ZBA Hearing - May 17, 2022

I'm going to have to do that.

So again, just the floor plan to really quickly go through this.

As you can see on the side, the Farson Street, that goes immediately into the lower level unit.

Originally, we had basement living here, but given the late hour, we're going to reconfigure the inside to make sure that there's no basement living.

And then if you look at the going to the first floor on the Ray Street side, you go up a flight of steps, and then you have the upper level unit.

And then our meeting notice.

Sorry, sorry, the meeting notice.

Here we go.

uh we met with the community last night may 16th at 6 p.m we met with them virtually

139 addresses were notified of that meeting

and here are the list of the addresses

and then proof mailing for those addresses to those address and then our deed to the property

and i'll just go scroll down because i'm having technical issues i'm going to show you the tax

clearance certificate so you see that uh that my client is in good standing with the city of

Philadelphia. Uh, with that being said, I'm going to unshare my screen, put my video back on and

ask that Mr. Uh, as a, uh, virtually raise his hand to adopt my testimony.

How you doing? Hi, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?

Yes, it's Ife-N-Y-I-C-H-U-K-W-U, last name E-Z-E.

You swear for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Yes.

Proceed.

Mr. Eze, you heard everything I stated today.

Correct.

Is it true and correct?

Was it true and correct?

Yes.

You adopted it as your own testimony.

I do.

Thank you.

questions from the board no mr chairman no no mr questions or comments from the virtual audience

i see no hands chair planning commission thank you chair bergman ian hegarty for the philadelphia

city planning commission the comprehensive plan recommends no change to the existing

residential single family zoning at this location which has been in place since 1976

six. We don't feel the applicants has supported the hardship claim with evidence of unique

physical conditions of the vacant lot, which is of average size. Just remind the board that

financial constraints are not grounds for hardship in use variances. City Planning

Commission recommends that the board deny the variance. Thank you. MI 2021-002913-5024

Ray Street I vote yes proviso only two units no basement living trash stored in the rear

Carol Tineri my vote is yes proviso Thomas Holloman my vote is yes with proviso

Ishmael Shaheed my vote is yes with proviso

thank you that's four votes all right thank you very much have a great day thank you you too

number 15 mi 2021 001971 64 43 to 49 van dyke street joseph vaccaro

Mr. Vaccaro is coming back in as a

panelist

Mr. Vaccaro

Good morning, can you hear me?

Yes, could you state your name and spell for the court reporter?

Certainly. My name is Joseph Vaccaro, V-A-C-C-A-R-O, address 5918 Torres Deale Avenue, attorney for the applicant, Randy Vargas.

Certainly. My name is Joseph Vaccaro, V-A-C-C-A-R-O.

You swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?

Yes, I do.

Mr. Vaccaro, your exhibits were submitted a day late, but even with that, we're having a hard time with the lease and things of that nature.

and we've talked to our attorney we we think we have to continue this case until we can clarify

a few things i wish that i would have heard that earlier um especially since mr vargas is on

is a part of this meeting um so we but you know that being said if the board is is inclined to

to relist this matter for another time you know we'll we'll certainly we're going to relist this

Instead, beforehand, we're going to clarify some of these issues relative to the lease, etc.

I would appreciate that.

Mr. Chair, this is Hillary Emerson.

Mr. Vaccaro, I did email you regarding concerns we had with the lease.

You did respond to some of my questions, but the lease questions, we still need answers to because it doesn't appear that the use that's being proposed is in accordance with the lease that was being provided.

So we need clarification on that front before we can move forward.

Fair enough.

I look forward to hearing from you, Ms. Everson.

Thank you, Mr. Vaccaro.

Thank you.

Is there anyone in the virtual audience whose case has not been heard yet today?

I see no issue.

Thank you, everyone.

See you tomorrow morning.

Thanks for everything.

Oh, that's right.

I was trying to get back at two o'clock

no no no

tomorrow morning

see you later

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great job everyone

thank you

thank you

that's Tina everybody bye

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