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Blackwell calls for hearings on Philadelphia2035
Last week, City Council adopted a resolution introduced by 3rd-District Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell calling for hearings on the City Planning Commission’s Philadelphia2035 project, the city’s neighborhood-by-neighborhood comprehensive plan. The first phase…
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…
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…
Greg Pastore, former Zoning Code Commissioner, appointed to Zoning Board of Adjustment
Last week, a new face appeared behind the long desk of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the body that enforces the zoning code by deciding whether and how to grant exceptions…
Council consensus on 50-foot stream buffer in jeopardy
A few weeks ago, a bill was introduced into City Council which would amend various technical errors in the new zoning code and approve the Water Department’s hydrology map. The…
New zoning code will take effect without Commission’s finishing touches
Note: In an earlier version of this article, the 50-foot stream buffer was mistakenly identified as one of the Administration's amendments to the zoning code; it was in fact passed as…
Draft of new zoning regulations presented to Planning Commission
In a special meeting of the City Planning Commission at the Central Library Tuesday afternoon, deputy director of the PCPC Eva Gladstein presented a draft of amended regulations for the Commission…
Picking up on signs: (de)sign controls, visual preferences, digital billboards, and wayfinding
Philly is a sign-heavy city. And it seems that our signage big and small is getting lots of attention lately. I've mentioned the push to legalize bandit signs, billboard art…
2011: A Zoning Reform Odyssey
In an Economist article published in 1955, not long before Philadelphia’s zoning code was last revised, C. Northcote Parkinson first articulated what later became known as Parkinson’s law: the amount of…
City Council adopts a new zoning code
“Having been read on two different days,” said outgoing City Council President Anna C. Verna, calling for a vote on zoning reform legislation in Council’s last session of the year Thursday…
Will zoning reform really shift City Council's land use powers?
December 15 is a big day for the City of Philadelphia. City Council should – fingers still crossed – pass a new zoning code. This moment is the culmination of four…
Planning Commission to City Council: Approve bills creating new zoning code
Planning Commissioners Tuesday lent their support to three bills related to the adoption of the city's new zoning code, which City Council is expected to vote on Thursday.Zoning Bill 110845…
Big zoning reform hearing, vacant school hazards, Manton Street park reclaimed and sold, Dilworth's pedestrian problem
Today City Council will bring the final Zoning Code Commission’s Final Report to public hearing, and could vote on the matter this week (or next). PlanPhilly’s Jared Brey breaks it…
Committee of the Whole favorably recommends ZCC final report
The final report of the Zoning Code Commission cleared its penultimate hurdle Wednesday morning when Bill No. 110845 was passed out of City Council’s Committee of the Whole with a favorable…
City Council to hold public hearing on ZCC's Final Report
The Zoning Code Commission’s Final Report—representing half a decade of work and innumerable adjustments, rearrangements, additions and deletions—will be subject to a public hearing in City Council chambers Wednesday morning before…
December 5-9: King Kong, Spring Garden Street Greenway design workshop, Zoning vote, City Hall tree lighting, Trumbauer book talk
Architecture In Film Series: King Kong Monday, December 5, 6:30pm. Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. See the 1933 version of King Kong with Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and…
City Council introduces new zoning bills, holds more
A small contingent of the Occupy Philadelphia movement hijacked a portion of Thursday’s meeting of City Council, held a session of “People’s City Council,” and passed a handful of its own…
Planning Commission recommends use of 'alternate vehicle' to pass new zoning code
Under the direction of its Chairman Tuesday afternoon, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission approved the use of Council Bill No. 110766, with provisos, to pass a new zoning code for…
Zoning Matters: City Council should see through zoning reform process, not subvert it
In a sharp opinion piece in Monday’s Daily News, Architect Kiki Bolender takes City Council to task for introducing its own version of the zoning code, and in so doing,…
