Let me know when everyone's in.
Yes, Chair.
Okay, Chair, we have 24 attendees, and we can start as you wish.
Thank you.
Good morning.
My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this morning's ZBA hearings.
With me is Ismail Shahid, our board secretary, Thomas Holliman, our board member, and James
Snell, our board member. Also present is our board attorney, Hillary Emerson, and Lakeisha
Dandy, our ZVA hearing supervisor. Before we begin, here's our virtual format. Be advised
these proceedings are being recorded. By participating, you acknowledge your agreement
to be recorded. A video will be available by contacting tonyasunkett at phila.gov.
For the benefit of our court stenographer, we ask attorneys and witnesses
to identify themselves before testifying. If you're participating by phone, if you wish to
testify, press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. To enter an appearance statement, call
267-270-5548. Leave your email and the address of the property in question. And finally, the
question answer box on the screen is not for comments or testimony. Any comments or testimony
has to be directed for Executive Director Tanya Sumter. So let's look at our continuances for the
930 hearings. Number four, MI 2021 003 722 1901 West Moreland Street. This case is continued.
marked must be tried. Number five, MI 2022-001-365-9212 Delver Avenue. This case is continued.
Number six, MI-2022-001-367-9218 North Delaware Avenue. This case is continued.
Number eight, MI-2022-001-362-9214 North Delaware Avenue. This case is continued.
And number nine, MI-2022-001-359-9216 North Delver Avenue. This case is continued. Number 14,
MI-2021-003-847-4911 Frankfurt Avenue. This case is continued for the RCO meeting. Case must
must be tried next time. And number 16, MI 2022-003-647-2321 North Broad Street.
This case is continued. Mark must be tried.
Are there any comments about the cases that have been continued?
I see no handshare. Any requests for additional continuances?
Chair, we have Jeffrey Young.
Good morning, Mr. Young.
Good morning, Mr. Chair.
My name is Jeffrey Young.
I'm here on behalf of-
Jeffrey, could you spell your name for the court reporter?
I'm sure everybody knows your name, but-
Thank you.
Jeffrey, J-E-F-F-E-R-Y, Young, Y-O-U-N-G.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, sir.
Proceed.
Good morning, Mr. Chair. I'm here today on behalf of the applicant, Ms. Taliba Cherry
for 616 North 11th Street, MI 2021-00385.
2021-003854. We're requesting the continuance. I was recently retained by Ms. Cherry to help her
go through this process. We're requesting the continuance because there has been a technical
issue with obtaining a tax clearance, an error by her accountant filed documents as a corporation
rather than LLC. And so we're just working through that issue to get tax clearance from
uh revenue okay thank you mr young mi 2021 003 854 616 north 11 street cases continue will be
marked must be tried thank you sir any other requests for continuance yes chair we have to
The tree is where?
Hi, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?
D-E-M-E-T-R-I-U-S.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
What case?
i have a zone i had your um continuing zoning uh what what kid what's the address
oh 914 west gerard avenue all right hold on that's number 10 on our list mr chair
Okay. So a couple of things here. MI 2022-001-328-914 West Rod Avenue.
We believe there may be an attorney needed and we have no exhibits. This is a second listing.
Mark this case as must be tried the next time. Okay.
sir yes cases mark must be tried next time so i have to get an attorney um mr where can you
please this is hillary um emerson can you please reach out to the zoning board office and we can
determine whether you need an attorney or not okay the staff will put the information um into the
chat all right thank you hillary all right thank you all right any other requests for continuance
chair we have diane monroe okay
all right good morning miss monroe could you state your name and spell for the court reporter okay
Diane, D-I-A-N-E, Monroe, M-O-N-R-O-E.
You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Yes, I do.
What case?
Okay, it's two cases, and they just asked for a continuance.
the 616 North 11th Street, and the 914-18 through Gerard Avenue.
We have been working with both of these cases, the RCO, with these two young people.
So, you know, we are not in opposition to either one.
So now I understand it's going to be continued, which I was recommending.
That's right. Both were continued.
Yes. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for calling in.
Any other requests for continuance?
Yes, Chair. We have Carol Lingo.
Good morning. Could you state your name and spell for the court reporter, please?
Good morning.
Good morning.
She's unmuted, Chair. She's just not responding.
Hi, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter, please?
Okay. We're going to move on to cases that we do not have any exhibits for.
Chair, excuse me. We have one more hand. Carl Williams.
All right. Mr. Williams, state your name and spell for the court reporter, please.
Mr. Williams, please unmute yourself.
Hi, sir, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?
C.A. Carl Williams, C-A-R-L-W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S.
Right. Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
What case do you want to talk about, sir?
what case do you want to talk about sir uh i'm not really familiar with uh the you know the the
I'm not really familiar with.
the numbers and stuff like that just tell me the address what's the address i'm not even
familiar the address it's it's on fillmore street uh like like the 1700 block of fillmore in that
area mr chair that's number two on the list 1733 fillmore street 33 film right we'll be calling
that case shortly. And Carol Lingo, Carol Lingo is, she's at work. She's just started a new job.
