Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes with Proviso.
Ray McAdams, my vote is yes
with Proviso. I win, my vote is yes
with Proviso.
Maybe just stay there, right?
So I have,
just so we're clear, I have two more with you
in the two o'clock
list. Correct. And I want to go
and get ready for the 3.30 list
and you're the only one
that'll be heard on that, okay?
Okay, sorry for keeping the board.
So here, so we're going to do this.
We're going to hear them both together
but vote separately is what we have, okay?
Understood.
So MI 2025-004-750-227 Fairmont Avenue,
TB 263-537
and then 13 is
MI 2025
004-751-227
Fairmount Avenue
TA 263-537
The letter of support from Northern Liberties
Neighbors Association
Could you identify your client and relationship
to the property? Sure, my client
Mine is Fairmount Residences, LLC, and the principal of that LLC is on the call.
His name is Mayer, M-E-I-R, Badush, capital B-A-D-U-S-H.
Our vice chair has a few questions.
Good afternoon.
Have you submitted your documents five days in advance of this hearing?
I have.
And do you waive the reading of the refusals and stipulate to their accuracy?
Okay, thank you. You can share your screen to begin with your case.
Okay, thank you.
You can share your screen and begin with your case.
Thank you.
Is that visible, Mr. Chairman?
Okay. So there's two proposals before the board today, two applications, 227A and 227B. I'll do B first, but the testimony for B would also apply to A. And when we get to A, I would ask that the testimony submitted for B be included within A.
Okay, so this is a demolition of existing garages and the replacement of those existing garages with a front facade of a garage and parking spaces behind it.
And I'll explain that as I walk through.
Table of contents, A1 to A10.
That has to be admitted into evidence.
And here's the refusal.
So demolition of an existing fence.
It's really not a fence.
their garages, and the erection of a new fence wall, which is really not a fence,
it's a front facade of a garage, and the inclusion of two accessory surface parking spaces,
accessory to two single-family homes, both of which we have approval for.
And I'll explain this as we go forward.
So the one refusal has to do with the height of the so-called fence is 12 feet high and has no opacity,
whereas a fence is supposed to not exceed four feet in height
and be 50% opaque.
The second issue is accessory parking has to be accessed
from a shared driveway, alley, or a rear street.
And when I show you the photographs and the renderings,
there's already existing garages there with curb cuts.
And again, we're removing the garages
and putting open-air parking spaces with a front facade that looks like a garage.
We do have a letter of support from Northern Liberties Neighbors Association for both 227A and 227B.
All right, here's the photograph, so let me give you some context.
This is Fairmount Avenue where my cursor is, and to the right or to the east is American Street.
This is an overgrown area.
The trees have been removed, and there's two single-family homes going up on each of these addresses.
And the idea is these lots, and I'll show you site plans, are kind of shaped like L's,
and the L ends up on American Street, and that's where the parking's going to be.
So again, I'm looking westbound.
This is American Street in the front.
Existing garage is here.
the lot literally will go west and then turn
south. And there's two homes where these trees are.
Another shot, just to give you context, American
Street and Fairmount Street on the front. These are the garages.
Now we're looking southbound on American Street. These
garages are going to be removed. And these are the
two single family homes that I talked to you or mentioned earlier on on Fairmount Avenue.
Now, you can see the rear of the two homes that I just showed you on Fairmont Avenue.
And when I show you the actual site plans, I think it will all come into context for you.
All right, so here are the plans and here are the lots.
At one point, and I'll show you the lot consolidation plan, at one point there were five lots within these two existing lots.
They were consolidated into two lots.
Both lots are shaped like L's.
off of Fairmount Avenue or the single-family homes,
and then to the right or to the east will be the two parking spots
and then the front facade of a garage.
Again, Fairmount Street here, existing house,
already have a zoning permit for that,
and I had that at the end of the presentation for both 227A and 227B.
The lot then goes north and then eastward, and the two parking spots for 227A will be here, and then 227B adjacent.
And American Street is right here.
So this line, this gray line that you see, that is going to be the front facade of two open-air parking spaces.
We included the floor plans of the house just to show you what the outline was.
But again, I guess the most pertinent plan would be the first floor, which shows, you know, living, dining, kitchen area.
plan would be the first floor, which shows, you know, living, dining, kitchen area, and then
access from the rear sliding doors to a rear yard, and then another walk area to the parking space.
