Urban Planning

North Broad’s new medians aim to slow drivers and increase street safety. They came one day after a driver killed a cyclist on Roosevelt Boulevard.

The measure tweaks an incentive that allows developers to construct larger buildings than typically allowed in exchange for supporting affordable housing.

The housing agency ran out of money and still has an inventory of more than 100 lots and homes to be renovated or torn down and rebuilt.

City Council first passed the ban in late 2019, requiring businesses to stop using plastic bags and any paper bags that don’t use at least 40% recycled material.

The four-story building in North Philadelphia will provide permanent supportive housing to people who are or have been homeless or are at risk of homelessness.

The former chair of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission board abstained from a vote on the agency’s long-term plan citing climate change.

The new PPA board chair lost to DA Larry Krasner in 2017.

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Federal funds will help connect more than 11,000 homes and businesses in Delaware to high-speed broadband internet. The biggest gap is in southwestern part of the state.

A coalition of community organizations contend some of the city’s vacant land should go to them rather than to private developers.

The University of Pennsylvania professor, R&B-lover, neighborhood advocate, and beloved husband and father passed away after a battle with cancer.

Clarke wants to give City Council more power over neighborhood development after a series of zoning decisions that he believed favored developers.

Nearly one year and thousands of work hours after the regional transit agency started work with McKinsey, the $7 million initiative is under review.

An effort to save and preserve housing stock in Philadelphia is moving ahead with $400 million in funding over the next four years.

Turnpike records show the millions of drivers who don’t use E-ZPass have a nearly 1 in 2 chance of riding without paying under the “toll-by-plate” license plate camera system.