I have a Mr. John Kradzinski whose hand is raised.
I can allow him to speak right now.
And also the owner, Mr. Giovanni Williams.
He's also got his hand raised.
I will allow him to speak at this time as well.
it's the chair's call who he wants to hear from okay is the other not Mr. Williams but the other
gentleman is he an attorney no sir uh okay hold on a sec Mr. Williams good morning Mr. Chairman
Good morning.
Please just spell your full name for the record.
J-H-E-O-V-A-N-N-I-E, Williams as W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S.
Are you the owner?
Yes, sir.
Are you a nonprofit or an LLC?
No, sir.
You're prepared to go forward with the case?
Yes, sir.
All right. So the other gentleman, I'm sorry, I misplaced your name.
The other gentleman who had just.
John, John, John. Yes, John, please identify yourself full name and address.
Sure. My name is John Krasinski. It's K R A D Z I N S K I.
I am the president of Millbrook Civic Association, the RCO.
The address is 4330-Deer-Path-Wayne, Philadelphia, PA, 19154.
And do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Yes, I do.
Mr. Williams?
Yes, Mr. Chairman.
Please present your case.
Share any documents you have with us so we can see what your application's about.
So we're going to need him to be promoted.
mr williams has been promoted to panelists
thank you mr chair was he sworn in yes okay i think he was if not just swear him again anyway
no he was he was sir have you emailed an exhibit packet with the required documents
including proof of ownership, tax compliance, refusal referral, photos, and plans of the property
five days in advance of this hearing, and have you met with the RCO, and do you have a letter?
And did you hear me?
Doesn't appear to be here.
I think a few people just got booted out of the meeting.
I know some of my colleagues did, those who are not on the panel.
I would say if it's okay, we could give him a minute to just re-come in.
so chair if you like we can move on to the next one until they come back
excuse me Mr. Williams come back okay thank you so Mr. Williams have you
emailed the exhibit packet with all the required documents consisting of proof of ownership tax
compliance refusal or referral photos and or plans of the property five days in advance of this
hearing and have you met with the rco and do you have a letter mr williams you need to unmute
yourself please oh no he's already been promoted to panelists i'm sorry good morning i'm sorry
good morning did you hear any of the anything i said yes i did i'm i'm i'm i'm apologize i'm not
too good with this computer stuff yes um i did submit everything i sent it um to you guys and
i did meet with the rco okay you may proceed uh good morning my name is giovanni williams
the reason i'm i'm here i removed my garage door and um built a wall due to the fact of this
pandemic. I'm a police officer, and my son is a firefighter. We use this space to decontaminate
ourselves. Every day that we come home, we change downstairs, we leave our clothes downstairs,
we take a shower downstairs before coming upstairs to our family. I have four little boys
and a wife, and until today, thanks to that, I keep them safe.
do you have any photographs or exhibits you can share with us
uh i have it on the phone but i really don't know how to um sure i i send it um like a week
and a half i go to you guys right um javani do you live in parkwood manor
sorry i'm sorry do you live in parkwood manor no in night roads
i know i think it's parkwood manor okay
how about we hear from the uh
the rco mr krasinski i think it was yes
yes good morning um currently he resides in uh the area is called millbrook it's not parkwood
matter um having trouble allowing a toll for some reason it's called it's called millbrook
not parkwood matter some uh keep getting muted can you hear me yes okay it
keep muting yourself
yeah it keeps muting out on me um it's it's called millbrook or or shellfire um currently
we had uh no objections at our meeting to this um we had just positive feedback from the neighbors
um i myself had had walked past the property and looked at it um there's nothing that i can see is
wrong um or or anything i i could personally object to just as a citizen on my own um but
from the meeting standpoint we had um everybody uh gave positive feedback from everybody in
neighborhood period well thank you thank you for your testimony uh is there any questions from the
board no no is there anyone else who would like to testify in this case if so please raise your
hand no hands at this time mr chair thank you planning commission
good morning david effecto f-e-c-t-e-a-u with the city planning commission
David, you swear in the firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Yes, sir, I do.
