It would not contribute to the formula retail as the recent one is proposed to close down. In order to grant permit, it must grant 17. 43 to establish formula Retail Limited restaurant doing business as coffee with the the commercial distribution. The project recommends approval and is necessary and desirable for the following reasons the project would not affect the formula retail, the project sponsor would vacate the existing space. The project would fill a soon to be vacant establishment in the district. The project meet applicable requirements of the planning code and the project is desirable and compatible with the neighborhood. This concludes staff presentation and happy to answer any questions. President cindy wu thank you. Project sponsor. Good afternoon, on behalf of project sponsor, phillies coffee. I appreciate the Staff Support in the project. I wont go into everything in the comprehensive report. This location will replace the existing location. Its a tiny storefront where
Consider hamburger marys a formula restaurant because its independently owned and management and i think that needs to be mentioned at least once. Thank you. President cindy wu thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon commissioners. My name is allen nelson. I live in the neighborhood. The discussion on this project with extensive outreach, in fact we did an unprecedented thing. We for the First Time Ever put a vote to all the membership. Normally its 10 percent of the membership, if they show up to the meeting we base that attendance on the 10 percent. We ended up doing an online audited vote and im happy to say that we had 60 percent turnout about triple what our last election had and out of that election, 31 was in favor of this project. So that was 109 people in favor of it, 42 opposed to it and for that reason, we strongly support this project. One of the thing we did talk about was ensuring that the community had some safe guards above and beyond just the standard condition of use
To the variance request hearing. It was continued. The way the timelines work, i was forced to file a discretionary review request without actually knowing what the outcome of the variance request was going to be and there are three projects. So, dr request for filed on all three. You will find the issues are very similar for all three projects and that there is a lot of repetition in those packets and i apologize for that. I believe the project sponsor will go into a lot more details about the actual project. On the display right now is a little overview of it. The plot map is involving two lots, 22 ord court and 24 ord court. There are two new homes being constructed on the stateside of the property, they are being constructed on the rear yards of those lots and there is also an expansion to 22 ord court down at the bottom on ord court. I wanted to focus on the fabric of state street and concerned about this variance that impact it will have on the community on state street. From thi
Decision about being the person you need to be. Its that you may even thrive as a lgbt person. Look at these people having lunch together. I think im here as a cheerleader for this and im tired of the big hole in the neighborhood in the middle of the block. I urge you to not consider hamburger marys a formula restaurant because its independently owned and management and i think that needs to be mentioned at least once. Thank you. President cindy wu thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon commissioners. My name is allen nelson. I live in the neighborhood. The discussion on this project with extensive outreach, in fact we did an unprecedented thing. We for the First Time Ever put a vote to all the membership. Normally its 10 percent of the membership, if they show up to the meeting we base that attendance on the 10 percent. We ended up doing an online audited vote and im happy to say that we had 60 percent turnout about triple what our last election had and out of that election, 31 was
Aware of the project later than some of the neighbors. My first exposure to it i would say at the variance hearing in august. I would say that im requesting particularly is to deny the variance request. I think they will have a big impact on the project in terms of what it has. I went to the variance request hearing. It was continued. The way the timelines work, i was forced to file a discretionary review request without actually knowing what the outcome of the variance request was going to be and there are three projects. So, dr request for filed on all three. You will find the issues are very similar for all three projects and that there is a lot of repetition in those packets and i apologize for that. I believe the project sponsor will go into a lot more details about the actual project. On the display right now is a little overview of it. The plot map is involving two lots, 22 ord court and 24 ord court. There are two new homes being constructed on the stateside of the property, th