affirm the total truth told truth nothing but the truth yes we should please proceed
oh i'm sorry so britney so the question was proposed of um the first question was what we
would get the children from who will be housed at that location and the second question was um um
oh i just had a brain fog i'm sorry how many employees how many employees
how many employees how many employees do we have i'm sorry thank you so much
what we have. I'm sorry. Thank you so much.
thank you um so yes we plan to uh get a contract have a contract with um the department of human
services once we go through licensing and inspection through l and i and everything
um we will be getting our children from um dhs we plan to have as far as staffing um
during our first we plan to have three shifts those during the first shift it would be a one
a six ratio with the children during the second shift it will be a one to three ratio where it
will be two staff and six girls and then overnight would be um one to six ratio
and can you do that one more time that kind of went that you kind of went fast do that one more
time i'm sorry during the first shift which is going to be from seven to three thirty we're
going to have one step um the expectation is that the children will be um in school during those
hours but we still would have somebody on site um just in case a child gets sick or they not
enrolled in school yet um things of that sort um during the second shift which will be from 3
to 11 30 we will have two staff um on site with six children so the ratio will be one to three
um during that time they will be getting assistance with homework doing chores meal prep
um things of that sort um and then for third shift which would be 11 to 7 30 um it would be
one staff doing rounds every hour checking on the girls making sure you know linens don't need to
be washed and then it's just like a 30 minute overlaps for each shift to give the staff time
to debrief and communicate with each other um you know what was going on the previous shift
okay and how many bedrooms and how many this is so this is a three bedroom um home is one
one full bedroom and a half bedroom
okay thank you and what area will the staff be designated for staff i'm sorry say that again
what area in the other home will be designated for staff like to do paperwork