good paying employment or jobs the developer has not demonstrated to me or to anybody else
how any hardship that he shows that we need 10 townhouses these townhouses are behind Chadwick
Chadwick is a street with only two-story housing that's all it is now you're bringing in four
stories in this with these townhouses and that's not fair to those people there are many people who
live there who are long-term residents who don't have uh their retirees uh and they are being
impacted upon by these four these few now right now long-term residences that they have in four
stories okay. Just recently Sazna who approved this here thing for them went and fought a
A grief is at 2400 Washington Avenue on the basis that the developer has not proved or demonstrated a sufficient hardship.
grief at 2400 Washington Avenue on the basis that the bill had not approved or demonstrated.
Yet, stocks have supported this development over 1601.
We do not feel that the hardship here is presented is truly a hardship.
The construction of additional market rate housing threatens to further erode industrial code,
displacing long-term residents and undermining neighborhood economic foundation.
We oppose the changing of I2 to RMX.
We oppose the building of these 10 storey houses is being built at the lot lines where
the developers threatened to build an end story, 80 foot building by right.
This is why he moved the lot right.
We ask that you do not approve this.
And also as far as the trees are concerned, we do need trees.
We need them for the climate, let alone anything else.
And we ask that these houses not be built.
this is enough on washington avenue as it is we request that uh the people begin in some breathing
room and that that 10 and 12 feet is not breathing room okay and the 10 houses he is not showing why
we have to give him 10 of these houses which um pack against uh chadwick that only has two story
houses okay madeline thank you very much for calling and i appreciate your input uh counselor
you have any questions for madeline uh i do not all right thank you how many hands do you have
up now in the audience virtual audience there are four hands go to the next go go to the next hand
please all right i got steve strutti okay they were promoted all right thank you
hello hi could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer
hi my name is steve strutti uh that is s-t-r-a-t-o-t-i do you swear or affirm to tell
truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do are you are you a neighbor i am i'm a neighbor on
chadwick street please proceed uh good afternoon i'm a resident of chadwick street directly adjacent
to the western boundary of this property i want to bring two specific facts to the board's attention
regarding the plan submitted for this application okay um the lawyer mentioned a sliver of land
that this is on well there is a five foot wide strip of land on the southern end of this parcel
created by the november 2024 lot subdivision and you can see it behind me right here
it runs directly behind my our homes on chadwick street that strip does not appear anywhere on the
architectural drawings submitted for this application it's been omitted entirely the
board is being asked to approve the plans that do not account for a portion of this lot
and the second thing is that the august 2025 plans submitted in connection with this with
partial b the plans this community reviewed and voted on did show landscaping for that strip
there were giant green evergreens and wogellia shrubs that were proposed there
so there is precedent within this very project for planting in that location so when this
submission was raised with the developer during the rco meeting they acknowledged that the strip
may be too narrow for the originally proposed trees but they also said that they were not
opposed to adding trees that they could fit a certified arborist present at the rco zoning
review confirmed that they can fit eastern red cedar and american holly are both columnar
evergreen species appropriate for a five width space five foot wide space
planted at 15 foot intervals so this application has already documented a deficiency of 11 trees
under section 14 5705 subsection one that strip is exactly where those trees should go
i'm not here to oppose this project i'm just asking the board to condition its approval on
the planting of columnar evergreen trees in that southern strip trees that fit trees that were
always intended to be there and trees that will provide year-long screening for our homes
thank you very much for calling it counselor do you have any questions
I do not know all right next hand please
yes chair I have Brianna Wakefield I have promoted them they'll be back in shortly okay
good afternoon everyone hi good afternoon could you please state your name and spell for the
stenographer of course my name is Brianna Wakefield B-R-I-O-N-N-A last name Wakefield
W-A-K-E-F-I-E-L-D.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Please proceed.
Yes, I work for Council President Kenyatta Johnson.
