is the one about the two o'clock hearings correct the three three items three items and there is
one additional um christian street this morning that you said um you gave the applicant a chance
to come back because his attorney wasn't um on signed on yet yes um but before starting that
one if you could confirm that they have submitted exhibits because I don't have any record of it
that's one I believe with the attorney was Gossett yes that's it all right uh let's
let me do the opening statement then we'll get right to that one and then we'll go from there
all right everybody Tanya ready yes chair all right thank you all good afternoon everyone my
name is Frank DiCicco I'm the chair of the zoning board of adjustment I'll be participating in
today's hearing along with Ms. Carol Tenere, Board Secretary, Confessor Plaza, and Board
Member Thomas Holloman. Jim is still not with us, right? Yeah. For those of you who haven't
yet participated in one of our virtual hearings, I'll go through some of the basics of what
you can expect. First, we will be administering oaths to individual participants prior to
their testimony. Second, for the benefit of anyone participating by phone, we ask that attorneys and
witnesses identify themselves prior to speaking or testifying. Third, we'd like to advise everyone
that this proceeding is being recorded, and by participating, you acknowledge your agreement to
be recorded. Fourth, for anyone participating by phone, if you wish to testify, you must raise
your hand by hitting star nine and then star six to unmute your mute yourself i will repeat
for anyone participating by phone we ask that attorneys and witnesses identify
no i already read that sorry third for any if you'd like
i've had this day's over too long for me i apologize i'll repeat the fourth item again
for anyone participating by phone, if you wish to testify, you must raise your hand by hitting star
nine and then star six to unmute yourself. Finally, to enter an appearance statement, call Google
267-270-5548 and leave your email address and the address of the property at issue. And I'll
repeat that. To enter an appearance statement, call Google 267-270-5548 and leave your email
address and the address of the property at issue. With that said, we can begin, but before Vice
Chair Tenere calls our first case, we'd like to ask if anyone is requesting a continuance or
withdrawal of an appeal listed for this afternoon's
hearing. Please raise your hand if you wish to request a continuance or
withdrawal for the two o'clock session today.
Here we have Mary Jones. Mary you can unmute yourself and speak to a
continue. And Mary, you're still under earth from this morning. Thank you. Good morning. Oh, excuse me. Good afternoon. Mary Jones from the Council President Daryl Clark's office, room 496 City Hall. I am calling to request what we're hoping will be just a fairly brief continue.
requests what we're hoping will be just a fairly brief continuance for 909 North 26th Street,
calendar number 40044. Just due to the scale of the project, we've been in discussions with the
uh rco we're hoping to get more input from the near neighbors it um will be just to get have a
little bit more understanding of the concerns of the near neighbors and um and hope and i spoke
with the attorney as well so i'm not sure what and what is that address again it's 909 north 26th
street i don't have it chair we didn't have it it's 9 11 then is it different is it is it for
the two o'clock list so that would be number one if it's 9 11 north 26 9 11 but okay so it was a
wrong address all right incorrect okay multiple addresses associated with okay all right so mi
2020-001055
911 North 26th Street is continued.
If the applicant's attorney is here, could we also hear from them?
Yes, Mr. Chairman, this is Alan Knopferson.
Go ahead.
No worries. Yes, I talked to Mrs. Jones.
That request was made at like 1.50 p.m.
today. I'm always willing to work with the community, especially since I actually live
in Fairmont myself. So I'm always willing to work with my community. But what we're requesting
is a short continuance. This matter, I believe the appeal was filed in March. We worked with
the Fairmont Civic Association to even have a continuance of, I believe there was a hearing
date in July. They did not want to meet with us until September 24th. So that's why we
had the hearing scheduled for today so if we are if we would agree to a continuance but we're asking
for the uh a real realistment uh for two weeks from today uh i don't know if that's doable we
have to speak to tanya yeah yeah because we i mean we filed this in march like you know we yeah
yes this was filed march 4th uh sharon would it be possible for them to hear and then have
community input because i can't do this for two weeks we already packed um this is that would have
to be the boards and yeah so i'll ask that question of miss jones there's a suggestion
that we hear and hold for a couple of weeks because it'll take much longer for a continuance
and that would be a hear and hold where there would be part two of the hearing and the community
would have an opportunity to present its side of this and to have input.
