Thank you.
Okay, Chair, we have 15 attendees.
You can proceed.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Good morning.
My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this morning's EBA hearings.
With me is our Vice Chair, Ismail Shahid, our Board Member, Thomas Holliman, and our Board
member James Snell. President, Mr. Chairman. Also here is Hillary Emerson, our attorney,
and our executive director, Tanya Sunket. Here's our virtual format. Be advised the proceedings
are being recorded. The video will be available by contacting tanyasunket at phila.gov. For the
benefit of our court stenographer, we ask attorneys and witnesses to identify themselves before
testifying. If you're participating by phone and you wish to testify, press star nine to raise your
hand and star six to unmute. To enter an appearance statement, call 267-270-5548. Leave your email
and the address of the property in question. Finally, the question answer box on the screen
is not for comments or testimony. All comments should be directed to our executive director,
Tanya sunk it. Let's look at this morning's schedule.
Number four, MI-2022-004-546-3251 Fox Street. That case is continued attorney moving party.
Number six, MI 2022-007-568-5306-08 Haverford Avenue.
Vern Anastasio is the attorney.
I believe he has a request for contenders.
Mr. Anastasio.
Good morning, Chair.
My name is Nadia, and I will be your co-host.
Thank you. Anastasio has been allowed to speak.
Good morning, counsel. Could you state your name, please?
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Vern Anastasio, V-E-R-N.
Last name is A-N-A-S-T-A-S-I-O, 2016 Spruce, Philadelphia.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
I understand you have a request for a continuance for 5306-08 Haverford Avenue.
I do, Mr. Chair. My client would like to continue to engage the immediate neighbors in a hope of coming to an accord.
Okay. We're going to make this must-be-tried, okay?
Thank you.
All right. So MI-2022-007-568-5306 to 08 Haverford Avenue. Cases continued. Mark must-be-tried.
Thank you very much.
Sure. And number seven, MI 2023-003-967-2431 North 26th Street. This case is continued.
Are there any other requests for continuance?
We have two hands. DeMarco has been allowed to speak.
Okay. Mr. Chairman, thank you. I'm accommodating Len with this continuance.
I know. Mr. DeMarco, just for the record, state your name so we could.
Of course. Sorry. Yes. Richard DeMarco, D-E-M-A-R-C-O.
Right. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
And we're, I understand, and we're making this a short continuance.
Yeah, that's all I wanted to ask, Mr. Chairman.
Yep. We're doing, we're working on that right now, sir.
I appreciate that. Thank you very much.
Okay, thank you.
Right.
Have a good day.
Any other requests for continuance?
I see no hands.
Okay. Exhibits. We have a few cases here with no exhibits. Number one, MI 2022-006-978-2030 Ripley Street. This is the third listing. We have no exhibits.
Listed owner is Andy Barrios.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Alvin Garcia is the listed owner.
I see no hands for Alvin, but...
I see no hands for Alvin, but I do see a Pincus with the hands raised.
Let's see who they are.
They've been allowed to speak.
Hi, could you state your name, please, and spell for the court sonographer?
Yes, my name is Ralph Pincus. Can you hear me, Mr. Chairman?
I can.
My name is Ralph Pincus. I am chair of the West Mount Air.
Sir, could you spell your name, please?
I apologize.
R-A-L-P-H, Pincus, P-I-N-K-U-S.
Right.
Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do, Mr. Chairman.
Are you from the RCO, sir?
Yes, sir.
I chair the Westmont Area Neighbor Zoning Committee.
Well, that's not the case we're on, right?
Ripley Street?
No, I'm sorry.
I was delayed in signing in, and I was calling that just to find out if the case on 532 West
Ellett Street has either been denied or dismissed or continued.
We have not had an RCO meeting with the applicant.
I apologize for coming in.
No, no, no.
Five, number five, I'm not to that yet, so you'll hear the results of that shortly.
That case is going to be withdrawn.
Oh, okay. Very good. Thank you.
All right. Go back to number one. Is Mr. Garcia in the audience?
No hands, Chair.
