Do you want to ask
Your Chinese people
When you bought this house
In 2023, what did you buy this house?
What did you decide to do?
What did you say?
To do it, right?
rental property
okay and then understanding that
that purchase it was RSA 5
that purchased it was RSA-5,
so it was owned a single family
so it's owned as a single family.
did they intend to rent it as
Did they intend to rent it as a single family home?
I'm planning to make it as two single units.
So two different, you know, like family or people can live in there.
I didn't understand the current plan, but I was just wondering, at sale, what was the plan, knowing that the basement, or the first floor, sorry, the ground floor had been previously used as a doctor's office, but it is on a single family residential.
Okay, I'm sorry, I need to clarify something with him, this interpreter.
他的意思就是说
你租给就是一个租约
还是两个租约
就是你下面只是一个租约
一个租约就是一个家庭住
或者一个租约一个人住
那两个租约就变成两个分开的
所以你到底你是要做什么
我就是楼上一个家庭
我就是想把诊所改成
也是一个租给一对夫妻这样子的
What I was thinking about is
you know, the upstairs, I will rent it out, you know, for a family, and then downstairs will be
like also maybe a couple, right? So maybe a couple up there. So it would be two units, different.
Okay, and then what is the property maintenance plan at the site?
I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I'm sorry, what is their property maintenance plan for the site?
那你想打算怎么去管理这个单位呢
因为如果我租出去
我会要求楼下这个人
他门口的卫生他要搞清楚
因为他一到秋天的时候
风很多都吹过来
很多人过路没有数字
垃圾都是扔在我那边
我会要求客人把我门口清理干净
但是因为我下面没有租出去
也是停在那里
然后我有过去搞一下为什么
是后来没有看到
但是他没看到
风一直往那边吹
那边地势很低
风一直把垃圾往这边吹
为什么很多树叶都吹到我家门口来
就是这样子嘛
Yeah, because now what happens is
What's happening is
No one lives there now, it's vacant
So no one can do the cleaning work
I go there sometime
But they didn't see me, okay
But you know, once I lease it out
i would talk to the tenant and ask them to clean up to do things right because now no one's there
so the wind will blow everything to or that direction and accumulating you know all type
of trash but um i i did i i went there sometime but they didn't see me i don't know i understand
that he's not there now i think my question is more so what is the intent and plan when there
are tenants i think also understanding that when this was purchased there was a commercial space
that was not at the time legal under its current state on the first floor
and just wanting to understand like what was the plan for the property and purchase
and what is the plan for it for maintenance moving forward
given the comments that have come from the community
对 就是你应该买的时候你就知道下面就是一个商用的
那现在有很多人投诉嘛 说不干净
然后当你买你想租租的时候
那你到底是你的计划说要怎么去维持那些整洁干净呢
你的计划是什么要怎么做
就是确保那里是干净
我确保就是我有计划把它租出去以后
如果它下面变成一个竹琴
我把盘贴那个土变成了水泥
然后以后它直接那扫会比较干净一点
因为中间那些土嘛
它很容易滋生,很多人就是过路把垃圾都是扔在那边土里面嘛,然后如果把这些变成了水泥,然后看过去会清洁一下,然后分吹那边呢,我肯定就是也要把后面那个门给换一下,因为不行的嘛,分的就是吹在那里嘛,很多垃圾分吹过来,再说这里人来人往,很多人都是不知道为什么都是垃圾随处扔,
So, a lot of people don't know why.
They don't know why.
They don't know why.
They don't know why.
Now, I'll forgive you
They don't know why.
They don't know why.
They don't know why.
So, two things I'm going to do.
One thing is, you know, the muddy area, I'm going to change it, turn it into like concrete,
you know, cement, right?
Make it like easier to manage and make it very clean.
And then another thing is I'm going to fix that door, close it, and also like make sure
my tent will clean up well.
And also like, because now, because, you know, a lot of wind blowing.
So, you know, keep pushing all the trash to it that way.
So we'll definitely do something to make it nice.
The question is from the board.