Space is two of them. So here's what it will look like. If you walk by the front of this property,
you're going to think it's a garage, but it's really not a garage. It's just a, and that's why
The refusal indicates that it's a fence because it's not a complete structure.
The L&I examiner looks at it and interprets this, rightly so, I think, as a fence.
And it is 12 feet high.
It's a roll-up gate.
This is what it will look like, you know, in the evening with some lighting, decorative lighting, looking down on all three sides of the front.
And again, in the back, you can see that the homes to which this garage is attached and this garage is attached.
And it really isn't a garage. It's an open air parking spaces.
We do have streets approval for the turning radius for the two accessory parking spaces.
And this is what I alluded to at the outset. And I'll blow this up a little bit for you.
So at one point, these were five lots, three on American Street, two on Fairmount.
They were consolidated to now look like the two L-lots, which I showed you on the other plans.
There was a curb cut on Framount Avenue.
We're eliminating that, and there are existing curb cuts on the garage.
Garages, plural, on American Street.
Again, this is a shot looking east on Framount Avenue.
Application for appeal, project information form, tax, clearance indicating no taxes are due.
Zoning map, again, you can see the five lots, one, two, three, four, five.
Again, not to be redundant, but they were consolidated, single family home built,
and we're looking for two accessory parking spaces for each of the homes.
the deed indicating ownership on my client notice letter sent out to 224 residences
all the addresses and these are just the prior zoning records to put everything into context
for you that we did get planning approval for the two single family homes as well as a lot line
relocation, and we also have zoning permits for 227A
and 227B, and I can walk through those.
This is the original zoning plan for the two single-family
homes, and the lot line relocation, we do have approvals
from the City Planning Commission.
Lot line relocation permit,
here's the five addresses, two on Fairmount, three on North American,
And here are the two single-family permits for the two homes on Fairmount Avenue.
And this is the street's approval.
I showed you the plan before Stamp by Streets, but this is the actual document with the street's approval for the two accessory access points.
so we in summer we have a situation where we had parking with curb cuts on american street
with a full garage we're basically duplicating the parking spaces but without the full garage
you might ask yourself why are you doing this why you know why don't you just have a full garage
i want to take you back to the to the site plan
And one of the reasons is because of the nature of the lots.
Clients just thought it would be more open area, more space in the rear of the home rather than have a garage and bunching up the yard and bunching up the rear of the property.
And again, we're duplicating basically what was there without a solid structure.
We're not impacting light and air.
We're actually bringing in more light and more air to the properties that are adjacent as well as to the subject properties.
We're not impacting the development of any adjacent property.
We're basically in harmony with what the community supports and in harmony with what was there before, i.e. curb cuts and parking.
And with that, I would ask that I could bring my client, Mr. Boudouche, if you could raise your hand and be on mute it.
Mr. Boudouche, please state your name and spell it for the stenographer.
please state your name
and spell it for the stenographer
yes my name is
M-E-I-R
last name B-A-D-U-S-H
do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth
I affirm
counsel
Mr. Pradesh
were you on the call
when I presented your project
to the board
yes I was
and if you had the opportunity
to testify
would you adopt my testimony
as your own
is true and correct correct yes you have anything you wanted to add or that i omit it
um no i think you're doing a great job thank you thank you mr madosh henry he has both right
yes both 227 a and b questions from the board yeah what's the separation what's i'm sorry what's the
separation between the the properties at the bottom and your your your parking that's going
be a six foot high fence i can show it to you on the plan mr johns okay uh let me find that
okay so it's so there's so you've got this sort of brick yep so what is that a state fencing or
Or is it just like a chain link fence?
On the plan here, because I looked at that earlier, kind of anticipation of your question.
And the architect is on the call, too, Ryan Salomeo.
There's reference to a six-foot-high fence, if I can only find it.
Here it is.
Six-foot-high fence at property line.
So it just doesn't say the material.
I got, I'm just, cause you spent, you know,
they're spending some, some significant funds
on that sort of exterior.
And, you know, hopefully it's not a chain link fence.
It's, I guess, what I'm trying to get to.
Right.
Well, I would, Ryan, are you on the call?
I don't think Mr. Padush you're going to put
a chain link fence on, are you?
No, absolutely not, no.
All right.
Give me something nice, decorated,
something that the neighbors,
our neighbors will appreciate as well.
All right.
Thanks.
other questions yeah i had a question about the lack of opacity at the garage door