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Cramps Shipyard owner takes on DRWC on waterfront plan
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation this morning approved the final Plan for the Central Delaware, but legal battles could follow.
Cramps Shipyard owner takes on DRWC on waterfront plan
The Delaware River Waterfront Corp. (DRWC) is sending its master plan for the Delaware River waterfront on to the Philadelphia City Planning m to be hopefully incorporated into Philly's new zoning code. Neighborhood groups are cheering, but James Anderson, the owner of 57 acres north of Penn Treaty Park, including the Cramps Shipyard property, may be gearing up for legal action according to Kevin Feeley, one of a group of - lawyers and representatives who appeared at the meeting to unsuccessfully ask that Anderson's property be omitted from the master plan.
That's because the plan calls for riverfront trails and an extension of Beach Street to cut through his property, dividing it into 13 parcels, removing 40 percent of his land and adjusting its usage, to Anderson's loss of "tens of millions of dollars." The problem, Feeley says, is the city isn't condemning the land or looking to purchase it, but putting zoning pressures on it for potential future uses that are still a dozen or more years down the line. Thereby, he says, they're devaluing the property. "Do you know how much trouble you'll havve trying to sell this?" Feeley groaned.
The land, currently zoned industrial, is in environmental remediation and is, Feeley says, also used for Anderson's paving business, which is contracting with the I-95 expansion among other projects. However, neighbors see the area as blighted. Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association president Matt Ruben accused Anderson of "20 years of land banking and vacant land." Plus, he added, "If you cut out this one property from the plan, you can watch the dominoes fall."
Tom Corcoran of DRWC says that zoning isn't designed to extract property from land owners — that's unconstitutional. But, he adds, "The city has a right to add streets where they think streets will further development and traffic considerations at any time, but they do it by involving the land owners in negotiations."
What is Anderson's the land owner's plan? If he has no plan why is he sitting on this land? To hold it hostage for more easy payoff money of course— mjkfisher
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