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ZBA Hearing - April 22, 2026

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Apr 22, 20267h 16m

Yes.

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And the chair read your refusal.

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Did you stipulate to the accuracy of the refusal?

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Muy bien. Y la Junta le hizo el rechazo y usted estipuló las condiciones del rechazo?

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Sí.

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Yes.

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All right. Thank you. You can share your screen and then proceed with your case.

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Gracias. Puede, por favor, compartir su pantalla, por favor.

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Please, please ask him if, in fact, could he give us a little idea of what he's trying

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to do?

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Okay, ¿nos puede dar una pequeña idea de qué es lo que usted está tratando de hacer?

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¿Puedo ubicarle el taller?

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Sí, déjale la protección de modernidad.

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Yo tengo ahí, en esta ubicación, alrededor de 10 años, dándole servicio a la comunidad

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y estoy tratando de en mi negocio mi negocio funciona en ventas de gomas nuevas y usadas

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permitan permita un segundito okay so i have been in that location for 10 years

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serving the community and in my business basically is the sale of tires rubber tires new and used

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and so i um asked for a license to um service and give maintenance to and repair vehicles but

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it was denied and so i'm trying to um i'm trying to get a license so i can uh so i can work with

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all the legal documentations and under under the law okay um could you please tell him that we have

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all of his documents if possible could he show us photos of his property and or drawings that he has

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Muy bien, perfecto. Muy bien, entonces tenemos todos los documentos que tenemos, que usted ingresó. Ahora, si es posible, nos puede mostrar fotografías o dibujos del local, para tener una idea.

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ok entonces en este momento lo único que tiene ahí son llantas verdad y lo que quiere hacer

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también ahora es reparaciones correcto si por ahora lo que tengo en llanta y me interesa

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yes right now it's only tires and i am interested in giving maintenance and servicing uh vehicles

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Okay, will he continue with the tires?

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okay will he remake will he continue with the tires

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Muy bien, ¿y va a continuar siempre trabajando con las llantas?

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Sí, voy a continuar dando el servicio de llantas al público.

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Yes, I'm going to continue giving, provide the services for tires to the public.

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Go over the photos one more time.

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Pase las fotografías una vez más, por favor.

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okay does he have any drawings of the building tiene dibujos del del edificio

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yes there they are so he's on the point there ahí está en el punto verdad ahí

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yes okay and the tires are stored outside in a chain link fences is that's what i'm saying

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okay y las llantas están almacenadas en una malla ciclón verdad eso lo estoy viendo están almacenadas

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yes they're inside nothing is stored outside as you can see and um i also have the recycling

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inside as well questions on the board pregúntate la junta

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will you be doing any painting va a estar pintando

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no no no no no no i'm not gonna do any painting and i'm not gonna be doing car washing as well

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nothing out of the ordinary has there been any kind of issues with his neighbors

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in the past since he's been operating the business.

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¿Y ha habido algún problema en el pasado desde que ha estado operando con sus vecinos?

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No, en ningún momento hemos tenido ningún tipo de problema.

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Siempre, gracias a Dios, hemos estado muy unidos con la comunidad

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y siempre buscamos la manera de mantener el área confortable para los transeúntes y la comunidad.

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no i haven't had any type of problems previously with that with the neighbors thank god we've

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always been a very united community and i've always looked for a way to make people and

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to make people comfortable and my understanding is the rco meeting only one person showed up

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Yes, it was only one person, but none of the neighbors showed up to complain or anything

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like that because we've always gotten along very well.

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And he also turned in a support letter from 23 signatures.

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Muy bien.

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Y también presentó una carta de apoyo con 23 firmas, ¿es correcto?

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Sí.

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Muy bien.

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Tenemos más preguntas de la Junta.

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OK.

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My question is, how many cards does he plan to repair?

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And when we talk about repair, we're talking about oil changes and things like that. Is that what he's planning to do?

