while Mr. Young presents the case.
Great.
Also, have you met with the RCO and have a letter?
Yes, we have met with the RCO.
A letter was submitted to us yesterday evening.
I will submit that to the board under a separate cover, but it is in my updated presentation, so you will be able to see the letter.
Awesome.
Please identify yourself for the record.
Again, good morning, members of the board.
My name is Jeffrey Young, 3900 Ford Road, Suite B, Philadelphia PA 19131.
I am here representing the applicant, 3008-14 Clipper Street, LLC.
On the line are my clients, Dr. Rosa Marino and Dr. Jill Williams.
On the line are my clients, Dr. Rosa Marino and Dr.
And if I may, I would like to share my screen to begin the presentation.
Please proceed.
Thank you.
Can you see my screen?
Thank you.
Again, good morning, members of the board. So before you right now is the deed for the property, transferring the property and showing ownership to 3008 Clipper Street, LLC.
see um there we get in the presentation um as you'll see here this is a copy of the refusal
um that was uh generated uh last october um i'm going to show a larger version so folks can see
uh what we are refused for um again this is a application uh for the erection um of a 51
feet structure, 51.8 inch structure with decks for seven multifamily dwelling units.
We are refused for the property is currently zoned RSA 5. We are refused for multifamily
living. We're also refused for the proposed accessory parking spaces and the curb cut.
As I mentioned before, we were previously refused for open area. However, we have revised the plans. So now we have 20.6% of open area, which I will show on our new plans.
We are also refused for height. The height requirement in RSA 5 is 38 feet. We are requesting again 51 feet 8 inches. And as I go through my presentation, you know, I will show why there is a hardship here in regards to the height.
um here is uh pictures of the plans um and as again i'll have more uh detail as i move forward
in the presentation um here uh is the uh proviso application we submitted to the board as i
mentioned where we submitted revised plans uh this page here shows the revised plans i'll zoom in
So you'll be able to see that our revised plans actually cover one of the refusals.
If you see here, we have changed our open area.
So now the open area is proposed to be 1,574.6 square feet.
which covers 20.6% of the open area.
So we meet that requirement now.
Here are some dimensional standards in regards to our lot.
Our lot is 7,662 square feet.
Again, we have changed the dimensional standards.
So we meet the open occupied area.
We're asking for 51 feet, 8 inches, and a 38 feet height limit for zoning.
The proposed uses on the first floor will be one residential dwelling unit, parking, and trash room.
We are asking for a curb cut for seven parking spaces for each unit.
Each unit will have a needed parking spot.
These are condominium units. These are not rental units. These will be home ownership units in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city. The second floor will consist of two residential units. Second to third floor, excuse me, fourth floor will be two residential units, all each consisting, each floor being 5,563 square feet.
here's a zoning map with the arrow as you'll see our property most of the property in this
particular neighborhood is zoned RSA5 however again given the size of our lot being over 7,000
square feet you know a single family home on this lot just would not be feasible as you see
of our lot is actually abutting the bridge if you see here in the purple
everything here is on ICMX and as I should go through pictures you'll see
this is train tracks that are behind our property which create some of our
some of our hardship issues I'm going to zoom out so you can see here's a picture of the property
hardship issues
with the outline of the size of our proposed building currently there is a one-story garage
on the property that is 18 feet high the previous uses were a motorcycle club as well as there were
business licenses for vehicle repair at this site.
So historically, this site has never been used for single-family use.
Here is providing you with an overview of the neighborhood.
Again, as you can see, where our property sits here, here are train tracks.
So we abut the train tracks across the bridges that are in Strawberry Mansion.
We're on the corner of Clifford and Montgomery, which is a bridge that rolls over the train tracks.
Here again is just updated zoning plans just to show where our property is in comparison to the neighborhood.
As you will see, there's an existing curb cut here, and that's where we are planning to maintain our curb cut for the parking.
so we are not taking away any parking spaces that are on the street.
