PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future

City Council approved the Waterfront Redevelopment District (WRD) zoning classification in 2005. It was designed to encourage development along the extensive shoreline of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Its establishment was motivated significantly by the conditions of the North Delaware Riverfront.

The WRD is one of the few codes in the city that is optional and requires the landowner to apply for its designation.

Click on the links below to retrieve the zoning language itself, or the Design Advocacy Group's analysis of the zoning code, as commissioned by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council in May 2007.

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