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okay everyone good morning good morning my name is Bill Bergman and I will be chairing
this morning's meeting with me.
With us is our board member
Cheryl L. Gaston.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Board member Tanetta Graham.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board member Michael Johns.
I know he's here.
If not, he'll shortly be on.
Our board member Taya Nguyen.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
So present is our attorney, Hillary Emerson,
our zoning board director, Ian Haggerty,
and our board administrator, Lakeisha Dandy.
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number two mi2024002357 1945 north 25th street this case is continued the cases
will be marked, must be heard, will be heard at the next listing whether or not the RCO meeting
has occurred, provided the required mailing was done and the near neighbors and the property
properly posted. Number three, MI 2024-002-424-822 Barlow Street. This case is continued
until 10-22-25 at 9-30.
Excuse me, Mr. Chair,
did we have a date for the case number two
that you read into the...
Just continue momentarily.
Number two will be 10-22-25 at 9-30 a.m.
Okay, thank you so much.
Number seven,
MI 2024-007-591-5210-Rexford Road.
MI 2024.
This case is continued to 10-22-25 at 9-30.
number 9
000001
1016 West Erie
Avenue. There's a request
for a continuing from the
RCO, Nicetown, Tioga.
Vern Anastasio is the attorney.
Mr. Anastasio.
Good morning.
This is Doreen Blakely, and I will be co-hosting this morning's hearings.
Vern Anastasio should be coming in as a panelist.
Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Chair.
Morning.
Vern, could you state your name and spell for this stenographer?
It's Vern Anastasio, A-N-A-S-T-A-S-I-O.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Counsel, the RCO has requested to continue.
Are you okay with that?
I have no objection.
Thank you.
So MI 2025, 0001, 1016 West Erie Avenue.
That case is continued to 1022.25 at 9.30 a.m.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And number 10.
MI 2025, 000002, 206 Oxford Street.
That case is continued to 10-22-25 at 9.30.
Number 13, MI 2025, 000014, 3113 Midville Avenue.
That case is continued to 10-22-25 at 9.30.
And number 15, MI 2025, 000282, 3731 Midvale Avenue. Nathan Sell and Jonathan Morley are pro se. We believe we may not have the appropriate documents to go on with this. Could the Mr. Sell or Morley please come on?
nathan cell has been promoted
hi good morning this is nathan cell good morning mr cell could you please state your name and
spell for the stenographer sure nathan n-a-t-h-a-n cell s-e-l-l do you swear or affirm to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Mr. Sell, do you swear to tell the truth?
Yeah, I do. Okay, thank you. Hillary, we don't have all the...
Mr. Sell, it didn't appear from the documents that you submitted that you had met with
the RCO as required. Is that correct? That's correct. Yeah, I sent a notice last week. They
received them on Thursday, but I've not heard back. I wasn't super clear on the requirements
there so i was hoping to get a better understanding of what i needed to do there yes so um that is
something that you should call the office to to discuss but you have to have a meeting with the
community before the board can hear your case and i do see we have a hand up from um hillary
langer who i believe is the um from the coordinating rco in your case um mr triddy we want to promote
mr langer mr langer please
Mr. Langer has been promoted.
Good morning, Mr. Langer.
Could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
Good morning.
This is Hillary Langer.
Good morning, Mr. Langer.
Could you state your name and spell for the stenographer?
My name is Hillary Langer, H-I-L-A-R-Y-L-A-N-G-E-R.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Mr. Langer, you've heard the appellate.
Is it possible you can get with him and have a conversation outside of here about where we go next in this case?
Certainly, yes.
I received an email a couple of days ago requesting a meeting.
I had not received any notification through RCO's EBA that this is coming up.
However, I can arrange a public meeting on our next scheduled date, which should be June 17th, third Wednesday at 7 p.m.
okay thank you thank you for taking the time to get on we appreciate it mr cell this case
Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to get on.
We appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This case is continued.
is continued so mi2025 000 282 3731 midville avenue cases continued to 10 22 25 at 9 30.
thank you thank you so we have a few cases that we do not have exhibits
Number 11, MI2025, 000003, 808 South Cecil Street.
Clemente Amazon is the attorney.
This is the first listing.
We do not have any exhibits.
Also, Stacey Shomo is the listed owner.
Clemente Amazon will be joining as a panelist.
Good morning, Chairman and members of the board.
Good morning, Council.
Counsel, could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
Clemente Amazon.
That's spelled C-L-E-M-E-N-T-A.
Last name is spelled A-M-A-Z-A-N.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Counsel, we don't have any exhibits.
This is the first listing.
We are requesting a continuance of this particular matter.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
So MI 2025, 000-003, 808 South Cecil Street, cases continued to 10-22-25 at 9.30 a.m.
Thank you very much for getting on.
Chairman, I do have one more question.
We also had a matter that was scheduled to be heard.
It was an L&I appeal.
I submitted a continued request for that as well, but I didn't hear you read that off.
i i miss amazon we have a request for withdrawal for that case i'm sorry a withdrawal okay yes
i'm getting to that okay sorry about that thank you yeah sure sure sure sure and number 14
mi 2025 000212128 mancho street we have no exhibits as the first listing
George and Dana Goodwin
are the listed owners. Janice Woodcock
Woodcock Design
Dana Goodwin
will be coming in as a panelist
Good morning.
Good morning.
Dennis, could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
Dina Goodwin, D-E-N-A-G-O-O-D-W-I-N.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
We do not have the, we, am I correct, Hillary, we have no exhibits at all for this?
So I think we received the exhibits too late to review them.
So unfortunately, and there is a question, there's also revised plans that need to be
reviewed.
So unfortunately, I don't think we can proceed today because we did not receive them five days in advance of the hearing.
Okay, so MI 2025, 000021, 2128 Montrose Street.
This case will be continued until 102225 at 930 a.m.
If you have any questions at all, please call the office and they would help you with everything you need, okay?
Sorry, we, I believe our architect is also on the line and I believe we had everything submitted. You're still waiting for, we, we just received the letter from our RCO. That was the only component that we did.
So, but the point, the point is we did not receive the documents in time to be reviewed.
And if you want, I mean, if you want me to talk to your architect, I'll gladly do it.
I mean, but we do not have the documents in time to review them.
We're sorry about that.
Oh, sure.
If you have any questions, call the office and I'll gladly help you.
All right.
Thank you.