Please proceed.
Thank you, sir.
mr chairman members of the board the comprehensive plan recommends single
Mr. Chairman, members of the board, the comprehensive plan recommends single-family residential use.
family residential use for this property the expansion of a driveway is not likely
to impact any of the surrounding properties we recommend the board to grant the variance
thank you mi 2020 that's zero zero two seven zero four one zero nine zero eight knights road my
vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes my vote is yes thank you mr williams
thank you and your son for your service thank you very much thank you very much thank you
calendar number 0348 1957 north 24th street the owner is craig dwyer
Mr. Chair, I see no hands at this time for that particular case.
Wait a minute, Mr. Excuse me, sir. Mr. Dwyer has raised his hand. I will allow him to speak.
I will promote him to panelists immediately.
Ms. Dwyer, you have been promoted to panelists. Please wait to be sworn in.
Can he unmute himself?
Mr. Dwyer, can you put your name and address on the record and spell your last name?
Okay. My, okay.
Mr. Dwyer, are you there?
Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me?
Yes. Can you put your name and address on the record, please, and spell your last name?
Yeah, my name is Craig Dwyer, C-R-A-I-G, and last name is D-W-Y-E-R, and I'm the address owner for 1957 North 24th Street.
Thank you. Do you swear or affirm to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
I swear to tell the truth.
Have you emailed your exhibit packet with the required documents consisting of proof of ownership, tax compliance, refusal or referral, photos and or plans of the property five days in advance of this hearing?
And have you met with the RCO? And do you have a letter?
I met with the RCO several times, mail a package, no respond.
You may proceed.
Yeah, I'm the owner of 1957 to 1955. 1955 received a variance already for duplex. I want to turn, I have the same blueprint for 1957 North 24th Street.
Mr. Dwyer, pardon the interruption. Could you share any exhibits with us, please?
Sure. Okay. So I'm going to share my screen. How do I do that? Share screen. Okay.
Okay, so here we go. Can you see my screen?
Yes, you can.
Okay, so this is where the property address is located, 9 to 57.
This is the refusal paperwork, and this is the all the items, the project information.
I have the tax compliance, the deed here of the purchase of the home.
And then we have the tax compliance would be right here.
Anyway, so we have the blueprint, the zoning print of the front, the front of the building, the inside of the building.
inside there's a side hallway that's the back of the building um and these are the um
the mailing to um the community um so this has been going on for a long time and i'm not getting
any feedback i'm not sure what's going on so it's like it's kind of delaying me because i can't do
anything to the back end i want to stuck away i can't do nothing um so pretty much i'm here
I'm here. I'm trying to get the approval. I did everything in my best interest. This is a blueprint of the building. It's going to be a two bedroom upstairs, a bedroom downstairs. And I'm just trying to basically move forward with this process.
We're trying to get the approval.
it's not easy to read your print uh the first floor is the is there what's in the basement
um nothing in the basement okay so the first floor would be an apartment second floor is an
apartment correct yes so there's one bedroom on this on the in the front and one bedroom in the
back um on the um first floor a living room in the middle uh bedroom and kitchen um here and then on
the first floor a large living room beautiful um with a dining room in the middle um and and a
bedroom in the back so it's really a nice setting um um you know designed for um so we're just trying
to say we can get the approval to move forward with the process um you said that the board approved
no the board um i met with um priscilla t bennett several times and i don't know what's
going on there um no i mean this board the zoning board approved uh the property adjacent to it
yes they did um i have a variance on that yes 1955 55 okay thank you all right questions from
the board no no no what else would anyone else like to testify in this case if so please raise
your hand mr chair i have mary jones with her hand raised thank you good morning ms jones
please identify yourself and we'll swear you in
good morning mary jones from council president daryl clark's office
we're in a firm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth
i do thank you mary please proceed um at the moment i just i do have a question to the
applicant about um which rco they met with and what feedback if any so yes so that's a problem
i'm having i don't know what it is i met with the community i met on the block but one person is the
only person that was against me doing that and i forgot her name i think her name is um i think
she's the block captain um but she's not there i think she probably moved back down south and i
don't see her anymore um so it's very it's kind of very difficult for me to be honest with you um
i've been going on with this for quite some time and it's like i'm not getting any positive feedback
from anyone. Email, nothing. Mr. Williams, on the prior application, 1955 North 25th,
you met with the RCO at that time? Yeah, on North 24th Street, yes, I met with RCO several times.