I'm just here to say that we are in support of this project, so as long as the developer honors his promise to plant as many trees as possible in the area.
developer honors his promise to plant as many trees as possible in the area okay
Okay, thank you very much.
thank you very much for taking the time to call thank you okay mr. chair next
hand is from murray spenter i will promote them all right all right
murray spenter please unmute okay i could hi could you please state your name is spelled
for the stenographer murray m-u-r-r-a-y spencer s-p-e-n-c-e-r do you swear or affirm to tell
the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do please proceed sir uh i'm the chair of the
sasna and just not to reiterate but to support the previous statements from brianna wakefield
who i spoke with yesterday from the council's office who supports the planting of the trees
as chief steve strutotti mentioned in his testimony behind those houses at the southern end of
Chadwick Street other than that rather than repeat I'll just sign off and say
they did very good job of stating what I would have stated otherwise thank you
very much could you please state your name come forward a little bit state
your name and spell for the stenographer my name is Valeria McGriff Williams V
like a victor a l e r y a right mcgrif m c g r i f f like afraid do you swear or affirm to tell
the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth yes are you a neighbor yes i am okay could you
are you for this project or against i'm against all right could you if anything you could tell
that we haven't heard yes go ahead okay um we have a problem and first first of all we have a problem
with not being notified of these hearings this year and here yes sastam put up two hearings
against the fence on 16th and washington avenue okay if you didn't go past there you wouldn't
know what was going on well it was no notification nowhere else and this happened before at the first
hearing i stated the same thing right well i'm glad i'm glad you you made it here yeah okay um
and but uh people i i talked to they couldn't get off from work to come okay uh we we want
that area, 60th and Washington, should remain a commercialized property. We have a sureness,
sureness of public parking spaces in our community. Well, just remember, we're not
talking this whole project. We're talking 10 additional houses, right? We do not see the
purpose for 10 additional help or any housing because when we these houses that come here
not only they start off as homeowners and then they become rentals every three years we they
someone new someone there but still our parking they're parking on our payments i have to call
the police every time we get a new group of people they park on the payments they park
anywhere because there's no parking okay so 60 for Washington would ease it by
being a public parking lot open 24-7 and that would generate money for the
city plus generate peace of mind for us homeowners the few this year because
most of our rentals these is a mortgage companies and our rentals making profit
offer these decisions okay and not us all right thank you very much for taking the time to call
us and again i'm glad you saw the sign that came thank you all right we have another hand
yes mr chair we have one more from james alfano they should be back in shortly
it mr alfano yes can you see and hear me i can sir could you please state your name
and spell it for the stenographer yes uh james j-a-m-e-s alfano a-l-f-a-n-o
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Sir, could you, are you a neighbor?
I am a near neighbor.
On the east side of Chatterick Street, my property directly abuts this property.
I'm just south of the Hoban Plaza.
Are you in favor of the project or against?
I have four short points, one in opposition and three in non-opposition.
I have four short points, one in opposition and three in non-opposition.
So in a tiered approach, my first point would be to respectfully request that the area for the proposed townhomes be rezone as a park or green space with trees lining the western border of the lot for privacy for near neighbors.
This is under the guise that we have an 80-foot high apartment building with 275 units and 10 ground floor businesses approved with a 30-foot wide dead-end courtyard already approved.
I want to ensure that this approved development is successful and works for all residents, including myself and future residents and neighbors that we'll have.
As you know, green spaces offer many benefits established in the literature, but people experience cities by how they move through them and where they gather.
This change by eliminating townhomes will improve by attracting more pedestrian traffic, which will help the 10 ground floor businesses thrive,
provide a more functional gathering space for all residents and mitigate the impact of the 80-foot
high building on the near neighbors by increasing light and access. This can be achieved without
removing any housing designated as affordable, which is in the larger apartment building itself
only. And we're the only plot of land, this is the only plot of land up for development west of
Broad Street on Washington that doesn't have a street in between it. So our properties, as Mr.
well and point out are really directly abutting this property.
So that's my first point.
And then moving to my second point, if not amenable to this, I do request that the townhomes
be limited to three versus four stories.
At the community meeting for this project, the applicant did not know if the townhomes
will be three or four bedroom homes.
Three stories would still support a functional three-story bedroom while increasing light
and air for near neighbors.
A majority of the homes on that block are two-story homes.
The pictures shown do show some three-story homes on the eastern side of Chadwick, but the majority of them are two-story homes.
