You have to unmute yourself, sir.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I have it on the screen.
Hopefully you can see it.
4363-Frankford Avenue.
Mr. Ramondi.
Yes, this is Tanya. In order for us to see it, you would have to share your screen again.
Are you ready for that?
Yeah, hold on two seconds. Let me just bring this back up.
So initially, you're going to have your documents available and then hit the green share button.
Okay, here we go. We'll put the document up here now.
talk me through it what's going on okay so i have my have the screen up i got the share screen
okay so i have my have the screen up i got the share screen and i have to i assume just
and I have
open my document open the document once you hit share screen okay your document
should already be up and click on your document all right and then it would allow it to share it
with us okay here we go now what you now what you have up is your desktop you would need to click
on the actual document that you would be here hey go ahead you're professional here we go now
all right so here we are we have 2363 frankfurt avenue and here's our our presentation we uh
in fact did uh what we're trying to accomplish here is mr remindy one one minute have you
identify your client and the relationship that was Keith Brunden uh he is the uh the owner of
okay thank you and he's available he's available to testify uh what we have is uh just to show
you what we've already presented was the notice for the uh RCO hearing and going through that
we have our refusal what we're trying to accomplish here is to get a use an existing
lot to be used for a which is basically vacant for a commercial space and for 11
low-income housing units we're right now they're zoned for
industrial commercial mixed use and what we're trying to do obviously is to put residential
in with that here's proof of our mailing to the neighbors and for the RCO hearing
and they had all gone out we met with the RCO actually on February the 10th and we got an
approval on February the 14th. The approval has been attached to this presentation.
All right. Here's our application for the appeal. We have our
both our project information form also, which basically just indicates once again
that these 11 units would actually be beneficial to the community.
uh my understanding is also that we have approval from councilwoman um
pinion's office can you understand his office i don't know if you receive that or if somebody's
going to actually be here to speak on that this afternoon uh please to bring down to the
pictures let me get out of this one here
All right, this is a copy of our tax clearance certification, Val 378, and a copy of the,
here's a copy of the approval from the frankfurt neighborhood advisory committee
okay have you already received the pictures or you want me to try to bring them up on the screen now
um do you have any architectural drawings yeah they're they're attached here also let me see
Let's go back to that.
There's our drawings.
i actually have the i actually have the architect available no that's okay
could you show me the lot like where the lot is
where it is what what's what's what's the site look like
i guess we could blow these up or somewhere
Thank you.
this is the location map that you have as part of the plans can we see a closer picture
of the site
i actually have pictures of the of the area let me bring them up
actually if we can have mr lonnie come in he's the engineer he's got more of a presentation
than i have is he is his hand up anywhere deb and lonnie
yes he's allowed to speak okay i called mr lonnie at this point
hi good morning can you hear me i could you state your name and spell for the court reporter
yes devon loney d-e-v-o-n-l-o-n-e-y do you swear or firm to tell the truth the
whole truth and nothing but the truth i do
Mr. Lottie, are you able to bring up on the screen here your lot plans and your architectural
plans?
I do have them available, but it doesn't look like I'm able to share anything at
the moment.
I will have to promote you to panelists.
One moment, please.
Thank you.
Council, this is Tanya again.
Could you please hit the green button to stop sharing?
and then we will allow the architect to share as necessary.
Thank you kindly.
All right.
Can everyone see that?
All right.
Let me drag the plans over quickly.
Okay, so here's the general layout of the site.
It's on the corner of Unity Street and Frankfurt Avenue.
The site next to us is the vacant lot.
This is a picture of the building here, and then we have some additional photos here.
This was prior to our initial phase. Initially, the building was unsafe. So we've done a lot of work since then. But this is the building here on the corner initially, next to this vacant lot, just to answer the chairman's question.
and regarding the site plans or the architectural plans
this is what we're doing with the first floor again in the very beginning or the front of the
building along frankfort avenue right now is a vacant commercial space and then we'll have
residential units on that first floor each residential unit will have its own entrance
off of unity street um so this would be the first floor layouts with the three units
and then on the second and third floor we'll pretty much have identical floor plans
with a unit in the front of the building and three units in the rear of the building on
each floor uh giving us a total of those 11 residential units plus the vacant commercial space
it's just some elevations of the building and some renderings of uh early renderings of what
we are proposing again this side view is looking from unity street each unit with his own entrance
directly into the unit for those first floors uh this central door would service the central
stair to go up to the second and third floor for the units on the second and third. And then the
front would be commercial. As of now, we're just applying for vacant commercial. But that will be
sort of the layout here. And then again, the vacant lot to the right, if you're looking from
the front, this is looking from Frankfurt Avenue. Thank you, Mr. Loney. No problem.
