Did Your Real Estate Assessment Go Through the Roof? Crosstown Coalition, a group of RCOs of which WCGN is a member, has put together a detailed guide showing how a property owner can challenge the City’s reassessment of their property if they feel it is inconsistent with that of neighboring properties. You can see their […]
More than 130 neighbors of all ages and from all over the WCGN area from Washington Lane to Chelten and from Germantown to Pulaski came together for a beautiful afternoon of good food and drink (did you have a mint julep?), fun activities for the kids (did yours come home with a fan he/she made?), […]
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 […]
Sue Finch – an amazingly colorful and creative woman and a force for good in our community for many decades — died Thursday, October 21, at her home in Upper Black Eddy where she and her husband Bob have been living with their son Richard and his wife Pam. She died peacefully in her sleep […]
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 […]
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 […]
The ZBA hearing on August 25 ended in a decision to resume the hearing at a later date (TBA), giving WCGN and its attorney more time to prepare to challenge the scale of this out-sized project.
The WCGN Board has appointed Bob Lane and Massoud Mohadjeri co-chairs of WCGN’s important Zoning and Land Use Committee, replacing Luke Smith who has deftly chaired the committee with fairness and wisdom for a full decade. Bob and Massoud will now serve as the official RCO co-chairs—the city’s contact persons for WCGN as an RCO […]
WCGN is pleased to partner with Christ Church & St. Michaels and Circle of Hope Church to co-sponsor the yard sale this year! That means more goods and more people coming together in community! When: Saturday, October 2, 2021, 7:30am-1pm (Rain date: Saturday, October 16) Where: 29 W Tulpehocken St, Phila PA 19144 Clean out […]
Mosaic, the developer intending to build a controversial 83-unit complex across from the Tulpehocken Station, will finally be going before the ZBA on Wednesday, August 25. At one time they were seeking two variances plus a special exception regarding replacement regulations for heritage trees removed. Now they require no variances, just the special exception. WCGN […]
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