Vice Chair has a few questions.
Good morning, Mr. Clinton.
Do you agree to wait the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
It appears that you submitted all of the required documents timely.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
You may proceed and you may share your screen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Is that visible enough?
Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the board.
Henry Clinton on behalf of Four Castle LLC and the principal, Rafi Balk, who is on the call.
This concerns 2616 North 11th Street. This is my presentation package, which contains a table of
contents and exhibits AA to A11, which I ask to be admitted into the record. This is my appearance
statement, and this is the refusal of the key document that we're discussing today. So my
client's proposal is for three dwelling units in this to be constructed on this vacant lot. And as
you can see from the aerial photographs, which I will show you, it is consistent with five or six
other three unit apartment buildings on the same block on the same side of the street. We have no
refusals for height, open space, or rear yard. And because we are in the north central Philadelphia
overlay district the requirement is 425 square feet per unit and you can see what is required
and we have 1,120 which is just a little bit more than 10 percent off of the requirement
we do have an RCO letter of support as was mentioned at the outset
from the 37th ward and I just note that it is a unanimous letter of support
these are the photographs this is the west side of north 11th street there are five three family
dwellings right here and our vacant lot is to the south of the five existing three unit
apartment buildings across the street is a school
this is a ground level view looking north indicating the five triplexes in play and
this is our vacant lot to the left. Again, just another photograph for perspective. This is a
school across the street. Again, this is the vacant lot on the west side of the street.
These are our plans that I can walk through for the board.
First floor and basement is one unit. Second floor is another unit. Third floor is the third
unit. Each unit has an area for trash in the kitchen, a separate closet. You can see the trash
here on the second floor, another trash closet on the third floor, and the third floor has open space
on the roof, and the basement of first floor has open space in the rear yard. The rest of the
documents are tax certification and other pro forma documents that are typically presented before the
board in an application such as this. So in summation, we have a situation where
it's rather unique in the sense that this block already has five, three family dwellings to the
north of our vacant lot. It's consistent with the situation on the block. It's in harmony with the
code. We are not altering the essential character of the neighborhood at all. We're not detrimental
to the public welfare.
We're not impacting light or air
of any property on the street.
Our use is consistent
with the other properties on the street.
And we're not injurious
to any public health
or life or safety issue on the block.
So with that,
I would conclude my presentation,
ask the board if they have any questions
and ask my client to adopt my testimony.
But you have a client,
do your client, please, Mr. Clinton.
Mr. Ball, can you raise your hand
answer you can be unmuted. Mr. Balk, please unmute yourself and wait for the chair.
Hi, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter please?
Mr. Balk.
mr ball can you state your name for the record please
He is on the call.
he is on the call he just texted me
He just texted me.
Mr. Clinton, you're...
Hello, sir?
Mr. Clinton, you're an officer of the court.
Your testimony's fine.
Questions from the board?
No, Mr. Chairman.
No, Mr. Chairman.
No, Mr. Chairman.
Questions or comments from the virtual audience?
Chair, we have someone with the telephone number ending in 1657.
Telephone caller, please unmute yourself and wait for the chair.
Could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?
Yes, hi. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. This is Rosalind Bulk.
I couldn't get through to the Zoom. I'm the owner from the 2660.
Mr. Bulk, we already have the testimony. We're fine, and thank you for calling in.
any other comments or questions from the virtual audience
there are no other hands at this time chair planning commission thank you chair bergman
for the philadelphia city planning commission members of the board we believe the proposed
variance is minimal and does not conflict with the purpose and spirit of the zoning code
city planning commission recommends that the board grant the variance thank you
MI-2021-004670-2616 North 11th Street. I vote yes.
Harold Tineri, my vote is yes.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes.
James Snell, my vote is yes.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes.
Thank you, Mr. Clinton.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the board. Have a great day.
MI-2021-004-695-2825 Nestling Road.
Pro se owners on deed, James and Audrey Steele.
RCO, Normandy Civic Association, letter of support.
Chair, Mr. Steele is coming back in as a panelist now.
Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Steele. Could you state your name and spell it for our court reporter?
James Steele. J-A-M-E-S-S-T-E-E-L.
Turn your mic down.
All right, turn your mic. Thank you.
Sir, you have on too many devices.