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Muy bien. ¿Cuántos vehículos planea reparar? Y estamos hablando acerca, por ejemplo, de cambio de aceite y cosas así, ¿es correcto?

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So we only have space for three vehicles and we do not do any vehicle storage.

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um and when you say so how many other people are going to be working with him

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it's only a family so it's myself my son and my son-in-law

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Okay, and you're still going to do the tires, but you're also going to try to expand a little bit and do other work on cars.

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Muy bien, así que también vas a ir haciéndolo de las llantas, pero quiere expandirse un poquito más para hacer otros trabajos, ¿correcto?

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Sí.

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Yes.

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And that's excluding body, fender, repair and spray painting, which is not permitted in this district and it's not part of this application, correct?

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muy bien y eso excluye la reparación de bumpers de pinturas y cosas así lo cual no es permitido y no

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es parte de esta aplicación correcto no no no no tengo que nada que sea body nosotros no nos

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dedicamos a nada que sea body solo gomas y mantenimiento de vehículos por eso es que

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nosotros no hacemos ningún trabajo de largo plazo todo lo que hacemos era trabajo rápido

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No, no, no. Nothing. No body shop, nothing like that. That's why we've only done tires and we want to do maintenance. Just nothing long term. That's why I want to do only quick repairs, maintenance, friction changes, things like that.

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okay all right thank you any other questions from the board questions from our attorney

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questions from our attorney preguntas de nuestro abogado no questions or comments

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or the virtual audience preguntas de la de la audiencia virtual there are no hands no

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hay manos levantadas planning commission commission de planificación good morning

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and the chair and board members this is jonathan goins with planning staff muy buenos días

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ok muy muy buenos días a todos miembros de la junta mi nombre es jonathan goins del staff de

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planification yeah my name is spelled j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n last name goins g-o-i-n-s

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do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth

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i do please proceed sir

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the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the cmx2 commercial mixed use zoning at this location

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The property has a long-standing history of auto-related use dating back at least to the 1950s.

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It is for a long time, a long history, going to the 1950s.

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However, the appellant has not demonstrated that there are unique physical circumstances or conditions of the property that would prevent it from being used in conformance with the zoning code.

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Sin embargo, también el apelante no ha demostrado que hay cambio, que hayan condiciones físicas o circunstancias físicas únicas o condiciones que eviten que se comprometa a operar de acuerdo al Código de Zonificación.

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The City Planning Commission recommends the board deny the requested variance. Thank you. La Comisión de la Ciudad recomienda que se le niegue.

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Interpreter, we're going to hold the vote on this. We're working right now on a tax compliance issue relative to the property, and when we're notified of the tax compliance, we'll relist the case.

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Yes, sir. Muy bien. Entonces, en este momento vamos a abstenernos del voto, ya que estamos revisando, estamos revisando un asunto de cumplimiento de impuestos relacionado a esto.

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Entonces, nos vamos a abstener de votar en este momento y vamos a realistar el caso

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y nos vamos a notificar inmediatamente cuando estemos listos.

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¿Tiene alguna fecha para la respuesta?

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we need to have the compliance first once we get the compliance then we'll give him a date

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yeah mr tana this is ian hegarty the executive director if you or your expediter could please

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get in touch with the office um we can explain what you need to submit but we need a tax uh

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clearance form from you in order to have the board schedule the vote we need that from you before

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form from you in order to have the board schedule the book we need that from you before the vote will

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happen the señor tena entonces si este director ejecutivo mire lo que por favor contáctase con

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nuestra oficina lo que sí es que primero tiene que ingresar un formulario de liberación de

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impuestos desde que está el día contra la parte de todos sus impuestos para poder agendar una la

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fecha para la votación está bien thank you very much pase un día thank you and interpreter thanks

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again it's always a pleasure have a beautiful day sure all right thank you too number one

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mi 2024 004 304 2001 kinsey street winston banks is the listed owner

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oh good morning good morning mr banks how are you sir

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oh fine good morning could you please state your name it's spelled for the sonographer

