Okay I just didn't see it on my two o'clock list that's why I asked. All right I'm sorry to have
repeat mr clinton just give me that calendar number again i have a 16 north southford street
on the calendar number
under number
somebody if anybody has it
it's not on our list so or it's calendar number 39528 39528 thank you 16 north is it south for
sal yes s-a-l-f-o-r-d okay o-r-d all right uh calendar number three nine five two eight
16 north south fourth street will be continued thank you very much i appreciate the time thank
calendar number four zero zero five four six one two south ninth street the attorney is david orphan
David you've been promoted to panelists you can unmute yourself and share your screen as necessary
Mr. Orphanides can you put your name and address on the record and spell your last name and then
I have two other questions. Sure my name is David Orphanides I'm with Orphanides and Turner
and i'm here on behalf of the owners of the subject property um the mean uh the
the owner who's here with me today is john bellazanzi okay do you swear or affirm to tell
the truth and nothing but the truth i do do you also agree to wait the reading of the refusal
and stipulate to its accuracy i do you may proceed
mr chairman should we swear in the person with david
you can do it now or when david's done with his presentation either way
a lot of wait there's done his presentation that way he'll ask if he adopts it okay we'll do it at
that point okay so um again david orphanetes um good afternoon 612 south 9th street um calendar
number 40054, also with the calendar number, newer calendar number with Eclipse M1-2020
or MI-2020-00088. You should have been submitted to you last week, my package that I'll be
going through today. And to roll through that, let me just go over to here for a second.
our exhibits so index our exhibit one is the posting of the photographs for today's hearing
of the posting of the notice and the notice of refusal um that we received um south night the
property fronts on south 9th street the west side of south 9th street and on the east side of south
percy street it goes through so the first few photos there are from south 9th here are the
photos from South Percy Street. As you can see, excuse me, we have our tax clearance certification
for the owners of the subject property included at Exhibit 2. Exhibit 3 is a deed showing that
Mr. Belizanzi, who's on the phone with me today, and his wife, Oriania Papadimitriou, are the
owners of the subject property so before is our aerial photograph for those of
For those of you that are familiar with this part of South Philadelphia
you that are familiar with this part of
or just south of South Street, again, we're located on the west side of South 9th Street.
You can see right here, and we go through to South Percy Street.
We're across from where the Whole Foods is located on the north side of South Street.
That's just down below that.
To the south of us is Bainbridge Street.
here's a close-up of the property 612 south 9th street you'll see as i proceed that my clients
also own 608 south 9th street and 610 south 9th street they live at 610 south 9th street
which similar to this property goes through from south 9th to south percy
they recently rehabilitated 608 south 9th street which i'm showing you right here which is two
properties to the north for a similar type of renovation is what we're doing today multi-family
in the front structure addition to the garage in the rear the existing garage in the rear to create
another dwelling unit to the rear of that and you'll see some photographs of the interior of
that property that has recently been developed that gives you an idea of the high level of high
quality of the renovation that's going to be happening here here's a view satellite image
from the east you can see a subject property the south 9th street facade extending all the way to
the rear the property occupies 100 of the lot except for a slight setback at south percy street
which we'll be maintaining where the garage is located at the back here is 610 right to the right
where my clients live and then to further to the right there the next property to the right is 608
south 9th this board recently um heard actually from my office uh application for variances for
the property located the next property to the north 606 and 608 south 9th street both for
um some dimensional variances for additions to that property and i was last to you for a um
for the music monkey jungle in one of the ground floor commercial units there so we've been this
this block or these couple properties here have been in front of the board several times
over the last several months here's an aerial from the north south percy street to the right
south ninth to the left some larger structures you can see here on the opposite side of south
Percy Street from us on the west side view from the west aerial here you have
again right now you have an existing structure we have our four-story
structure at the front which drops down towards the rear and then the garage
you'll see in some photographs back to South Percy Street the plan is and James
Campbell and Eric Horowitz are on the phone from Campbell Thomas architects
and they're the architects for the project they can get in a little more
detail but essentially what we're talking about doing is the same thing they did at 608 south
9th which is right over here to the left two properties to the left which is to demolish
and create an open courtyard in the middle take out the middle part of the existing structure the
one-story portion and create an inner courtyard we're going to be converting the front into a
multi-unit dwelling and in the back you'll see there's a one-story garage on top of that we're
adding two stories and that's going to be a single individual unit. The property is zoned RM1
and it does allow for more residential units than what we're proposing. We're proposing fewer
residential units than what are permitted. And here's a view to this from the south.
