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ZBA Hearing - July 10, 2024

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Jul 10, 20246h 23m

Yeah, I'm just not sure.

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I can't give you a date right now.

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I think what you have to do is they'll put the phone number on the screen in the chat.

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And if you call like in a day or so, they'll give you an idea when you can come back and what you need and how we'll go about this.

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Okay?

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All right.

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Thanks a lot.

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Appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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So MI 2023-005-894-2300 South Third.

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Cases continued.

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Number five, MI 2023-005-909-2219 West Oxford.

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Second listing, attorney is needed, Ms. Brenda Harris.

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I see no handshare.

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So we see she's making a transaction, so we'll continue this one more time.

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MI-2023-005-909-2219-West Oxford Street.

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Cases continued.

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Mark must be heard.

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Number six, MI-2024-008-18-3309-North 6th Street.

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Brea Kennedy is the listed applicant.

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There's the first listing.

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We do not have the documents.

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Yeah. Did you say Brie Kennedy?

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Did you say Brie Kennedy?

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Rhea Kennedy's delicit

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Brie Kennedy is the listed applicant and MJS Real Estate Investment is listed owner.

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Okay. There's no one in the audience with those names.

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Okay. All right. She has been in touch with the RCO.

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So she's asked in one more.

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We're going to give it one more continuance.

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So MI 2024, 000818, 3309 North 6th Street.

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Case is continued.

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Mark must be heard.

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Let me see what else we have here, I think.

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All right.

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Case number 8, MI 2024-000-903-534-Walkin Street.

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Paul LeBond is the applicant.

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No exhibits, first listing.

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They have not met with the RCO as of yet.

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Chair, I don't see Paul LeBond, but there's a Robert Barney with a hand raised.

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Okay.

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I will allow to speak.

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hi mr chairman could you state your name please and spell for the stenographer

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it's robert byrne b as in boy e-i-r-n-e do you swear or firm to tell the truth the whole truth

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and nothing but the truth yes sir are you involved with 534 walkins i am the owner

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okay um i have joseph i have joseph and natali guganciretti listed as the owners no no okay

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all right so you're the owner but you have an applicant paul laban yes so he is uh my general

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contractor and architect for uh for the new drawings for the new plan okay so we don't have

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your exhibits yet we're gonna have to continue the case all right all right and you still have

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to meet with the RCO. Gotcha. All right. So MI 2024-000-903-534-Walkin Street. Case

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continued. Mark must be heard. Thank you for calling in. I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Number seven, MI2024-000898-5153-Wyalusing Avenue.

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Lawrence Aniakara is the owner applicant.

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Letter of Opposition from Westfield Together Civic Association.

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the community said they would support a duplex

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instead of four units

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Lawrence had

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the hand up but it went down

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and I'm

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searching him

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now he's back

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he has been allowed

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to speak

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sir could you please state

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your name and spell for the court stenographer

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l-a-w-r-e-n-c-e

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My last name is O-N-O-Y-L-A-W-R-E-N-C-E.

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Sir, listen to me.

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Listen to me.

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My last name is O-N-O-Y-I-A-O-R-E-N-C-E.

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Lawrence, listen to me.

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You have two devices on.

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You have to turn one off.

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Okay?

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Now, could you state your name and spell for the stenographer?

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Lawrence please unmute yourself please have one device only on

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Lawrence please unmute yourself

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unmute yourself

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unmute yourself

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Lawrence

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Lawrence

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Lawrence Lawrence yeah Lawrence you have okay what do you have one you have two things on

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okay

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okay

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we can't go on like this

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Did you turn it off?

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did you turn it off

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Lawrence?

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He has disappeared.

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Wait two minutes and then we're going to go.

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Okay.

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Lawrence?

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I'm looking for him, Cher.

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He's completely

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disappeared off the screen.

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Okay.

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I see him.

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I see him now.

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Lawrence, you are allowed to speak now.

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Lawrence, could you state your name and spell for the court stenographer?

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My name is Lawrence Onyora.

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L-A-W-R-E-N-C-E

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O-N-Y-I-A-O-R-A-H.

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

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Affirm.

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Okay. So this application is for use as a multifamily household living for dwelling units in an existing structure.

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The proposed use of multifamily household living is prohibited in the RSA 5 zoning district.

