Parks & Rec budget shift | Planning Commission supports Norris Square rezoning | townhouses for Rivers Edge | Mercy Street gardening | Grand Jury looks at Buck fire | SEPTA’s nerve center | Moyer rules
PCPC weighs adopting/accepting waterfront plan, final public school closing hearings, Girard block funding, texting while driving ban
The First Ten Years of the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia [DAGspace]
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Elise Vider, one of the Design Advocacy Group‘s founding members, looks back at organization’s first decade of activity. She analyzes DAG’s special character, adds up its accomplishments, and then peers ahead.
DAG’s next meeting is at 8am Thursday, March 3 at the Center for Architecture, featuring a presentation on Carpenter Square.
Grappling with preservation in Overbrook Farms
The Historical Commission has twice postponed designating the Overbrook Farms Historic District. How do the arguments against designation hold up?
Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown
January 30-February 3: Preservation economics, Megaprojects forum, Janette Sadik-Khan, Ed Bacon student design competition, South Philly street design, political gridlock and transportation
Whither the Reading Viaduct wrapped in the Callowhill NID?
City Council unanimously voted in favor of the Callowhill NID on Thursday even though an apparent majority of property owners wrote letters of opposition. Will the NID come to pass? And if so, what of the Reading Viaduct park project that the NID could help fund?
Philadelphia’s New Day
In less than a decade, Philadelphia has experienced a planning rebirth and our city’s planning culture is changing. What will we make of this new day?
November 14-18: Slow Food tasting, community garden class, Reading Viaduct talk, Cities Under Siege, Charlie Chan in Egypt
Combat Zoning Fatigue: Dig In
After four years of zoning talk, is Philadelphia close to getting a new zoning code? That’s up to City Council.
Find out where council members Clarke, DiCicco, and Green stand, and get up to speed on the issues at tonight’s zoning reform forum.
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