Mr. Raimondi, do you want to bring on your client and have them adopt your testimony?
Mr. Ramondi, do you want to bring on your client and have them adopt your testimony?
Yes, that's Keith Brunden.
Does he have his hand up anywhere? Keith?
Hello.
Hi, could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?
Keith Brunden, K-E-I-T-H-B-R-U-N-D-I-N.
All right, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Go ahead, Mr. Raimondi.
Keith, you heard the presentation that I made along with Deb and Lonnie, is that correct?
And are you in accord with what we presented here today?
Any other questions, Mr. Chairman?
Questions from the board?
No, Mr. Chairman.
No, Mr. Chairman.
Questions or comments from the virtual audience?
Chair, we have Sloan folks.
good morning mr folks good morning chairman bergman i can't hear me i can't could you state
your name and spell for the court reporter yes sir thank you my name is sloan folks s-l-o-a-n-e-f-s
fire o-l-k-o-s f-l-o-l-k-s folks office of councilman maria canina sanchez room 508 city
hall do you swear a firm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
I do so, sir.
Go ahead.
Thank you, sir.
The applicant, having met with the coordinating RCO,
Frankfurt NAC, and receiving a letter of support,
a letter of support and a proviso with that letter,
the councilwoman has no opposition to this applicant's very request.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Any other comments from the virtual audience?
I see no handshare.
Planning Commission.
This is Ron, Bednar City Planning.
The property is currently indicated for industrial commercial mixed use on the city plan.
In 2014, the zoning map was amended at this location to ICMX.
The proposed use has significant higher dwelling unit counts than the prior legal use of the property.
variance does not represent the least minimum variance that would afford relief from hardship
imposed by the existing structure therefore we recommend the request for variance not be granted
thank you mi 2022 001 677 4363 frankfurt avenue i vote yes harold tennery my vote is no
I'm sorry
my vote is yes
my vote is yes
thank you
counsel
thank you for getting in for us
thank you we appreciate it
is there anyone else
in the virtual audience
930 case has not been called
i see no hands chair thank you everyone's here everyone at two o'clock okay
i am i am i am ready
begin as you wish chair my name is bill bergman i will be chairing this afternoon's 2 p.m dpa
hearings with me is carol tenary our vice chair present mr chair ismael shaheed our board secretary
Present, Mr. Chair.
Thomas Holloman, our board member.
He should be on short.
And James Snell.
Okay, and James Snell, our board member.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Also present is our executive director, Tanya Sunkett, our board attorney, Hillary Emerson.
Here's our virtual format.
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question and finally the question and answer box
And finally, the question and answer box on the screen is not for testimony or comments.
Any comments should be directed to our Executive Director, Tanya Sutton.
So let's take a look at what we have in continuances this afternoon.
Number one, number one, MI 2022, 001-768-1625 North 18th Street.
Number two, MI 2022, 001-709-1746 Lombard Street.
Number 16, MI 2021, 002-115-4112 Peachon Street.
Number 17, MI 2022, 001-804-4430 Pine Street.
and number 18, MI-2022-001-770-5021 Aspen Street.
All those cases I just mentioned are continued.
Is there anyone in the audience who has a comment relative to those cases?
I see no hands, Chair.
Are there any other requests for continuances?
chair we have someone with their hand up i'm gonna allow them to speak now sure
hi could you state your name and spell for the court reporter please
yes good afternoon my name is nilda pimentel and i'm co-chair of nascan the nori square
community action network which is a resident-led coalition hi nilda could you spell your name for
the court reporter please yes first name is nilda n-i-l-d-a last name pimentel p-i-m-e-n-t-e-l
right do you swear a friend to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
yes i do what case do you want to talk about 21 112 north front street
yes sir okay
yeah i see what what's what's your comment relative to the case
no uh on behalf of uh our organization which is a resident-led coalition in the norrisco
neighborhood representing over 100 households uh within a 10-block area we want to uh speak
um in favor and want to go record in support okay so so nilda what we're going to do is
we'll call that case and when we call that case you'll have an opportunity to speak okay