March 6 will be a big day for the Delaware Waterfront: The City Planning Commission will consider adopting the Master Plan for the Central Delaware.
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Remediate I-95, Society Hill sidewalks, nature and design at Washington Avenue Green, reprieve for six Catholic elementary schools
Point Breeze starts new zoning committee to mend broken process
South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. has established a new zoning committee in the hopes of facilitating a more transparent and functional neighborhood zoning process. Hear, here. Meanwhile, OCF Realty waits to see if two of its mixed-use developments – the subject of pitched meetings in Point Breeze – will get zoning variances.
Feds fund deeper Delaware, Walnut Street Bridge construction starts, boxing back at Blue Horizon, Philly Hometown Media could start news venture, Soul Train today
SPHINC has no vote tally for OCF Realty’s Point Breeze Ave development
Ten days after a rough Point Breeze zoning meeting OCF Realty is still waiting for South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. to release the vote tally for or against OCF’s proposed mixed-use development on Point Breeze Avenue.
Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown
Point Breeze development rumbles? Blame the process.
Change is coming to Point Breeze, and the battle lines are being drawn. Zoning meetings are ground zero for this contested neighborhood’s disputes, and the process does nothing to reduce mounting tensions or create real dialogue. I went to Monday night’s meeting to listen in.
January 30-February 3: Preservation economics, Megaprojects forum, Janette Sadik-Khan, Ed Bacon student design competition, South Philly street design, political gridlock and transportation
Rethinking space on South Philly’s narrow streets
The Safe Streets for Healthy Neighborhoods initiative, a partnership between the Bicycle Coalition and Community Design Collaborative, is cooking up street designs that make room for cycling and pedestrians on South Philly’s narrow grid. Get a peek at their ideas at a meeting on February 1.
Less Marcellus Shale gas, Get Healthy Philly’s impact, development rumble in Point Breeze, refreshing Roxborough’s library
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