South 69th Street, cases continued, Mark, must be heard.
And number 13, MI 2024-001-185-616 North 11th Street.
Brooke Diggs is the listed applicant.
Prosperous Investments is the listed owner.
This is the second listing.
No one appeared at the first listing.
Brooke Diggs, if you're in the audience, please raise your virtual hand.
I see no hands.
Thank you.
MI 2024-001-185-616 North 11th Street.
Second listing, no one appeared the first time.
I vote to dismiss.
Michael Johns, my vote is to dismiss.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is to dismiss.
Bayouin, my vote is to dismiss.
Teneda Graham, my vote is to dismiss.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is to dismiss.
Number 14, MI 2024-001-692-1108-Hawthorne Street.
Jose Berg de Dino is the listed applicant.
No exhibits, first listing.
The listed owner is Caraballa, Washington.
No hands to share.
So MI 2024-001-692-1108 Hawthorne-Hall Wharf Street, Cases Continued, Mark Must Be Heard.
And number 16, MI 2024-001-816-1941 North 4th Street, No Exhibits, First Listing.
Christopher Wickham and Valerie Ashford are the owners and applicants.
I see no hands, Sheriff.
So MI 2024-001-816, 1951 North 4th Street.
This is the first listing.
Cases continued.
Mark must be heard.
And then we have two withdrawals.
Number seven, MI 2023-004-271-564 Centner Street.
Don Abraham is the listed applicant.
we have an email. We have not have a signed letter yet for a request for withdrawal. Mr. Abraham.
mr abraham yes mr abraham um we understand you want to withdraw this case is that correct
Yes. Mr. Abraham,
uh mr chair can you swear him in first yeah sure thank you well could you please state your name
and spell for the court sonographer all right do you swear or for him to tell the truth the
whole truth and nothing but the truth yes i do is this case uh do you want to withdraw this case
um i what i mean uh to continue what do you need from me
uh you i well we need a lot of paperwork i mean we we have no paperwork at all
right yeah i wanted to um actually can i get a continuance
um okay but if you if you i could give you a continued but this will be mark must be heard
do you understand oh okay all right thank you so mi2023 004 271 566 center street
cases continued mark must be heard and mr abraham please contact the zba office for
information about what you need to do to have your case ready for next time thank you
And number 12, MI 2023-006-937-351 East Mount Pleasant Avenue.
That case has been withdrawn.
We're going to go to our add-on list.
Number one, MI 2023-005-977-5310 Haverford Avenue.
I vote no.
Cheryl Gaston, I vote no.
Sonetta Graham, my vote is no.
My vote is no.
That is everybody, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.
We're going to go to our number one case,
MI 2022, 000672, 8107 Bradford Street. Excuse me, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry. Can you please make
the announcement under number two of the add-ons? Oh, I'm sorry about that. Yeah. MI 2023, 006253,
2848 South 12th Street. This matter was dismissed in error on Wednesday, August 7th at 9 30 a.m.
The application has been withdrawn by the applicant.
Number one, Dan Lee, L-I.
Hi, Mr. Lee, could you please state your name as spelled for the court stenographer?
My name is Dan Lee, first name D-A-N, last name L-I.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
You have a letter of support from the Roanjoe Civic Association.
Our vice chair has a few questions for you, okay?
Good morning, sir.
Have you emailed in all the required documents and exhibits that is needed and required to proceed with this case five days in advance of this hearing?
I believe I did.
I emailed it in on the writing of the previous week.
Thank you, Counsel. Please proceed.
Applications for the removal of a structured parking place, garage,
and for the creation of service parking,
parking accessory to existing single-family household living.
Service parking spaces are prohibited in required front, side, and rear yards,
whereas the proposed parking space is within the required eight-foot front yard and the eight-foot side yard.
Please start your presentation, sir, and share your screen.
Is that working?
Yes, it is.
Okay, so I would like to just start with just a quick overview of the property.
This here is the front.
this would be the back
this would be the driveway
and this
I would like to
this is where the previous
garage door used to be
which was removed
this is the refusal
as said
this was a garage
and I was unaware
that we needed
uh a singular parking space for these properties so i
uh a singular parking space for these properties so i it was done without my knowledge of it so
here i am to uh propose that we create a surface level parking for this property
uh originally i was unaware also of the fact that there were restrictions to the parking space
itself um i was told that it would require
you were told to require a variance is that what you were told uh yes because as you see from this
plan here i was told that the parking space had to be eight and a half feet by 18 feet
and they need an 8-feet front yard setback and a 20-feet rear yard setback
while also needing an 8-feet side yard setback.
