and the address of the property at issue with that said we will begin but before we call the
first case we'd like to announce the following cases are being continued
we'd like to announce the following cases are being continued
calendar number 39353-1431 north 25th street
calendar number 39459-11528 west erie avenue
calendar number 38983-2401 master street and calendar number 39477
530 West Mount Pleasant Avenue. If anyone believes that any of those cases are being called
for continuance and error, please raise your hand. And if you have any reason to request
a continuance or withdrawal, raise your hand at this time also.
No hands, Chair. Thank you very much. Calendar number. I'm sorry, a hand just popped up.
Hold on. I made one. I have one more to add on. I apologize. Calendar number 40077-1029 East Columbia Avenue is being withdrawn.
Carolyn, you can unmute yourself and speak to a continuance.
I'm sorry. Could you clarify what you mean by continuance on 530 West Mount Pleasant Avenue?
what does that mean exactly being continued to a date a date in the future okay no hearing on
that today we're not hearing any testimony on that case today okay thank you thank you
chairman to chico if i could remind you there are two delay list cases that you were going to read
into the record um everyone everyone except confessor will be voting on those hold on i
got to pull them back up all right let's see would you like me to read the calendar number yes if
you don't mind by the time I get them back up yeah sure it's calendar numbers 38589 and 38590
1038 and 1040 Dorrance Street those cases are my vote is yes
my vote is yes
my vote is yes thank you thank you
any more
was there another delay is that the only one no there's nothing else okay thank you thank
you good afternoon mr klein i'm going to call your case up mi-2020-000946
2000 cyber street s-e-y-b-e-r-t street
thank you mr chair uh good evening members of the board jared like black rome 130 north 18th street
philadelphia 19103 garrett do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to its
accuracy yes i do if you swear and affirm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the
truth yes i do please proceed uh mr chair this is actually a companion case uh to the 2016 master
uh case that you have on your list if you okay let me for the board's efficiency if you want
to call that one we can yeah i'll call that as well calendar number three nine eight eight eight
two oh one six master street thank you okay uh good evening mr chair members of the board um
can everybody see the screen that i've shared i hope yes great yes um great uh i know the board
has had a long and somewhat technologically challenged afternoon so i'll endeavor to be
as brief as I can. I'm here on on behalf of the developer Penrose of the Shoreswood project. This
is part of an overall redevelopment plan for the Shoreswood neighborhood. It's accompanied by
30 million dollars in tax credits and grants and the idea is to create a affordable housing element
in an area of the city that sorely needs it and as as the board knows already is
rapidly transitioning this is the project here there are two sites as you
mentioned that we're talking about the applications both proposed the
consolidation of multiple lots into new lots that will be at 2016 master and
2000 cyber street um the lots are located here uh on the aerial picture that you can see
The lots are located here, on the aerial picture that you can see.
And the proposal for 2000 Seibert Street is to create one lot from 14 and to erect a new
set of attached townhome style structures on those lots that would be used for a total
of five residential dwelling units.
For 2016 master, the parcels here, again, we're consolidating these into one lot from 22 existing lots.
We're going to demolish the existing structure that's there and erect a new attached structure for use as 51 units.
The 2000 Seibert lot will be able to accommodate eight off-street parking spaces.
The 2016 master portion will have 12 off street parking spaces and 18 bicycle spaces.
This is some contextual photographs of the immediate surrounding area.
As you can see, many of these lots are vacant or have some dilapidated existing housing
on them.
And so we're really excited to bring these new projects to the neighborhood that we
think will not only add an affordable housing element, but revitalize some blocks that have
been vacant for quite some time. The affordability component, these are going to be marketed to
people who are at 50% or less of AMI, and those numbers will vary based on the unit size.
Here are some proposed renderings. This is the facade that is going to be facing Master Street.
this is the facade facing cyber street and this is the style of the townhomes that we are proposing
to erect I'm going to put up some sample floor plans and a building layout the units are going
to be in a variety of sizes throughout the master street building the townhomes will all be
constructed in a similar style and there are additional exhibits that I sent to the board
administrator with the you know administrative items that we typically have photos of posting
tax clearances deeds etc i didn't think it was the best use of the board's time to walk through
those administrative items here this is just a perspective view of what the project will look
like and i did want to call the board's attention we had a meeting with the brewery town shardswood
civic association they've submitted a letter of full support for both applications that were
speaking about. This is a project that has had a lot of community conversation over the last year.
