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Urban Planning

An artist's rendering of the BAT lanes planned for Roosevelt Boulevard. (City of Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Streets & Roads
Transportation

Roosevelt Blvd. speed cameras hit delay, installation pushed back

A regulatory snag is delaying the rollout of speed cameras on deadly Roosevelt Boulevard.

6 years ago

A SEPTA Market-Frankford line train prepares to leave the station. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA: Death on tracks disrupts Market-Frankford Line

SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line is out of commission in Center City after a train fatally struck a man who fell onto the tracks at the 8th Street Station.

6 years ago

Of the 2,300 evictions in 2018, 12 percent found that landlords did so in the wake of a reported L&I violation. A problem known in Philadelphia housing circles as 'retaliatory eviction.' Image (Courtesy Visit Philadelphia)
Housing
Philadelphia
Broke in Philly

Philadelphia renters forced to deal with major issues — or risk eviction

Evictions are disproportionately leveled against black renters, particularly child-rearing women, even when controlling for factors like income.

6 years ago

Listen 6:55
Enter the Cocoon, an art installation at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Philadelphia

Welcome to the Navy Yard: Philly’s next hot neighborhood

What does a giant cocoon made of tape have to do with Philadelphia's future? Quite a bit, according to the city planners remaking the Navy Yard in South Philly.

Air Date: December 17, 2019

Listen 12:37
An artist's illustration shows an apartment development planned for 1100 Wharton St. (Courtesy Alterra Property Group)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Real Estate

South Philadelphia developer resists calls for more parking, promises grocery store

Alterra Property Group wants more housing, less parking in South Philadelphia Passyunk Square development, plans grocery store to rival Acme.

6 years ago

PFD Engine 10 in South Philadelphia will be demolished under a plan to build housing on the city land. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Economic Development
Real Estate

Apartments, commercial space proposed for Passyunk firehouse site

Alterra wants to build hundreds of apartments and create new commercial spaces on one of the last major underdeveloped parcels in Passyunk Square.

6 years ago

Coastal flooding (Courtesy of FEMA/NJ Spotlight)
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

DEP sounds alarm over revised climate change predictions

New Rutgers study foresees a rise of as much as 6 feet in sea levels along the Jersey Shore by the end of the century.

6 years ago

Activists urge City Council members to vote to end the 10-year property tax abatement. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Taxes

Equitable or not enough? Philly Council just changed the 10-year tax abatement

After weeks of heated debate, City Council passed a bill reducing the value of Philly’s 10-year property tax abatement on new residential construction.

6 years ago

Multiple plastic shopping bags on table top (Big Stock)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia
Eyes on the Street

No fee. No enforcement. Philly’s plastic bag ban is set up to fail.

Philadelphia is poised to adopt a ban on single-use plastic bags, but without a fee or proper enforcement, it won’t be successful.

6 years ago

City Council will vote Thursday on whether to ban food trucks near Drexel University's campus. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Neighborhoods

Philly Council evicts food trucks from prime University City block

Food trucks would have to move under a bill requested by Drexel that would ban vendors from the block of Market Street between 33rd and 34th streets.

6 years ago

A Philadelphia roof deck on a snowy morning (Katherine Urbaniak/Flickr)
PlanPhilly
Architecture & Design
Real Estate

Brian O’Neill’s bid to ban rooftop decks in Northeast Philly just got killed

Republican Councilmember Brian O’Neill lost his battle to ban all roof decks and limit the height of homes in his Far Northeast Philadelphia district.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of American Littoral Society)
Down the Shore
Environment
Infrastructure
New Jersey

House passes bill that would create federal grant program to support ‘living shorelines’

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to help protect coastal communities from sea level rise and stronger storms caused by climate change.

6 years ago

Passengers board an NJ Transit bus in Camden, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Transportation

NJ Transit bus riders complain of late service, no amenities at stops

Results of a survey of 250 riders were released by the nonprofit Tri-State Transportation Campaign. Gov. Murphy has made improving the system a priority.

6 years ago

Powelton Village (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Architecture & Design
Changing Communities
Preservation

City Council is making it harder to demolish buildings in 6 historic Philly neighborhoods

A bill expected to pass City Council aims to stem demolitions of historic buildings.

6 years ago

Leafy Pine Street in Center City is contrasted with treeless North 5th Street in Hunting Park.
PlanPhilly
Income Inequality
Public Spaces
Sustainability

Philly neighborhoods need more trees. A new city initiative takes on the problem.

Philadelphia lost the equivalent of 1,000 football fields worth of tree cover in the last ten years. A first-ever urban forest plan will try to reverse that trend.

6 years ago

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