mr hughes please unmute yourself hi uh good good are you the attorney on this yes i am i was just
retained and we noticed uh some defects uh okay okay so first first could you state your name
and spell for the court reporter sure my name is evan hughes that's spelled h-u-g-h-e-s right
counsel for appellant right do you swear affirm to tell truth told truth nothing but the truth
i do oh so you want to continue it yes please all right so this is going to be mark must be tried
because this was the second listing, so you'll be the third, okay?
So MI 2021-003-593-4829 Longshore Avenue.
4829 Longshore Avenue. Case will be continued, must be tried. Okay? Thank you for coming on.
Case will be continued, must be tried, okay?
Thank you for having me. Okay. MI 2021-003-759-5616 Lansdell Avenue. Jeffrey Young is the attorney.
Letter of support from the coordinating RCO HMC Square.
Mr. Young is coming back in as a panelist.
Hello, Mr. Young.
Mr. Young?
I think you're muted.
Jeffrey, you're not muted.
You're unmuted, but it appears as though we can't hear your audio.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, we can.
Okay, great.
Mr. Young, how are you?
Good to see you.
Good afternoon.
Could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?
My name is Jeffrey Young on behalf of the appellate,
Jasper Smith.
My name is spelled J-E-F-F-E-R-Y-Y-O-U-N-G.
Do you swear for him to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Our vice chair has a few questions.
Hi, Mr. Young.
Do you agree to wait the reading of the refusal
and stipulate to its accuracy?
Have you emailed the exhibit packet
It was proof of ownership, tax compliance, a copy of the refusal or referral, photos under plans of the property five days in advance of this hearing, and have you met with the RCO, and do you have a letter?
Okay, great.
You may proceed, and please share your screen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Is my screen being shared?
i'm sorry i can't really see here jeffrey just make it a little larger great will do
so again good afternoon members of the board my name is jeffrey young here on behalf
of my client miss jasmine smith owner of 5616 lansdowne avenue
miss smith is on the line as well i'm here you see our the the table of contents uh for our
presentation. As I go through, you'll see this is the tax clearance for Ms. Jasmine Smith
obtained on 6-16-2022, showing that she's in compliance with the City of Philadelphia
tax regulations. Here is a copy of our refusal. We are refused for use as a two-dwelling unit.
The property is currently zoned in an RSA-5 area, and the proposed use of two dwelling units is prohibited in the RSA-5 zoning district.
Here is a copy of the deed where my client purchased the property in late December of 2019.
And here is a copy of our appeal application, along with a copy of the neighborhood notification
that was sent to the neighbors on November 10th of 2021.
We had our meeting with the community group on December 9th of 2021.
The next form is our letter of support from the HMC Squared Community Association.
There were a total of 10 members at the community meeting, and no one opposed our project.
All members were either in support, support with a proviso or in non-opposition of the proposed use as two dwelling units.
And here from the summary, the community noted that there are other duplexes on this block and stated reasons why the community were in support of our project.
here's proof that we've mailed letters to the community groups to the community at large rather
of the community meeting here I just want to give us
uh of the uh community meeting um here i just want to give a sense of the uh surrounding
neighborhood um so we are uh at 56 in lansdowne um as lansdowne avenue is a pretty heavily
traveled street uh there's 10 trolley stops along lansdowne avenue the 10 trolley rather
um as i go uh show this next page on the overview um you can see that there are also bus stops on
the corner of 57th and Lansdale as well as 56th and Lansdale. This is the G bus, I believe.
So this area is heavily used by public transportation. Given the zoning map of the area here, we
are in this outlined area of the yellow RSA 5. However, if you see along Lansdale Avenue,
there's a variety of dense uses here. Just a couple doors down, this area here is all CMX2,
which allows commercial on the first floor with residential units, multiple residential units
above. If you go across the street here, we'll see that there's a zone RM1 in this orange,
Again, across the street, more CMX2 dense units that are surrounding this neighborhood.
Just to show a picture of the property here, this is our property.
As currently designed, the property has two doors, one for access to the first floor unit
and one for accessing the second floor unit.
Again, these are just pictures to show
what the neighborhood looks like to our east.
Again, these are the commercial units
on the first floor level
with the multiple residential units above.
This next picture here gives a sense
of other similarly designed properties on the block.
This is a block down. Actually, this is a 5542 Lansdowne Avenue, which is a block to our east.
This property here is 5544 Lansdowne Avenue, again, to our east.
This block is directly to our, this property rather directly to our west on our same 100, 5622 Lansdowne Avenue.
again two units two doors same same makeup and again this property here is 56 I believe 30 56 36
Lansdowne Avenue again same similar design as our property the next slide I'll zoom in
is the floor plan makeup again their their proposed second floor unit and the first floor
unit will consist of the basement and the first floor. And with that, I'll ask my client, Ms. Jasmine
Smith, to be elevated to a panelist so she can adopt my testimony.
Hi, could you state your name and spell it, please, for the court reporter?
Hi, my name is Jasmine Smith, J-S-M-I-N-E, S-M-I-T-H.
right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
yes proceed mr young thank you uh miss smith did you hear my testimony yes and do you uh
stipulate to my testimony's uh accuracy yes and you adopt my testimony as your own
yes thank you uh any questions of the members of the board questions from the board
no mr chairman no mr chairman no mr chairman questions or comments from the virtual audience
i see no he has shared planning commission this is uh ron bednar city planning property is
indicated for residential and the city plan given the surrounding use context and its proximity to
nearby public transit recommend the quest for variance be granted thank you mi 2021
21-003-759-5619 Lannisdale Avenue.
I vote yes.
Carl Tenere, my vote is yes.
Thomas Holloman, my vote is yes.
James Snell, my vote is yes.
Ms. Miller Shaheed, my vote is yes.
Thank you, Mr. Young.
Thank you.
Is there anyone in the audience whose 330 case has not been called?
I see no handshare.
thank you thank you everyone great good day work a lot a lot of nice cases thank you all
next week we have off right yes yes we don't return to first week in july second week in july
yes yes we don't return to first week in july second week in july
okay maybe i can talk to you ton okay what's the date time
the date that you return yeah yes let's see
that would be july 13th will be the next hearing so we're we missed two days two weeks right
correct okay it's a four month of my week you're we're closed because of the holiday and then the
last week of june we're closed due to inventory and purging of records right okay so it's we're
not back we're not back for three weeks right so just now we come back to 13. so that's two weeks
and today's date is
so you returned
for hearings on July 13th
that's all we have to remember
that works for everyone
that's three weeks
oh okay
I'll send you an email
no problem
that's three weeks
is there ever a month
or is it each month that we have
hearings Tuesday and Wednesday
and which part of the month is that third week i'm sending you all an updated schedule now
right okay so you should get it within the next few days an updated schedule
it's always one the third tuesday of the month and then as necessary we'll add special
no problem everybody have a nice time off and thank you thank you go to ocean city and enjoy
yourself with the kids thank you thank you thank you thank you everybody dpz uh zoom thank you so
very kindly no problem take care and john kelly court reporter thank you so kindly thank you
i will think of you all next week at the beach it sounds good and i will send jennifer the new
schedule, okay? Thank you. All right, good night all. See you next time. Bye-bye.
Good night.