Good morning, everyone. My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this meeting of the
Zoning Board of Adjustment. With me is our Vice Chair, Tanetta Graham. Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our Board Secretary, Cheryl L. Gaston. Present, Mr. Chairman. Board members, Michael Johns.
Present, Mr. Chairman. Iowyn, she should be here any minute, Layla Beebe.
And Layla should be on here. Present, Mr. Chairman. Well, thank you.
Also present is our board attorney, Lynn Reuter-Huber, our executive director, Ian Haggerty, and our board administrator, Lakeisha Dandy.
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Number one, MI-2025-000-438-4701-11 Edmond Street.
We have a Spanish interpreter for this.
Good morning, Mr. Chair.
This is Jason Handel.
I'll be taking it over briefly.
Thank you.
I have a hand up from Zhen Jin, or 11 to Eski.
From who?
Zen, yes.
Okay, Mr. Zen?
Yes, good morning.
I was just retained to represent this matter at Munn Street, so I am here on behalf of the applicant.
Okay, so Zen, I think we better wait until we get the Spanish interpreter.
So can you communicate with the appellant?
I was communicating to her daughter
so I think
I actually requested a Spanish interpreter last week
from the board
let's see if we have one
Ian do we have an interpreter
for this
Spanish interpreter if you're in the audience
could you please raise your virtual hand
we have a hand
from Coswell
do we have an interpreter did we see an interpreter
okay jason raise your volume a little bit too
Consuelo Villagomez, interpreter here.
Interpreter, could you please state and spell your name?
Name is first name Consuelo, C-O-N-S-U-E-L-O.
Last name Villagomez, Villas in Victor, I-L-L-A-G-O-M-E-Z.
Do you swear or affirm that you will interpret accurately, completely, and impartially from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish?
Yes, I do.
Okay. Could you please call the appellant? Name is Angela Garcia Perez.
Her name is Angélica García Pérez.
Señora Angélica García Pérez, ¿se encuentra aquí?
Right here.
Could you please ask her to state her name and spell for the stenographer?
Necesito, por favor, que me diga y me deletree su nombre completo para la stenógrafa.
Angélica Pérez García.
Tal cual como se escribe, Angélica Pérez García.
A-N-G-E-L-I-C-A, Perez, P-E-R-E-Z, Garcia, G-A-R-C-I-A.
All right.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, interpreter?
¿Usted jura o afirma decir la verdad?
The whole truth.
Toda la verdad.
and nothing but the truth
y nada más que la verdad
so council
so this is the sixth listing
we received
the documents late last
so we're going to dismiss this
but we're going to
waive the two year rule
so that you can come back
OK, OK, OK.
Michael Jones, my vote is to dismiss and to waive the two-year rule.
Michael Jones, vota igual.
Sheryl Gaston, my vote is to dismiss and waive the two-year rule.
Sheryl Gaston, vota igual, desestimar y eliminarla el periodo de espera de dos años.
Tanita Graham, my vote is to dismiss and waive the two-year rule.
Tanita Graham, vota lo mismo.
Tywin, my vote is yes. I mean, my vote is to dismiss and to waive the two-year rule.
Taya Wynn
también vota para desestimar
y eliminar el periodo de espera de dos
Laila Bibi, my vote is to dismiss and we have a
two-year rule. Mismo voto
por parte de Laila Bibi.
Okay. Interpreter,
thank you very much. And thank you, counsel.
Thank you. All right.
Muchas gracias. Great.
Number two, MI
2025-006-899.
one zero zero one two oh nine west glenwood um 41 50 kensington avenue llc is the listed owner
this is the second listing we have uh no doc no documents submitted um and we have several letters
of Opposition.
Good morning, Chair. Can you hear me?
I can.
Okay, I do not see any hands raised for that matter.
Okay, so MI 2025-006-899-1001-209 West Glenwood Avenue, I vote to dismiss.
Michael Johns, my vote is to dismiss.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is to dismiss.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is to dismiss.
