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Zoning restrictions on medical offices are spreading
Sixteen members of City Council voted on Thursday to override a mayoral veto of a bill that will restrict the development of new medical offices in Northeast Philadelphia’s 6th and 10th…
Council debates industrial zoning changes in Southwest Philly
Tracey Gordon, a member of the Southwest Concerned Citizens group, testified at a Council committee hearing on Tuesday that automobile chop shops and salvage yards have been opening in near-residential areas…
Zoning board hears arguments about 'underground' parking at Dranoff tower
You all know the old yarn: when is an underground parking garage not an underground parking garage? When it’s in the floodplain. On Wednesday, the Zoning Board of Adjustment heard that…
Planning Commission approves billboard overhaul, opposes ads in schools
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed in on nearly a dozen pieces of zoning legislation Tuesday, approving some, opposing some, and asking for more time to consider others. It’s worth remembering…
Planning Commission to weigh a host of zoning code amendments
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission has a packed agenda for its November meeting and is scheduled to consider dozens of amendments to the zoning code, among other items. Some of the…
40th & Pine zoning case goes to Court of Common Pleas
Update: Oral arguments in the appeal of zoning variances for 400 S. 40th St., before the Court of Common Pleas, have been postponed until 2014, according to attorney Paul Boni. PlanPhilly…
Zoning board approves 80 apartments and retail at 12th and Chestnut
An affiliate of Brickstone realty company won zoning approval on Wednesday to develop an 80-unit apartment project that will take up about half the south side of Chestnut Street between 11th…
Debate over Registered Community Organizations in full bloom
City Council’s Committee on Rules heard half a day of testimony Tuesday on a bill that would amend some regulations related to Registered Community Organizations, neighborhood groups with a formal role…
One Riverside zoning hearing rescheduled
The fight over One Riverside Tower, Carl Dranoff’s proposed 21-story apartment complex at 25th and Locust, won’t be resolved for at least a month, after the zoning board scheduled a special…
Bill that would lift nightclub ban to be amended
A bill that would lift a ban on nightclubs and other places of assembly near the Delaware River in Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond will be amended so that…
Battle looming over Registered Community Organizations
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission recommended approval on Tuesday of a bill that its staff helped Councilman Bobby Henon draft and that would largely revert the zoning code’s rules governing Registered…
Planning Commission asks for more time to consider billboard regulations
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission on Tuesday requested an additional 45 days to consider a bill introduced by Councilman Bobby Henon that would overhaul the city’s zoning regulations for non-accessory signs,…
L&I: Above ground garage at One Riverside may be legally viewed as below grade
If a parking garage visibly sits at ground level, can it actually be underground parking? Sometimes, yes, the city says. And that answer has a group of waterfront advocates worried. The…
Issue-based groups will fight to retain RCO status
Oct. 14 UPDATE: The Central Delaware Advocacy Group has sent a letter to Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger, Councilman Bobby Henon and all of the RCO bill's co-sponsers, urging changes that would…
La Colombe coming to Frankford Avenue
The Zoning Board of Adjustment voted on Wednesday to allow a “flagship” La Colombe cafe to open on 1335-49 Frankford Ave. in Fishtown, in the site of a former storage building…
Code Bulletin: digital billboard conversions require new permits
A new Code Bulletin issued to the Department of Licenses and Inspections says that permits for converting static billboards to digital displays should only be issued to signs that conform to…
Zoning tweaks introduced for Northeast Philly
Like many others, Councilman Brian O’Neill is finding changes he wants to make to the city’s year-old zoning code. But unlike others, and unlike his own previous efforts to change the…
October 1: Shutdown, Federal Housing Authority | Council wants tax abatement changes reconsidered | Trash time changed | Fishtown zoning workshop | Girard Mugshots closes
Hello, Eyes. Two important things today: First, welcome to October. Second, the government has entered a partial shutdown. In addition to shuttering the 401 national parks, including the Liberty Bell…
Bill would remove some zoning controls in Fishtown and Northern Liberties
First District Councilman Mark Squilla introduced a bill last week that would reduce the size of a special zoning overlay for North Delaware Avenue, which currently covers most of Northern Liberties…
A new zoning dictionary just for Philadelphia
For the first time in my life I am watching tennis and, I think, beginning to understand it. Each game follows a fairly simple game logic: first to four points, win…
