yeah i'm against uh building the property uh the major concern of mine is the the epa
report that they submitted it's inaccurate there's lead paint and asbestos in our property
um no uh there's oil paint oil and paint tanks underneath the ground that was not mentioned in
oil and paint tanks underneath the ground that was not mentioned in the report okay um you know
of a report.
will this property be remediated and how will that affect the community all right thank you
Barbara thank you very much for taking the time next hand please D Watley is going to be allowed
the speech hello hi could you please state your name is bell for the sonographer d whatley w h a t
l e y um do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
yeah we already had three people testify if you have anything different please tell us
and if not just give us your position on this okay okay so it was just already spoken about the uh
ground levels yeah that will be contaminated my also issue also i have is
if this gentleman cannot tell the truth about the violations that he received um
and working in in that building listen to me listen listen to me i don't think he's testified
relative to the violations today and what we want is what your comments are or what the lawyer had
today say today okay i just don't trust anything they say okay all right all right well thank you
very much for taking time to call it next hand please julie williams is going to be allowed to
speak hi
hello good morning hi good morning could you please state your name is bell for the sonographer
my name is julie williams j-u-l-i-e-w-i-l-l-i-a-m-s do you swear or affirm to tell the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the truth i do are you in favor of this project or against
i am not in favor of this project we are not northern liberties this will not be another
north gate okay so thank you listen listen to me julie listen to me your testimony has to be on
what he said today and we've already had four people testify to that so your your your testimony
is that you're not in favor of this project right correct all right thank you very much for calling
for calling us next hand please chair i have three hands remaining and marie is going to be allowed
to speak. Can you hear me? Hi, Ann Marie, could you please state your name and spell for the
sonographer? Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Ann Marie Zambalak. It's A-N-N-E-M-A-R-I-E,
last name Zambalak, S-Z-A-M-B-E-L-A-K. All right, all right. Do you swear or affirm to tell the
truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? I do. Are you in favor of this project or against?
i am against this project thank you very much for taking the time to cause next night please
but but listen to me you can but you you got to concentrate on what's not been said
give me the next hand he presented so i'm sorry can you hear me i can um i just want to just
two quick things um the renderings that he provided on the screen are not um factual the
street is much more larger on that just because i believe that was presented that was one piece
that i wanted to share and as far as the property that he said it goes too far back there's actually
an industrial property behind that sits behind that which would provide if he did single family
homes it would be provide an ample opportunity for a big family to be able to have space for
their children to grow and live there for the future all right thank you very much for taking
of time next hand please dennis mooney has been allowed to speak and chair i have two hands
remaining after this hello dennis i could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer
dennis mooney d-e-n-n-i-s-m-o-o-n-e-y you swear affirm to tell the truth the whole truth
nothing but the truth i do mr mooney are you in favor of this project or against
no i am not in change all right thank you very much we appreciate your call the next hand
hearing for rentino has been allowed to speak and chair this is my late last hand that is up okay
thank you hello i could you please state your name is spelled for the star a a r e n
Hi, could you please state your name as spelled for the stenographer?
K-A-R-E-N, Fiorentino, F-I-O-R-E-N-T-I-N-O.
All right, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Are you in favor of this project or against?
I am not, and I'm talking, I question the parking spots.
Are those free parking spots that he's applying, giving to the residents, or is he going to charge them?
As in another property in Bridesburg, where the people do not pay because they're being charged, and then they park all over the street.
And that is a one-way street, a small one-way street that he wants to build on.
All right.
Mr. Forantino, thank you very much for taking the time to calls.
Mr. Nockamson, the Planning Commission will be, we're going to do a letter, am I correct?
right and what we'll do is we'll get back in a week next week we'll vote on next wednesday
yes um and i believe mr knockamson wanted an opportunity to respond to the comments
yeah can i just have a short sure are they done with the testimony there there's no more hands
all right good um so let me first address the violations as i i never stated that there were
no violations i looked at them while the testimony was going on dealt with the building like being
occupied and i would ask mr cadrew my understanding is that you go there periodically just to as an
office just to keep tabs on the property but you're not working there full time is that correct
yeah that's that's correct all right um okay now listen to me all right and then um in terms of
stating that there's a parking issue this is not our first project in brysburg
every time we present something there is always indication that there's an issue with parking this
time we're providing parking more than two to one now there's no issue with parking but i i'll read
the bridesburg community alliance letter where they where they answered you know state you know
commentary to this question will the variance you seek substantially increase
traffic congestion in public streets or place an undue burden on water sewer school park or other
public facilities um and i say no and in the in the application and say we must dispute this
response in addition to the massive traffic burden this project poses the bridesburg neighborhood
currently has one public elementary school which is also uh which is always at full capacity they
no longer have a catholic elementary school their concern is adding too many families to this
neighborhood. So by going to single family use, and we'll talk about how many single families you
can have with off-street parking, it's only going to create more of a burden than having an
apartment building. The apartment building, again, I could just go from life experiences.
