correct. And the 40 are dedicated to Aldi alone? During the hours of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Aldi has the exclusive use of those 40 spaces. Okay, so CVS has no off-street parking that's
dedicated for their use? That is correct. Okay. And again, that's the Aldi spaces are from 9 in
the morning till nine at night, correct? That is correct. Okay. You made a statement in your
capacity as a qualified expert by your attorney, Mr. Whalen, and I believe it stated that 80 to
85% of your tenants, residents, occupants don't use vehicles. Can you just fill the board in on
how you came up with that figure, how you came up with that calculation, what surveys you did,
performed, questionnaires, how you came to that? Sure. My office, OCF Realty, manages 1,100 units
within four blocks of this property. Many of those buildings have 30 to 60 units with six
to 10 parking spaces in each. A perfect example being the Royal Theater on South Street that we
just delivered. In all examples of properties that we manage, we offer parking during the leasing
activities directly to our prospective tenants before offering them to the community. And in
all circumstances, the tenants in the building have declined parking. In past efforts before
zoning board and with other neighborhood associations, we did active surveys. For example,
at 1430 South Street, we surveyed all of our tenants in that property to verify not only how
many tenants were not using our parking, but how many tenants even had cars. And in each of those
examples, the hysteria was unfounded and that a disproportionate number of our tenants did not
have a vehicle, did not own a vehicle, did not have an interest in parking at our property or
at any other property. And I'm sorry, that study was out, how many properties that said that they
did not have a car? Four properties. Okay. Four properties. And when you said, I think it was
inordinate number. Do you know the actual number? 15% of our tenants had parking.
In those, had cars you mean? Had cars. At those four locations? Yes, sir. Okay. All right. So
four of your locations. So, and how many tenants were, how many tenants did that make up? 140.
140 of the 1100 correct that's correct okay um
i have no further questions than mr mr feybush uh i just have a couple of questions mr feybush
uh first of all um are you aware that there's uh street parking along 22nd right out front
of cvs yes uh and how many spaces are there approximately i believe there's four okay and
in your opinion again as an expert when you're developing properties would you consider a
property 700 feet away as being impacted by what's taking place at the property that you're
developing or leasing no i have no further questions i'm i'm i'm finished concluded
with my soliciting
witness. Okay. And I have no evidence to submit.
Thank you. Oh, that, Chairman, I believe I just did forget to do that. If you could just
acknowledge that I will request moving all of my exhibits into evidence and everything presented
okay Tanya so chair we have a couple people with a hand up um we have a Vashti
Bandy who I'm going to allow to speak at this time Vashti you can unmute
yourself and state your name and address for the record
sorry i was in the kitchen
let me turn this off oh no
all right is that better yes please identify yourself with the
yes please identify yourself with the record and spell your name for the stenographer sure
record and spell your name for
my name is Vashti Bandy V-A-S-H-T-I my last name is Bandy B-A-N-D-Y and I am my address is 2133
Catherine Street uh 19146 so I'm in the area of impact you swear and affirm to tell the truth
the whole truth nothing but the truth absolutely yes thank you you have two minutes thank you okay
wonderful all right so i've heard a lot of back and forth discussion about the parking and it is
a concern of mine um while i think the uh the the plan project looks beautiful i am concerned because
um i think that like right now um we were we were gosh hold on sorry i had to run upstairs from the
kitchen so basically i'm kind of i'm some i i am concerned because to um avoid meeting the
required commercial spaces it seems as though the developer wants to reduce the residential
parking spaces by 44 to accommodate the commercial spaces but those commercial spaces are open from
9 a.m to 9 p.m specifically talking about the aldi and i am i mean i would think that residents
would want to park their cars when they get home from work significant you know significantly
earlier than 9 p.m. in normal times when we are not in the pandemic times um also there we that
that i mean grocery stores aren't just open on weekdays they're also open on weekends and that
is going to impact the neighborhood parking as well um i think that i i with with incredible
amounts of respects for the other properties that were discussed i do think there may i'm not sure
I feel like the character of our neighborhood is like of the Washington Avenue specifically
is a bit different in regard in regards to how far away things are from each other than 22nd
and South. So for example, a build a property that is 700 feet away from another property on 22nd
and South, there are many other intervening properties, but Washington Avenue is large
buildings. So something that's across the street, the street is larger, the area is larger. And I
think that so I think that when we're thinking about impact there's both absolute that the
absolute value of the number of feet but we're also actually considering the relative value
depending on the um character and how the block is laid out um and my main my other concern is
um with loading and unloading so we have one the the proposed prop the proposed um property has one
loading dock um with multiple businesses and so my question would be um what happens when two trucks
come in at the same time as often does um where i assume as often does when i'm like bicycling
myself down the street we're going to have basic trucks stopping i i mean it's truck trucks stopping
the middle of the street stopping in the bike lane doing their thing so um somebody else there
okay so that is those are my those are my primary concerns about what what has been proposed
um i am that yeah so i have am i within my two minutes here um you've actually exceeded i'm so
sorry we're giving you a lot of time because i'm done i've wrapped up that was those are my two
concerns yes did you need me for questions or anything did you need me for anything else
i need questions for this uh witness here apparently none thank you thank you thank you
I'm going to go now. Goodbye. Thank you.
