project it doesn't list the religious assembly use although it does issue a refusal for it so
um I have recommended to the board if they are to grant this that they provide clarification
via proviso as to what use is being approved since it wasn't in the description at the top
of the refusal so oh so i mean gary can probably explain more but this would be used for religious
purposes so so so one got a refusal for religious assembly it's just not in the description which is
what they base the permit off of so we just we'll put a provider to clarify up the board grant so
just so you know it's approved use is religious assembly with 57 accessory spaces including through
accessible three accessible spaces okay that's great thank you um questions or comments from
the virtual audience i see no he's at this time chair planning commission
what's that you said on the mic sure
Okay, Sarah Bond, Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
The comprehensive plan recommends a zoning map change to CMX2.
The proposal for religious assembly conforms to the recommended zoning.
The City Planning Commission recommends that the zoning board grant the variance.
So number 15, MI 2025-005-004-13400, Philmont Avenue.
I vote yes with proviso.
Approved use is religious assembly with 57 accessory parking places, including three.
with 57 accessory sparking place parking places including three accessible spaces
michael johns my vote is yes with proviso
cheryl gaston my vote is yes with provides tenetta graham my vote is yes with proviso
my mcadams my vote is yes with proviso hi i win my vote is yes with proviso thank you thank you
thank you so number 13 mi2025 004 968 303 avon street
both here abdulav is the owner applicant
um there's a letter of opposition from council member o'neill and um
The Somerton Civic Associated voted 11 in opposition and 9 in support.
Good morning.
Good morning, sir. Could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer?
Yeah, my first name is Botir, B-O-T-I-R.
Last name is Abdullaev, A-B-D-U-L-L-A-E-V.
All right.
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
This application is for use as a personal services in an existing structure, whereas the proposed use of personal services is prohibited in the RSA3 zoning district.
Our vice chair has a few questions for you.
Good morning.
have you submitted your documents and exhibits five days in advance of this hearing yes i did
and the chair read the refusal so do you um waive the reading of the refusal continually
and simply to its accuracy yes okay thank you you can share your screen and proceed with your case
sure so uh like my my property had a business it was a doctor's office since
1973 which is like 50 plus years and when i bought it uh uh when i bought the house so i knew i you
know i would be using that space for my wife because she does hair she does hair and makeup
so and it was like it was owned by jacob lipsits and now i want to like convert into like a salon
and it's going to be just my wife working there we will not hire other people and it's like it's
going to be a low traffic business you know and even before me when there was a business here like
I don't think people you know like didn't have any issues with it you know because it's been
here for like a long time so I'm just trying to I'm just trying to you know why don't you start
Let me start showing some photos and like drawings of the property.
Is that okay?
Yes, sure.
I mean, we have all your documents.
So let's see what it looks like and how you intend to use it.
So this is the office.
It has the personal work area.
It also has a waiting area from the previous owner, which was the doctor's office.
so we're going to have one chair in there and uh but like i do have uh i do have a like a white uh
like a driveway like uh and uh where we can actually park two cars but like i'm gonna have
the driveway for for the clients uh and you know after going to uh the the meeting like uh i some
of the neighbors actually talked about parking so i took that concern seriously so i we also
adjusted the hours of operation which is going to be from 10 to 5 you know which is like uh that's
when everybody's going to be at work there's not going to be any truck there there will be plenty
of parking so it will not affect uh any any anyone and uh i also have the pictures showing
that you know during the day there's plenty of parking there because everybody's at work
so this is already in operations here no not yet all right then i didn't i see a sign with a salon
we did it to show you it's a yeah why don't you show us that when he shows that on the sign
you know this one yeah so we we just did it to show you like it's chat gtp we don't have a sign
there yeah we just create we just created it too
yeah all right we just create we just created it to like uh give you like an idea we do have
a separate entrance uh like a like the like the previous owners did so what happened when
you went to the uh rco so when i went to rco like uh most of the people who opposed they
you know there was because of the parking but this like we're not going to have a lot of people
there it's going to be by appointments only so uh there's going to be one person at a time from one
to three people a day like and it will not affect uh traffic or the parking spots at all and my wife
like a like usually works like most of her income is uh can come from the weddings and like events
So she's not going to be working here seven days a week.
So sometimes like three days a week, sometimes two days, because she has to travel.
If she has a wedding or any other events, she has to travel to other locations.
And that's the main income she has, like the weddings.
But on slow days, she will have some clients here.
