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My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this morning's ZBA hearing.
With me is our Vice Chair, Tanetta Graham.
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Board Secretary, Cheryl L. Gaston.
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Board Member, Michael Johns.
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Board Member, Laila Beebe.
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So let's look at our schedule for today.
number two
MI 2025-002-161, 1653 South 23rd Street. That case is continued until 729-26 at 9.30 a.m.
number three
mi 2025
005061
north 50th street
we have no exhibits for that this is the second listing
S.M. Property, LLC, current owner, the Shell Carr, listed applicant.
Good morning.
This is Doreen, and I will be co-hosting the morning sessions, and I see no hands here.
So, MI2025, 005061, 3033 North 15th Street, I vote to dismiss.
Michael Johns, my vote is to dismiss.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is to dismiss.
Antoinette Graham, my vote is to dismiss.
Layla Beebe, voters to dismiss.
Number five, MI 2025-005-579-3914 North 5th Street.
Luz Ortiz is the listed owner.
Olga Rosado is the listed applicant.
We have no exhibits for this.
This is the second listing.
no hands chair so mi2025-005-579-3914 north fish street i vote to dismiss
michael johns my vote is to dismiss cheryl gaster my vote is to dismiss
tonetta graham my vote is to dismiss layla beebe my vote is to dismiss
number six mi 2025 005 591 3142 north taylor street this case is continued to 10 6 26 at 9 30 a.m
Number 9, MI 2026, 000471, 910 West Huntington Street. This case is continued until 10-6-26 at 9.30 a.m.
Number 17.
Number 17, MI-22.
Number 17, MI 2026, 000811, 6900 Lindenburg Boulevard.
This case is continued to 10-626 at 9.30 a.m.
and number 18 MI 2026 001 391 4222 Salem Street.
This case is continued to 9226 at 930 a.m.
Are there any other requests for continuances?
i see no hands okay we're going to go to our add-on list number one mi 2025 004 680 5830
whitby whitby avenue this case is continued to wednesday august 26 at 8 30 a.m 9 30 a.m i'm sorry
going to go to our regular list now
number four mi 2025
005 491 1804 orthodox street
leticia boyd is the listed owner
an applicant. This is a pro se.
Latish Boyd should be coming in as a panelist.
Thank you.
um she should be coming in now it's fine
let's can you unmute yourself oh wait she declined but she it looks like she's in though
i'm here all right good morning good morning hi um could you turn on your video
I'm sorry. No, it's okay.
This is all new to me.
computer slow i'm trying to okay because we're in the video presentation okay
you would need to hit that um share button at the bottom of zoom
yeah the video is
so so latish i'm having issues with this my video and okay all right why don't we do this
to share why don't i go on go on to the next few cases and i'll come back to you is that okay
And that way you see if you can have that straightened out.
So we'll be back to you.
Thank you.
Moving on to number 16.
MI 2026, 000639, 1318 North 57th Street, Kisan McKenzie is the owner applicant.
good morning guys good morning could you please state your name and spell for the stenographer
case on mckenzie k-a-y-s-o-n-m-c-k-e-n-z-i-e right do you swear or affirm to tell the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes all right we do have a letter of support from
hmc square and our vice chair has a few questions okay good morning have you submitted your documents
and exhibits five days in advance of this hearing yes okay and your uh application is for a two
family household living like you're requesting a legal legalization yes correct okay yes yes
And you've been refused because two-family household living is prohibited in the RSA-5 zoning district.
Is that correct?
That's what I was told.
But initially, I purchased this property back in 2018, and I purchased it as a duplex.
So it was originally zoned as a RM1, and it was changed due to city.
I forgot what's the actual reason why it was changed,
but it was changed due to the city made the changes to that area,
which I can show you.
Let me see if I can find the actual.
Okay, well, you can go ahead and start your presentation from the beginning.
Okay, thank you.