That, I believe, should be fine.
This isn't a situation where they're against it.
We just wanted to try to have more time to gather input from the near neighbors.
I'm just curious if the community, if Larry, anyone from the Fairmont Civic Association
is on the line.
because i good question is there anyone from fairmount civic on the line if so please raise
your hand and by the way this is not an error a exercise into rushing for a decision on this
it's trying to get it kind of make a compromise here because the continuance date will be many
weeks out no chair no hands come up all right so yeah okay miss jones we'll do that we'll hear it
and then we'll hold any decision for at least two weeks, right?
Yes, if we could give a specific date and time, that would be helpful.
Ms. Sunkett, if...
About October 14th, that Wednesday we can discuss and you can vote in executive session
and then vote on record, October 14th.
October 14th works 9 30 a.m. yes thank you I'm sorry go ahead oh mr. chair just I
just want to understand so October 14th there would be a supplemental hearing
at 9 30 p.m. a.m. to for any community input if need be okay all right there
may not be any issues and we can just vote it okay all right excuse me if
we're done with that we have one more continuance request that was sent in by
Richard I just want to make sure I'm sorry no no no problem okay Miss Jones
Hold on. I'm sorry. No, no, no problem. Okay. Ms. Jones.
Yes, that, that does sound fine. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Alan. Okay. Next.
There was a continuance request submitted by Rich DeMarco for calendar number 39273,
1615 South Broad Street. They need additional time to meet with the RCO.
That's a number 15 on our list.
okay uh mi-2020-000070 1615 south broad is continued
any other requests out there for continuances or withdrawals
chair yes ma'am if i may i have a continuance request that came in
from henry clinton attorney for number 14
16 north salford okay mi-2020-000153
16 North South 4
S-A-L-F-O-R-D Street
is continued
okay I have
another hand up
France Pierre you can unmute yourself
and speak to a continuing
please
France good afternoon
please identify yourself for the record
and I'll swear you in
yes that's France Pierre
Councilmember Johnson's office
That's F-R-A-N-T-Z, last name Pierre, P-I-E-R-R-E.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon, fellow board members.
Do you swear in the firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
I sure do.
Okay, what case are we talking about, Frantz?
Yes, we are referring to case number 1014851.
that's 1816 South 18th Street. Point Breeze CBC did not get a chance to meet with the applicant
so they are requesting the continuance. Okay that's it isn't that we have an MI number for that.
MI-2020-0000241816 South 18th Street will be continued. Again is there anyone here for the
applicant who wishes to speak to the continuance thank you for reminding me
calendar number ending i'm sorry phone number ended in a55 are you here regarding this continuance
1816 south 18th street
okay i don't see anybody who would be okay any other requests
continuances or withdrawals um calendar number i'm sorry phone number ending in 855 are you here
for a continuance
moving on we have henry clinton henry clinton you can go forward um and unmute yourself and
wait to be sworn in tanya you already covered my request for a continuance on 16 north south
okay perfect thank you moving forward we have andrew goodman andrew goodman you can unmute
yourself and speak to a continuance hi good afternoon andrew goodman g-o-o-d-m-a-n office
of third district council member jamie gaudier we're in front to tell the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth yes thank you andrew please proceed i'm just here to follow up on the
contents of a letter we submitted to zba staff earlier this week regarding a continuance request
for appeal number 38450-5506 baltimore avenue and i believe this is the first case on the
um email that i sent you yes mr goodman is that correct it's the one that was listed this morning
yes that's right thank you and the applicant should be here as well and the applicant
ring we're in agreement on a continuance no they're not they were here this morning they
had this one from this this one with mr mr sampson correct and gossip no that is not that
No, that is not that one. It's the first on the email that I sent you. You announced the continuance this morning. The applicant was present. He submitted his exhibits. He wants to request that it go forward and also to put on the record the efforts that he's made to schedule an RCO meeting.
