i don't i don't have it in my email i'm not able to look at it i'm not able to evaluate it and i've
and i've asked for this literally for the last three weeks i've asked her to give me what her
concerns are what her issues are if there's any provisos if there's any community benefits
agreement we could work out we wanted to sit down and work this out but sending sending the board
something 20 minutes before this hearing starts and not even sending me a copy of it when when
she says that she has another letter that is that is the correct letter i'm not able i don't know
what um what she wants me to do with this but i'm not able to come to any kind of a of a of a
negotiation at this moment um the the other rco gave their gave their vote of support for a triplex
without any of um conditions she sent me uh ms russell sent me an email on april 21st of full
support for a triplex she's now saying that her position is different and gives me that position
20 minutes before this hearing starts and that's why i said that's not that just doesn't um that
doesn't comport with with a fair process um and um that's why uh while we want to work very closely
with her rco and the other rco and we are committed to we committed to go to another meeting later
this week mr masters we got you not to interrupt we got it yep all right
is there anyone else here in this matter can i say one last thing please is that we
yes we have a kiana i muted you for a reason thank you thank you we have kiana
jason can you unmute him kiana it's just been unmuted man kiana you uh please identify yourself
for the record? Yes, good afternoon or morning rather. My name is Kiana Shedrick. I'm a resident
of the neighborhood. I live two blocks over. My name is Q-I-A-N-A, last name Shedrick, S-H-E-D-R-I-C-K.
Thank you. You swore and affirmed to tell the truth, the whole truth for nothing but the truth?
That is correct. Thank you. Please proceed. Yes, so I am a resident of the neighborhood and I was
actually present on the day of the meeting. And so I just wanted to offer a few short points
in regards to this case. I actually live in the neighborhood and walking distance of the subject
lot. I do community cleanups in the neighborhood, just had one this weekend and actually clean near
that lot. So I wanted to offer a few things. One being, regardless of how the pictures show,
It is a commercial corridor. It's a bus route. And so there's traffic there frequently. So
whereas it does bring density, it certainly wouldn't overpopulate the block. And as you can
see, it's empty. So to revive the block would definitely be a positive thing. There is other
proposed development coming on that block. And the developer did mention the church that's
currently there and they're currently going um undergoing minor renovations as well so um it's a
it's a construct construction is it's forthcoming on that block um and it's going to be a positive
thing um it'll fill in the space so just to move on um from the developers um comments during the
meeting they seem to be um in tune with the needs of the neighborhood in regards to the trash aspect
and spoke up with some suggestions and positive ways to be an asset to the block and so I'm
looking forward to that happening and I wanted to speak that up for the record because it was
mentioned on the call and just wanted to thank you for giving community members an opportunity to
be heard during the meeting members were muted and even though our votes were taken we weren't
able to come forth with our opinions just because we didn't live on the block. And as you can see,
um come forth with our opinions just because we didn't live on the block and as you can see
it is boarding homes it is empty so if i live a block over and i walk there i should be able to
have input um so just thank you for allowing that to to take place um and uh also i just wanted to
note it for the record that an actual um property owner of the block was not allowed to vote during
in the meeting. So again, just thank you for allowing community voices to be heard, whether
they're for or whether they're against, just making the forum open. So thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
Mr. Chair, we have Ms. Sheila Howard. I will allow her to speak right now. Thank you.
yes good morning good morning can you please identify yourself for the record please
name and address howard s-h-e-i-l-a last name h-o-w-a-r-d
i just wanted to you sort of firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
I'm sorry. Yes, I do. Thank you. Please proceed. I just wanted to say I attended the last RCO meeting held and I did participate in the vote. It was a unanimous yes vote. And that vote did not entail anything about a reduction in the size of the units.
So we voted on a triplex.
It included the provision with the trash receptacle in the front.
And I concur with the previous testimony that one of the residents of the block was asked to leave before the vote was taken, although he is a resident on the block.
And I questioned that action and was told that the RCO determines who can do whatever.
So I wanted to go on the record for that.
And the church, which is Eagle Swings Ministries, which is pastored by Pastor Lola, she actually invited me to the call.
And again, I live a block away, but I'm very active in the community.
And so we are very much in support of more development on that block, a lot of vacant lots. We encourage the comeback of 17th Street. It is really important. And I just wanted to go on record as being one in support and a part of a unanimous vote. Yes.