Okay. So MI 2022-006-978-2334 Rippler Street. This is the third listing. I've moved to dismiss.
you broke up tom
thank you james snell i vote to dismiss
all right i have a few cases here for withdrawal number three
mi 2022 004 822 5304 north broad street this case has been withdrawn uh mr chair this is
hillary we were actually we don't have a letter for that one and we were told that someone
was going to appear to withdraw that case is there anyone here for 5304 north broad street
no hands okay so am i this is the third listing so mi 2022 004 822 5304 north broad street i voted
dismiss
james snell my vote is to dismiss
thank you
okay we we have the votes and then number five mi 2022 007
585-532
West Elliott Street
this case has been withdrawn
and number nine
MI 2023
000732
416-20
West Derrod Avenue
this case has been withdrawn
we're going to go to our first case
number number two
mi 2022
007 315
1601 cater street number b
sandy kakoro is the owner applicant
this is a pro se
they have been promoted to panelists
hi how are you this is
Hi, good morning. Could you state your name, please, and spell it for the court's sonography?
Yes, this is Cindy Cocoro, C-I-N-D-Y-C-A-C-C-U-R-O.
Okay, so this application is for the erection of a vertical addition with roof deck and roof access structure to an existing attached structure.
Size and location as shown on plans, existing single-family household living used to remain.
The proposed structure does not comply with the height limitation of the CMX2 commercial
The proposed structure does not comply with the height limitation of the CMX-2 commercial zoning area.
A maximum of 38 feet is allowed, whereas 54 feet is proposed.
Our vice chair has just a few questions for you, okay?
Good morning.
Counsel, do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal or stipulate to it with accuracy?
yes thank you please proceed and share your screen great um so should i just present now
yes okay so what we're looking to do is to um our existing home is uh the garage is on the
first floor so it gives us limited living space on our first floor and then we have our living
room and kitchen on our second floor and a very small bedroom on our third floor and a master
on our third floor. So right now it's me, my husband, and my four-year-old son who are living
in the house. My mother, who lives in South Philadelphia, is elderly, may have to come live
with us soon. So I wanted to create the downstairs space for a living space with her. And then we
have two older boys that are currently in college that we don't have any room for. So we're not
looking to do anything where we would increase any more cars on the street or anything like that.
We're just trying to create more living space for our family. We live on the premises, obviously.
And from a curb appeal aspect, it would actually make the curb appeal look nicer because we're the
second property from the corner and the corner property um did this same height um increase
uh so we would actually have our and our houses look like when you do this when you start showing
your documents okay um so i just got to figure a green button on the bottom says share docu share
screen. Okay. I just got to pull it up because I was having problems on my phone, on my computer,
so I had to do it from my phone, so let me just pull that up.
are you able to see my screen yeah we see you oh wait a minute something's we just switched over
to i see a phone symbol now are you doing this on your phone i am i couldn't my wasn't allowed
me to log in on my computer okay so do you have your documents on your phone yes i do
And I have it up on my phone. Let me just go back to where.
And do you have an iPhone, ma'am? Yes, I do.
So, yeah, once you hit that share screen.
It should take you to like documents you want to share and then you will click on it.
ma'am if you continue to have issues i believe your architect is also here
agada um she may be able to share her screen okay let's do that for you and then you can testify
okay that works would you like to do that yes please so what she'll do is she'll put the screen
there she'll put the documents up and then you'll testify okay wonderful great thank you why don't
why don't we let her in the architect and then we'll go from there if she has her hand raised
yes they've been promoted to panelists thank you hi so all we would need you to do is to share the
share the documents
Good morning
Board Agata Reister, Landmark Architectural
Design. Okay, just
share the documents for her and
she'll do the testimony. Sure, yes.
Okay, so
can you, Cindy, can you see
the documents? Yes, yes, I can.
So why don't you start going through them?
Right. So in the beginning, so should we just go right to the plans that show?
Just go through a couple of documents.
All right.
So these are just the.
Yeah, I see that. We'll go with that one.
OK. So this is just showing drawings. Yes.
So this.
So it's showing you what we're looking, what we're proposing to increase.
And as you can see that there's a currently there is a roof deck on our third on our fourth floor that we're looking to form into a family room slash bedroom.
um the existing structure in our front where there is kind of like a steeple and the
the front right hand side we're just going to keep the seam and then uh partially build out
on the back right half of the house um which is there yeah so on the photos you can see um
our house is the house on the left and the house that i was referring to earlier which had
did that expansion you can see that their left part of their house which is what we're looking
to do is to the left part of our house is uh four stories high and so we're looking to kind of match
that to kind of make the houses look similar and increase the height on that side of the house
so that's um i mean basically that's all we're we're looking to do we're not looking to
uh go into anything else as far as you know our um property line and taking any by any of our
outdoor space so why don't we do this could you show the letter from uh the rco yes
okay so you you everybody was in favor of this correct okay
All right. Questions from the board?
No, Chair.
No, Mr. Chairman.
Questions or comments from the virtual audience?
I see no hands.
Planning Commission.