Oh, okay.
Actually, I have one more question.
So my last question is, as far as you understood,
what was the last time that the doctor's office was in active use?
I really don't know
I didn't ask them
when they were still practicing
so after I bought it
but I didn't ask him so I don't know
questions from our
attorney Hillary Emerson
not at this time Mr. Chair
comments from anyone in the audience
can I speak again
Sean can I speak again
that's up to the chair
Mr. Chair
I want to speak to you
stay your name
how are you
first laugh of it
excuse me this is the court reporter i'm having difficulty hearing i know we don't have it on yet
we should have now there we go i could you just state your name
from the taconi civic association the rco spell your name please l-a-b-o-v-i-t-z right okay all
right all right hold on hold on do you swear or affirm to tell the truth told truth nothing but
the truth i do please proceed sir and we've had a lot of testimony about this let me ask you this
are you for or against this project i am the rco okay all right okay all right all right we we go
into the meeting as a mediator uh which i believe is how we're supposed to do that right um there
was substantial opposition from the neighbors i think a lot of the problem was communication as
can see with the translator it's difficult we had no translator at our rco meeting right so
the issue that taya brought up about property management was something that
we tried to address at the meeting i'm sorry
and we couldn't get clarification about that because that was a concern okay uh
are you in favor of this project so we were opposed to it because we couldn't get
clarification on how the property would be managed because the main complaints were
that there was a rodent issue that was trash which to me sounds property like a property
management issue okay uh so that's why and because we couldn't get a clear answer
it was tough to go on an assumption that someone promises that yeah we're going to do that but we
really don't know because the communication just was not there so so i mean we appreciate you
waiting around. A lot of what I would have said
was what we said. I know. I just have to
go ahead. Give me one more. I have to
break soon. All right. A lot
of... I waited since
9 o'clock, so I'm good here. I know you did.
I'm going to take a minute, so
not long. A lot of properties similar
to this from that area
and west
are CMX1 properties.
This property across the street
that you notice is a CMX1.
The only multifamily
properties that are on the Atlas
are about two blocks away now joe the attorney for the applicant said there's other properties
across the street i just checked on my phone there are some that say that they are not exempt
from home uh taxes so my guess is they're multi-family and not owner-occupied the atlas
isn't very clear about that and i don't take you i i just contacted someone to find out how i can
do a better job at that. But the other end of this block, 4,200, I believe, or 4,222 is CMX1 also.
And the first floor is a rented apartment. It's not commercial anymore. So I think a lot of that
fear is that this property will turn into a triplex. Okay. Thank you. I just want to make
that. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. I appreciate you staying around. Is there
anyone else in this? I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. This is the court reporter. I apologize. I did not get
the witness's name clearly okay sure we'll do it again yeah i kind of brushed you that i apologize
Chris Labovitz, L-A-B-O-V-I-T-Z, just like it sounds, thank you very much.
chris labovitz l-a-b-o-v-i-t-z
First name again? Chris, is there anyone? Sure. An interpreter, can you please interpret?
類型的房子規格的
就下面本來都是那種商用
你的律師說隔壁其實也有一些
那後來看到有些是有
但是在過去幾個條街啊
也有一些是改過的
但是那些地方就是也是啊
稅收稅的情況也不一樣啊
所以其實這個東西就是說
沒有很好的溝通啦
那主要就是解釋一下這個啊
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
Is there anyone in the virtual audience?
I see no hands there the word Mr Ward I I'm really gonna have to break I mean we're getting ready
for the next group to come in uh I was gonna ask the chair do you need anything else for me other
than the fact that I think we understand where you are we understand where your witnesses were
all right uh chair members of the board I thank you for your attention and uh you know consideration
of this application planning commission the comprehensive plan recommends no change at this
location from the current residential single family rsa5 the previous use for this proposed
conversion was an accessory doctor's office in the lower level unit granted in 1946 this proposal
would create a new residential unit in a space that was not previously used that way the planning
commission recommends that the board deny the requested variance for a two-family residential