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winston banks b-a-n-k-s right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth

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is nothing but the truth yes i do okay um this application is for a two-family household living

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in an existing structure, whereas the proposed two household living is prohibited in the RSA 5

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zoning district. You do have a letter of support from the RCO and also non-opposition from Council

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Member Lozada. Our vice chair has a few questions. Good morning. I'm going to say one thing. I do have

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attorney on this okay uh what's your attorney's name lewis stevens lewis what stevens look do we

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see an attorney for this yes lewis stevens should be coming in now okay

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thank you for telling us that we didn't have that information morning board good morning

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counsel could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer

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My name is Louis Stevens, L-O-U-I-S-S-T-E-V-E-N-S.

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Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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Yes.

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Mr. Stevens, did you hear our opening?

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I did.

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Okay.

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You can start your presentation.

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And I'm sorry to interrupt, Mr. Stevens.

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This is Ian Hegarty, Executive Director.

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The appellant had asked for us to share the documents.

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Is that how you would like to proceed, or would you like to share the documents?

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Um, you can share them. I have them share, but you can share them. You're probably more savvy than I am. All right, we'll go with that.

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This is an application to use the property on Kenzie Street as a two-family dwelling.

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For the past 12 years, he's been receiving a rental license that shows two units been

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used as a duplex for at least 12 years, according to the rental license.

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As far as documents, I'll share, I think it'd be easier.

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Okay.

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Absolutely.

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Please proceed.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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did everyone see the documents no nothing's up you said no

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Mr. Stevens, how about we do this?

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Why don't you get your documents straight

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and then we'll come back to you?

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okay that way you know we can keep the flow moving and you know i'll come back in a half

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Okay, that way, you know,

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we can keep the flow moving and, you know,

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I'll...

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hour if you're ready to roll well i have them up you mean you can you can't see them no that's why

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i said we're not we're not seeing your dog nope maybe if you stop sharing and then re-share

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about now i see one document that says tax clearance okay that's the beginning

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okay yep so so as far as the documents yep at the tax clearance the notice of refusal

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job been presented the posting

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the non-opposition

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This is the architectural drawings of the property.

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You might want to go over the architectural drawings.

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Mr. Banks, can you explain the drawings?

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Yes.

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On the first floor is one single unit as an apartment.

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And on the second floor is where my room is.

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And there is a third floor, but it's only for storage.

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No living space.

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I have four files for the business and other items up on the third floor.

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So basically that's it.

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Is there a business conducted out of here?

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Well, since I sold my warehouse on the business licenses, the address is 2001 Kinsey Street.

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And the file cab is where I keep my documents.

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Right.

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Okay.

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So you live on the second floor?

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Yes.

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And the first floor you ran out as a residential unit?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Hey, Mr. Banks, regarding the business, you're just storing documents there.

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Is that correct?

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Yes.

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I have three.

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I'm sorry.

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I said four.

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i have three file cabinets up there and all my um documents since 1995 my corporation

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um books um tax forms tax returns we have photos of the property yes

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wow they should have been also did you submit photos just to banks directly

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yes um great copies but there's a single page with um like eight pictures of the internal

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inside of the property i submitted that to the board ian do we have that

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i also i'm blowing them also i'll check now chair thank you

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well those are pictures of like the bedrooms the bathroom how many bedrooms on the first floor

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um it's two how many on the second floor technically like three it was a lot it's a

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large thing it's on both first floor and check the floor yes okay and bathrooms as well right

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in our individual bathrooms.

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there's two separate entrances he does one pair the first and second floor yes for the um second

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floor is closer to the corner of the building and yeah we just got to see some photos that's all

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okay that we can't that's that's yeah yeah but it's a little a little tough that's upside down

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yeah

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okay chair this is ian again i do have okay thank you let's see

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Okay. Thank you. Let's see.

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Counsel, could you take yours down?

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Do I stop sharing?

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Yeah, please.

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Okay.

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Ian?

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Okay, Mr. Banks.

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