continuances. Once again, Mr. Chair, I do not see any hands. Okay. I have a few cases that do not
have exhibits. Number five, MI 2022-005.
Number five, MI 2022-005-076-510-16 West Pike Street.
I do not have any exhibits for that.
Joseph Consol is listed as the attorney.
No hands for that case, sir.
Okay, so MI 2022-005-076, 510-16 West Pike Street, that case is continued, Mark must be tried.
Number six, MI 2022-005-087, 1035 South 7th Street, I have no exhibits for that.
Tim Train is the owner applicant, first listing.
no hands for that case i have this sir so mi 2022 005087 1035 7th street that case is continued
And number 10, MI 2022-005-111-219 Mannheim Street, 6th Street Management is the listed owner. No exhibits, first listing.
no hands raised for that case either okay so MI 2022 005 111 219 Mannheim Street
that case is continued we're going to go to our add-on list
number one mi 2022 004 550 180 weston canon number a i vote yes to that thomas halliman my vote is yes
Thank you.
250 bybury road i vote yes to reconsideration and rehearing thomas holloman i vote yes to
reconsideration and rehearing my vote is yes to reconsideration and rehearing thank you to our
regular list. Number one, MI 2022-005-069-115-East Huntington Street.
Feldman is the attorney. Letter of support from NARA Square, Community Alliance.
Letter of non-opposition from Council Member Lozada.
Mr. Feldman is coming back.
Sure, thank you.
Good afternoon.
Hi, Mr. Feldman.
Hi, could you state your name and spell, please, for the court reporter?
Yes, Brett, B-R-E-T-T, Feldman, F-E-L-D-M-A-N, 1835 Market Street, Suite 1400, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, 19103. Do you swear a firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
I do. Could you identify your client in relationship to the property?
Yes, I represent 1115 East Huntington Limited Partnership, the landlord,
and Project Home founder, Sister Mary Scullion, as the tenant.
Okay. Our vice chair, Mr. Shahid, has a few questions for you.
Good afternoon, Counselor. Do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy?
There's a revision of plans, sir, where we've removed one of the signs. It's a projecting sign, which generated one of the refusals.
So with that correction, the refusal now would be accurate.
okay great have you emailed all the exhibits in five days in advance to this hearing
uh yes yes please proceed and show your screen great thank you i'll proceed
uh yes yes please proceed
okay again um brett feldman 1835 market street uh represent uh probably best known uh project home
in this application and this is an application at 115 East Huntington Street. These are the
exhibits 1 through 17, which we've previously sent. I'd ask that they be incorporated into the
record. With me today is Janet Stearns, Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Asset Management
Project Home. I'd ask that she also be promoted to a panelist, Larry Arney from Project Home as
well, and Daniel Kaiser, our project architect from Cecil Baker and Partners. I've asked that
all three of those witnesses be promoted. I guess I'll get right to it. This is a project that the
board saw and with the community support, non-opposition approved back in 2019. This is
a building, the former school of nursing at the Temple University Hospital Episcopal campus.
When we came before the board in 2019, it was a vacant building. And we, at that point,
we're beginning to respond to the opioid epidemic in our city and obtained approval for 62 beds,
units of housing in that facility for recovery housing. And we've been working very diligently
now in the last couple of years to get to that point. This is the project overview, which is
EPID 2. And let me just go to some of the other documents. That's the letter of support.
to situate the board probably the best way here's what the building looks here's what the building
looked like under construction beautiful beautiful building needed a tremendous amount of work
these are the construction pictures and as you'll see these are the views this is what it looks like
now it's it's basically done um tremendous uh renovation that was done that's the inside the
outside um the posting photos and uh to give everyone a sense of where we are here are the
renderings and this application is regarding uh accessory signs primarily wayfinding signs that
are needed because the property is owned rm1 which allows almost no signage at the property
And here's the challenge at the location. Here is the campus that we're on, the Temple University Episcopal Hospital campus. We are this one building here within it on a campus that is ported by North Front Street, Lehigh, and East Huntington Street. Here is us down here.
And the application is seeking accessory signage in excess of what's allowed in RM1, which is almost nothing that's allowed in RM1.
The building has four different sides, four different entrances.
And because of the nature of the building, we have a number of different folks who come to and from the building.
