Can Point Breeze find common ground as zoning power shifts and open dialogue begins?

Can Point Breeze find common ground as zoning power shifts and open dialogue begins?

Diversified Community Services has thrown its hat in the ring to convene Point Breeze’s zoning committee, and has embarked on an ambitious community visioning process to facilitate a more productive conversation among neighbors. Can dysfunction and tension be resolved through transparency and open dialogue?

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Point Breeze starts new zoning committee to mend broken process

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.

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SPHINC has no vote tally for OCF Realty’s Point Breeze Ave development

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.

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