It was a very good and productive meeting, and I believe there's a representative of
that organization on the call, and I'll entertain any questions from the board and also have
my client adopt my testimony, Mr. Chairman.
Why don't we have your testimony adopted?
Ms. Phillips, can you raise your hand?
Mr. Phillips, you've been allowed to speak.
good morning could you state your name and spell for the court reporter
good morning akia phillip a-k-i-a-p-h-i-l-l-i-p right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes proceed counsel uh good morning miss phillips
have you heard my testimony today yes and you were on the entire call during my presentation
yes and if you had the opportunity to testify would you adopt my testimony as your own and
as true and correct yes thank you mr officer appreciate it all right questions from the board
no mr chairman no mr chairman
no mr chairman questions or comments from the virtual audience
i see no hands chair planning commission thank you good morning chair bergman this is ian hegerty
on behalf of the philadelphia city planning commission last name spelled h-e-g-a-r-t-y
right do you swear or firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
yes sir proceed thank you good morning board members this proposed special exception will
not cause detrimental impacts to the neighborhood beyond what normally might be expected. And so
the city planning commission recommends that the board grant the special exception. Thank you.
MI 2022-003-265-4087-1.5 Lancaster Avenue. There's no RCO letter on record,
but because of the overwhelming support, I vote yes. Carol Tannery, my vote is yes.
James Snow, my vote is yes.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes.
Thank you, counsel.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board.
Number five, MI 2021-005-162-1007 Brandywine Street,
Jessica Diaz.
Ms. Diaz is coming back in as a panel.
Good morning, Ms. Diaz.
Good morning, Ms. Diaz.
Ms. Diaz, please unmute yourself.
Ms. Diaz?
Yes, sir.
All right, good morning.
Could you state your name, please, and spell it for the court reporter?
Yes, sir.
My name is Jessica Diaz, D-I-A-Z.
I am the owner, occupier, and applicant for 1007 Brandywine Street.
With me today is my architect.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, sir.
So your architect could advise you, but you have to testify.
Now, you had communications with us yesterday.
did you send in a letter requesting a vote this morning yes sir you did yes sir okay hillary
miss diaz we we received the letter requesting reconsideration and i sent you a lengthy email
in response that that was not the appropriate request in this case and um advised you once
again, that you could request a non-protunk hearing to be able to file a late appeal of
your new refusal. So far, we have not received that request. That's what I would like.
Okay. So what we need is a letter from you. So what I want you to do is if you would
do a letter now email to our attorney and i'll come back to you in a little bit i'll hear another
case and i'll come back to you but we need that letter right away is that right hillary
yes that is that is correct and um we could even if we need to um address it at um an afternoon
session we can because it's a non-protongue request this is not a hearing on the case
So here's what we'll do is, Ms. Diaz, send a letter, and we'll do that when we do the first three cases on the two o'clock, okay?
the first three cases on the two o'clock okay yes we'll address the request at two o'clock
Yes, we'll address the request.
and mr chair i i think um uh mr rudder from the law department i just wanted to weigh in briefly
on this matter sure good morning mr rudder and mr rudder we cannot hear you oh sorry i keep
forgetting i have a switch state your name and spell for the court reporter sure uh leonard f
reuter uh last name is r-e-u-t-e-r um senior attorney for the city of philadelphia i just
want to let you know that do you wait one minute do you swear a firm to tell the truth the whole
truth nothing but the truth i do proceed uh yeah i just want to let you know that ms emerson
reached out to me about this matter um i guess just to get an indication of what the city's
position would be and we uh then because it took so long for me to uh to log on our network's not
really working well today um uh i guess i missed it but it sounds like uh we've already it's
already been explained about doing a non-protunk appeal and i just want to let i don't know that
i'll be able to to put this on the record at two o'clock but um if i can't i would just let
the board know that the city has no objection uh to a non-protunk appeal in this matter given the
fact that it was uh you know just kind of a administrative you know technical uh mistakes
that were made that were we don't believe were the applicant's fault so thank you very much so
miss diaz we'll be back with you at two o'clock okay yes sir thank you thank you for uh your
patience, though. Okay, so case number nine, MI 2021-002-835-2351 North 31st Street. Leo Movihill
is the attorney. The RCO letter has not been received yet and needs more information from
the attorney but we're going to go on with the case chair i don't see mr mulvihill in the audience
okay uh there's no hands okay um so mi 2021 002 835 2351 north 31st street this case is continued
Mark must be tried.
Is there anyone on the morning schedule whose case has not been called in the virtual audience?
I see no hand.
I'm sorry, we're here.
We have Diane Monroe now.
Ms. Monroe, please unmute yourself.
hi could you state your name please hi diane monroe could you spell for the court reporter
yes d-i-a-n-e monroe m-o-n-r-o-e do you swear or firm do you swear or firm to tell the truth
the whole truth nothing but the truth i i yes i will tell you tell me what case you you have an
interest in 1007 brandywine street uh you just spoke on it yeah and i'm i'm about to go out of
town and uh you continuing to two o'clock i just want to make sure we did submit letters of support
for this yeah so so so ma'am that we're going to we're going to we're continuing after two o'clock
to just to take a vote on the fact that the person can present the case at a later date
so we're not going to have the case at a later date okay okay okay i just want to make sure you
guys got our oh good good and and by the way thanks for calling in we really appreciate that
thank you miss monroe this is hillary we we did receive your letters of support so there's just
there's just an issue and I believe you've been on some of the emails between myself and Ms. Diaz
there's just been an issue with the new refusal and an appeal being filed so we just we need to
have that all sorted out before we can have the actual hearing on this case. Okay great thank you
so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the virtual audience whose case has not
been heard. I see no hands, Chair. Okay. She ever wanted two o'clock? Oh my god. Okay. Chair,
oh my god okay chair just went up i'm sorry wait a minute there's somebody yes there's one hand up
a hand just went up. I'm sorry.
