Norris Square rezoning moves forward | Philly’s white population up | Waterfront zoning overlay issues | Northwood’s new Town Watch

Norris Square rezoning moves forward | Philly’s white population up | Waterfront zoning overlay issues | Northwood’s new Town Watch
  • Norris Square rezoning moving forward
  • Philly’s white population on the rise
  • Concerns remain about draft waterfront zoning overlay, clock is running down
  • Northwood gets Town Watch
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    School District’s road to dissolution | Norris Square duel continues | Fairmount Fish Ladder | paying Water Works’ utilities

    School District’s road to dissolution | Norris Square duel continues | Fairmount Fish Ladder | paying Water Works’ utilities
  • Scrapping Schools: How did it come to this?
  • Norris Square Civic and Maria Quiñones-Sánchez still feuding over St. Boniface redevelopment
  • Fairmount Fish Ladder
  • Taxpayers foot utility bill for Water Works Restaurant
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    Walnut closure | School District’s September hangs on AVI | waterfront trail development | hardware history

    Walnut closure | School District’s September hangs on AVI | waterfront trail development | hardware history
  • Two blocks of Walnut closed today
  • Without AVI, School District could shut down
  • Councilwomen Brown and Quinones-Sanchez urge passage of AVI
  • Designing and developing Delaware waterfront trail
  • Fern Rock Hardware thrives
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    Sealing vacants | Sink City revisited | Nutter signs open data order | 48 SEPTA workers win Powerball | Hidden City festival

    Sealing vacants | Sink City revisited | Nutter signs open data order | 48 SEPTA workers win Powerball | Hidden City festival
  • Will owners of large vacant properties have to do more to seal them?
  • Sink City: the continued plight of neighborhoods built on bad fill
  • Open data becomes public priority
  • 48 SEPTA workers split $172.7m Powerball
  • 2013 Hidden City Festival calls for proposals
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    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

    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
  • Will Parks & Rec see its budget restored?
  • Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez’s proposal to rezone the Norris Square area is supported by the Planning Commission
  • 38-unit townhouse development proposed for Rivers Edge
  • Mercy Street community garden experiments in free-form gardening
  • Grand jury investigation of Buck Hosiery fire, Photos before the blaze
  • Inside SEPTA’s nerve center
  • Jamie Moyer is the oldest pitcher to win a major league game
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    High Noon at Norris Square: Dueling over St. Boniface and rezoning

    High Noon at Norris Square: Dueling over St. Boniface and rezoning

    Council Member Maria Quiñones-Sanchez and Norris Square Civic Association are in a pitched fight over the redevelopment of St. Boniface Church on Norris Square and a rezoning proposal that would kill the project.

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    Regulating signs in the city, land bank gaining traction, sewage treatment plant as bird habitat, fuel costs and refinery closures

    Regulating signs in the city, land bank gaining traction, sewage treatment plant as bird habitat, fuel costs and refinery closures
  • Draft sign controls to be presented to Planning Commission today
  • In favor of a municipal land bank
  • Sewage treatment plant winter habitat for swallows
  • Idled refineries contributing to rising gas-prices?
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    Land bank and tax-delinquent property bills, award for L&I’s blight court, ads on school buses, Philadelphia Media Network seeks buyers, LeBron @ Sabrina’s

    Land bank and tax-delinquent property bills, award for L&I’s blight court, ads on school buses, Philadelphia Media Network seeks buyers, LeBron @ Sabrina’s
  • Bills to create a Land Bank and collect on back property taxes introduced in Council
  • L&I gets award for anti-blight strategy
  • Ads on school buses?
  • Philadelphia Media Network hired investment banking firm find buyers
  • LeBron hearts Sabrina’s
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    Council kicks off 2012, getting to know Darrell Clarke, PA redistricting rejected, Marshalls on Market East, investing in McPherson Square Park

    Council kicks off 2012, getting to know Darrell Clarke, PA redistricting rejected, Marshalls on Market East, investing in McPherson Square Park
  • City Council’s first 2012 meeting; elusive agenda
  • Getting to know Darrell Clarke better
  • Redistricting map rejected by Pennsylvania Supreme Court
  • Marshalls coming to Market East
  • Investing in McPherson Square Park
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