Just briefly, with this one, Mr. Stacey, can you please resubmit the revised plans and
the proviso form as separate documents?
It was a little unclear from the packet which plans were the revised plans.
I believe it was four pages based on how many were submitted originally to L&I, but if you
could resubmit and then on the proviso form, please indicate what the changes were.
It just said changes according to recommendations from the ARC Commission, but we need the changes specifically noted on the proviso form so that L&I is aware of what's been changed.
Okay, so just a question on that.
So the things that we're calling the revised plan tier, those were presented to L&I prior to the issuance of the refusal.
so they were revised following the visit to the science and streetery committee so is it is it
the board's position that we would still need to provide the plans form or can we
jettison that from the package um so was there so were these revised plans sent to l and i before
or after the refusal was issued before okay then they probably they probably have them i'd have to
go and if you can send me exactly what it is that are the most updated plans and i can just compare
them with what l and i has and then we can vote it next week with or without the revised plans i just
don't um yeah it would just i just need a few minutes to compare them but i do need to see what
you're considering the most recent plans in order to compare them to what l and i originally reviewed
okay yeah i mean i do know that these were submitted november the 15th
um the art commission letter was november the 26th and the refusal was dated december the 11th
okay i will i will just double check um because because there was an indication that there were
changes made in response to the art commission so let me just make sure everything is um i wasn't
i read it as there were changes made you know since the refusal was issued but now i need to
take a look at it and make sure we don't miss anything so understood okay but we can vote on
it next we can vote on it next week and then it'll either be with or without the revised plans
but just if you can send me what are the most recent plans and i'll just take a few minutes
to compare them and then we can vote on the matter next week okay okay questions or comments
from the virtual audience here we have charles richardson who's been unmuted and allowed to speak
good evening mr chair well richardson yeah you again amazed me that you're still around but uh
state your name and and you don't have to spell it because you've already been sworn
certainly charles richardson office of councilwoman cindy bass room 508 city hall
So the councilwoman has no opposition to granting the variance for this for the sign.
Thank you very much.
Planning Commission.
Madison Matera, Planning Commission staff.
The comprehensive plan recommends no change to the residential multifamily zoning at this location.
The property is a school and the proposal is to replace an existing sign with a new projecting sign.
The Planning Commission recommends the board grant the requested variance for projecting signs.
Okay. So, counsel, we're going to vote on this next Wednesday at 2 p.m.
And this case is closed as we stand, right, Hillary?
It's closed, and we will have the vote for you at 2 o'clock, okay?
Thank you.
Thank you, and thank you for your presentations.
Number 13, MI 2025, 000457, 1434 to 36 Federal Street.
1434 to 36 Federal Street.
Henry Clinton is the attorney.
Henry Clinton is the attorney.
Good afternoon, or good evening, Mr. Chairman.
So, Henry, you've already been sworn, if I remember correctly, right?
Correct.
Could you just state your name for the record?
Sure. Henry Clinton.
Could you identify your client, the relationship to the property?
Sure. Client is Tim DiPretoro, capital D-I, capital P-R-E-T-O-R-O.
the vice chair has a few questions our vice chair has a few questions good evening counsel do you
agree to either read another refusal or stipulate to his accuracy i do have you emailed in all the
required documents and exhibits that's needed to proceed with this case five days in advance of
this hearing i have thank you counsel please proceed thank you mr sheen
is that visible mr chairman it's up now yes great uh good evening everyone uh i'm here on
behalf of Tim DiPertoro, who is the principal of 1434 Federal Street. This is an adaptation of an
old machine shop on Federal Street, just west of Broad Street. It's already approved for eight
units and commercial on the first and basement levels. We're asking for a shrinking of the
commercial space because there's no frontage for the commercial in the rear half of the building
and to replace the shrinkage of the commercial with two additional residential units.
These are my table of contents, A1 through A10.
Refusal.
This is a CMX2 zoning district, you know, commercial mixed use,
but it's never been used as a commercial space.
It's off of Broad Street, as I said, on Federal.
And it's been a machine shop actually since 1955.
It's the Ernest Hill Machine Shop.
They did fabrication of sheet metal, laser cutting, jet cutting for both the automotive and aerospace industries.
They closed shop, I believe, within the last three years or so, and they've relocated.
So it's a three story. Let me go to that.
It's a three story building, 1434 to 36 Federal Street.
It has a side alley, which I'll show you.
We're not changing the building.
We're keeping the building as is.
We're just repurposing the inside.
I'll go backwards.
We did meet with the Southport Street Neighborhood Association,
both their committee and a full neighborhood meeting.
They were in support of the proposal.
This is their letter of support.
They were just asked for two things,
a tree to be planted on the front of the property,
which we will do if we get okay from the streets department and fairmount park commission
and they also asked that a trash room and a bicycle room be installed on the first floor
which we did we did that inside the building so it really didn't adjust the footprint and we don't
have any plans to be stamped we're still going forward with the existing plans because as i said
footprint is the same just walking through some of the photographs so the idea is the first floor
the front half of the building. It's a deep building, about 100 feet deep. The front half
of the building will be commercial. As I said, it was never commercial. It was always
basically light manufacturing. And the back half will be two bi-level units.
And this is a picture of the property directly across the street. You can see there's commercial
space on the first floor and residential above. We're going to mimic that, certainly not the
architectural look or the four stories. We're only going to keep three stories.