You have to be able to develop roots in neighborhoods. You have to put young people
in neighborhoods and keep the older people who want to downsize in neighborhoods. When you don't
have apartment buildings, there's a lack of diversity in the housing stock. So there are
neighborhoods who will never grow or stay when you don't have apartments for their young people
and people are introduced to those neighborhoods and unfortunately there are people who eventually
can't walk the steps and things like that so how do you keep those people in neighborhoods
you have apartment buildings which have elevators to keep them in the neighborhoods they live their
whole lives in terms of how many units you can single family homes you can get with off street
parking yeah if you had a common drive aisle you can do that and and have parking in the rear
you would be taking at least one other, because it's 166 foot wide lot. You have to have 16 foot
wide for each unit if you're going RSA 5 standards. So you would lose one unit. So now you're down to
nine units of single family homes, and you have a lot that's almost 30,000 square feet. You would
have was that 3200 square feet per lot like that is completely out of character for this neighborhood
the the lot widths at length are 117 square feet so it would just be way too large not feasible
in terms of the epa report we provided a phase one according to our expert who we're relying
upon whether we're building you know a you know a multi-family building or potentially a single
family building we have to rely on that expert report where said that there was no indication
that there was any environmental impact to this property such that we needed a phase two
and finally in terms of the width of garden street it's 20 feet wide at least according
to my calculations when i measured it on atlas that's not a tiny side street it's not a huge
street by any means, but you have commercial properties that litter garden streets. So
But you have commercial properties that litter Garden Street.
So having residential use with not huge pickup trucks would be less of a burden to the street.
For all those reasons, I understand that this is a difficult situation in terms of, you know, the community opposition.
But this is an ICMX property.
Having a multifamily building is a slighter modification under the Philadelphia Zoning Code
than having nine single-family houses, which are out of character,
which their own community say they can't support through their school system.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We've heard the testimony.
Where we're going to be with this is the Planning Commissioner
is going to do a letter on their position.
We will have that letter next Wednesday.
we will look at this whole thing at executive session and we will vote at 9 30 a.m. Thank you
thank you and thank you to all the people who testified. Number eight MI 2025 006 729 4255
Main Street. Robert Roderick L. Foxworth is the attorney and also Paul Toner.
good morning council good morning ladies and gentlemen boards uh my name is uh roderick
get that little closer to you okay uh roderick foxworth on behalf of best kept secret lounge
there at 4255 just for the record spell your name for the stenographer uh roderick's first name are
okay r-o-d-e-r-i-c-k last name foxworth f-o-x-w-o-r-t-h do you swear or affirm to tell
the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do uh mr toner could you please state your name
and spell for the stenographer yes uh good morning mr chairman paul toner with the toner law group
for counsel for the mani young development corporation okay thank you um do you swear
affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i did all right so for both of you um
mr chair i believe there's going to be a request for continuance oh it is
yes this is german we're actually requesting the 60-day continuance of this matter
is there another matter that's currently pending that has a direct direct bearing on this matter
okay all right so oh well thank you we appreciate that um all right so the date that i have now is
in june all right so i have a date here of uh there is a result that you want to do a
resumptive hearing okay all right so 4 7 20 26 at 9 30 a.m i thank you both really for uh
i was ready for like a long uh case here but we appreciate it i never make long presentations
are you under oath then that was only that was only on zoom thank you i appreciate it thank you
okay we'll go to number one mi 2024 006 713 2618 north 22nd street bianca and bobby basket are the
owners this is a resumptive hearing yeah sure and chair this is ian hegarty the director i will be
uh bringing the exhibits up on the screen for this application thank you hello
good morning good morning get that nice and close to the mic okay all right could you state your
name is spelled for the stenographer? Bianca Bosket, B-I-A-N-C-A. Right. Do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? Yes. Okay. So this is a resumptive
hearing. And what we would do, what we hope is you give us an update of what you've done,
right? There'll be questions from the board. Then there will be questions from the public audience.