Thank you. Anyone else?
No further hands at this time.
Thank you. Does the board have any questions? No.
Planning Commission? No. Thank you.
I'm Paula Brumblow-Burns with the Planning Commission.
I first want to address a comment that was made by the attorney.
If you want to file a complaint against an RCO, you need
to contact the RCO coordinator for the proper action and not necessarily harp or break keep
bringing it up here the complaint needs to go through the planning commission not through
the zoning board and our recommendation is the property is indicated for residential use on the
city plan the north district plan recommended that this block be zoned rm1 given the plan
recommendation we recommended that the requested variances be granted thank you okay
Calendar number MI 2020-002709-3410.
Excuse me, Mr. Paulson, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm afraid that I gave you the wrong information.
The trash enclosure is shown on the revised plans.
Thank you.
Thank you.
MI 2020-002709-3410, North 17th Street.
my vote is yes with proviso revised plans three pages approved today my vote is yes with proviso
yes with proviso yes with proviso good luck thank you very much members of the board thank you okay
let's see bear with me one second
All right.
The final items on today's agendas are read MI 2021-00086.
2021-000875. Also MI 2020-000876 and MI 2021-000904. It is 198 San Mayor Lane, right? Or
It's both properties.
It's 10090.
Thank you.
Is that it?
These are an appeal
against L&I.
So we will ask
all the attorneys for all parties
including the city, please raise
your hands and so that you can be promoted to panelists uh when called up please identify
yourself and your clients for the record okay i want to also remind every uh every party involved
that this is an appeal against l and i and uh stick to uh you know all your points be
make sure it's uh it's to the appeal against l and i okay i uh we will we will allow
mr plaus if i could suggest that each um attorney put their name on the record
and um identify who they represent and also be sworn in yes okay who's up first
First, David Orfanides from Orfanides and Toner. Paul Toner is also here with me, my partner. We represent the Busselton Civic League.
Thank you, Mr. Orfanides. Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do. And then also, please, Mr. Toner as well.
I do as well.
Thank you.
Next. Good morning, members of the board. My name is Joseph Cattuzzi of Stradley Ronan. I represent
Sandmeyer Steel Company. Thank you. And do you swear on a firm to tell the truth, the whole truth,
for nothing but the truth? Yes, I do. Thank you. Mr. Primavera, I believe you are up. Yes. Good
morning. Carl Primavera. I'm representing Relteva LLC and its affiliate, Commercial Development
Corporation, which is the owner of the property, and a tenant, UPS, and with me, who will be
operating any technology, is my colleague, Stephanie Gray, as well. Thank you. And do you
swear on the firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, for nothing but the truth? I do. Thank you.
And now, I believe Mr. Reuter, and if he could identify the other attorneys from the law
department who will be appearing in this matter yes thank you uh good morning members of the board
leonard f reuter uh reuter senior attorney representing the uh city of philadelphia
through the department of licenses and inspections i'm joined by my colleagues
today maggie white uh who is here as a panelist and also elizabeth okapu who i do not see as a
panelists so if you could promote her um we have two witnesses but i guess you don't real quick do
you run a firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth i do thank you please
proceed um and we do have uh two potential witnesses i believe um miss aleta may explain
how we're going to go forward in this particular case today so um at the appropriate time i think
that they can be sworn in at the point um okay okay i believe that we're beginning today with
each an attorney for each party um summarizing very brief summary limited to five minutes
of the points that you will be making summarize your arguments um we'll then move on to um a bit
out of order mr reuter will be um presenting the city's case with regard to he'll be presenting
the materials that were submitted to the examiner and he will be calling Ms. Chelle de Hall, the
examiner, to testify. The other parties will then have an opportunity to cross-examine her
and we'll go on from there to see what happens after that, whether we have additional time left.
Thank you.
um before we proceed i do not see shelly she was signed on earlier
okay um i will try to reach her and
Okay. I will try to reach her and make sure she gets back on.
Because I did not know that she was not here because when we were, if you're not a panelist, you cannot see who the participants or the attendees are.
So I would have contacted her.
I'm sorry.
I did check earlier.
She was signed on.