The property, as I indicated, is zoned RM1, which allows for the proposed multifamily use. We do not
have a use variance in this case. There are just some dimensional variances. You can see South
street to the north we have cmx 2.5 and cmx2 properties to the north of us to the west of us
rsa5 across the street and as i indicated even though the property the budding property to the
north is occupied by my clients as a single family two properties from us to the north 608
south 9th street was approved for a multi-family or was permitted for a multi-family and then you
multi-family mixed use extending further to the north to south street copy of our zoning permit
application at tab six which outlines the three-family dwelling that we're proposing
for the ninth street south ninth street structure in this and the single family dwelling at south
percy street we'll be maintaining uh parking uh in the garage existing garage at south percy street
You will see with our revised drawings that we've reduced the height of the structure
that we've reduced the height of the structure slightly from what was originally proposed.
slightly from what was originally proposed.
Our zoning drawings that we originally submitted, you'll see when we get to the revised drawings,
the layout remains essentially the same here. You can see that I'm circling with my cursor.
The open area that we're creating in the middle, there'll be some rear decks off the back of the now single structure
that'll be fronting on south the west side of south knight and some decks to the rear of the
structure that'll be fronting on south percy street here are the two exist uh two car parking
um it was the property was previously approved for accessory off-street parking and we'll be
maintaining that um the as part of our revisions we did uh while we were waiting to get in front of
the zoning board the architects took the project to the board of building standards for some uh
considerations regarding egress and those were addressed and one of the
things you'll see in the revised drawing is that there's an additional fire
scape that's been added to the rear that then leads to a designated egress
through the garage at South Percy Street out to South Percy Street the proposed
elevations you to the left you'll have the proposed elevations at the South
9th Street structure all the way to the left these were the original drawings
they've been revised lately with the with the revised drawings but essentially
what we're doing is we're the fourth floor of the existing structure that
fronts on South 9th Street is a very low fourth floor ceiling so what we're
doing is we're essentially raising that slightly to make a more functional fourth
floor here you can see the decks at the rear that we're talking about for each
of the units and then here's the um the proposed structure at south percy street right now it's a
one-story garage and we're adding the two-story addition above balconies juliet balconies at the
second floor fronting on south percy street a nicer uh entrance uh man door uh pedestrian door
and then here are the decks that we're proposing off of the rear of the structure at south percy
street copy of the notice of refusal as i indicated we do not have any use for fusals
we have an open area refusal as as i indicated presently the structure occupies a hundred percent
of the lot but with the demolition of a portion of it what we have left is well not a hundred
percent just short of a hundred percent um because there is a small and i'll show you on the site plan
there's a structure that extends to the rear as it presently exists in which we're maintaining
that building line is slightly within the rear property line at south percy street
so this area that i'm circling right here with the cursor is the the only existing open area on the
property as it presently stands and again we're actually increasing the open area by demolishing
this center section of the existing structure and uh and creating two separate structures and again
multi uh multiple structures and multiple principal uses are permitted in rm1 with that being said
we have a 20.32 proposed open area whereas 25 is required in intermediate lots in the rm1
zoning district and 38 feet is the permitted height we're going slightly above that uh at
the front well not slightly but above that at the front but you'll see in the elevations for the
existing structure the existing structure exceeds what's permitted in the rm1 zoning district and
we're only modifying that slightly the structure at south percy street the two-story addition upon
the garage will be comply or be below the 38 foot permitted height copy of our appeal to the zoning
board in the profit project information form so here we have the revised drawings again there's
a fire escape in this area that we're proposing we've modified ever so slightly i think by about
an inch um the deck there's a small recess deck here off the rear of the proposed structure itself
percy street that we've modified slightly and again we've lowered the what we started with
as far as the p the ridge um at the south ninth street structure and the top of the dormers they've
been dropped the foot we did increase the height ever so slightly of the percy street structure
I think by two inches or so but again that is well within the permitted 38-foot
height limit for RM1 so we're not building that structure as high as it
could be but just as high as we need so here you can see Jim Campbell and Eric
uh Jim Campbell and Eric Horowitz put together this image um historically you have the three
Horowitz put together this
story main floors and then you have a very shallow fourth floor with dormer windows off the front and
the back um photos from 19 photo from 1954 and a photo from 2019 I have more current photos further
on in my exhibit book and then you could see essentially what we're proposing here to the
right ever so slight increase in the height at the ridge which won't be noticeable from the street
and won't have any impact on the properties surrounding us other than perhaps our own
property to the north and again they're very very in a very minuscule or de minimis fashion
we are obviously to the north of the properties to the south of us which we don't know
Campbell Thomas prepared this axiomatic volumetric, volumetric comparison between existing and
proposing.
