Either side.
Yes, there are some.
There's a combination in that zone where it's RM1.
There are a combination of homes, residences that are just single family, but some have been converted to multiple.
Okay. And when you went to the 12th Ward Democratic Committee, how'd they vote?
They support it. I can show you that letter.
And let me show you my last picture before I go there.
Because they had mentioned the picture.
There's supposed to be a picture of me with some of my phone.
I don't have it here. I'll bring that up now.
but their comment was support and they were adamant about uh having dirty lights no no
that's curry lights the um something here it is right here okay
and then you can see the screen i go down a little bit okay i have multiple screens
support yep and then their comment was about i'm sorry i thought i had the picture there
but it was showing
let's see the comment here
six near neighbors right
yes okay
they had
the comment was about having the roof ladders
right okay
yeah all right
questions from the board
no Mr. Chairman
no Chair
questions or comments
from the virtual audience
chair we have charles richardson
good morning mr richardson good morning mr chair charles richardson from the office of
councilwoman cindy bass room 508 city hall richardson is spelled r-i-c-h-a-r-d-s-o-n
you swear our firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes sir please
proceed. Councilwoman has no opposition to granting the variance for this property.
Thank you for taking the time to call us. We appreciate it. Is there anyone else in the
virtual audience? I see no hands, Chair. Planning Commission. Thank you, Chairman,
and good morning. David Vecto, F-E-C-T-E-A-U, with the City Planning Commission. Do you swear or
affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes, sir, I do. Please
proceed sir thank you sir uh mr chairman and board members the comprehensive plan recommends no
change to the residential single-family zoning at this location this property has a documented
history as a two-family dwelling and so the city planning commission recommends the board grant
the proposed use variance for two dwelling units thank you um hillary this is the one we want to add
uh variance for parking for parking we need to yes mr fleeton is there any off-street parking
at this property um there's all street parking yes right directly in front of the property
There's off-street parking, yes, directly in front of the property.
No, but off-street, like on the property itself?
Oh, no, no, there is not.
Okay, because the property currently is owned RSA 3, which would require one parking spot on the property per unit.
Since you don't have that, that's another variant that should have been listed on the refusal.
The board will just need to address that in their vote.
Thank you.
So MI-2023-001-514-5517 Shoe Avenue, I vote yes.
Thomas.
Proviso.
Vote also includes the variance data for parking.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes with Proviso.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes with Proviso.
You have your votes.
We're going to go to number nine, MI 2023-001-453-5446 King Sesson Avenue.
David Spridell is the owner applicant.
This is a pro se.
david sprittle has been promoted to panelists good morning sir could you state your name
please and spell for the court stenographer you hear me we can uh david's david b sprittle
could you spell it please for the court sonographer d-a-v-i-d
s-p-r-i-d-d-l-e right do you swear for him to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but
the truth yes okay so this application is for use as a takeout restaurant in an existing structure
yes the proposed use takeout restaurant is expressly prohibited in the rsa5 zoning district
but there is a letter of support from the southwest philadelphia district services
our vice chair has a few questions for you sir okay 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 hearing yes thank you please yes okay thank you you can share your
screen use that clear it share it okay what i said
is that right well you got you got to bring up whatever you want to present now you got to go
into your file okay do I have to bring this the stuff up that I sent in yes okay
i think it's you uh you you who not uh okay that was a news service anyway
i'm trying to go in my um here we go to what i um what i sent in
Thank you.
Thank you.
There they go.
In order to share your files, you will have to unshare your screen, open the file that you plan on sharing, and then start sharing again.
to unshare my screen yes where'd i say it should be at the bottom okay
open the file
let me download it
Chair, if you would like to give him time to work on his technical issue.
What we're going to do is we're going to move on.
We're going to call you back later.
And then by then, see if you can have your file straight.
So how do I do it so I have it up?
So you said go to my downloads and have it up?
No, that's not what I said.
Wherever you say it today.
And then you start sharing.
We're going to get back to you, okay?
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
You have to go out now.
All right.
We're going to move to number six.
We're going to move to number eight.
MI-2023-001-515-2221 South Gouvere Street. Mary Rose Roach is the attorney for the owner.
Letter of support from Broad Street West RCO.
Ms. Roach is coming back in as a panelist thank you
Good morning, counsel.
She's not in all the way yet, Chair.
She's coming back in, though.
I'm fine.
Ms. Roach?
It seems like we're having a problem promoting her.
Nikki IT, would you be able to help promote her?
Because it's not letting us, please.
I'm not getting in there.
No chair.