This is a project down the street.
Again, it's residential.
This is east of our property, and I'll show you that with the aerial view.
Interior of the property, again, an old manufacturing facility.
There's an elevator existing.
We're not going to keep the elevator.
It's only three floors.
Again, another picture of the property across the street.
This is the posting of the zoning signs.
And we'll get into the plan.
So the architect on the job, Jeff Pond, he is on the call if we have any particular questions.
But this gives you a little idea of where we are.
So this is Federal Street.
As I move my cursor to the right, there's Broad Street.
And then 15th is to the left.
So we're a little bit off the beaten track of Broad Street.
So there's some more photographs.
There's commercial to the right and commercial to the left.
And this is the alleyway where you can get access to the middle of the building.
All right, so this is what's approved right now.
It's approved for, as of right, commercial in the cellar and commercial on the first floor.
Commercial in the cellar and commercial in the first floor.
What we're going to do.
What we're going to do, the proposal today is to cut the commercial basically in half.
And then the back end, the cellar and the first floor will have a unit by level.
Unit A in the cellar and first floor, unit B, cellar and first floor.
The second and third floor, each will have four units.
That will remain the same because this has already been approved.
The only change that we're making is basically swapping out some of the commercial on the
cellar and first floor.
So this floor plan is the floor plan that's already approved, and it's part of our package.
Units one to four on the second floor, five to eight on the second.
So this is the revised plan.
Again, not that I need anything stamped if the board looks kindly upon this, but simply
because the community group, and I think rightly so, asked for a trash room.
the first floor and some bicycle parking on the first floor. So the idea will be is the commercial
will be on the front. You will enter through the front door and to access the residential,
you'll walk down the wide alleyway, enter here, and then go upstairs as you need to the apartments
and also to access unit B in the front half, which is a bi-level first floor and basement.
and then to access Unit A, you would go around the back and get into A
and have the steps go down to the basement.
The floor plans, the second and third, as I said, it's already an approved situation,
so it's a redundancy to go over them again.
Unless, you know, certainly if the board asks questions,
I can talk about the square footage or anything that you would like.
the the if you look at the uh windows on the building you can see that the the basement is
quite a bit out i mean the the cellary area is quite a bit out of the the ground level the grade
so even though we have bedrooms in the basement the windows are about four feet above above grade
And the architect's on the call if anyone has questions about that.
These are the plans that we sit in at the community.
I just put them in here because it's the same as before.
These are the approved plans that I talked to you about at the outset.
It's really too many plans here to go through.
It's just the architectural, frankly.
This is the side of the building, so this would be the alleyway.
When you walk down the alleyway, this is how you enter through the alleyway into the residential portion where you're going to have, as I said, the bike room to the right, trash room to the left.
Then you go in and access the bi-levels to the left, as well as the units above.
Again, we're keeping the facade.
I mean, that was important to the folks at South Broad Civic.
And it was important to us, too, really.
We really didn't want to change it.
So it has that old industrial-slash-manufacturing flavor, but it's being repurposed for residential use.
To the left is the rear of the property.
Here, where you can see the windows I talked about, they're basically almost out of the ground and certainly above grade.
Cross-section of the apartment complex.
Application for appeal.
tax clearance, zero balance, zoning map. Again, Broad Street is to my right.
To the left is 15th Street. It's all CMX2. Deed indicating ownership.
Our notice letter to the community about the zoning hearing today, as well as the
community group meeting, which we had, mailed out 103 pieces certified, or certificate of mailing,
rather. So we have a situation where we have an existing building never used for commercial,
even though it's zone CMX2. We're suggesting that the commercial area in the rear of the
building is really not going to be functional. Every commercial space in that building has
frontage on Federal Street, and we would like to mimic that. We're a little bit off of Broad
Street, and even if we were on Broad Street, I think my client would be making the same request
that the commercial is not going to work if it's that deep or if it's in the back of the building.
And my client will testify that he spoke to his realtor about that, and he can speak more to that
when I get him on the line. So we're asking the board to approve two residential when we swap
out the commercial in the rear of the building. We're not affecting any properties light or air.
We're not affecting any properties, light or air.
We're basically in conformance.
We're basically in conformance with the code.
We have the support of the community, and we're not impacting any light or air.
With that, I'm going to ask my client to-
Before you bring them on, I mean, I have to ask this question.
I mean, eight would be by right?
Eight is by right, correct.
And how did we get to 10?
What we did is, I'll go back to the plan.
so right now this is this is a buy right project all commercial for 100 feet on the bait in the
cellar and the first floor right there's four units on the second and then four on the third
so that's the commercial and the eight and what we're doing is cutting the commercial in half
and putting a unit a a buy level on the first floor and basement and then b on the first floor
and basement because we want to keep the commercial
on the front and not have people walk down an alleyway
to get the commercial. Without frontage, we're really not in good shape having commercial
on the back.
But I mean, I still think the question is you
could have done the building with eight, right? I mean, the second
and third floor, you could have made the apartments a different size, right?
well yeah i guess you could always i'm not i'm just saying like sure it reads well here like
by right you could do it eight by right and you're what makes you bad what makes your office 10
so i guess the question is is there a reason why you you went up to 10 right so yeah maybe i wasn't
clear. So we already are approved for these two commercial floors and eight residential units.