and then extending further on the 1800 block of West Tioga, multifamilies,
existing multifamilies, blighted buildings, burned out buildings,
vacant lots, further down all the way to 19th and Tioga,
a multifamily building which was developed down there not too long ago.
So vacant lots in the church and multifamilies, bottom of page 11 through page 12.
And then as you see of page 13, it's the north side of West Tioga.
All these buildings are being utilized, or most of them are being utilized for multifamilies.
Presently, you have a vacant lot, again, across the street, then heading down to 17th Street.
you have a vacant lot again across the street then heading down to 17th street you have uh
two small commercial buildings at the northwest corner a church on the northeast corner
um community center up to south east corner and then again the tall massive
uh existing building adjacent to us abiding us to the east on the southwest corner of 17th and west
tayoga on page 18.
the bottom of 19 is the building and the properties that extend from what
south 17th street behind our property and this is the wall of the building
directly to the east of us no windows or openings to speak of
that would be blocking there the sanborns i referenced earlier
showing structures existing similar to the other structures those that remain
on our side of on our south side of west the 1700 block of West Ioga they
dating back to 1921 but as I stated in 1989 you can see
right here you can still see the existing buildings and this is page 98 of our exhibit book
but yet in 1992 and since 92 they've been vacant you can see the large amounts of open area
that are located um to the south of us and again in terms of our structure extending to the south
we are to the north of those some of the development that you have to the south
of us so even with the reduced rear yard depth and the extra massing we won't be
shadowing those properties because of our physical location to them exhibit
19 is that road snack article that I've referenced every time I've come before
this board with one of the projects we're developing up in this neighborhood
10 worst neighborhoods for philadelphia for 2019 and this neighborhood was number one
and i believe per the article had been number one the prior year as well ranked last year
number one change so my my client is investing this has been several many years that he's been
involved in getting these projects many of which we've already brought to you including the other
senior multifamily on this block to try to rehabilitate and jumpstart this
neighborhood. Tab 20 has to do with their concept, their healthy living concept,
providing bicycles, making bicycles available for their tenants. And then a tab
21 and 22, 21 is the North 17th Street conceptual design for multicultural
for a multi-use redevelopment,
which I believe was a collaboration
between Tayoga United, which is the coordinating RCO here
and then other organizations that got involved.
And I've provided this in each of the cases,
the many cases we've brought
for the development project up here up in this area so i'm just going to scroll through that
then i think we also have uh here yeah here we go we have i think the planning commission's report
also you can find that just one minute
um leading up that was at tab 22 but i'm not i know we're pressed for time 23 um is the zoning
archive for our property 1708 doesn't have an archive and 1710 um has very very few documents
again i think the sandborns speak more as to the history of the property and then tab 24 is notice
of decision and the approved drawings as EVA stamp drawings and permitted drawings for 1718 West
Tioga. Again that was for 34 units on this on the single lot of 1718 West Tioga.
And here you can see that building.
That was a five-story building but obviously isn't tucked up against an eight-story building.
similar configuration to what we're proposing here basically essentially
identical in many respects. We already spoke, as we showed earlier, the CDR
completion letter dated June 9th with the commentary that we received at that
time. Tab 26 is the email we received or my clients received designated
Email we received or my clients received
Designated title of United as a coordinating RCO
the list of addresses to which the
14303 notice was sent
Page 295 you have the 14303 notice that went out for the community group meeting again
I wasn't an intent it was not in attendance and but my client and the architect were and can speak to
what might have transpired at that meeting, if there are any questions, and then starting at
page 297, you have our certificates of service of the 14, mailing of the 14303 notice to the
list of addresses that we pulled. We were provided by the, provided by the planning commissioner,
which we pulled up through the link, or were pulled through the link. I did not do the mailing,
um my client did uh as i referenced earlier tab 27 is our letter of support and i believe i stated
um state representative i apologize i realized as soon as i said it's our state representative i
said it's state senator reeve street his letter of support he does reference um issues with the
issues with the neighborhood and what we're trying to do here and then at tab 28 is a letter of
support from Tioga United, which does talk about reducing the number of units, which we did again
by taking off a whole story to go reduce from 60 to 50. So with that, Anthony, did you hear the
statements that I made to the board? Anthony, I need to get your name and address. Identify yourself
for the record please. Anthony. I'm going to jump to Kurt maybe. Kurt. Yes. Kurt. Chairman could you
swear Mr. Raymond in? Please identify yourself. Your name and address for the record. Kurt Raymond
N-K-U-R-T-R-A-Y-M-O-N-D, 1520 Locust Street, Suite 702.
Raymond, do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Thank you. Please proceed.
Kurt, did you hear the statements that I made to the board?
I did.
And are they true and correct, to the best of your knowledge?
They are.
And would you adopt them as your own?
I would.
And Anthony, are you on yet, either telephone or otherwise?
he's on he has to unmute himself and speak
can you unmute
anyone else david while we're waiting for him
no he's um those are my two witnesses
all right well we're fine
all right um i would like to have him speak if he does come
he chimes in and obviously have him adopt my statements because some of them were outside of
what kurt would speak to okay oh anthony no this is tanya chair we do have three other people who
wish to testify um all right so uh members of the board i can have as i indicated kurt can run
through the design the changes that have been made the floor plans um for the sake of time
do you have my muted okay i'm going to come to you in a second anthony hold on do you have any
questions for kurt regarding the architectural elements of the um of the proposal that questions
for the board anyone board member have any questions no no i'm not okay let's go to anthony
Anthony, Mr. Cameron, would you swear Mr. Miles in?