There's a lot of stakeholders involved because PHA, who has been transferring and assisting with
the acquisition of the lots, and we've had a lot of very enthusiastic support and people are
excited about this affordable housing element coming to this neighborhood. With that I would
like to ask Lindsay Samsi to virtually raise her hand so she can adopt my testimony and I'll open
the floor to any comments or questions from the board. Thank you Jared. Can everyone hear me? Yes
please identify yourself spell your name. Good evening chairman my name is Lindsay Samsi. I'm
with Penrose, first name L-I-N-D-S-E-Y, last name Samsey, S-A-M-S-I, 1301 North 31st Street,
Philadelphia PA 19121. Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
about the truth? I do. Thank you. Please proceed, Mr. Clark. Lindsay, did you have an opportunity to
listen to the statements I made in explaining these two projects? I did. And do you adopt my
testimony as true correct in your own i do and um jared i just wanted to thank you for for
presenting on the project i just wanted to point out as a chairman i'm sure you know on the board
this is part of a choice neighborhood in sharswood blumberg um we did receive the 30 million dollar
grant through the housing authority and this project is the first phase of four phases um that
penrose will develop um for affordable housing so the project is 100 affordable and i just wanted
to correct one thing it's for persons at 60 ami or below per the tax credit code thank you thank
you uh questions from the board no no anyone else wish to testify in this case if so please raise
your hand no hands chair thank you Planning Commission hey Ron we didn't
hey ron yes we didn't swear you in did we uh you have not all right so give us your name and
swear you in did we you have
you know you know the drill name is ronald bednar that's b-e-d-n-a-r we're in a firm to tell the
truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth i do and you're representing the planning commission
correct please proceed so these properties both uh 2000 siebert and sabert and 2016 master are um
split zoned in our comprehensive plan the applicant that in this particular case has
given a thorough examination of the redevelopment initiative going forward
we support the granting and the variances thank you calendar number let me start again
mi-2020-000946 2000 cyber street and calendar number 39888 2016 master street my vote is yes
to both mr chair i'm sorry i'm sorry to interrupt your your positive vote i wanted to point out that
2016 master does have revised plans uh those are submitted to miss saletta um the changes were
reductions in some of the dimensional how many pages i believe there were three pages mr chair
okay so let me review the plans and the changes are fine they can be made by revised plans
okay so let me let me redo those sorry about that mr chairman no problem uh mi-2020-000
946-2000 cyber my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes calendar number 39888
2016 master street my vote is yes with the proviso revised plan three pages approved today
yes with proviso yes with proviso okay and there's one more case i believe
jared uh you have the next one as well i don't believe i do those were the only two
uh my other two matters were continued mr chair okay no chair that's all oh sharon gave me
something earlier bain street oh i'm sorry
that correct sharon
that is correct yes thank you m i dash two zero two zero
dash zero zero zero one zero six one one six one four
baines b a n e s i believe it's spelled correct me if i'm wrong
anyone here on this case one one six one four baines
um sharon i don't have that information do we know who that
it was a i know that he's a um it's the property owner who was going to represent himself
daniel kebner yes that's correct that's correct
he did send in the documents
um no in deference to him i don't want to dismiss it
um tanya what i mean we can continue it uh it appears that they're here hello
whoa whoa whoa you got uh mr keppner you have uh two devices
one should have mute and you can use the other one
and when you've done that you can unmute yourself and prepare to be swarming
mr keppner
hello hi mr keppner um please identify yourself by spelling your name first and last name and
Give us your address.
I'm Daniel Kepner, D-A-N-I-E-L-K-E-P-N-E-R.
We're still getting feedback, Mr. Kepner.
You're still getting feedback, Mr. Kepler.
My wife took the phone away.
My wife took the phone away and turned it off.
All right.
Your address?
11614 Bain Street, Philadelphia, 19116.
Thank you.
Do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Please proceed.
Tell us what you're asking this board.
um we had a um we wanted to build a uh sunroom on our back porch we bought the home recently and uh
we had a couple people come out contractors and uh we settled on someone and um
we had a really big issue with him he he lied to us he said he had permits which he just had
a permit to correct something on our front porch instead of the permit he should have had so we
fired him and uh lost $16,000 in that deal but anyway we rehired someone else resubmitted new
plans and what happened after that was there was something called a one-year rule which it lost
it wasn't able to go through because of that
and also there was a variance
where too much of my
ground would be covered by the
percentage and
what we did we had to go to a
a town
hall meeting
the Somerton Civic
Association and
send letters out to 200
of our closest neighbors and
get replies
and they all you know it was a unanimous vote
they said we could build the the uh sunroom and um mr kepler if i could interrupt you for a minute
this is sharon saletta we did receive letters both from councilman o'neill and from the rco
supporting the project okay great uh the other thing about the coverage of so much of our ground
that there was an existing concrete patio there is an existing concrete patio on the back of our home
which this screen porch will fit on so we're not covering any extra we're just which that's why
i didn't understand why that would come into play because we're literally putting on top of
something that's already covering the ground but uh anyway that that's pretty much where we uh
where we stand i think we got it okay thank you uh any questions from the board no no anyone else
out there wishes to testify in this matter if so please raise your hand
no hands chair thank you planning commission
senate property is indicated for residential use on the city plan given
the existing character of the neighborhood and
proposal we have no objection or granting
adherence thank you mi-2020-000106 11614 bain street my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is
yes okay mr keppner yes sir all right hopefully the nightmare is over
all right the any unfinished business sharon tanya nothing for me
no cheer nothing for me okay everyone thank you for your time today be safe over this holiday
weekend see you in two weeks thank you great job everybody all thank you again the staff and our
court reporter i think thank you mr chairman yes good night everyone bill thanks for everything
tanya thank you no problem tonight okay tanya should i chat you my email for the um video
this morning that kept going out yes please do okay you got me right tanya that sunk it at
phillip.gov got you all righty take care and thank you so much for your understanding
oh no problem we all have to work with each other right i know right
enjoy your holiday bye you too