Project HOME, as they've done with many of their other projects in Philadelphia, is looking for
some accessory wall signs on the building itself. And I'll just take you to those materials.
Probably the best way to follow it is, you know, here's one of the views, and here are some of the
signs that are very consistent with Project HOME's sign packages. This is in the rear of the
building, sign here, sign here. This is another view from the north side, the end of Amazing
Mercy, Project Home. What we're trying to do with the signage is to make sure that there's
no confusion regarding our building versus all the other Temple University buildings that
are on this campus. There's another view from the south, the signage there. Here's from
the west. And I can go right to the actual sign plans, the exhibit tab in seven.
Here's a key plan, showing the showing the signage that's that we're proposing.
a total now of 10 signs. There were originally 11 signs, as I mentioned.
a total now of 10 signs there were originally 11 signs as I mentioned we had a projecting sign that
we removed here are here's the details of those signs and on each side there's this projecting
sign which at exhibit top 7 we passed up a revised plans form which we've now removed that sign so we
actually now went from 458 square feet to 408 square feet I can go through each of the individual
signs if the board would like, but primarily the signage is needed because of the four sides,
because of the wayfinding to make sure that there's no confusion on this building versus
folks going to other of the many other buildings. Mr. Feldman, we understand that. Great, great. So
I will stop with that now, but we just again wanted to thank the community and all the different
partners that have helped to bring this project to now fruition, basically. And this is the last
step, this important signage. Yeah. So why don't we have your testimony adopted by somebody from
the... Sure. Ms. Stearns, Janet, are you out there?
She's been a nod to speak. Yes. Yes. Could you state your name, please, and spell for the court
reporter? Yes, I'm Janet Stearns, J-A-N-E-T is my first name. My last name is Stearns, S-T-E-A-R-N-S.
Right. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
I do. Proceed. Yes. And Ms. Stearns, you've heard my testimony regarding the project,
what you're offering at the site, and why we need the signage? I have, yes. Yes. And
Do you adopt it as your own and true and faithful?
Yes, I do.
Great.
Thank you.
Questions from the board?
No, Mr. Chairman.
No, Mr. Chairman.
Questions or comments from the virtual audience?
I would just add that at Exhibit Tab 7, we have revised plans.
I know.
I have that.
Just wanted to make sure we're going from 11 to 10 signs.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Was there anyone in the virtual audience, Jason?
No, there's no further answer.
All right, Planning Commission.
Good afternoon, Chair Bergman, David Fecteau, F-E-C-T-E-A-U, with the City Planning Commission.
You swear or affirm, tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Yes, sir, I do.
Proceed, please.
Thank you, sir.
Chairman and members of the board, the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the residential multifamily zoning at this location.
This is a current single-room residence.
The applicant has shown that the dimensional variances for the proposed signs, while not strictly necessary to continue the use of the building, match the character of the remaining buildings on the larger hospital campus.
With the removal of the projecting sign, the City Planning Commission recommends that the Board grant the dimensional variances.
MI 2022-005-069-115 East Huntington Street.
I vote yes, proviso. Revised plans, two pages, stamped by ZBA, February 1st, 2023.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Ishmael Shahi, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Thank you, Mr. Fellman.
Great. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sure, sure.
Number two, MI 2022, 005-067-814-22 South 11th Street.
Sean Whalen is the attorney.
Letter of support from the Hawthorne Empowerment Coalition.
he's coming back again as a panel okay sir
good afternoon chairman hi mr well could you state your name please and spell for the court
reporter certainly sean whalen w-h-a-l-e-n right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth yes i do could you identify your client in relationship to this
property? Certainly. The client is the equitable owner 814-22-S11th OCFLLC. Okay. Our vice chair
has a few questions. Certainly. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, counselor. Do you agree to waive
the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its accuracy? Yes, I do. Have you emailed all the
required exhibits into our offices five days in advance to this hearing yes thank you please
proceed and share your screen thank you very much
Thank you very much.
All right. Hopefully you can all now see my screen.
You're seeing an aerial pictometry photo from the city's website of 814 South 11th Street.
It is the entirety of this corner here, right in between Webster Street.
You can see the large school right here. Here's South 11th Street and Christian Street right here.
This is an approximately almost exactly 9,000 square foot square at the corner here.
