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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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