Ms. Shacumba, if you still wish to testify, you can unmute yourself and go forward.
Okay, I'm unmuted. Can you hear me?
Yes, we can. Please identify yourself with a record.
My name is Madeline Shacumba, M-A-L-I-N-E.
S-H-I-K-M-E-S
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
And please provide us with your address.
2-3-0-Madison Square.
I'm about two and a half on the project.
could you speak up a little bit you're having a hard time hearing you I said
all about two two and a half blocks from the project thank you
I'm here to speak on behalf of the president and myself because
We are being seriously impacted by this.
you're being seriously impacted by this
Right now, I hear the developer express a single hardship as to why he should not be
able to meet some of the refusal I have been giving to him. One, I submitted, dated December
the 30th 2019 2019 it was a nor notice of refusal and let's be few though that
things that were mentioned. One, for multifamily, for commercial use, and required three
and he don't propose one, and required...
Having trouble making her help. Yeah, there's a lot of technical difficulties with her.
You're fading in and out. There's an echo.
I'm trying to see it now.
Would you be willing to get a letter or email with her testimony?
Because it's a lot of fading out.
Sonographer, we can't understand.
I'm sure the sonographer can't hear what you're saying either.
How's that even?
So why don't you email your testimony to us, Chacumba?
Ms. Chacumba?
I think we lost her.
I can always email her and let her know, Chair.
Yeah, do that. Please let her know. We've lost her completely now.
Oh, she's there.
I know I'm here.
Yeah, we know you're there, but you faded away.
We couldn't hear you for about 30 seconds.
All right, well, I'm back.
He has not shown any hardship.
Any hardship whatsoever.
He cannot meet the requirements.
Chacombe, I need to interrupt you.
I apologize.
You're breaking up.
We're hearing maybe every third or fourth word at best, and it's very garbled.
It's not uniform.
And hear me now without the garbling.
Ms. Chacumba, we're going to ask that you provide us with a written document via email
of your testimony because your technology is not allowing the court reporter to receive.
Again, Ms. Shacumba, we're requesting that you submit your testimony via email.
Send it to the board's administrator, and we'll provide your testimony to the board.
I really don't like to do that because I'm more expressive.
Because I'm more expressive.
there is no other there's no other alternative we cannot hear your testimony
chairman chairman if i if i may i i know it's difficult but i would like to i don't want to
see this as a reason to hold up a vote on you on it today if i could interject chair
sharon is suggesting that ms shakumba call her on a cell phone and she can do it like she did earlier
okay but we got limiting
because of the circumstances
we're going to give you
three minutes as opposed to two
and I will notify you at two and a half
minutes that your time is running
you said I can do it on the phone
you said I can do it on the phone
what's the phone number I call on the phone
Madeline, stop wasting time.
Either way, it's three minutes.
Either way.
We've been adhering to that all day.
All right, well, one thing.
He did not present any hardship, okay?
Madeline, stop wasting time and call the number.
Call the number
Call the number.
Mrs. Chacamba
Mrs. Shukamba, it's...
Mrs. Chacamba, it's Sharon Saleta
Call the number.
Mrs. Shukamba, it's...
the same number that you've called me on earlier
if you call I'll put you on speaker
and you will be able to hear them and they'll be
able to hear you
Is that your call number?
Yes, yes
Thank you Sharon
You're welcome
Dare I ask, Ms. Sunket, are there other members of the public in opposition that we're waiting
for, too?
No, that's all I say.
Thank you very much.
okay can you okay can you speak louder okay you should be able to hear them now
Okay, what I was calling about, as I said before, the developer is not showing any hardship.
Okay, he needs to provide three loading zones.
Okay, right now he has only provided one.
Okay, that is for a grocery store.
And that one will definitely need it.
We don't know what will happen in a year or two years from now when he may get other tenants in there
that may require a loading zone.
We cannot afford to have businesses in there without loading zones,
especially when we can't provide it.
He didn't show no hardship that he could provide the loading zone.
We need those loading zones.
And as Mr. Orfanili is pointing out,
when you go down there on Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever,
CVS come in there, they're blocking the traffic
because they don't have any loading zones, okay?
Secondly, I'm appalled by the fact that we've been told about all these meetings they had about Washington Avenue.
And no way, nor none of this members have ever been invited by staff or the adults to attend these meetings where they redesign Washington Avenue.
Okay. Thirdly, I told you about a notice of the refusal from the L&I. L&I clearly stated in the refusal notice on December the 30th, 2019, that 128 residential parking spaces was needed, and the developers proposed 120, and right there, and residential uses.
And Anthony has an accident saying, additional parking spaces will be required for any proposed commercial.
John goes there and talks about the NOR, Notary Surgery, dated 2nd, 28th, 2020,
which we never, the RCOs never saw this because all of our needs were held before this NOR was issued.
And now all of a sudden we present six refusals.
that we did not even know a thing about, okay?
He wants to use the residential parking of 120 units for part of it for the commercial.
This should not be done.
If we are required to have 120 for residential, then it should be residential.
How dare he want to take 44 of our residential parking spaces to give to a commercial business
who will determine how that parking space will be used, okay?