Again, this curb cut is already in existence.
We are actually adding parking to the street
because currently there's a curb cut in the front of the property here,
which we will be taking away,
so we'll allow for additional street parking on Clifford Street.
Again, here's a breakdown of the units
um from floors two through uh four um or will be two residential units
um on the first floor there'll be one residential unit with parking and trash
again here is just a zoning outline uh showing um the street directions
here is a rendering of our proposed building as you can see we're using a traditional red brick
with some updated aluminum panels we met with the community group three times in regards to
this project and redesigned it to something that you know would fit the neighborhood and
overwhelmingly at the community meeting, the last one we had, they supported our new design and
rendering. This rendering here showed the rear of the properties. Each unit has a rear facing deck
that faces the train tracks. And you'll see what that view looks like in a second. This is the
rear view from our property. As you can see, the train tracks are below. So where the height of
our building is will not be in the way of anyone um we are consistent uh with other buildings that
are along the train tracks um on the corners of properties in this particular neighborhood as far
as um height uh we are not um you know one of the largest buildings um that abut the tracks here
um there's our view uh looking uh south um from the rear of our property um as you see here um this
actually uh is is our property but because the way it slopes down it's unbuildable um so if we
weren't able to use this particular property um this portion of the property um it would create
some kind of uh rear uh parking however because we can't um this is why we need to go higher to
create some indoor uh parking spaces this is a lot that is next door to our property um our client
My client has been taking care of this lot since becoming owner of 3008-14 Clifford Street.
And as you can see here, parking, the cars parked on the curb here in the neighborhood,
and parking on the sticker block is a broke issue.
From this next picture here, every single car is parked on the curb,
and there's only parking on one side of the street here.
here is a picture of eastern lofts um in the neighborhood this building is located at the
intersection of glenwood and csu b moore avenue uh which is uh two blocks from our particular
project um it's 33 feet high three stories 36 units plus business and professional offices
uh with uh 30 parking spaces uh so again our building is something that um is consistent with
with the neighborhood. Here's just a side view of the Eastern Lofts with their curb cut to show
the interest for their parking. Here is a proposal.
Here is a proposal at 3029 Glenwood Avenue. It's currently being constructed. This is a 60 feet high building, five stories, 49 units, 16 parking spaces.
So, again, in this particular neighborhood, as it becomes more developed, parking is going to be an issue here.
So, for our units, we're trying to get ahead of that curb to allow each of our units to have a dedicated parking space.
And here is the pyramid building.
This building is 78 feet high, again, on the corner, but in the train tracks.
Um, excuse me, 46 units with 15 parking spaces.
And this is, excuse me, uh, the Sartain School on the corner of CCB Moor and Glenwood, opposite of, um, the, uh, 3029 Glenwood project I showed you.
uh this project is 35 units with uh 25 parking spaces um so again we're we're consistent with what
um the larger corner buildings up in this neighborhood are and last but not least
it's a letter of support from the strawberry mansion rco as i mentioned we met the community
group uh officially three times um to go over the project um the community uh group supports our
project um you know with few provisos um asking that you know we we uh utilize some planters on
the side and the sidewalks um and we are going to be in discussions um with the community group
regarding um how we can assist the neighborhood and in other uh matters um and with that um
i conclude my presentation and ask if there are any questions
this is sharon seleta if i can interrupt for one minute i did check the um tax records and the
property is compliant thank you thank you uh mr young do you have a witness you need
to uh adopt your testimony yes um if you could uh unmute uh dr rosa marino please
can you hear me yes ma'am please identify yourself for the record first and last name and your
address my first name is rosa my last name is marino 3008 clifford street philadelphia pa
19121. Can you spell your last name, please?
M-A-R-I-N-O.
You swear in the firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes. Thank you, Mr. Young. Dr. Moreno,
have you heard my testimony and presentation presented to the
Zoning Board this morning? Yes, I have.
And can you stipulate to the accuracy of my presentation?