and then there'll be an update from planning okay okay all right so um and mr chair i just want to
note for the record we did receive a letter of support from swamp poodle with some provisos okay
let me from the summary of the right the rco summary did you receive a copy of that as well
no not yet he said she was going to send it to you guys yes we did receive it um last night
early this morning. Oh, y'all got it. Oh, I didn't check my email this morning. You got it this
morning? Yes. So, well, I can forward you a copy of it. Okay. Okay. So, you see it's up on the
audience here. Why don't you start? And get a little closer. Make sure you're, so tell us what
you've done since the last time and where, what we, what we have to hear. Well, I had to come back
Well, I had to come back because I had to add purpose, personal services or something you guys wanted me to do. This time I did have an RCO meeting. Last time I was the young lady that was trying to get an RCO and I had issues with that.
because I had to add purpose, personal service.
So I was able to execute everything. I did my RCO meeting. I mailed out all my paperwork to all the neighbors within 250 feet of my property. I'm here to fight to get my commercial zoning back because it was switched on me to RSA5 without my acknowledgement.
I have been a part of the community for over 14 years. I have had no issues with none of my
neighbors, and I'm just trying to expand when it comes to my licenses and different classes that
I want to do. I'm a part of Dobbins as well. I have a good relationship with the high school
that's across the street. I help with trash pickup normally on Harrow Street. We do like
cleanup days when it comes to trying to take care of our block i also pay for commercial trash even
though my zoning has been switched on me i still have to pay 500 a year so i do have trash cans
that get picked up that i pay outside of my other bills um and i i just did the same steps with
submitting my pictures um i was told about my zoning uh papers so i had to do that over again
make them you can do additional photos in there yes i do additional phone could you start showing
some photos that's where you posted right yes and it's more because i was told that it has to be
bigger and color all right we'll look at it what's that we're looking and that's the basement that
i'll be using likes for storage but the rco told me to include the basement in case i wanted to
expand so she told me to send you guys like pictures and stuff like that even if i'm not
using that so i submitted it as well okay i kind of like the same pictures i submitted as well on
november 18th for the last hearing what's that the first floor yes that's the first floor
that's the basement
that's in the basement too yes that's the basement
Those are all the photos that I have from the upload to or there are additional ones that you wanted to show today. Yes, I uploaded all my photos on the website.
Give me 1 second. I'll see if there anymore.
I uploaded the back door, the front.
the bear frooms i uploaded i don't know because i did it was it saturday or sunday
but it said that they got record of the pictures though but i have all of them on my phone
as well but i did upload those images for you guys
Thank you.
Okay, those are the only ones I'm seeing on this case.
Were there additional photos that were sent by email?
yes it was additional photos i did it on that um website where you just upload like
the images when i did my tax compliances and all my other paperwork
but i have everything in the file like if you need but but i submitted everything
hey are you going to look for that yes chair all right why don't we do this why don't we move on
to the next case we'll come back to you in about 15 20 minutes okay okay all right thank you
number four mi2025004101 5944 cala hill street erica taylor is the owner this is a pro se come on up
i mean erica taylor erica t a one of you
My name is Erica Taylor, E-R-I-C-A-T-A-Y-L-O.
Why don't you start over, pull that closer to you, make sure it's on, the green light should be on.
Good morning, my name is Erica Taylor, E-R-I-C-A-T-A-Y-L-O.
I am the owner of a non-profit community-based organization.
This particular project that I'm working on is a daycare, community daycare center.
Okay, could you, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Absolutely.
Do you have your documents?
I actually uploaded it to the portal as well. Yes. Okay. So the last, my last visit with you guys, I was told to get in contact with LNI. I contacted LNI. I got all the paperwork submitted. I contacted an architect, which we worked together. The floor plans were submitted to LNI.
um two weeks maybe two weeks later I received that the the plans need to be revised I reached
out to my architect several times come to find out two weeks ago I found out that he was detained
by ICE so I had to get a whole new architect I spoke with my examiner and they um I spoke with
my examiner and they gave me an extension they gave me an extension so I had to get another
architect my architect is going to submit those new floor plans to me I want to say maybe he said
my thursday friday this week so i'll be okay so we you're gonna we're gonna have to continue your