additionally in that letter it indicates that there were four community board members present
That is incorrect. There were only two community board members from SOLO at the meeting. I don't
know where the other two community members came in at. They weren't present, nor did they
participate in the meeting. Additionally, there is one vote on that letter in opposition to our
project. There were no votes in opposition to our project at the meeting, in that the community
supported our project, in that the Faith CDC supported our project, in that the Councilwoman
Bass representative indicated that they had no opposition to the granting of the variance in
that this project will provide affordable housing to actual individuals that live in that community.
I would respectfully request that the board grant our request. Thank you. Any questions from the board?
Commission?
We have no objection to the granting of the variances.
Thank you. MI 2020-001232, 4550 Wayne Avenue. My vote is yes.
My vote is yes.
My vote is yes.
Thank you very much, Commissioners.
Thank you. Number 17.
Okay. MI 2020-001195, 9616 Decatur Street.
anyone here for 9616 yes i promoted um attorney johnson thank you good afternoon mr johnson
excuse me this is sharon saletta is mr johnson an attorney or the architect for the project
oh i'm i'm sorry you know why we have an attorney kenneth and i keep getting them mixed up
Mr. Johnson, are you the architect for this project?
Yes, I'm the architect.
The owner is on the line, though.
All right.
So I'm going to meet you and then promote you.
Will the owner please raise his or her hand so we can recognize you?
I'm sorry Rosangela as I believe the attorney I'm sorry the owner or
Rosangela okay are you the owner yes okay good afternoon sir please identify yourself spell your
first and last name for the record? Edson Santos. Could you speak up a little bit louder? Edson
Santos. E-D-S-O-N-S-A-N-T-O-S. Did you get that, stenographer? Yep, okay. You swear and affirm to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Yes, I do. Please proceed. Sir, have you
emailed an exhibit packet with the required documents, proof of ownership, proof of tax
compliance, copy of the refusal or referral photos and plans five days prior to this hearing?
Yes. Have you met with the RCO and have a letter?
My architect got it. Pardon me? I think my architect got it, Mr. Ken Johnson.
Do you have a letter? You have a letter from the RCO.
yes i think my architect has one um mr johnson the architect submitted the exhibits i can go
through his packet or he can let us know if he submitted it johnson yes i submitted the package
we did not meet with the rco because they said they couldn't meet before um this meeting we have
to continue this yep unfortunately sir we have to continue must have a meeting with the rco
So MI 2020-001195-9616 Diederker Street, D-E-D-A-K-E-R Street is continued.
Any, I think that completes the list finally.
Is that correct?
That's what I have.
I know we're scheduled at two o'clock, but we may start a little bit later.
maybe 2 15 um i i'm actually okay for 2 p.m i would request that we started to because we have
a couple um cases that might be a little lengthy and my request would be for those two cases that
could be lengthy to be heard last on the list sounds like a plan to me thank you i appreciate
it thank you chair thank you court reporter i'll see you guys at two you too
you're welcome
we are ready
are we live already
yes chair we're ready
oh okay I'm sorry
good afternoon everyone my name is
Frank DiCicco I'm the chair of the zoning
Board of Adjustment. Pardon me. I'll be participating in today's hearing along with
our Board Secretary Mr. Confessor Plaza and Board Members Mr. Thomas Holloman and Mr. James Snell.
For those of you and also our Board Administrator Ms. Tanya Sunkit and Board Attorney Sharon Saletta
are also in attendance. For those of you who haven't yet participated in one of our virtual
hearings, I'll go through some of the basics of what you can expect. First, we will be administering
oaths to individual participants prior to their testimony. Second, for the benefit of anyone
participating by phone, we ask that attorneys and witnesses identify themselves prior to speaking
or testifying. Third, we'd like to advise everyone that this proceeding is being recorded and that by
participating, you acknowledge your agreement to be recorded. Fourth, for anyone participating by
phone, if you wish to testify, you must raise your hand by hitting star nine and then star six to
unmute yourself. I'll repeat, for anyone participating by phone, if you wish to testify,
you must raise your hand by hitting star nine and then star six to unmute yourself.
finally to enter an appearance statement call google 267-270-5548 and leave your email address
and the address of the property at issue i will repeat to enter an appearance statement call google
Call Google 267-270-5548 and leave your email address and the address of the property at issue.
267-270
With that said, we can begin, but before we call our first case, our first cases,
we'd like to ask if anyone is requesting a continuance or withdrawal of an appeal for the two o'clock session this afternoon.
If so, please raise your hand.
Also, if anyone here presenting a case today hasn't met with the RCO, please come forward now and explain to the board.
Thank you.
Thank you, confessor, and please raise your hand.
We have Leo Mulvihill.
Good afternoon, Mr. Mulvihill.
Please identify yourself with a record.
You're still under oath from earlier.
Yes, good afternoon, Chairman, members of the board, Leo Mulvihill, M-U-L-V-I-H-I-L-L, 2424 East York Street, Suite 111, Philadelphia 1915.
Here today on calendar number 2020-002949, 3818 Aspen Street.
Okay, and you're requesting a further continuance?
This is perhaps a point of order, members of the board.
This case had previously been heard in the last week of October.
At that point, I had received notice from, I believe, Andrew Goodman that while the RCL was not opposed to having two units at this location as proposed, there were concerns about the fact that this property was three stories, which was a matter allowed by Wright.
There was a request made that we begin some time for there to be some sort of communication between concerned neighbors in my office, so we could discuss that further.
