##VIDEO ID:UBmVJoztfYw## ET / HTTP/1.1 ? ELP --------- ##VIDEO ID:BwuKi-Q32sU## well the Mr. Baraza present Mr. Langham present. You are present Mr. Collins President.  Thank you. A reminder that we are a six member board.  Mr. Stembridge. Yes, Madam Chair will begin with the case VOA on one six two two zero seven one with the address of three on Chelsea Street and Madam Chair, I didn't ask if there were any requests for withdrawals but those referrals from the our at twenty last year I know we're at the one p.m. section but I'm on for reconsideration not for these matters I don't have now would be the appropriate time I was going to request an administrative referral given the six member board. I know we're trying to do that now. Yeah yeah OK I appreciate it. Oh Mr. Stembridge that's the five forty eighties thirty that would be education VOA one five four to six five seven with the address of five forty eight East Third Street that the nature the board being six member board I would respectfully request an administrative dubreuil well is there any preferred time we go into October at the earliest available date with the preferred airline we could we can do about eight to twenty nine actuary's please.  May I have a motion to the Second Circuit Mr. Stembridge. Yes is better Browsr yes Mr. Right. Yes Ismailov yes. Mr. Collins yes. Chair votes yes the motion carries thank you very much.  >> I stand Madam Chairman Stembridge Attorney Linn's three or two Chelsie cute as well requesting an administrative deferral OK and to October incumbencies end of October possibly Richard we can do October 29, November 19 then we might this far better motion. I make a motion to defer to October twenty minutes is there a Second Circuit Mr. Stembridge? Yeah.  This better Broza yes Mr. Wang this man this we will yes. Mr. Collins. Yes. Terrible chess. The motion carries you that. Thank you very much.  Want to chase away one six one two nine five one the address of eighty three to eighty nine Devonshire Street this is in any case if the Apple and they represent please the door. Thank you Mr. Stembridge.  Morning Madam Chairman of the Board Attorney John Whodini on behalf of STG Devon Shire Equity Partners regarding eighty three thousand eighty nine DeMatteis the proposal before you let me say is Todd Green Director of development as T.J. and Cindy Lee, a principal park and architecture eighty three eighty nine Devon Shires Mr. Stembridge Stages in Article eighty proposal pursuant to the Downtown Office to Residential Conversion Program.  The proposal is comprised of three buildings eighty five Devonshire Street to fifty eight Washington Street and two sixty two Washington Street. These three buildings will be combined in this one building going forward.  The buildings are currently programed as three mixed use buildings ground floor retail and office space and the floors above all is going really well until COVID came along and the activity of the office plummeted to less than twenty percent. So this Piloto room was a great opportunity for this owner as well as many other commercial owners in the city. Our team is proposing a development to convert that office space into rental apartments for a total of ninety five units. These units will be comprised of twenty nine studios, fifty nine one bedrooms and twelve bedrooms. The units along with the empty space will result approximately eighty six thousand seven hundred square feet of residential area the existing fifteen thousand seven hundred ninety square foot square foot of ground small area retail will remain as currently constructed in occupied no parking will be provided on site and nor is any required in zoning code and none of the guests will be offered at affordable rates.  Sixteen units will be offered at sixty so am I and three units will be offered to Voges . Additionally, five units will be offered to accessible in two units we offered his hearing impaired residence is worth.  This project will require no exterior changes to the building. The only violation we had was to open space and that was simply from converting from office to residential. The this proposal and others like it will allow for struggling commercial property owners to fill vacant space while at the same time providing much needed housing for the city. Much of that housing being affordable we may to be able to to present this proposal and if there are any questions earlier I would be happy to answer them. Thank you.  >> Thank you for joining questions from the board.  You have selected a general contractor potentially no. We're still right now Mr. Collins. We're working with the lenders to try to iron that out.  Obviously this has a you know, a big mortgage on it. So we're trying to get buy in from the different parties but we are getting close to that and I've been in contact with a number of unions what we've been talking to about as well. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome that man. Public testimony.  Yes, Madam Chair, members of the board was honored even with the mayor's neighborhood services. This time the mayor's offering to defer to the judgment this board as you heard from the attendance representation this is a part of the downtown essential conversion incentive program which is to encourage residential building excuse me commercial property owners that currently have vacancies to add critical housing stock that we need to the downtown area. This went to people like community process with that information will defer to the board.  Thank you and I'm sure I have no waistbands that we have the motion made a motion to approve continued we to design a new the second section.  Mr. Stembridge. Yeah PetroSA yes Mr. Yes.  Yes Mr. Collins yes schierholz yes. The motion carries so everybody appreciate it.  >> And next on the list we have case away one five nine eight five ones with the address of eight or nine B Street the applicant and they represent the people in the case of Yes hi good afternoon. My name slavey I am from Northeast Industrial Sharu were the companies the company hired to replace the roof and replace the deck at this moment we have already replaced the roof and we're just waiting for the approval for that that the deck was an existing deck from my understanding it's there from the original day that the building was built and we have we're not changing the size of that. We're just replacing it as as it was originally and then the questions from the board and public testimony, Madam Chair, members of the board see team with the mayor's office of Neighborhood Services.  This petitioner has completed the house community process Office, hosted an important meeting on June twenty fifth at which no concerns were raised. The West Broadway Neighborhood Association is the active Civic group in this area. They chose not to take a position on this proposal.  We're unaware of any other concerns at this time and with that background we defer to the judgment of the board. Thank you.  Thank you, Councilor, for thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. Members of the parliament be jumping in to release Mr Consultatively.  We'd like to go on record our position as a proposal is described as an extension of an existing roof deck cohosting has a long record of opposing roof decks due to stop and having become destination for young people on the weekends and the subsequent impact and consistent quality of complaints from nearby neighbors, our seniors, persons with disabilities and your family about parties all hours because we respectfully request that a board be mindful of these concerns and call for neighbors and civic groups to help us and to be taken seriously. Thank you.  Thank you.  I have no additional reasons. OK to that one. Can you just confirm or are you expanding is that going to be bigger or are you just updating it?  We are simply replacing the original roof that the roof that so it's been there since some of the great things about the same design. Everything OK? Thank you. Are there any other questions from the board?  May I have a motion?  Is there a second back in Mr. Stembridge does better BROZA Yes.  Mr. Langham Yes. Yes well yes.  Mr. Collins yes. Chair will test the motion carries all right. And I think I guess thank you.  I think that's a wrap.  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.  >> I.