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PCPC receives prestigious award for comprehensive plan, zoning code and citizen outreach
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission received the American Planning Association's National Planning Excellence Award for a Best Practice at the APA's national conference in Chicago this week. The PCPC was recognized…
Exit interview with zoning reform defender Eva Gladstein
Next Friday, February 8th, Eva Gladstein will work her last day as deputy director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. She was appointed to the position about a year ago, after…
Jan 15: Bart on The Provence | PA nudges along city tax-reform | DRPA audit | Eva Gladstein to head Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity | turning around the Prince
Good morning! Today is chillier than yesterday and it promises to rain again, so keep those umbrellas handy. Here's your Tuesday am Buzz: Last night developer Bart Blatstein met with the…
Philadelphia’s planning and zoning process receives 2013 National Planning Excellence Award from the American Planning Association
Washington, D.C. – Philadelphia’s Integrated Planning and Zoning Process will receive the 2013 National Planning Excellence Award for a Best Practice from the American Planning Association for its innovative approach at leveraging the synergy…
A swell of protest over proposed zoning code amendments
During public hearings on the new zoning code in City Council last fall, a few witnesses sought to quell some Councilmembers’ misgivings about the new code by reminding them that, should…
In discussion with attorneys, planning leaders downplay immediate effects of new zoning code
Members of City Council and the Planning Commission addressed a roomful of real estate lawyers and developers in a seminar hosted by Duane Morris LLP Wednesday morning at the Westin Hotel…
Debate over Registered Community Organizations heats up
The ticking time-bomb embedded in Philadelphia's overdue, comprehensive zoning reform is the redefined role of community groups in the zoning process. New, more formal rules create a threshold for all community…
Civic associations weigh in on sign regulations
Civic association representatives weighed in on sign control reforms at the City of Philadelphia Planning Commission headquarters Thursday night during the third in a series of five civic engagement meetings on…
Bill Green has a timing issue with ZCC
Councilman Bill Green called the timeline to refer zoning code revisions to City Council "extraordinarily aggressive" at Wednesday's meeting of the Zoning Code Commission. The ZCC is tentatively scheduled to vote…
What now? ZCC Executive Director Eva Gladstein on the Zoning Code timeline
Philadelphia voters authorized an amendment to the Home Rule Charter in May 2007, creating the Zoning Code Commission to revise the zoning code. Since then: 48 Commission meetings. Community meetings in…
How the new zoning code will impact Northwest Philadelphia
On the day before Christmas Eve, when most city workers are notoriously impossible to reach, Eva Gladstein, the executive director of the Zoning Code Commission (ZCC), is sitting in her office…
Stakeholders discuss zoning code reform on eve of engagement meetings
This article was co-written by Andy Sharpe and is a project completed in partnership with Temple University's journalism capstone class Philadelphia Neighborhoods. Students Savage-El and Sharpe will cover zoning code…
Zoning Code progress report Wednesday night
Oct. 7 Citizens flocked to city council chambers and were briefed on the detailed recommendations for the city’s new code that the Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission has drafted as it kicked…
Gladstein approved as Zoning Czar
Dec. 10 By Thomas J. WalshFor PlanPhillyEva Gladstein, a veteran Philadelphia fair housing executive and proponent of better planning and zoning initiatives, was unanimously approved as the new executive…
ZCC holds first outreach meeting
Nov. 12 By Thomas J. WalshFor PlanPhilly The Zoning Code Commission held its first scheduled public outreach meeting Wednesday night, a low-key affair that ended a half-hour early. The meeting…
Breaking: Gladstein gets ZCC nod from Nutter
Nov. 13By Thomas J. WalshFor PlanPhilly Eva Gladstein, who ran the troubled Neighborhood Transformation Initiative before it was taken over by the city’s Commerce Department earlier this year, was…