So, you know, we have all your documents.
what we would need is planning picture pictures of your plans and also of your property okay so um
i'm actually not making any changes to the property i just um wanted to legalize it back
as a duplex so i just wanted the the zoning to be um restructured back to the original
standing of when i purchased the property okay so basically i'm just looking to restore
um, my separate electric meter because, uh, I want to say 2022, 2023, I had, um, install
solar to the property. So I come by on the meters. Um, I came to find out that the property was
actually, um, not zoned as a RM1 anymore due to me trying to restore back a second meter.
Pico is the one that informed me of the changes. Um, so like I said, um, I'm not making any
changes to the structure of the property i'm not adding any units or anything of that sort
the property already has two units in place it was zoned as a duplex when i first purchased it
and i'm just looking to legalize the use of a duplex within the property
so as we could see it's currently zoned as a rsa5 um this is just me going over like the district
council um the property is a two family existing structure existing structure attached um like i
said i'm not looking to add anything to it or anything of that sort so i just wanted to basically
just why don't you show us photos of your property okay sure so this is the first unit so this is the
exterior of the first unit this is the interior kitchen this is the living room living room area
I don't think I have all the pictures on this slide. Give me one second. I'll pull up the other.
Is that the front door to your, is that the front door to your.
No. So that was actually my entrance, my back entrance to the property.
So that's the back entrance on the first floor. Give me one second. Just try to locate.
the actual pictures that I submitted.
But that's not the entrance to the unit, right? I mean, that's not the main entrance to the unit.
No, that's not the main entrance. No, that's not the main entrance.
That's just to go out to the back unit, the first floor of the back unit.
This is not allowing me to.
I'm trying to stop share the screen so I can actually find these photos.
Thank you.
um can you guys see my screen now uh we see it says no public street or right
or infrastructure that's what we see okay i think you covered this screen already of course you
talked about not changing the structure of the place yeah so one second
there we go well now be sure
okay that's that's different than what we I think we should yeah so this right
here just show the property like I said it's labeled we have the rear exterior
entrance this is just on the first floor so this entrance only a allow people to
enter on the first floor this is the kitchen of the first floor living room
area that was the same picture for so basically the kitchen interior pictures
let me know if I'm going too fast guys could you show us the front of the
building yes I was trying to find of actual the layout because I had up I had
a poll point with everything that I submitted with the so so so here's what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna move on and I'll come back to you but what you're gonna need to do is show us other photos
the front entrance yeah i have them i have them right now i found the actual
i'm sorry
okay okay yeah so this was the actual powerpoint i pulled the wrong powerpoint up
So you have two entrances in the front.
So this is the front entrance for the first floor.
Right.
And this is the front entrance for the second floor.
Down here, when I bought the property, they had an entrance here to go to the basement.
I just closed it off.
I just put a door there with a lock that nobody can get into it.
This is the front and back entrance.
so this is the kitchen of the first floor entrance door for the first floor into the
living room first floor bedroom the bathroom of the first floor and this is the entrance
for the second floor second floor unit kitchen second floor first bedroom second floor bathroom
it's just still the kitchen and this is a second floor bedroom as well second bedroom
um that's just my deed right here because they had me asked me to submit a copy of my deed
and you a couple years back you tried to change the electrical
right and then when you change it they realize it wasn't zoned for a duplex am i correct
no so when i initially bought the property i had two meters on the property okay so um few years
back 2023 around 2022 2023 i purchased um solar so i added solar to the property and that's where
i made the change from having um two meters to one meter because i combine the meter with the
effort that solar is going to offset some of the bills which i end up incurring more bills because
everything in the unit is electric so the solar is not producing as much as um i was expecting it to
so back in like november november of last year i decided that i wanted to add back a second meter
so when i called pico to add back the second meter that's when i came to real pico told me that
the property is not zoned as a duplex, it's zoned as an RSA 5.
The property is not zoned as a duplex. It's zoned as an RSA 5.
So up and start doing my research about the property, that's when I came to find out that the city did a legislation where they made the change back in, let's see, I think I have it somewhere over here.