And again, to the left is the existing structure, the four-story structure that drops down to
the lower structure to Percy Street with the small, teeny setback from Percy.
And here is what we're proposing.
So you can see what we've done is we've kind of increased the floor to ceiling and
headroom at the fourth floor extended a little bit back which you can see is clearly designated
on the site plans that we provided the zoning drawings that were provided to lni with the
application and then our revised drawings and then you here you can see the two-story addition on top
of the one-story garage to the rear here's the view from the northwest existing to the left
proposed to the right. Our floor plans we have at Exhibit 13. I can have the architects go through
that with you with any questions. But again, three family dwelling at the front, one family dwelling
at the project on the building on South Percy Street. Here's a current photograph of the front
of south ninth the existing structure the surrounding properties as i described my my client
uh lives in this property right next door to the right and here is the uh which is 610 and then 608
is the property that was recently re rehabilitated similar to what we're presently proposing the next
building to the north is what i mentioned was a different owner other clients about my firms and
for dimensional variances and then it came back for use for one of the commercial units on the
ground floor there are other photos at tab 14 that you can take a look at i would like you to
see this is the rear existing rear of and this is on page 21 of exhibit 14 the existing rear
at south percy street the existing garage that we'll be putting two stories above to the left
of that top photo is my client's property with their garage and then the deck that they have on
top of that garage at the present time again if you wanted to take a little more time with the
photos you could my client can go to great length about the condition of the property
interior of the property it is was is and was in terrible shape you know if you scroll through the
photographs you can see how bad the existing building is and was and they're on the top of
this photograph this page you can see my client pointing out just that fact skylights in bad
shape walls exposed there's interestingly a safe at the rear of the first floor but if you go here
color I just want to show you this is this is some of the things in the upper floor I mean it
clearly has not been updated this is a second floor and a very long time my client can tell
you how bad it was to be cleaned out here's an existing kitchen area toilet
here's the bathroom for what it is so taking a blighted building and turning
it into what you'll see is here you'll see at the back of at the end of tab 15
photographs of the interior of similar building at 608 that he recently is
finishing renovating you can see the high quality of the finishes that he's
done throughout the building exposed brick and this is basically what he
plans to do utilizing the lower area the egress wells or the bilko doors
Bill code doors opening them up so that light can get to the lower levels
is opening them up so that light can get to the lower levels.
But here you can see
Some of the things that he's done and that if you know clear stories going up two floors things that he plans on doing at this property
i did include a tab 16 zoning archives for our property for 608 and 610 if you care to look at
them again 610 is my client's property utilized as a single family 608 if you wanted to see
what was permitted for the similar project to the north we there was some questions about
south percy street whether it was on the city plan or not it is and i've included that information at
tab 19. tab 21 and 22 are the rm1 use and dimensional requirements per the zoning code
tab 23 is the email from the planning commission designating bella vista neighbor association
as the as the coordinating rco the list of addresses our 14 303 notice for the community
group meeting that was held um our certificate mailing uh documentation of that is also tab 23
and then at tab 24 you can see our um letter of non-opposition from that community group from
bella vista neighbors association um our community group meeting was um held back in in march and
then um i did reach out to councilman squilla's office both to marie barron and sean mcgonigle
i've not heard back from them as to their position on on the case but you can see a tab 24
I'm highlighting with my cursor the non-opposition of the community group
following their March 10th community group meeting.
With that, I would ask, hey, John, can you, if you're unmuted,
can you unmute yourself so the chairman can swear you in?