On the plan proposed itself, I could not meet the 8-feet yard side,
which was just when we measured it, it was just slightly short of 7.5.
Everything else was met.
It was just this side yard that I could not meet.
This is the application repeal. Here I stated that nothing would be blocked, streets would be open, no properties, nothing would be changed. The dimensions would stay the same.
yeah okay but so the reason why this was done is because um as you can see here this drain
was the lowest point on the property which meant all the water runoff would come here
and this door previously was the garage door so every time it rained two to three days uh this
drain would get blocked off by foliage and garbage and whatnot and it would create a massive puddle
that would eventually overflow into the garage itself and eventually overflow into the whole
basement. I was at the time not living here. I had purchased the property, but I was still out
of state with some obligations and I could not come down here every time it rained just to clean
up the drain. So I put in two stop measures to prevent this. One was this cage-like contraption
you can see here to prevent uh blocking and the other was to remove the garage door and
replace it with uh bricks and a steel door instead so it would not flood um
the refusal was because i could not meet this a side yard
setback requirement, and that's it. Some miscellaneous stuff. This is the deed
of the property that was moved to my name. We have the certificate of tax clearance here that
I received on the 5th, which is the Monday of the previous week. This is after having my RCO
meeting uh i explained to them that uh uh that it was just purely because of the flooding that
i had changed it i was not creating uh a multi-family dwelling nothing uh not requesting
an additional electric meter it's just purely just because i wanted to prevent the flooding
and then this is the rco uh vote that they had yeah it was eight to zero right yes all right
did you create another room in there i mean what did you do in there i just brought it up i it is
technically additional an extra room but it's just used as storage now um it's not a dwelling
it's doesn't mean any going i just use it for storage now all right thank you questions from
the board. Questions or comments from our attorney, Hillary Emberson? Not at this time,
Mr. Chair. Questions or comments from the virtual audience? I see no hands. Planning
Commission. I'm sorry, Chair. Excuse me. We have one hand up by Lee Holm. Okay. And they have been
allowed to speak. Good morning. Could you please state your name and spell for the court stenographer?
Can you hear me? I most certainly can. Lee, L-E-E, Horn, H-O-R-N-E.
Lee, L-E-E, Horne, H-O-R-N-E.
I am the...
Hold on, hold on.
Do you swear or affirm?
That's okay.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do, sir.
Please proceed, sir.
I am the zoning chair for Ron Hurst Civic Association.
The homeowner contacted us, worked with us at every opportunity.
Very nice man.
We understand that he has a single-family home, that he is not attempting to make this a multifamily home.
He has not applied for another electric meter.
And everything that he said to you, we found to be true in our investigation.
I am here because I know that he is going at this by himself.
And I want you to understand that we approve of his project and see no reason from our end why it should not be granted.
Thank you very much for taking the time to cause. We appreciate it.
You're welcome, sir.
Planning Commission.
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Dan Powers with the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
D-A-N-P-O-W-E-R-S.
You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Yes, I do.
Please proceed.
The comprehensive plan recommends no change to the RSA 3 zoning at this location.
There are similar nonconformities nearby in the district and legal on-street parking remains in front of the house.
The City Planning Commission recommends that the board grant the variance for the removal of the existing parking space.
Thank you. MI 2022-000672-8107 Bradford Street, I vote yes.
Michael Johns, my vote is yes.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes.
Iowyn, my vote is yes.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes.
Thank you, sir. You have your votes.
Thank you.
Number 10, MI 2023, 006-466-422 Fountain Street.
Christopher Miller is the owner. It's a pro se case.
There's a letter of unanimous support from the Ridge Park Civic Association.
Mr. Miller.
Mr. Miller, I'm you.
Hi, could you please state your name and spell for the course photographer?
Christopher Miller, C-H-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-E-R.
M-I-L-E-R.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Our vice chair has a few questions, sir.
Good morning, Mr. Miller.
Have you emailed in all the required documents and exhibits that is needed and required to proceed with this case five days in advance of this hearing?
I have, sir.
Thank you.
Please proceed and share your screen.
Mr. Miller, this application is for use as a multiple family household living for dwelling units in an existing structure.
The proposed use of multiple family household living is prohibited in the CA1 zoning district.
Correct.
Please start sharing your screen, sir.
Can you see my screen?
You got this share button on the bottom?
You can bring your documents up and then push share screen.