um which rco was that the fifth this i think um the rco board right there at 23rd and um berks
um what was the name of the building um it's priscilla t bennett um the building that priscilla
t bennett works out of the project home building i think you have the name of the rco i think
that's what miss jones is asking um name of the rco um i think it's sue susan um tanya hold on
when the planning commission gave you a list mailing list yes um first give you a name of
the rco or our facility bennett okay that's that's project home project home yeah that's
that help you miss jones it it it does at least i know who he has been talking to we haven't i
haven't heard anything from them about this um at this point but um i just want to make sure that
he met with with them yeah i did i'm twice according to his testimony i'm sure you heard
they did have an application for the adjacent property and apparently there was no opposition
i'm not suggesting they wouldn't oppose this one but i don't know okay um
i i would at least like to i mean i want to try to reach out to them to see if they
have a letter or something um they don't
No, they don't.
They don't?
No, they don't.
The first time it was so easy, but this time I agree.
But this time I don't know what's going on.
I think the COVID-19 has really put a dent on everyone.
I'm not saying it's frustrating, but I'm doing the best that I can.
So, you know, I don't, you know, the back of the building, you know, I'm trying to get better proof so that we can stucco, I can't do anything after the, you know, the make safe permit was put in place.
So pretty much I'm just set on hold for the past two years.
jones do you have someone in that neighborhood that you can reach out to i yeah well now that
i know the name of the person he's been talking to i can reach out to to her and i can reach out
to the other person in 32nd war just to double check it um it just for whatever reason this one
had been difficult to reach someone about which i normally do prior to every you know hearing um
And that's why I was curious.
I was going to suggest, and Tanya and Sharon, correct me if I'm wrong,
could we hold a vote on this until later today?
Maybe it gives Ms. Jones time to reach out to the RCO.
If you could hold it until the end of this session, I guess, or?
Would that, Ms. Jones, would you be able to reach out to them that quickly?
yeah i can call them now and try to and try to get a an understanding what's happening and um
and so yeah by the end of the session i'll try to so we'll hold off and you'll let us when you
get back on you know you'll let us know okay okay we'll hold off till the end thank you uh mr
williams just hang in there uh there's a door i'm sorry mr dwyer just hang in there we'll get back
you uh in the next within the hour okay i'm here thank you okay
calendar number
i'm gonna wait till the screen clears calendar calendar number 2680 2061 east ontario street
there are no exhibits with this and it's a first listing
Anyone here for 2061 East Ontario?
No hands at this time, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
20 MI 2020-002-680-2061 East Ontario is continued.
calendar number 2700 2710 latona street the attorney is steve masters
it on their oath from earlier thanks
mr masters has been promoted to panelist again sir
hi mr masters do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to
its accuracy? I do. Have you emailed your exhibit packet with proof of ownership tax compliance,
copy of the refusal or referral, photos and or plans of the property five days in advance of
this hearing and have you met with the RCO and do you have a letter? Yes to all of those. Okay and
now can you put your name and address on the record? I did it backwards. Sure. Steve Masters
from the law firm of Just Laws, 621 West Mount Airy Avenue in Philadelphia.
Okay, you may proceed.
Unfortunately, my computer just started to act up earlier this morning.