i think mr alia please unmute yourself and wait for the chair
hi could you state your name and spell for the court reporter please
my name is paul p-a-u-l alia e-l-i-a do you swear or firm to tell the truth the whole truth
nothing but the truth i do could you tell me what case you're interested in yes it's the pen charter
three thousand that case is at two o'clock sir yes should i um i'm the coordinating rco uh
acting chair so do i do i have to register for the two o'clock or can i do that now
um two o'clock you just come in using the same login that you did for this one i see
okay so i'll go back thank you thank you for checking is there anyone else in the virtual
audience that's it chair i don't see anybody two o'clock thank you everyone all right bye-bye
thank you too wow
And everyone's already here, Chair, so you can begin with as you can do it.
I'll be ready in one minute.
Good afternoon.
My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be sharing this afternoon's ZBA hearings.
With me is Carol Tenere, our vice chair.
Present, Mr. Chair.
Thomas Holliman, our board member.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
And James Snell, our board member.
Okay, he should be on very shortly.
Also, here is our board attorney, Hillary Emerson.
and our ZBA hearing supervisor, Lakeisha Dandy.
Before we begin, here is our virtual format.
Be advised that proceedings are being recorded.
By participating, you acknowledge your agreement to be recorded.
The video will be available by contacting tanyasunkett 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 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute.
To enter an appearance statement, call 267-270-5548.
Leave your email address and the address of the property in question.
And lastly, the question answer box on the screen is not for comments or testimony.
Any comments should be directed to our executive director, Tanya Sumpit.
So let's look at continuances for this afternoon's list.
Number two, MI 2022-004-231-4501 Woodhaven Road.
That case is continued.
Number three.
What number was that?
That was, what number?
Number two.
I'm sorry.
Yep. Number three, MI 2022 001 770 5021 Aspen Street. That's a joint request between the
attorney and the RCO. That case is continued. Number four, MI 2022 004 229 3301 Emerald Street.
That case is continued. Number six, MI 2022-001-768-1625 North 18th Street. That case is continued.
you. Number 10, MI-2022-003-586-1409 North Bouvier Street. That case is continued along with
the other, the case number 15, which is next door. MI-2022-003-590-1411 North Bouvier Street.
that case is also continued. And number 14, MI 2021-002-115-4112.
That case is also continued. Does anyone have any comments about the continuances that I just read out?
Mr. Chairman, Jim Spell here.
Thank you, Jim.
Thank you, Jim.
Good afternoon, Chair. This is Fatina L.
We have Sherman Toppin.
Hi, could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?
Yes, good morning, Mr. Chair. My name is Sherman Toppin, S-H-E-R-M-A-N, T-O-P-P-I-N.
Right. Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
All right, what case do you want to talk about?
And I'm...
You're breaking up, sir.
The address is 1625 North 18th Street. It is scheduled at 2 o'clock today. This is really a joint request for continuance between our applicant and the lead RCO, William Howard.
we've been exchanging emails to have a second RCO meeting and we're in the process of in that
in the course of that meeting working out a community benefits agreement and I've sent a
letter to this I'll be right with you that's number six on the list Mr. Chair it's already
been continued I called that for a continuance and I'll make note that that is a joint request
that's mi202 001 768 1625 north 18 street thank you for calling in sir thank you all right any
other requests for continuances i see no hands chair i also have two cases
i'm sorry chair a hand just went up okay
okay. Andrea, last name beginning with F. Please ask. Hi, could you state your name and spell for
the court reporter? Of course. My name is Andrea, A-N-D-R-E-A. My last name is Formosa, F as in
Frank, O-R-M as in Mary, O-S-A. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. Yes, sir. What case do you want to talk about? Um, it's 8200 Ridge
Avenue. There was supposed to be October 26th at 2 PM. Yes. You're, you're not the attorney,
right? I'm not, no, I'm the tenant that lives there. Okay. So that case is going to be called.
That's the last one on the list at two o'clock. Okay. So do I just stay here and wait? I would,
stay on the list and when i call you can come on thank you okay sure all right there are no more
hands here okay all right thank you uh number 11 mi 2022 003 308 5774 north 20th street
there are no exhibits for this and we believe there's also um an attorney may be needed
The owner is 20th LLC.
I see no hands, Chair.
Okay, so number 11, MI 2022-003-308-5774 North 20th Street.
This case is continued.
And also, number 16, MI 2022-001-804-4430 Pine Street.
Dorothy Ann Hamill is the attorney.
We have no exhibits.
This is the second listing.
Ms. Hamill is not in attendance, and there's no hands here.
Okay, thank you.
So MI 2022-001-804-4430 Pine Street, this case is continued, marked must be tried.
Okay, we're going to go to our add-on list.
So our first case on the add-on list.
I'll be right with you.
Okay, our first case on the atom list, MI 2021-005-162-1007-Brandy1.
0-0-5-1-6-2-10-0-7 Brandywine Street.
Jessica Diaz, please.