She can't, um, for Amtrak. And she, she sent me all this information. All right. So with the show,
we're going to call that in a little bit. Okay. Okay. And you'll have an opportunity if you want
to talk when I, when I, uh, open it up to the audience. Okay. All right. All right. Let's look
at our cases that we have no exhibits for it. Number one, MI 2021, 003-844-1217 South 50th Street.
John Taylor is the attorney. We have no exhibits. This is the third listing.
Chair, we have John Taylor. Okay. Good morning, Mr. Taylor. Could you state your name and spell
for the court reporter please uh my name is john taylor um t-a-y-l-o-r right we submitted the
so hold on hold on do you swear for him to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the
truth i do we we emailed the exhibits on thursday last week
hillary do we have anything i'll double check but i did not see anything
mr taylor where did you send it to sure see here
mr taylor i'm here i'm looking i'm opening the email that we sent out take your time
okay let's see here
we send it to the rcob so rcozba tcp zoning phila.gov and suletazba at gmail.com okay
i'm sorry mr taylor we we did receive them but the issue was we didn't we didn't find them because
the the email wasn't marked with the exhibit so when we went to look for the exhibits for the case
they didn't come up um so i had to go for email look through email specifically from you
and then open up the files to see what cases they were for.
So, Mr. Chair, I can look at these since they were timely submitted, review them,
but we'll just have to move this case to the end.
Mr. Taylor, we'll call you as we go through the documents, okay?
All right.
Thank you.
And thanks for your information.
I appreciate it.
Three.
And also number...
13. MI 2021-003-903-5323 Chester Avenue. No exhibits, third listing. Glenmore Morris is the
owner applicant. Mark must be heard. I see no hands, Chair. Okay. MI 2021-003-903-5323
Chester Abner. I vote to dismiss. Thomas Holloman, my vote is to dismiss.
James Snell, dismiss. Ishmael Shaheed, dismiss. Thank you.
okay we're going to go to our add-on list
mi2022-003-345-6995 teaching street i certify on the record that i have read the transcripts
from 516-18 the hearing before the board ishmael could you certify
sure uh good morning i ishmael shaheed certified that i have reviewed all the documents
associated with this address mr snell yes i james snell certified that i have read and viewed
Yes, I, James Snell, certify that I have read and viewed the documents in regards to this Peach and Street.
Okay. For NLI 2022-003-345-6995, Peach and Street, I vote yes, proviso, as per supplemental findings of fact and conclusion of law adopted by the ZBA on October 12, 2022.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes, with provisos.
James Snell, my vote is yes, with provisos.
Ishmael Shaheed, my vote is yes, with provisos.
Thank you.
Number two on our list is 19798-714 West Clearfield Street.
This is a request for withdrawal.
I'm going to go to our regular list.
number two. Mr. Chair, just to confirm that last case is withdrawn, correct? Yes, withdrawn.
Thank you. Going to our list, our regular list, number two, MI 2021-003-785-1733
Fillmore Street.
Darnell Treat is the
attorney.
We do have an RCO letter. Am I right,
Hillary?
We, excuse me one second.
No, we do not have an RCO letter.
Okay, all right, good.
There was this RCO
meeting on 7-14-22.
Correct. Thank you.
Ms. Treat.
Good morning, Commissioners. Darlene Threatt on behalf of the applicants.
Hi, could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?
Darlene, D-A-R-L-E-N-E, Threatt, T-S-A-R-E-T.
Darlene, you're breaking up a little bit. Could you do that one more time, please?
D-A-R-L-E-N-E, T as in Thomas, H-R-E-T.
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Hello?
You hear me?
You're breaking up.
Let me see if I can move a little bit.
Is that any better?
Yeah, it is.
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Could you identify your client in relationship to the property?
My client is Oliva Jose Vellatoro.
Mr. Vellatoro, are you on the line?
Okay, we'll get a chance to call him.
Mr. Holloman has a few questions for you.
Thomas?
chairman i don't know if that's my sound or yours i don't hear any okay thomas do you agree to waive
the reading of the refusal and stipulate to his accuracy yes but i would like to amend our
originally we asked for six units we bumped it down to two okay did you email all of the exhibits
and documents as required, such as proof of ownership, tax clearance, copy of refusal or
referral, pictures or drawings of the property five days in advance of this hearing. Did you
meet with the RCO and do you have a letter? Yes, I met with the RCO twice. I was not afforded a
copy of the letter as my understanding went in. Please proceed to share your screen.
can you see my screen we we can yes commissioners i represent uh 1733 uh fillmore street
I submitted a package of information contained in 35 documents.
They include the refusal, the project information form, tax information,
a little bit of zoning history about the area, plans, pictures, a community flyer, and a certificate.
commissioners
commissioners uh we applied to the zoning board of a judge to uh legalize a rear unit above the
garage and one new unit in the front of the building i'm going to uh all the way down very
quickly let me just this thing is not excuse me miss three this is hillary you keep breaking up a
little bit. I don't know if there's somewhere else you can maybe move so we can just, for the
court reporter, can make sure we're getting your testimony. Thank you, Ms. Emerson. Let me move a
little bit. Thank you. Okay. Hopefully this is a little better. Yeah, let's see what that does.
So basically, we have a lot that we consolidated. It was just a real garage and the front was vacant. I'm just going to scroll all the way down here so I could just give you a little of what I'm speaking in regards to.