I promoted her to panelists, but I'm not sure what had happened.
uh okay let me uh all right since each party will be given five minutes um mr orphanetes or
mr toner which of you will be if one of you could start and then mr katuzzi i'll get started
um good morning members of the board uh david orphanetes again for the greater bus specifically
League. We are here on case – our particular appeal is HA-2021-000899, MI-2021-00065.
We filed two appeals of two permits. One was Zoning Permit 2020-010545. The other one was
zoning permit 2020-000653. My understanding is that both of those appeals are consolidated into
our single appeal number and meeting ID case number. Again, I am here, or we are here,
partner Paul Turner and I are here on behalf of the Greater Busselton Civic League. The Greater
Busselton Civic League is a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation with a registered business address
of 9980 Haldeman Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19115. The Greater Busselton
Civic League is a registered community organization in accordance with Title 14,
Section 1430311A of the Zoning Code. And per their – both their bylaws and the information
that's been provided and approved to the Planning Commission, their border runs to the south side
of Red Lion Road, which is directly across from the main property involved here, which
is 1 Red Lion Road.
Their constituents and their residents and their members live to the south, directly
across the street to the south of the subject property.
Along Red Lion Road, there are boundaries, I believe, run from the border with Montgomery
Avenue over to Roosevelt Boulevard.
um it's our position that uh you'll hear our argument you know in my opening and then our
presentation of our case throughout the hearings in this matter that there are a significant number
of members residents uh constituents of the greater busselton civic league that own property
live work uh across the street from in close proximity to the subject premises and there
they will be negatively impacted seriously materially by the proposed development of the
subject property as approved. Excuse me, Mr. Irfanides, I'm sorry to interrupt, but rather
than going into the standing arguments, you have three more minutes to summarize all of the
substantive arguments. Not a problem. Thank you. Not a problem. I wanted to establish that part of
it. So there, you know, our case is set forth in great detail in the appeals that were filed with
the board. I'd ask that the board take the time to read them at some point if they have not already
done so, because I can't get through it all in five minutes. But essentially, our position is
that the applicants did not properly identify the proposal in their application. Their plans
are defective. They did not completely follow the CDR process as required by the code.
this project did have to go through cdr that part of the process of the permitting process was
defective and in the end what was approved this property is zoned i2 and what was approved was
not an i2 permitted use for either either of the two properties one red lion road or uh 198 sand
Meyer Lane. The use is a use that is not permitted. You will hear it's not permitted in I-2.
Fortunately, the examiner probably wouldn't have been able to figure that out from the materials
that were submitted to her. And as a result, it's our position that, first of all, this permit
should not have been, neither permit should have been granted by right by the Department of Licenses
and Inspections. And in addition, it's our position that given the location of the subject
property and the property surrounding it, this property is improperly zoned as an I2
classified property, particularly if a use such as what is presently proposed and has been approved.
particularly if a use such as what is presently proposed and has been approved by these permits
is to be permitted at this property. And obviously that is a very, very brief synopsis of what our
case is. Thank you. Mr. Cattuzzi. Good morning again, members of the board. My name is Joseph
I represent Sandmeyer Steel Company. And briefly in five minutes, what we have here is Sandmeyer
Steel is appealing the same zoning permits that Mr. Orphan-ED has described. To provide in a
nutshell what's happening is we have a site and a project that's located along Redline Road. It's
up in the far northeast district of Philadelphia, pretty much against the border of Philadelphia
and Montgomery County. And we have two lots. You have on the one hand this one Redline Road lot.
It's a large swath of land.
It's nearly 130 acres inside, and it is located and sits directly on Redline Road.
The road goes out into Montgomery County and down to Philadelphia.
And then on the other hand, we have 198 Sam Meyer Lane.
That sits at the end of the bulb of a cul-de-sac that goes up and around and behind the one
Redline Road parcel.
In comparison, it's substantially smaller.
It's about one acre, 1.3 acres, 1.4 acres in size.
So nearly 100 times smaller than one red line road.
Sandmeyer Steel Company is located at the base of that cul-de-sac that the 198 Sandmeyer Lane property is located.
Sandmeyer Steel has been there since the foundation, since the inception of the Sandmeyer Lane cul-de-sac.
It has seen the development and the growth of the Sandmeyer Lane cul-de-sac, as well as the changes in the community over time.
So again, we're appealing two permits.