It has been a long time. This might be a better image of it.
There's an existing building on it right here.
This has been a long time auto body shop that the owner is retiring and leaving and closing his doors.
you can see the rest of the block here. These are almost entirely single-family homes. There
are a few rentals and multifamily, but almost entirely single-family homes. The same is true
across the street from on Webster, fronting along Webster, I should say, across the street from the
school. And in every direction, you get the same sort of attitude of this single-family
residential neighborhood. We did meet with HEC. In fact, we met three times with HEC
before getting a resounding letter of support. The first time we met, we presented generally,
and they appreciated the project and kind of, you know, it was for informational purposes only.
They wanted us to proceed. They liked the non-commercial use at that location,
and they wanted to see us continue with the townhome use we then presented again that was in
october in december we presented again with the full uh the full package showing uh what i'll get
to in just a second our 10 10 proposed townhomes with a center drive aisle and uh ultimately they
They asked us to come back because the RCO had a number of pedestrian related concerns, primarily focusing on the students leaving and going to that school every day.
With regard to our drive aisle, we adopted and made, and you can see that this is the heart of the HEC letter of support.
And you can see that they felt that the townhomes would, quote, fit in well with the look and feel of the surrounding homes, that they would, quote, will open up on-street parking that was previously unavailable, and that they would provide on-site parking off-street for all the homeowners.
And then finally, those safety concerns that I was describing, I will outline them, but we included a gate at the drive aisle, mirrors, a speed bump, extensive street lighting, and sidewalk delineators similar to what you would see in an ADA ramp so as to offset and identify the drive aisle coming out.
so what you can see here again that block that i showed you is entirely rsa5 these are all
single family homes the same is true here there are some multi-family and single family homes
mixed in at the corners which are rm1 these cmx1 properties are not commercial currently they are
residential this whole block just to the north of us is the school and these cmx2 parcels are
really holdovers for, you know, when everything was remapped recently for long-term commercial
users. So again, here is, this is the property right here. You can see it's generally
parked in with cars along the whole way. Notably what the RCO really appreciated is
there is some curb along the current property, but almost everything is essentially driven over
as one giant curb cut along all three sides. So the auto body office center itself and two bays,
three bays rather, are set back on the property and you have these cars that are coming and going
all day. And you actually have this, you know, configuration here, which really blocks a lot
of traffic. The community was interested in getting that re-dealt with. All of the utility
poles and whatnot will be put underground. And essentially the area that you're looking at right
here will become the new drive aisle, but it will be a single curb cut. And so all of this curb cut,
and so all of this curb cut you have hundreds of feet of street frontage that are now basically
you have hundreds of feet of street frontage that are now basically
Thank you.
used as a single curb cut all of that will be returned as on street parking to the neighborhood
with our proposal so again you can see the auto body center to the left
even on the right you can see the single family nature of the property
and then kind of the largest building in the in the immediate neighborhood is this school
um this is just looking south from the property again you can see the kind of consistent single
family residential neighborhood this is immediately across the street on south 11th
so our plan is to again here's south 11th street we would have two-way ingress and egress
for a single drive aisle off street garage parking for each of 10 townhomes five fronting
on Webster, and five fronting on Christian. Here's a rendering of the project. Again,
something to note, the project's buildings will be 44 feet. However, in working with the RCO,
we've set back and slanted the fourth floor roof, so it's virtually unviewable from the pedestrian
access. We've also taken, at about almost exactly 33 feet, this cornice line matches the general
height of all the properties going down the street, which was something that the RCO really
liked and appreciated. They also enjoyed that we have full frontage here with actual activated
rooms in there and windows. So the rear half, basically, where my cursor is back, you'll see
the cars go in. The rear half of each townhome on the lowest level is two-car parking.
But then we do have, you know, front doors with full rooms that people could easily use as offices or living rooms or whatever they want, which activates the streetscape.
Again, here's just an overview so you can see where this is active.
And the only thing I will highlight here, I guess this is the best image to do it.
You can see we added this delineator here for the pedestrians.
These will also be essentially pedestrian rumble strips is a better way to describe them.
Again, these are sort of the bumpy nature of sidewalk that you see at ADA accessible corners.
We added a gate here to keep cars from going in and out too quickly.
And we're also adding a speed bump in here.