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ZBA Hearing - March 5, 2025

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Mar 5, 20258h 36m

The pilot house will go a little bit higher.

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It's going to mimic this property that you can see on your screen now,

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which was approved for three dwelling units in 2019.

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Let's see what else I got.

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If anything, we have the layout.

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Now, the original layout submitted for zoning.

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has uh living space in the basement we do not want that to be approved we it's going to be

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three two-bedroom apartments and we'd like a proviso for no living space

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in the in the basement it's just going to be for storage and mechanicals

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otherwise there's the layout two bedrooms one bath on the first second and third floor

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and yeah that

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that's it uh is there any questions from the board or or anything before

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That's it.

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Is there any questions from the board or anything before I call my client?

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Why don't you bring your client on and have your testimony adopt it?

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Okay.

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Mr. McCrillo, are you in the audience?

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If so, you've got to raise your virtual hand.

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It should be a button on your Zoom.

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Do we see him?

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Mr. Chair Counsel, I'm sorry, but I don't seem to see that individual in the virtual audience this morning.

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I'm sorry, I was texting with him.

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So, Mr. Counsel, you're an officer of the courtroom.

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I heard a hand raised.

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Wait, and Anthony C. has their hand raised.

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I can let them...

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Yeah, he might be with the contractor.

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Okay.

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Yeah, Joe, he was just on the phone with me.

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He's having a little trouble getting on.

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So we're trying to get him on now.

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Hold on.

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It's on a phone call.

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All right.

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Well, we can wait.

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Mr. Consul, you're an officer of the court.

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We'll accept your testimony.

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Questions from the board.

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Can you tell me a little bit about the trash plan?

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Yeah, actually, I have the contractor who could speak about it if you'd like.

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I don't have that information

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off the top of my head

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Joe the trash will be put in the back

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hold on

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who's speaking

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the contractor

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okay could you please state your name and spell

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for the court stenographer

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Anthony Consul

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C-A-S-A-T-A-L

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do you swear or affirm to tell the truth

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the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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I do

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now he's not the owner Joe he's the contractor

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correct

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he's not related to me

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Anthony

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please

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please proceed

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tell us where the trash is

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in the rear of each one

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there's going to be a little Juliet

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railing and he's going to put

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the trash in the rear

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until it's trash day

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it's a little storage in the rear of

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the decks in the

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back

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like a little catwalk

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kind of setup they have other questions from the board yes plan that shows the deck

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no we don't have that yet we're waiting to get past zoning and then the modifications will go in

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for the basement not being used and showing each little juliet railing in the back it's just for

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storage only.

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Okay.

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Questions? Yes, question.

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What are we doing about

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utilities? Where are

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they and

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in the building?

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If we're not, we're not using the basement,

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correct? We're going to use

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the basement now as storage and a

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mechanical room since it was taken

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out. We have plenty of room and

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that will be designed

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from our MEP guy, mechanical

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plumbing and electric, which is suitable.

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So you're not going to have

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self-contained utilities?

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Are there washer

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and dryer in the units?

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Stackables, yes.

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We were going to figure out where we were going to put them also.

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Okay.

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Stackable washer, yeah.

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And trash is going to be

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just

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regular pickup

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or are you going to have commercial trash pickup?

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Well, that's more in the midst of seeing now

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because usually they want a commercial pickup

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for three or more and you get built for that.

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So if it's commercial pickup,

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we would have our own little thing built

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where they could come and it's not going to bother

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anybody on the block.

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Okay, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Other questions for the board?

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Yeah, I do have one more question.

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Is the third floor unit the only unit

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that has access to the roof deck?

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Yes.

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Yes, it's feasible to do that

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rather than put more stairs and accessibility in common area.

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And then the first floor is the only unit

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that has access to the rear yard and it's through the bedroom?

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Correct.

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Side door it will be.

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I just want to say for the record,

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while it has nothing to do with zoning,

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these living rooms are pretty minimal

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and that I question why three units instead of two.

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Well, we're only mimicking what's in the area first.

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And again, this will be all reconfigured since once she gets paid zoning.

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This is a basic drawing of what our concept is.

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The square footage and stuff is exactly the same as the property that was...

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the square footage and stuff is exactly the same as the property that was approved two doors down

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i'm not talking about square footage but yeah i i understand

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other questions questions or comments from our attorney

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not at this time mr chair questions or comments from the virtual audience

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or the or the audience here

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mr chair i do not see any further hands raised for the matter

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planning planning commission amy boyd with the planning commission the comprehensive plan

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recommends no change in zoning at this location from the current medium industrial i2 however the

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proposal for residential household living is consistent with the majority of the properties

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on this block base the planning commission recommends that the board grant the requested

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variance for multifamily household living thank you mi 2024 004047 2717 federal street i vote yes

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Yes, with proviso.

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No living space in basement.

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Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes, with proviso.

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Tana DeGray, my vote is yes, with proviso.

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Iowan, my vote is yes, with proviso.

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Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes, with proviso.

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Thank you, counsel.

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All right, stay.

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All right, number six, MI 2024, 004-292-122 South Peach Street.

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Doris Jones is the owner.

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There's a letter of non-opposition from the West Philadelphia Economic Development Council.

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Doris Jones.

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They were joining us panelist now, Mr. Chair.

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Thank you.

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Hello, I'm an architect.

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Yeah, I'm looking for the owner.

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Okay.

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This is Doris Jones.

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Hi, Doris, could you please state your name and spell for the court sonographer?

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My name is Doris Jones, D-O-R-I-S Jones, J-O-N-E-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.

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Could you please turn your video on?

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Let's go to turn the video on.

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Yeah, hello.

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All right, thank you.

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Our vice chair has a few questions for you.

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Good morning, Ms. Jones.

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have you emailed in all the required documents and exhibits that's needed to

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proceed with this case five days in advance of this hearing yes my counsel

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have all them paperwork thank you ma'am please proceed and you may share your

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screen I'm sorry I got asthma really bad yeah I'm the architect I'm helping her

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with the application i can share my screen with the document yeah and she has to do the testimony

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okay unless there's a technical question we go back to you with but please share your screen

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so that she can testify of your

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okay why don't you start your testimony ma'am and tell us what you want to do

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well it's not what i want to do it's what i did in the back of my house i had a little

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orny in the back of the house but the tree that was in the back of the house

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fell and knocked my orny down so i just redid it and that's why we here today

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the only right there it was already one day when i bought the house

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so a tree hit

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a tree hit your wooden awning we'll call it right do you see that little cover in the back

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of the house right yeah that's what i know that's what i'm saying so a tree knocked that down and

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you build a new one and you build a new one yeah okay all right questions for the

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yeah so there are pictures of the

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so could you do you have any other pictures of that backpack or porch there yeah

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so could you do you have any other pictures of that backpack or porch there yeah

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that's the drawing of the backport right

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yes that's the drawing that was submitted to zoning okay

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you have anything else you have any other photos or just the one photo

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just the one photo okay miss jones need to be speaking sir

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do you have any other photos no i'm i'm here right now i mean no just that one

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whatever okay all right other questions from the board

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comments from our attorney not at this time mr chair questions or comments from the virtual

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audience oh my god mr chair i have a hand up from kyle sampson i've allowed him to speak

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Good morning. Could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?

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Kyle Sampson, please unmute.

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Yeah, Kyle Sampson.

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Good morning.

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Hi. Could you spell your name for the court stenographer?

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K-Y-L-E-S-A-M-P-S-O.

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