Correct the spelling of Mr. Shahid's name.
can you hear me now we can john very good okay very good okay i'm using my i'm using my phone
thank you okay okay chair we have 26 attendees we can start the recording thank you
good morning my name is bill bergman and i will be chairing the zba hearings this morning
With me is our vice chair, Ismail Shahid.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our board member, Thomas Holliman.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
And today we also have LeBaron Leonard Palmer from Development Services will be serving as our alternate board member.
Oops, apologies. Good morning, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning.
Also present is Hillary Emerson, our attorney, and our executive director, Tanya Sunkett.
Here's our virtual format.
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Leave your email and the address of the property in question.
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All comments should be directed to our Executive Director, Tanya Sunken.
Let's look at our schedule today.
Number two, MI 2022-006-009-2055 Cemetery Avenue, Cases Continued, Attorney Moving Party.
Number six, MI 2023-001-534-4827 North A Street, This Case is Continued.
Number seven, MI 2023-001-445-611 Distance Street. This case is continued. And number 13, MI 2023-001-512-1307 East Moimensing Avenue. This case is continued.
does anyone have any comments hold hold one minute here let's see here I think I have one
or does anyone have any comments relative to the cases I just called for denuances
good morning chair this is Fatina I'll be your co-host for this morning
thank you you're welcome I see no I see no handshare sorry apologies
And number 11, MI 2022-007-612-5204-206 North Lawrence Street, is Kevin Kim in the audience?
Kevin Kim, you've been allowed to speak. Please unmute yourself.
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Kevin Kim here.
Mr. Kim, just for the record, state your name and spell for the court stenographer.
Kevin Kim, K-E-V-I-N, K-I-M, attorney for the applicant.
Right.
Or do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Mr. Kim, are you going to be ready to go on today?
I am okay.
I am 90% back to normal.
Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm not ready to call your case now, but I'll be calling
it shortly, okay?
Great.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to make sure you were in the audience.
Okay, thank you.
all right thank you are there any other requests for continuances
i see no hands chair okay so number three mi 2022-006
Okay, so number three, MI 2022-006-085, 5519 North 4th Street.
We have no exhibits.
This is the second listing.
The applicant is Jean Simmons, Janelle Simmons.
Simmons.
We have no exhibits.
First listing, no one appeared.
I see no handshake.
Okay, so MI 2022-006-085-5519 North 4th Street, this is the second listing, we have no exhibits, no one appeared the first time, I vote to dismiss.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is to dismiss.
Ishmael Shaheen, my vote is to dismiss.
That's good, thank you.
Number five, MI-2022-002-851-2328, North Natrona Street.
This is the third listing.
We have information this case will be withdrawn, but we do not have a signed letter yet.
Thomas Bronson is the listed owner, and Elijah Cupid is the applicant.
Is anyone in the audience?
i see no handshare thank you mi2022-002-851-2328 north netrona street this is the third listing
uh i vote to dismiss thomas holloman my vote is to dismiss
ishmael shaheed my vote is to dismiss thank you um
Is that it? Okay. Okay. We're going to go to our add-on. MI 2022-001-058-332 Delancey Street. The vote on this will be continued to Wednesday, 10-11, October 11th at 9.30 a.m.
we're going to go to our regular list i'm going to start with number four
mi 2022 0028 actually mr mr share can we um can we just we'll save number four till later we can
actually just go ahead and start with number one okay thank you thank you we'll start with number
1. MI 2023-001-514, 5517 Chew Avenue. James Gleaton is the owner. Applicant.
There's a letter of support from the 12th Ward Democratic RCO.
good morning chairman i was right the button i kind of lost could you could you state your
name please and spell for the court scenario yes uh james gleaton jr j-a-m-e-s g-l-e-a-t-o-n
right do you swear for him to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Yes, I do.
This application is for two-family household living in an existing structure.
The proposed use, two-family household living, is prohibited in the RSA 3 zoning district.
Our vice chair has just a few questions, sir.
Good morning, sir.
Have you emailed in all the required documents and exhibits that are needed and required to proceed with this case five days in advance of this area?
I'll be honest, no, it was not five days in advance.
I was actually out of town and didn't get them in five days.
But all documents have been received and sent in now.
Hillary, have we received everything?
I don't see anything outstanding.
Mr. Gleetton is good to go.
All right.
Please proceed and share your screen, sir.
Thank you.