Can you identify himself with a record, please?
Name and address.
Anthony Miles, 3900 North 16th Street.
Mr. Miles, do you swear in a firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Anthony, just real quickly, Kurt Raymond is the architect for the project, correct?
And his firm did all the designs for the project?
And he is the one who came with you to the community group meeting
and also was involved in the CDR submission and presentation?
And Anthony, did you hear the statements that I made during this hearing to the board?
And were they true and correct to the best of your knowledge?
And do you adopt them as your own?
Not to put you on the spot, but you heard Ms. Grumbelow.
all the projects that we've brought that i've brought with you to the board there's been an
there's been an element of affordable housing not that we qualified for bonus because of the zoning
element of affordable housing um not that we call
classification of the property but it was a commitment that you made to the community groups
and the commitment you made to the board to provide affordable housing even in those
lower lower smaller multi-family development projects miss brumbelow you proposed affordable
housing aspect to this proposal. You heard Ms. Brumbelow's request was suggesting that there
be a deed restriction or some more clearly defined commitment to providing that affordable housing.
Can you speak to that with what you might be willing to do for the board's benefit?
Yeah, we don't have any issues with, you were correct, that we made a personal commitment
to provide 15 percent of everything we build would have affordable component so we have no
issue with keeping our word uh on this project or the other project that we already got approved
and when we say affordable when we presented and the board would have no way to remember this
um we we were you we utilized the we were generally presenting the city's workforce housing
criteria in terms of affordable housing is that correct that is correct okay i mean straight from
the city that's we actually and some of the other matters that i presented with you we actually
provided and showed that information to the community groups and i think maybe even to
the zoning board at different times is that correct yes okay and that and you would commit
to that would you commit to that with a deed restriction as requested by ms brumbelow yes
okay all right um other than that real quickly anthony because the board is pressed for time
um and then there are some other people that want to speak or maybe maybe members of the board do
you have questions for i know mr miles is passionate about what he's doing up here and
let and he spoke very eloquently to the planning commission or the cdr members um would you like
to have him speak briefly or would you like to ask that like to ask him some questions i will just i
just i would just ask that any board member has any questions okay no okay so we can we'll go on
to the other two or three folks who i believe are waiting online and i just reserved the right to
call mr raymond or mr miles if i need them to address anything that gets raised by any understood
people that participate we have charles richardson on the line you are available to speak please
unmute yourself and testify mr richardson just identify yourself i swore you in earlier today
so identify yourself for the record okay charles richardson from councilwoman bass's office
uh anthony or david i had a quick question though i'm looking at the um letter of support that uh
tayoga united has said and i commend you for reducing the number of units to 50 but did you
see the sex had you had any consideration for that second piece that they had as far as a
They were making a request for parking on the block or something like that, for permit parking.
Had you given that any consideration?
We had, and actually that came up during our planning commission, the CDC, CDR meeting.
And Anthony, you spoke well about it.
It has to do, I mean, there's a couple things.
First of all, it's just coordinating that and making that happen is probably pretty difficult.
Providing for the permit parking up in the area.
So the issue up there could be parking, let's say.
Whenever I've been up there, there's been an abundance of parking, not an issue.
But we are introducing, between the other project and this, quite a number of units.
But that being said, the goal, and Anthony spoke to the CDR about this,
and you can speak to this real quickly, the goal of both 17, 18 and this project
is not to have and bring in, people may still have cars,
and cars may come and go to the, you know, both of the buildings.
But the whole idea of this project, the whole concept of this project,
and whether it's, you know, committing to the affordable side
through a deed restriction as Paula had recommended or requested.
but anthony speak real quickly as to why we don't think cars will be necessary or there won't be
that many or why we actually want to discourage david i appreciate that no disrespect there's
really no way of knowing if that will happen there are projects that start off with that
same intent then there are cars that come in and there's the opposite of that as far as the
permit parking was is the question mr richardson are you were you was the councilwoman or and or
the rco asking for the developer to make the application or pay for the application
to make the application or pay for the applicant for those parking permits for the other residents
for those parking permits for the other
on that block that's what they were doing but i don't know that that's necessarily enforceable as
as a proviso but then it's it's not like i'm not aware of it and i would bring this up i would
bring this up as well most i think it would be a different story in terms of that suggestion or
request if it was if they were owner occupied single family buildings up and down the block
or the surrounding blocks but they're not they're they're rentals they're multi-family and um so i
think i understand the idea and again when i've been up there i you know i haven't seen an issue
with parking but the i think the idea of then coordinating with renters on top of it and i
I think the idea of who you're trying to benefit,
longstanding residents versus transient people
that might, they're running one year
and then they're gone the next year.
I just think it's difficult.
And I don't know that what they're actually thinking
they want to achieve,
that condition actually exists here
in terms of who actually lives within close,
on this block or within the next several blocks up and down.
Gotcha.
Well, with that being said,
I just wanted to state that the Councilwoman
has no objection.
Thank you, Mr. Richardson.