I win, my vote is to dismiss.
Layla Beebe, my vote is to dismiss.
Number four, MI 2025, 006-975, 2015 Frankfurt Avenue.
This case is continued until 11-18-26 at 2 p.m.
Chair, I'm sorry, we have a hand up from Rachel Pritzker.
They're being promoted.
Rachel.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning. Could you please state and spell your name for the sonographer?
could you please state and spell your name for the sonographer?
Rachel, R-A-C-H-A-E-L.
Rachel, R-A-C-H-A-E-L, Pritzker, P-R-I-T-Z-K-E-R.
You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Rachel, you have comments about the case?
Yeah. So I represent the property owner here.
And obviously we're not in disagreement given the circumstances for a continuance.
Just I just asked the board to consider the history of this.
It's been continued a number of times.
It has support from the community and the council member and the opposition's attorney and now their client who's no longer with us has not expressed once real concerns or issues that we can address.
So I just ask that this was supposed to be a must be heard today.
And, you know, the continued delay is just causing the order.
I know. But if you notice, if you notice, is the other attorney online?
I think he should be there. Jordan? I believe he is, Mr. Chairman.
Hi, Chair. Jordan Rand is being promoted. Okay.
I'm here. Hi, Jordan. Could you please state your name and spell for the sonographer?
Yes, sir. Jordan Rand, J-O-R-D-A-N, last name R-A-N-D.
All right. Do you swear a friend to tell the truth, told the truth, nothing but the truth?
I do. Did you hear counsel's comments?
I did. Do you have any? And first of all, we're all very sorry to hear about your client,
but do you have any comments? I appreciate that. No, I'm kind of at a loss right now.
Okay. All right. So for the both of you, we did move this up. We put this at 1118 at 2 p.m.
And it will be marked must be heard then. Okay?
Okay. Thank you, Terrence.
Thank you.
all right wait wait we still have one more but you can you can sit down you can sit down
all right okay all right number seven is the one we want to counsel counsel counsel over here the
number seven is the one we want to call, right? MI-2026-003-018-4810 Aspen Street.
Vern Anastasio is the attorney.
Chair, they're being promoted to panelists. Thank you.
good morning good morning counsel could you please state and spell your name for this
stenographer yes it's verne anastasio a-n-a-s-t-a-s-i-o do you swear or firm to tell the
truth the whole truth nothing but the truth i do all right um so counsel this particular
case on Aspen Street. This is a resumptive hearing or reconsideration. Just so you know,
you make reference in there to plans that you submitted, but we don't have the plans.
They should be in the binder.
They're not in the binder. All right. So we're going to continue this case and we're going to
continue until 2 23 at 9 30 2 23 27 at 9 30 a.m okay and i know you have a couple other cases
today yes i do thank you okay thank you okay we're going to go to our first case
number three mi2026 004 576 99 10 frankfort avenue brett feldman is the attorney
Counsel, could you please state and spell your name for the stenographer?
We'll start again.
Good morning.
Mr. Chair and members of the board, Brett Feldman, 1835 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, B-R-E-T-T, Feldman, F-E-L-D-M-A-N.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
We also have, let's see here, a letter of unanimous support from West Torresdale.
A letter of unanimous support from West Torresdale and Morrell Park Civic Center, and also a letter of support from Council Member O'Neill.
Our vice chair has a few questions for you.
Good morning.
Have you submitted your documents and exhibits 14 days in advance of this hearing?
And this is a special reception, so do you wait for me to know your referral and stipulate to its accuracy?
All right.
Thank you.
You can see the screen and proceed with your case.
There's the old share screen today.
so again brett feldman 1835 market street um i represent uh the owner of 9910 um frankfurt avenue
and the ls moral as well as the property manager live-in management as well as the proposed tenant
advanced auto parts in this special exception application to convert um most of a um now it's
It's been vacant for some time, Rite Aid, into an advanced auto parts store of about 8,400 square feet in the large Morel Shopping Plaza in the Northeast.