I'm aware that this today there's at least one if not two people who do have concerns or letters
or something that they'd like to address with the board so as a point of order if the board would
like to proceed with that today that's fine considering the length of the list I would also
suggest if the board so is inclined that anybody with these concerns reach out to me directly so
we can have this continuing conversation rather than doing so on the record and taking up a
significant portion of this board's afternoon docket for matters that could probably be dealt
with off the record. Appreciate your offer. Thank you. I don't see any problem with that. Do we have
any concerns, Sharon and or Tanya, with doing it that way? No, I know that Mr. Goodman has
contacted us saying that there are a number of nearby residents who wanted to submit written
statements. We can ask that they submit them, that they copy Mr. Mulvihill as well. Yes,
That's totally fine. I would just like to have copies of these statements in advance.
Again, I'd like to note for the record that while I've never received a formal RCO letter,
there's an email I received Wednesday, October 28th, 12.25 p.m. from Mr. Goodman's office where I was copied.
It was submitted to both Ms. Sunkit and Ms. Souletta.
And again, I quote what that letter says.
Neither the council member nor the Mantua community is against density or against development.
That's essentially what the issue is here. The only refusal was for two units
versus one unit if this were an RSA 5 district. So I'm happy to continue to entertain a conversation
between the affected neighbors and I'm happy to put my information in the chat or perhaps if
Ms. Sunkit would do that for the edification of the folks or I could put it on the record here so
that everybody who's listening can take it down and send me whatever information they might have
so I can properly address their concerns individually
and then with the council office as well.
So, Tanya and or Sharon,
we handle this as a,
put it on a delayed list or is this,
how is it best for us to handle it?
Sharon, I'd request we just relist it for a date certain,
perhaps the first week of December,
if there's not time next week even.
but what do we have
next week we're available at 2 p.m
november the 10th if we could relist this for november 10 at 2 p.m
time certain that'd be fantastic but wasn't this heard is this a resumption
yeah it's a resumption i'm sorry i missed so we're not going to list it
it's not going to be listed we're just going to give the date november the 10th
Okay, perfect.
At 2 p.m. because it's a resumption and no actual posting is required.
If I could, Chair, I just wanted to state on the record in respects to Corinne Sapp,
who was waiting this morning for the case.
Mr. Movahill, if you could be in touch with her, that would be great.
So Ms. Corinne Sapp, he's going to give out his email address, and I apologize for the
So, Ms. Corinne Sapp, he's going to give out his email address.
And I...
inconvenience of you being here this morning.
Ms. Sunke, could I get you to repeat the time they will be coming back?
Sure, that would be November the 10th, Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Thank you.
So we'll resume the hearing on that day, is that correct?
Yes, if that's okay with the board.
All right, any objections?
Seeing none.
MI 2020-00107 3818 Aspen Street. This hearing will be resumed on November the 10th at 2 p.m.
at which time the board will consider any feedback related to the RCO. And chair may I just for the
purposes of allowing everybody who's on the line who wish to submit statements to the board
provide my email address and phone number please proceed certainly so to anybody who is here for
the project at 3818 aspen street my email address is leo l-e-o at fishtown law.com
that's l-e-o leo at fishtownlaw.com my phone number is 215-385-5291 again that's 215-385-5291
thank you thank you mr mulvihill and i would just ask that anybody who has information to submit
please do so by the end of this week only so i have appropriate time to respond and submit any
responses as well to the zoning board keeping in mind the five-day in advance requirement for
materials that get submitted to the zoning board thank you thank you very much for your cooperation
of course everybody have a good afternoon you do likewise thank you thank you chair before you
announce i know there are two additional um add-ons the second one is for 3602 brandywine street
um the attorney in that case meredith ferlinger is in is attempting to sign on but getting a
message telling her that we have exceeded the maximum 100 participants permitted i i don't know
miss so we can hold that we'll see if we can move that to later well you can call the um
call the next case that you were going to call carlisle street and then maybe in the meantime
ms sunken and i could work on okay but i want to go to spark street first because that's just a
vote yes thank you okay mi2020-000015 106 sparks street my vote is yes my vote is yes
of the board members jim or tom
my vote is yes thank you
okay um we're going to hold carlisle
no you're going to call carlisle carlisle we're going to hold brandy one
well mr chairman mr chairman jim snell here i was a yes on that last vote i'm i'm sorry my
screen went blank i was trying to get back no problem we're all having problems today no problem
thank you okay calendar number 39608 3248 north carlisle street
the original hearing was september the 30th and we were waiting to hear uh any comments regard from
the RCO okay I'm sorry I'm just maybe a wee bit confused and I don't know how you wish to proceed
but did we want to are we going to do this before we continue the continuances or no
oh yeah I'm sorry I got ahead of myself okay if I could I wasn't firing on all soldiers today
um so mr orphanetes um you can unmute yourself are you speaking to a continuance today
uh yes i am mr orphanetes good afternoon please identify yourself for the records by your name
sure good afternoon mr chairman members of the board david orphanetes from orphanetes and toner
two penn center 1500 john f kennedy boulevard suite 800 philadelphia pennsylvania 19102
my last name is spelled
O-R-P-H-A-N-I-D-E-S
thank you
swearing firm to tell the truth
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth
and you are here on
I'm here on
6954 Keystone Street
number three on our list
Number three on our Lish Confession.
confession
in honor of the
In honor of the property, 6954 Keystone, LLC.
This matter was scheduled for a hearing back in August, August 19th.
I had met with the coordinating RCO just prior to that.
As in the letter that I submitted requesting a continuance of that proceeding,
I had indicated that there were a number of matters that were raised during that community
group meeting that I needed to investigate, explore, address with my client, and that
continuance request was granted due to COVID-related scheduling issues, people not calling my client