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ZBA Hearing - October 12, 2022

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Oct 12, 20223h 32m

do you use an iphone or android i got an android phone

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okay i'm not familiar with the um android

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um let's see share

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i don't know how to get it so you can see it

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mrs everendu do you have the photos on your phone

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Yes, they are on my phone.

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Okay.

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Are you seeing the share screen button on your phone?

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Yes.

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All right, try hitting that button and see if it gives you an option to share your screen or ask you what you want to share.

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All right.

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Try hitting that button and see if it gives you an option to share.

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You may be able to select the photos.

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Instead of share to, okay, so I'm sharing it to, what do you want me to share it to, to my Gmail?

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To whatever you're showing your pictures are.

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so you should so when you're in the zoom app you should hit share screen on there yeah don't share

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your pictures but share your screen um but have your you should have your pictures pulled up on

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your phone so that you can select them okay there you go it's coming here you go all right

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so that's the inside there that's the inside so you need all of them so i need to go back so i

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I can just click them all so then you can see them all.

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So maybe you can show me one on the outside of the property.

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Okay, let me show you the outside.

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Let me go to that one.

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Take your time.

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Mm-hmm.

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I sent a lot of pictures yesterday.

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Good girl, Almighty.

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Okay.

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This is the outside of the property.

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This is outside of the property.

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You may have to unshare

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and then reshare

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once you pull up the photo you want to show us.

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Yeah, I am.

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Oh, unshare?

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Unshare

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and then share again with what you want to show us.

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Okay, you said

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unshare.

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Okay, share.

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Okay, okay.

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Go again.

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I just click

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some of them.

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This one.

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This one.

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This one.

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Take your time, but I just want a shot

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of the outside of the property.

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Yeah, I'm just getting them for you.

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I'll get more.

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Okay.

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no no no no you need to go back to go back to where you were on on zoom in the same share

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screen button should be give you the unshare option so unshare it and then have the pull

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the other picture up on your phone then go back to zoom and reshare i went to share

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i shared it and then now i don't see the zoom button um i went to more and it tells me

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i don't see the unshare oh god let me go back let me go back i'll go to share let me start over

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Let's share.

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I go to photos.

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There, you unshared.

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Yep.

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Okay, I did it now.

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Yep, you unshared it.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So now I'm getting ready to share.

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Okay, the photos.

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Oh, God.

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Let me see.

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Photos.

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Where did it go?

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This is confusing.

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i always be saying i want to learn how to do this you might just have to hover around the bottom and

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it'll pop up yeah that's what i was saying but it just went into something else i don't know

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review out of sequence oh gosh there photos it was letting me click on them before

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and now it's not

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letting me click on them.

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I don't understand.

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Can you open one photo

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and then go back to Zoom?

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Let me see.

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Let me see.

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Let me see.

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Let me see.

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Other link.

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No, that's not it.

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I got all the pictures right here and I don't know why it won't let me click on it now

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okay okay let me see you this one okay let me give you that one and there it goes

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okay let me give you that one and there we go zoom oh no no no no back up just give me one

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Well, no, no, no, no.

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i just need one that's all okay i'm gonna give you one right here

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okay here we go all right good good all right all right so your business is called tiny tots

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tiny tots wonderland right okay all right so tell me what you have in there now are you

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You have this already running?

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How many students do you have?

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Yeah, I have six children.

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And you want to increase it to 12?

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You want to increase it to 12?

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Yeah.

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How long have you been in business?

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Since 2011.

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Okay.

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And you went to the neighborhood.

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RCO.

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And they approved it, right?

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Yes, I went to the RCO.

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And the council person has approved it?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Questions from the board?

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No, Mr. Chairman.

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No, Mr. Chairman.

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Questions or comments from the virtual audience?

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I see no hands, Chair.

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Aye, Planning Commission.

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Good afternoon, Chair.

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Peter Bernard for the Planning Commission.

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Aye.

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The comprehensive plan recommends no change to the existing RSA 3 single-family zoning at this location.

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We have no objection to the proposed expansion of the daycare facility.