Yes, it is. And do you adopt
my testimony as this board of your own?
yes i do thank you thank you any questions from the board no no no anyone else wish to testify
it would like to testify in this case if so please raise your hand
no hands at this time chair thank you planning commission good morning david effecto city
planning commission mr chairman and members of the board this property is indicated for
residential single-family use in the city's comprehensive plan. However, this is a large
property that could be divided into several house lots. Since the Neighborhood Association
supports the proposal, we do not object to granting these variances. Thank you very much.
Meeting MI number 2020-000546-3008-3014 Clifford Street. My vote is yes with the proviso
revised plan one page stamp approved today one page approved today yes for proviso yes for proviso
yes with proviso
thank you thank you mr chair that concludes my business may be excused yes you may have a good
day thank you thank you you too
Are we finished?
I believe so.
I have nothing else.
Tanya, you guys and Charity concur.
We're finished.
I'm reviewing now.
I'm reviewing now.
Looks like that's it.
See you all back at two.
I understand, confessor, you'll be running a little bit late.
Confessor?
I'll be logging a little.
I have a two o'clock meeting.
No problem.
We'll have a call.
We still have a car. Thank you. Okay. So we're going to have Jim do the questions and sharing
if we can make everything available. Okay. That's okay with you, Jim. Wait, we have some
hands. No problem. We do have some hands up if you don't mind indulging. Okay.
Adelina Hernandez. Hi, how are you? I wanted to know what the continuance mean. Was it
approved or it was not approved? That means we haven't heard the case yet. It will be heard at
a later date. Okay, so will there be an email sent out to me to let me know when to come back in?
So were you the applicant or you're the owner? I'm actually representing the owner, but I did
the registration. You were on earlier, correct? Yes. So do you know when you ask for a continuance
what that meant? You want us to hear it at a later date, so you'll be scheduled for probably
december or january oh i thought that i thought i was representing the see i thought you didn't
know what you were doing yeah um excuse me representing someone on here this is sharon
um ms hernandez are you an attorney no i'm i work with the expediter i'm sorry you cannot
represent the applicant then they either have to represent themselves or be represented by an
attorney oh okay then just so you know for the next hearing all right then thank you so we're
so we're going to leave this at a continuance um and you'll get a notification whoever the
applicant was we'll get a notification in the email of the new date okay okay then thank you
you're welcome okay okay thank you any other business um is i have hannah is hannah with
i don't know hannah you're gonna mute yourself are you requesting uh yes we received a letter
um for 1330 vernon road that will be included on this listing today um has that changed what time
what time is that hearing scheduled for it was supposed to be for 9 30 let me just check
yep no it's tomorrow the 14th what do you have
um let's see it says tuesday october 14th so i don't i didn't know i sat in on this meeting
because i thought it would be today and maybe they just got the date wrong today are you able
to appear tomorrow? Yes. Does that work, Tanya? What was the, yeah, it will have to be, because if
there's any discrepancies or errors, you would have to have contacted our office, so because we
have it listed for Tuesday, I mean, Wednesday at 9 30, that's the time we would have to hear it.
Okay. Okay. The letter came out for Tuesday.
Right. I apologize for the miscommunication. However, if that's the date that it was
communicated to the community and passerby saw that date, then that's what we will have to stick
to. October 14th. Okay. Okay. So we'll see you October 14th at 930, which is tomorrow.
Thank you. I apologize for any inconveniences.
all right any other any other unfinished business no that was the last one chair thanks all right
see you all two o'clock all right bye bye see you later thank you and good afternoon and tanya
we'll give you a few minutes correct
okay all ready thank you uh good afternoon everyone my name is frank de chico i'm the chair of this
Thank you. 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 our acting secretary, Mr. James Snell, and board member, Mr. Thomas Holloman. Our secretary, Mr. Confessor Plaza, will be joining us a little bit later on.
Board Administrator Tanya Sunkit and Board Attorney Sharon Saleta are also in attendance.
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 we 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.