uh so and we're like it's going to be until uh we're going to finish the work at five o'clock
because uh my kids have uh their sports they have their wrestling jiu-jitsu at six o'clock so it has
to be done by five o'clock and uh we also live there like we'll we'll live upstairs so we want
to make sure like at night like it's nice and quiet like we're not bothering any neighbors
okay um and that's where the original doctor's office was yes okay all right questions from the
board are there pictures of the interior that's the doctor's uh that's the doctor's office it's
still in google go back and show the photos you had of the inside i saw you yeah you went through
them quick yeah can we see the pictures of the interior yeah so interior we we didn't do anything
yet because uh yeah i know but just show us what it is oh yeah sure look right okay sure
there you go that's the office and there's yeah so and there's also waiting area that's the office
that's the waiting area so we didn't do anything yet we were using this as a storage that's why
the carpet is dirty but if we get the approval we will remodel we're not gonna make any major
changes or like uh the everything is gonna stay the same we're just gonna remove the carpet put
the laminate floors and paint the walls you know so and we're not gonna change anything
to the structure of the building i don't i don't see bathroom where's the yeah the bathroom is
it's one second there's a bathroom right there we do have a bathroom and it's the same level
it's uh it's right like you walk out the the office and it's right there you don't have to go
far okay and you're gonna put in shampoo bowls or what else are you gonna put in or you're gonna
have dryers things like that is that what we're talking about here is she doing hair or is she
she does yeah she does hair and makeup and if like there's no dryers anymore she uses that
dyson fan which dries hair pretty quickly okay all right and you're saying it'd only be a couple
of people maybe a day yeah one to three people yeah yeah if that because uh like i said the
like she's usually not home like she's she travels to her clients like she does mostly weddings and
it takes all day because uh when she gets there there's usually five to six people at least she
has to uh service so that's why you know like she she will not make any appointments and this
business is going to be appointments only so we will not be taking any walk-ins and so she travels
to where the weddings are as opposed yeah or events like a sweet 16s or like you know all
kinds of events you know so she does mostly you know those kind of clients okay and then um i
guess well i guess since we're not talking about dryers i don't have to worry about exhaust that
much but is that the only window in this space yes okay all right thank you yep all the questions
all the questions questions from our attorney hillary emerson um so just i just wanted to
questions from our attorney
clarify a couple things um one so there's still there's still residential single family home
that's existing above correct yes that's how you always been yep okay um and the so the refusal
that was that l and i issued to you um one thing it it didn't have on it was a refusal for having
multiple principal uses on a lot because on on this on a property that zones for residential
single family you can you're only allowed to have one use um so that refusal should have been
included on here it wasn't if the board grants um then that refusal will be included um
um the I just want to know that the parking was also not referenced on there so I don't know that
Ellen I will how Ellen I will look at the parking and also um there's no um request for signage on
here so um there is some signage permitted um but if you want to go beyond this you'll need a permit
for that and if you want to go beyond a certain size it was signed like after you know what i
wanted to do is once it's approved i wanted to go to the city and get the permit because i don't know
what kind of sign that would actually allow me to put put on there yeah no no there there is certain
yeah there's certain um limits to what you can put on and if you want to do something beyond those
limits that would be a separate variant so i just want to make clear that the that signage was not
part of this application that will need to be a separate application to the city no we don't have
a sign yet it's just uh you know like we just put put it there just uh it's like a chat jtp
to you know to show you like the idea you know how this is going to probably yeah but the sign
is not going to be that big you know um we will have the hours of operation it's not going to be
lit up or eliminated you know so it's going to be just a point that's fine i just want to make
sure you were clear that it's a separate process because some people think they can do it just
once they get the variance for the use but it's a separate process i want to do everything by the
book i'm going to go to the city i want to yeah i want them to tell me how you know how they want it
to you know to be done sounds good sounds good all right thank you all right questions or comments
from the virtual audience do we see anyone yes chair i have two hands up first hand
alice yudovich i'm going to allow her to speak
good morning alice
Alice good morning chairman members of the board Alice Udovich on behalf of councilman
Brian O'Neill just for the record please spell your name a-l-i-c-e last name is u-d-o-v-i-c-h
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, told truth, nothing but the truth?
Please proceed.
Chairman and members of the board, the Northeast was designed with many of these neighborhoods surrounded by small commercial strips.
That is where the commercial is intended to be.
This is a purely residential neighborhood, and I don't see that the applicant has presented any evidence of hardship as to why this cannot be used exclusively as residence.
thank you very much for taking the time to call so we have another hand in the audience
yes chair i have a hand up first name daniel last name starting with k they are being promoted to
penalists good morning good morning everyone i could you please uh daniel could you turn your
video on uh yeah sure um actually i would like to share my screen instead
hold on could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer um yes my name is
daniel commissar check a-o-m-i-s-a-r-c-h-i-k do you swear or firm to tell the truth told truth
nothing but the truth my firm um are you a neighbor yes i live on the block okay
do you want to start your testimony or yeah um i would like to share my screen if possible
Sure. Can we get him to share his screen?
Can we get him to share his screen?
Can you share your screen yet?
No, it says host is not allowing.
We'll fix that in a minute.
you should be coming in now all right you should be coming in any minute
Okay. As I mentioned, I live on this block. Now, just to point out, I live on this block
for about 15 years now. Ever since I moved in, the doctor's office was not functioning
already at that time. Yes, there was a sign, but there was never a license
fold according to public records, and this office was never operational, at
least not in the past 15 years. So it could be that traffic situation was
different 20 years ago, whenever the doctor was actually operational, but
things are different now, and most families, I believe, own more vehicles
than they did back in the days, back in the 70s, when I believe that the doctor lived there.
In any case, so this is a brief list of concerns that I have composed. I spoke with a couple of
neighbors that are attached to me and across from me, and that's pretty much what people are
you know concerned about okay all right um we appreciate you taking the time to prepare this
and we we um we'll take note of all your comments okay thank you very much just to point out um so
yes um you know in the middle of the day um the block does look that way however um 5 p.m when
when people get you know kids from school or when people get home from work um there
is hardly any parking on the block that's uh you know if if if the picture would be
taken after five that does not hurt what it would look like okay all right david daniel
thank you very much anyone else in the audience no chair i see no any commission
thank you chair sarah bond philadelphia city planning commission
the comprehensive plan recommends no change the existing residential single family rsa3 zoning
the applicant the appellant has not shown that the property cannot possibly be used in strict
conformity with the zoning code and that a variance is therefore necessary to enable
the viable economic use of this property okay thank you um
the city planning commission recommends that the zoning board deny the variance okay thank you um
Sir, we're going to hold the vote on this until next Wednesday.
We will vote at 9.30 a.m.
and we will have a discussion among the executive session.
Thank you very much.
Is there anyone in the audience whose case has not been called?
I see.
Sorry?
I see you at the sound, too.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, everybody.
See everybody at 2 p.m.
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Jeff, I'm writing a paper.
Great.