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Accordingly, the planning commission recommends the Board grant the variance.

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Thank you, Peter. MI 2020-001-129-6134 Carpenter Street, I vote yes.

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Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes.

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James Snell, my vote is yes.

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James Snell Shahid, my vote is yes.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Bye-bye.

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All right.

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Number seven.

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MI 2022-002-272-1942, North 32nd Street.

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Alan Nockmson is the attorney.

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A letter of support from the Strawberry Mansion CDC

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with Proviso, no roof deck or roof deck access structure.

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Mr. Nockamson.

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Yes, good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the board.

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Alan Nockamson, Nockamson, B.E.C.

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Right.

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Just for the purpose, could you spell your last name for them, please?

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Alan, A-L-A-N, last name Nockamson, N-O-C-H-U-N-S-O-N.

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Right.

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Do you swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth,

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nothing but the truth?

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I do.

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um could you identify your client and the relationship to the property uh yes my client

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is riley denise llc and in the virtual audience is kevin matheson its member thank you uh ishmael

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shaheed has a few questions sir good afternoon council

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to speak up a little as you're a little low oh sorry good afternoon

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do you agree to wait the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy

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i do you know all the exhibits and documents such as the proof of ownership text plans

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copy of referral or refusal pictures or drawings of the property properties in advance to this

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hearing and if you need to be hard to go do you have a letter yes in all respects and we have

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a letter of support okay thank you please proceed to turn it through all right thank you

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good afternoon again my name is alan knocklinson of knocklinson pc i'm here to present 1942

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north 32nd street in my materials you will first find the notice of refusal

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then the correspondence from the strawberry mansion community development corporation where

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you'll see a letter of support where the community unanimously supported this project

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and a well-attended meeting as well as the coordinating rco as well in addition we as

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As part of our support, we agreed to revise our plans.

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And so we have a zoning board of adjustment,

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revised proviso plans form.

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So if this board is so inclined to grant

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our variance requests, we ask that they do so

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by way of proviso with this revised plan.

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Also, in addition to the support from the community

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at the community meeting, as well as the coordinating RCO,

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we made great outreach to the surrounding area.

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We, you know, made great outreach to the surrounding area, and we have a petition showing that support as well.

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And we have a petition

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Not uncommon to have an RSA-5 property like ours have multifamily use.

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We show two examples of nearby properties.

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In addition, the Philadelphia 2035 plan, Lower North District plan, indicates that for increased density near public parks as well as commercial corridors,

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and we are adjacent to both so we furthered that plan Philadelphia 2035 maps of the area photographs

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of the property or plans and drawings or proof that we met with the community as well as the

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proof of mailing or application for appeal that we filed with this EBA our deed to the property

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showing that Riley Denise LLC is the owner of the property and their certificate of tax clearance

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in the virtual audience is Kevin Matheson the member of this LLC as well as Chris Johnson

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of 24-7 to design the architect on the project.

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All right, our notice of refusal.

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So this is an RSA-5 property.

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It's a lot that's approximately 1164 square feet.

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We're looking to put a two-family structure

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and we're being refused to go.

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First use, this is an RSA-5 property.

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So by definition does not allow for multifamily use,

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but again, not uncommon in this surrounding area.

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also goes towards the 2035 plan because we're near a public park and we're near a commercial

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corridor that we're trying to help support with this increased density. The second refusal has

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to do with the maximum occupied area where 75% is allowed with 864 square feet. We're proposing

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77.7% of occupied area at 896 square feet. It's a de minimis variance request. As you can see,

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by the nearby property to the left of us, we fall in line essentially with the property to the left

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of us, the right of us is a vacant lot. Again, not out of character with the neighborhoods,

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and we would ask the board to grant that to minimize variance as well. Correspondence from

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Strawberry Mansion, CDC, again, a well-attended meeting, unanimous support, 11 people showed up,

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And, you know, as part of that support, we do have revised plans, which I'll show, but also the Strawberry Mansion Community Concern RCO were also in attendance.

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And my understanding through this letter is that they're in RCO and they were also in support of this project.

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