All right.
do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
yes i do our vice chair has a few questions for you yes do you agree to wave the reading
of the refusal and stipulate no strike that um have you emailed the exhibit packet with
the required documents consisting of proof of ownership tax compliance a copy of the refusal
photos and or plans of the property five days in advance of this hearing and have you met with the
rco and do you have a letter yes i have you may proceed um i don't have the things ready on the
computer because i thought like everything that i sent in was good we're we're not very good on
the computer and things i have all the documents here with me okay so so mr steel this is what
we're going to do we're going to continue the case and what you can do is you can talk to the
staff sometimes in the next few weeks or so and figure out how we're going to go about doing this
but we need it up on the screen and if you don't have it done now what we're going to do is continue
it and then find a way to have you be able to do that is that okay okay all right but we do have
we have everything here we just have to find a way that you can present
okay okay uh hold on can you hold on one minute sure i can yeah my brother-in-law's on and he
says that he can put it up on the screen is that possible um and will you be able to see it
um put it up on the screen will you be able to say it
i'm not sure tanya your suggestions um if they can go forward with him
presenting and um the other talking through it it's all good for me that's fine then let's let's
let otherwise if that doesn't work we i can um give him a short continuance okay let's try to
have your brother-in-law come in and put it up on the screen okay
He's going to have to raise his hand, right?
Is your brother-in-law with you, Mr. Steele?
No, he's at work right now.
He's going to have to call in.
um but is he already on the zoom i believe so and his name is
todd bianowitz okay staff can we promote todd only for the purpose of sharing his screen
i don't see anyone with that name i should know he's he's here i should
i see it there he is okay yeah he's already there
our top would you put it up on your screen please yes
Todd, are you putting it up?
Yes, I am trying to work on that.
First, would you like to see the application for appeal first?
That's fine.
Yep, that's okay.
All right, Todd, you can't testify.
Todd, you can't testify.
Mr. Steele, you can testify.
Tell us what you did, you applied, and tell us what you're going to do.
Well, the issue that I had was the setback.
It's 14 and a half inches over the 25-foot setback from the street.
All right.
Show us the rest of the materials, and then we'll move on.
Do you have any photos?
Todd if you can put a few put the photos up there they are that's one from the front
here's a side view
okay who's talking todd let's see todd yes this is todd i'm sorry you can't you can't talk that
okay thank you any other photos todd
i have one more okay all right
all right all right okay so mr steel yes you're 14 inches difference right the setback yes and
and you went to the rco yes and the rco gave you a letter of support yes they have all right
questions from the board no mr chairman no mr chairman no mr chairman no mr chairman
questions or comments from the virtual audience
i see no hands at this time chair planning commission thank you chair bergman ian hegarty
for the philadelphia city planning commission members of the board this proposed dimensional
variance is minimal and it does not conflict with the purpose and spirit of the zoning code
city planning commission recommends that the board grant the variance mi 2021 004695
2825 nestling road i vote yes carol tenary my vote is yes thomas halliman my vote is yes
james snell my vote is yes ishmael shaheed my vote is yes
Yes. Mr. Steele, thank you. You have all votes of yes and you're approved. Okay.
Thank you, Mr. Steele. Okay. MI 2021-002538-3549 Sunnyside Avenue. RCO, East Falls Community
Council, letter of support, George Gringas and Elizabeth Leffer, pro se owners per the deed.
and elizabeth leffer pro se owners per the deed
george
elizabeth
hello can you see us it comes up his name mark hansen mark mark hansen is our architect
okay what record who did our application for us george george what we want george you're going to
be the one he can't the architect cannot testify so you're going to have to testify yes that would
we were so do me a favor state your name spelled for the court reporter my name is george gregonis
That's G-E-O-R-G-E-G-R-I-G-O-N-I-S.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Several questions from our vice chair.
Good morning.
Have you emailed the exhibit packet with the required documents consisting of proof of ownership, tax clearance,
a copy of the refusal photos and plans of the property five days in advance of this hearing
and have you met with the rco and do you have a letter yes to all those uh except for the tax
clearance except for the tax clearance which we just emailed over on monday i actually had to go
down to city hall and get get our certificate issued then they are heavily backed up down
there at the tax clearance unit right now. But you did get a copy of it. Yes, I did. Our tax
clearance is fine. Thank you. You may proceed and share your screen. Thank you. Thank you.
I would like to, Mark Hansen, our architect of record, has the entire packet for photos and
the relevant documentation that was emailed off to you the other day i just like the last uh
applicant i'm very unsavvy when it comes to this zoom platform so i would like to am i allowed to
invite our architect in to share that information just like the last applicant did he can share
yeah he can share the screen he can testify yes okay can we invite mark
yes to do so he can share it yeah he can share his screen okay mark are you there
mr hanson you can you share your screen
if you're there raise your hand please he's available and sir if you would like you can
start sharing your screen
mark are you there
Mr. Hanson could you start sharing the screen please
Mr. Hanson