Nikki, are you there?
why don't we why don't we just move on and come back to this one okay we'll call this again
thank you chair now work in the backgrounds to reach her
number 10 mi2023 001 517 2532 north 22nd street joseph consul is the attorney
we're waiting for an rco letter meeting was held 713 and 817 by all in the family
Joseph Consul is coming back in as a panelist. Thank you.
Can you guys hear me?
Good morning, Mr. Consul.
Could you please state your name as spelled for the court stenographer?
Yes, it's Joseph, J-O-S-E-P-H.
Last name is Consul, C-O-N-S-O-L-E.
Great.
Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, sir.
Do you identify your client in a relationship to this property?
The client is Ms. Tamar Smith, the owner of Layla's Way Incorporated, which owns the property.
Our vice chair has just a few questions for you, sir.
Good morning, counsel.
Do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to his equity?
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 hearing?
Yes, and the RCO just sent an email about 30 seconds ago to everyone.
Okay. Thank you. Please proceed and share your screen.
Is that sharing my packet?
Okay. So the property is 2532 North 22nd Street. Here is a view of the front of the property. Here's a view of the side of the property. Back to the front, that entrance on the corner there leads upstairs to an apartment.
And this entrance here is the commercial space. And so you've got two separate entrances. According to the zoning archives, the property has been a takeout restaurant with one family on top, a store with one family on top.
It doesn't say what it just says store and a daycare with one family on top that the most recent approved use was a daycare with a single family home on top of that.
What we're seeking to do, Layla's Way, is an organization that does behavioral therapy for children, and that use group practitioner, because as I'll show you in a second, she has several highly licensed folks that work for her organization.
Group practitioner is a special exemption here in CMX1.
so um you know generally we believe because there'll be less children than was permitted
in the daycare the hours are um similar that we don't believe that this use will have detrimental
effects on the neighborhood uh although the rco just sent a letter saying they disagree
um which i don't have in my packet yet but i'll uh try to bring it up so we met with them twice
we met with them in august and we met with them in july they made claim in their letter
that we hadn't posted any notices but we have photos showing that this was posted
on the property when the corn rent was required like we do for all of our projects we submitted
plans showing the breakdown of the commercial space and the residential space on top
and we submitted our other documents as well that are required
and we only got the we had sent a proof of no tax no taxes owed prior but
we sent the tax clearance certificate in this morning and there's a copy of it
there. As I mentioned, all of the folks that work for Layla's Way
As I mentioned, all of the folks that work for Layla's Way are highly credentialed, board-certified behavior analysts and psychologists.
We have those licenses here.
And then the zoning archive just showing all the old uses.
We believe that this is an ideal spot.
I'll call my client in a second to describe what her organization does.
We couldn't really make any headway with the RCO.
I'm sure that they're on the call to discuss their position.
There was really no use that they would agree would be acceptable here, especially not what we're proposing.
um so we just feel like they were not interested in having this property um occupied despite the
fact that it has a long history of being a commercial space and a residential space on top
and has been derelict for a long time so um we're coming in she's gonna fix it up and it'll it should
be an asset um to the community that's that's our opinion um so i'd like to call miss tamar smith
Well, finally, I'd like to add that it is a special exception, and so we believe that the standard is certainly met here in that having a small therapy center for children with highly qualified staff is beneficial and not a use that would go against the group practitioner use, which is a special exception, therefore, we believe this should be allowed.
So I'm going to call Ms. Tamar Smith to raise her hand.
Tamar Smith, please unmute yourself and wait for the chair.
Good morning. Could you state your name, please, and spell for the court sonographer?
Tamar Smith, T-A-M-A-R-S-M-I-T-H.
Do you swear or firm, tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Proceed, counsel.
Good morning, Ms. Smith.
Yes. Did you hear my testimony just now about your problem?
Do you agree with what I said and do you adopt it as your own?
Would you very briefly just describe to the board the services that your organization provides?
Sure. So we have been providing applied behavior analysis services to the city of Philadelphia.
Majority of our clients are Medicaid clients.
We've been providing a service for the last five years.
We currently have a location that's located at 138 West Shelton Avenue, where we provide services from 9 to 2 p.m. for children between the ages of 2.7 years old and five years old, but you can't be in kindergarten.
through our five years of being there we have never had any safety issues or concerns with
any of the neighbors in that neighborhood our clients has always been able to be maintained
and cared for our ratio is three staff to four clients at the most it may be five but specifically
for this space we will only have a limit of about eight kids in that space per day
um and our goal is to service children between the ages of 2.5 and 5 like we do at our current
center and we're breaking the services down for that um location to be from 9 to 12 so we'll have
two sessions 9 to 12 in the morning and then another session that is from 12 30 to 3 15 i