It's the first on the email that I sent.
Would this be Sadiq?
Yes, I think that's right.
Okay, Sadiq, you can unmute yourself and wait to be sworn in.
please spell your first and last name
Sadiq you can unmute yourself yes my name is Sadiq s-a-d-i-k last name Karakulak
k-a-r-a-k-u-l-a-k your address my address is 5504 baltimore avenue six
Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
There's a request from the councilwoman's office, as per I believe the RCO, and correct me from wrong,
to have this case continued.
You tried to contact them.
Yeah, I tried to contact with them. I talked with them and I sent some information and plans.
I talk and then I meet with them and after that they didn't respond.
I talked with Mr. Blount and Mr. Floyd.
Yeah, but they didn't answer so I don't know.
Mr. Goodman, were you contacted by the RCO?
Your office was contacted by the RCO requesting the continuance?
is that question for us no it's for mr goodman from councilwoman
sorry i know i must have had some technical difficulties my zoom restarted so i need
no problem we're all having issues today um yeah we had not we had not received any correspondence
until until today now my understanding is that the case you know pre predated us so we were not
involved in the actual selection of the coordinating rco um so if we had known that there was a you
know if if we had known that the applicant was having an issue we could have helped to support
them or even reassigned an rco if need be but you know community engagement and notification and
involvement is a really central part of this process so we will we will gladly assist the
applicant in the next phase um you know assuming there is a continuance today okay well if we grant
the continuance uh we'll grant the continuance and i would ask that um mr carl clue yes i know
i'm misunderstood mr goodman and uh you should have a conversation with mr goodman and he'll
advise you what the next steps are thank you mi-2020-000087 5506 baltimore avenue is being
continued thank you
anyone else we have chose richardson mr richardson you can unmute yourself and
speak to a continuum good morning mr chair well good
afternoon rather mr chair and uh board members uh
charles richards charles richardson from councilwoman cindy bass's office
You swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Please proceed.
Calendar number 39180, 3517 North 15th Street.
They have not been able to meet with the RCO as yet.
I spoke with Veronica Holman of Tioga United this afternoon,
and they are in the midst of catching up on their scheduling with regard to these RCO meetings.
So we're asking for a continuance for this for this variance and they'll be scheduled in short term and they should be able to get another date.
Thank you. Is there anyone out there who has an issue with the request for continuance?
No hands up, Chair.
Thank you. MI-2020-000345-3517 North 15th Street is continued.
Any other requests for continuances or withdrawals?
No more hands up.
no more hands up okay thank you so before we go uh any further uh carol let's go to item number
Thank you. So before we go any further...
two on the list that sharon uh four one excuse me four five one three baker street
mi-2020-000947 uh according to sharon we voted this on 915 everyone voted to approve but there
were revised plans that weren't added as a proviso so we're going to do a revoting that
will revote the case to correct the decision and add a revised plans per plan proviso sharon is that
one page yes it is one page thank you thank you okay mi-2020-0009474513 baker street my vote is
yes with the proviso revised plan one page approved today my vote is yes with proviso
yes with proviso yes with proviso
all right the next the next item the on on our schedule from sharon is calendar number
i i have four zero zero four seven there's that's correct that's it four zero zero four seven
12131 Knights Road we heard this on 825 and held it open for Mr Feldman to report back to us
on his continuing efforts to schedule an RCO meeting it's a pediatric dental clinic
but the RCO refuses to meet so is if Mr Feldman's on the phone could you
get on and bring us up to date please
mr feldman you can unmute yourself yes uh good afternoon members of the board
uh brett feldman uh the board heard this back in august right right right right i just want
to swear you in you swear and affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do
thank you please proceed i do just uh briefly uh yes the board heard this back on august 25th
and held it open I think for two weeks pending continued efforts to connect with the community