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O'Neill zoning bill to bend to pushback from building industry
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O'Neill zoning bill to bend to pushback from building industry
Councilman Brian O'Neill's legislation proposing sweeping, restrictive changes to zoning in certain commercial districts has been rolled back significantly already: controversial bans on urban gardens and farm markets, artist studios, prepared food shops and dry cleaners have been eliminated. Now, the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia and the administration may win yet another change to the legislation, which also restricts many commercial structures in CMX-2 and CMX-2.5 from including multiple residential units. The bill prohibits multifamily use if the nearest adjacent residential district is single family.
Eva Gladstein of the City Planning Commission met with O'Neill yesterday, and says he agreed to amendments to the bill. O'Neiil did not respond to an email from City Paper.
In a letter to City Council, Anne Fadullon, vice president of the industry group called that denser mixed-use development "crucial to the lifeblood of Philadelphia’s commercial corridors. In many cases allowing multifamily residencies on the upper floors is the revenue difference between restoring a storefront building to use or letting it remain vacant."
Previously, the City Planning Commission wrote to Council to note that many instances of mutlifamily adjacent to single-family residential exist througout the city, documenting more than a dozen such structures that had been built by right.
Sandy Salzman of New Kensington CDC, which has been working to build up just this kind of development along the Frankford Avenue Arts Corridor, says that for many artists who own studios or galleries in the area, the ability to live above their business while retaining a second rental apartment is what enables them to live and work in the area. "Art is still very difficult to do in the city of Phiiadelphia, and most artists aren't making money hand over fist. So if they can have the rental for another apartment, this certainly helps them pay the mortgage."
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