And then regarding the trees, I support planting of new trees.
I won't reiterate that.
I do suggest tying the Certificate of Occupancy for these new homes to the planting of the trees as a safeguard for near neighbors.
And my last point is that the easement is going to be four feet wide.
I ask that that becomes five feet wide by just moving the fence back one feet for the new property.
there are utility poles back there many neighbors including myself have fences that open to three
feet wide making it just five feet wide would increase safety especially with all the increased
population density that will come from the approved apartment building and potentially
these townhomes so really a point about safety a point about the trees reducing the height or
creating a green space instead to help the businesses and the new residents and current
residents have a better gathering place thank you thank you very much you have any questions uh
council okay um any more hands yes no for all right mr chair i have uh steve melancore
that is the last hand raised okay thank you
could you please state your name as bell for a stenographer yes stephen with a v s-t-e-v-e-n
melcuri m-e-l-c-h-i-o-r-r-e do you swear or affirm to tell the truth told truth nothing but
the truth yes are you a neighbor yeah i'm in the neighborhood i'm on 2010 annon street okay um
Are you in favor of this project or against?
I'm in favor of the project.
Thank you very much.
We appreciate you taking the time to close.
You have a short, very, very quick clarification for you.
I could feel Hillary telling me to hit my mic again.
Yeah, she's good with that.
So let me just share.
I can clear up the issue with the trees and why we have a technical refusal.
So, hopefully you're seeing here. This is the lot line relocation plan that was previously approved. What you can see here is this is the sliver. So this bottom line where it says proposed line of subdivision, going up from there is where the townhomes are coming down from here is a sliver of the property, sort of like a flagpole.
and what i will show you now is these are the stamped approved plans for the larger building
and what happened was the trees that were required didn't fit on that five foot sliver that came down
as that flagpole and so the trees that are required were actually put we pulled the building back in
coordination with the planning commission of the original submission and put all of the trees
and put all of the trees necessary at this much wider segment here. So you can, what you can see
necessary at this
now is this is already previously approved, already mandated by the prior variance that was
granted. All of the trees are necessary. So while the refusal is correct, technically correct,
because we don't have the trees in that five foot sliver, which is part of the current property in
front of you today it was taken again and made there was a larger buffer made to put the necessary
trees in that same location they just couldn't all be squeezed in a five foot width okay so we
provided a much larger width the last rebuttal I would have is this was a prior shadow study that
was provided and I would just ask my client to walk you through the townhome and the setback
shadow study portion. Sure. And I'll just maybe start with a summary and then happy to answer
additional questions. The proposed development that we have will have light earlier and longer
at every, on every day, every time of the year than the current condition. In every instance,
we are creating a better experience than the current shadows that are posed from the existing
building on these homes here and so they'll get light earlier in the morning and they'll have light
longer towards the end of the day here and there's no exception to that here and that's just a
function of of the proximity of the existing building to their homes versus the much more
generous setbacks that we're providing with with the new development okay thank you um you're done
with that i would rest unless you have any further planning commission
amy boy with the planning commission um if it's all right i'd like to submit a letter
because i want to check on some things is that okay hillary she's going to submit a letter
yeah if um we just hold the vote for a week planning can submit a letter and and obviously
the the applicant would have a chance to respond if there's anything we should respond to so this
is closed other than the response to the letter am i correct yes so yeah so we'll do this we'll
vote next wednesday at 2 p.m okay and it'll give us a chance to sit down at the executive session
in the morning just go over everything okay absolutely thank you both thank you very much
people that came in and testified to okay um number one all right number one
Sure, thank you. No, it's okay.
MI 2025 007239 12131 to 41 Knights Road.
Andrea Solomon is the attorney.
That wasn't too bad.
Hi, good afternoon. Hi, could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
Yes, my name is Andrea, A-N-D-R-E-A, Solomon, S-A-L-O-M-O-N. Do you swear or affirm to tell
the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? I do. Could you identify your client,
the relationship to the property? Yes, my client is the tenant, Dazbav, LLC,
doing business as urban air adventure park and we have um um we don't have a summary from the rco