I'll share my screen here.
Okay, so first up, we will go with, let me know.
It's coming up.
Okay, can you see my screen?
It should be coming up any minute.
You're good.
All right, so what I'm showing right now, this is what the current zoning is.
As you can see, I'm in this highlighted in the house in the gray.
all of these homes here are RSA3
all of the
most of the block is already RM1
along with around the corner
so that's my first item to show
So that's my first item to show.
I will show
I will show, do you need to see my application for the refusal?
You can go buy it real quickly.
We've already seen it.
We'll go buy it real quickly.
Okay, we'll go buy it real quickly.
And why don't you start out by saying what you're trying to do?
Why don't you tell us what you want to do?
Yes, what I'm trying to do, currently, this is a single family home.
It was already kind of split up to be a duplex.
So, on the first floor, there is, as a matter of fact, let me share my other screen here.
Why don't you do that? Why don't you show us some photos of the property?
Okay. All right. We'll do that here.
Share screen.
That's my word document.
We'll start off here.
Okay. It should be here.
Okay. So, I see the screen there.
And so the lot size is 2930 square feet.
On the first floor, there's 500 square feet of living space.
There's one bedroom, one bath, a living room.
I added a kitchen.
There was no kitchen there, but anything else was already there.
We'll see pictures in a second.
There's a front door with the rear door exit to a deck.
The deck is 144 square feet in the rear.
I'm looking to make the second and third floor one unit, which would be 1,200 square feet, three bedrooms, one and a half bath, living room and a kitchen with an exit on the first floor.
And I'm proposing the emergency egresses for a window ladder from the second and third floor.
There is an exterior deck facing Chew Avenue, which is 84 square feet.
I'll show you pictures here, but you know what, hold on, I was on the wrong page there,
let me go back to that one, sorry, I clicked on the wrong word document, okay, click on
that one, and now I'll share, hold on here again, yeah, sorry about that.
that's the same document okay one second you should see uh
same one
i have that the wording at the beginning of the document let me go back here one more time here
sorry about sorry about this uh share
okay here we go okay it's the right document here
okay okay all right so this is the uh the front entrance here i'll slow slow down here put on a
word document to make this a little faster for everyone um pretty rco when we were talking about
meetings they were talking about having security lighting i already have a light here i was showing
here this is a motion detector light we come to the front door this house sits back a little bit
okay um showing on the side of the house in this picture here and i have another one zoom up there
is another motion detector light on the side of the house good um this picture here actually
shows you the zoomed in picture of the motion detector light okay good
this shows the the backyard and the side view of the deck i'll show in a second
So you're right back here for the first floor unit.
Was the first floor unit over there in place?
It was in place, but it did not have, like I said, the back room was just a kind of a storage room.
It didn't have a kitchen.
And when I was investigating having this possibly as a dual property, of course, they need to have a kitchen.
So that has been integrated.
And I'll show you those pictures there.
this is the rear deck again and this would be the second floor we'll be having the emergency
egress from it's not done here
i'm coming into the unit which i have recently renovated this is the front door
the bathroom had to be added on because there was only a half bath there now and i'll show you how
there's a stand-up shower this is the living room again the TV on the wall
here's the stand-up shower sliding into the bathroom here there's also a vanity
with a tall sink there so it's a it's a slender bathroom but it has all the
I think opponents need it.
This is going down the hallway there, not a whole lot to see there.
There's a small closet, it used to be just a half bath, but it's a closet now, going
down the hall.
One bedroom, and currently while you see things in there, while I'm renovating my
my oldest son asked me to live there. So he's, he's living there right now.
Just got, it's got a kitchen here, which used to be just a storage area.
It was actually like a doctor's office years ago. There was a tub here,
just a tub and a whole lot of mess kitchen, electric stove, microwave,
which has been installed kitchen sink, looking back down the hallway there.
Just refrigerator again.
The back door, which is the other side of the door is the deck.
I know these pictures are kind of redundant here, but we were talking to the RCUs.
They want to see many pictures.
Mr. Glenn, here's a couple of questions.
One is half your block is already RM1.
Am I right?
The other half, are there apart multiple family dwellings in those properties too?
No, they are single family.
To the right of me, they are – well, actually, this is the only single family house on the block.
The other houses are twins.
Yeah, but what I'm saying, are they already converted to multiple family, too?
No, to the right of me or to the left?
Which side?