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Our vice chair has a few questions for you, sir.

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okay good afternoon sir have you emailed in all of the required documents and exhibits that is

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needed to proceed with this case five days in advance of this hearing correct thank you sir

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please share your screen and proceed okay

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it's the green button at the bottom of the screen yeah no there is no share screen

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we're having problems with that here with the technology apparently

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okay so so so lawrence um

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this this is the last case of the day if if you can't get on the screen we're gonna have to

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to continue it. So could you try to share your screen? There you go. Okay. All right. These

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the initial plan that I had

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I had submitted to the

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RSEO

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like you rightly stated

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I work with the veteran group

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and with

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housing voucher

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PHA

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also

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I noticed that a lot of the

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veterans

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that are single

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want something smaller

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as opposed to the two units

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and the rest of them so i have decided well maybe i experiment with this apparently i was wrong and

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i was told i couldn't do that uh but the rco recommended a duplex which is fine with me i

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don't have any problems with that um so listen to me could you show us pictures of your property okay

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Thank you.

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do you have your photos yeah we're trying i'm trying to upload it okay all right

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okay go like this all right um well this is what it was supposed to look like

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as supposedly if if they would allow it to go through um these are the internal

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uh house is is it's includes it has includes porch so everything is within the house or itself

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all right so do you have pictures of the outside of the house too like where you come in

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okay yeah let me let me just go through this hopefully maybe that'll come out

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you know that's showing the internal structures of the house um

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you know that's showing the internal structures of the house um

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uh hopefully the outside also was taken that's the outside here okay so that's the front of the

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house yeah that's the front of the house correct yes that's the front of the house so so lawrence

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let me ask you this on the block where you're where you're at are there multiple family units

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uh there is one across i don't know about the rest of them uh you have some abandoned

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buildings but there's one directly opposite me i i am not sure of the rest of them i never really

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asked i'm not sure what so now instead of instead of four you want two properties you want two

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units well i mean that is what the rco recommended i'm i'm willing to go with that if that if that's

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what let me ask you this do you have drawings for that uh for the uh two units or for the four

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units the two units they just recommended it i wasn't sure how that was going to work out i

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wasn't sure what you are going to say about it so it was just a recommendation okay all right um

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let me have any more photos of the property okay hold on um yeah that's

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the people next door to your property next door is that a single home or multiple family

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um i believe one one time it depends if you're looking at the house the one to the left is uh

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a single family uh the one to the right he's doing a whole lot of modification i'm not sure

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what he's doing there uh but it's been sold about twice so uh he's modifying it i'm not sure what

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he's doing there okay okay um and you don't know what the rest of the block looks like relative to

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whether multiple family or not well the one across is multiple families four units the one directly

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opposite mine is is four units uh the one directly across from mine now the point is that the block

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itself doesn't really have a whole lot of

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houses in front of it because it's a small

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block followed by a long

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cemetery all the way to 48th

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Street. So we don't have

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a whole lot of folks, but except

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that we have a whole lot of prostitutes

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pirating the place.

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A lot of what? Prostitutes

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pirating the

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area. So I thought

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maybe that would help sanitize it.

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I don't know. But that was my

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thinking.

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The block itself is probably just

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You can call it almost just one block of housing on both sides.

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And then the rest of them is cemetery all the way.

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Okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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All right.

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So you notice that the RCO has said that they only want you to have two units, right?

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Yes, correct.

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And I would say the council person out there agrees with the RCO that the place is too small and only would want you to have two units.

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Is that what you understand?

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I can't live with that. I have no problems with that. That's fine with me.

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All right. Questions from the board?

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Yes, Chair. Did I hear anything about PHA early on?

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Yeah, I had said that.

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I think his wife's talked about vouchers-ish.

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Yeah, I do. Yes, I do work with PHA, and I do work with Veterans Group.

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Okay. I'm going to recuse myself from this, Chair.

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so so these are affordable units you're trying to make affordable two affordable units

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correct especially for the veterans especially for the veterans and are you getting any

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subsidies for the for the veterans from that is that what you're trying to get some funding

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i i do they do give me referrals oh for referrals okay yeah they do give me referrals right and i

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I have some of them in some of my houses now, assistants.

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Okay. Any other questions from the board?

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I have a question. Are you already approved to be a Section 8 landlord?

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