With a rain and thunderstorm forecast for Monday, we changed the day and instead about 90 picnickers enjoyed a beautiful Sunday Potluck once again in Luke & Rama’s backyard. Badminton, horseshoe, and corn hole players and bubble chasers of all ages, races and genders took their turns at games, and then feasted on delicious food […]
WCGN held its annual Winter Community Meeting on Wednesday, January 31 via Zoom. Topics discussed included the risk of Chestnut Hill West Line closure and formation of the Save the Train coalition that is pushing to get SEPTA the funding they need. Topics also included a presentation by Seth Lieberman asking for support for a […]
The fall membership meeting was held virtually the evening of Wednesday, October 25. Apart from Committee reports, the main item on the agenda was the election of officers. Candidates for office summarized their qualifications and/or their priorities for the association. Minutes are posted here. Online voting results were reported by Helios on October 27. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
The September 6 Q&A Zoom meeting for District 8 residents with Councilperson Cindy Bass and representatives from the City was well attended. Co-hosted by Penn Knox Neighborhood Assoc., SoLo, NW Neighbors, West Chelten Neighbors, Maplewood Neighbors and WCGN, the forum provided an opportunity to ask questions and learn some valuable information about property re-assessment and […]
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 […]
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?), […]
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 […]
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