The hearing held on August 9 – already a continuation of the hearing held on April 26 – has again been continued because they ran out of time. The date has not yet been determined.
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Category: ZONING ISSUES
Results of August 2 RCO Meeting
WCGN held a lightly attended RCO meeting on Wednesday August 2 regarding 11 W Rittenhouse St, a vacant property owned by the owner of 5900 Germantown Avenue. The applicant/owner wishes to use the Rittenhouse property for 6 parking spaces for tenants of the 20-unit apartment building, as well as trash containers and a generator. Discussion, […]
ZBA Hearing for 224-230 W Tulpehocken Continued
At its scheduled hearing for this property on April 29 the ZBA decided — after a brief initial discussion — to proceed with the applicant’s presentation at the end of that day’s session but to postpone discussion until a later date, to be announced.
Recent RCO Meeting for 224-230 W Tulpehocken
On Wednesday, March 15 WCGN hosted an RCO meeting for the purpose of determining community sentiment towards the zoning variance application for 224-30 W. Tulpehocken St, in which the applicant asks to have 15 additional parking spaces perpendicular to—and accessed by—Pastorius St. To view the L & I refusals, click here. The meeting was attended […]
Germantown Town Hall Development
On February 6, District 8 Councilmember Cindy Bass hosted a second community meeting with developer Anthony Fullard of West Powelton Development (WPD) and architect Daryn Edwards of Cicada Architecture. Only 100 persons were in attendance at the tightly controlled meeting, where Ms Bass read to the developer about 20 questions that some attendees had posed […]
Notes from September 7 RCO Meeting for 5900 Pulaski Avenue
On September 7, WCGN’s Zoning Committee hosted an RCO meeting with the owner of a single family attached home at the corner of Pulaski and Rittenhouse who was seeking a variance to use the house as an AirBnB. There were 25 neighbors in attendance who voted, and the final tally was 6 in support, 18 […]
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On July 6 WCGN’s Zoning Committee hosted an RCO meeting with Mastery Charter regarding their plan to expand their athletic field. There were about 17 neighbors in attendance, including several near neighbors who are involved with the community garden there, which will be adversely affected. The vote did not support the project, and the ZC […]
Mosaic Development Approved by ZBA
Unfortunately, WCGN’s efforts to challenge Mosaic’s plans for development at the train station (6134R-46 Wayne Avenue) did not succeed. Using funds donated very generously by members of the community, WCGN hired an attorney as well as a city planning expert to pursue a couple of promising-looking paths to achieving a compromise on the scale of […]
ZONING MAP RECOMMENDATIONS
IMPORTANT VIRTUAL COMMUNITY MEETING Proposing New ZONING MAP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NORTH GERMANTOWN 6:00 PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 Ian Hegarty, the city planner for our part of Philadelphia, will present the Philadelphia City Planning Commission’s recommendations for zoning changes in Germantown between Rittenhouse and Johnson Streets. For details, visit www.phila2035.org/GermantownNorth. If you want to attend, you […]
Rezoning Timeline
Now that the City Planning Commission has received neighbors’ comments about its proposed rezoning of our area, it will be meeting this week with representatives of the various RCOs involved. After that it will make revisions based on the discussion during that meeting. Then, on Monday, September 27 it will post on the web its […]