On Saturday the 9 th WCGN held its Fall Potluck in the beautiful shady yard of Wyck House again this year. There were about 35 persons there enjoying good food and talk. Attendees included many young children, who enjoyed the bubble making machine, the hula hoops, and the cornhole game. On behalf of the Board, […]
First, a shout-out to the dedicated volunteers who have been giving the baby fig tree water twice a week: Ann, Joanne, Molly, Nathan, Galen, Bob, and Virginia! And (once more) to Ralph and Julie for donating the tree in the first place. It looks super healthy! Meanwhile, the pear trees have edible pears on them […]
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.
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, […]
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.
You did it! Thank you many times over to the many generous donors who have helped WCGN raise the funds required to get Germantown Avenue (from Chelten Avenue to Washington Lane) nominated as a Historic District on the Philadelphia Register.
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 […]
The WCGN Zoning Committee recently held two meetings with Mastery-Pickett Charter School addressing the school’s proposal to expand their athletic field to be regulation size for football, soccer, and other field sports. The first was an informal meeting held Wednesday, February 22, attended by 64 persons, and the second was an official RCO meeting held […]
75% of Goal Reached! Thanks to the generosity of so many of you, we are getting closer to meeting the $5,000 contractual obligation that we have made with Oscar Beisert and The Keeping Society for researching and writing the nomination of our stretch of Germantown Avenue to be on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. […]
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 […]
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