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NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN

CCRA has created a Neighborhood Plan for the area of Center City that falls within the CCRA boundaries. In general, this Plan establishes a neighborhood vision and a set of goals that provide a framework for discussion and decision-making by the community, city government, and developers. It addresses building development and use, traffic, parking, open space, recreational uses, commercial uses, and other critical immediate and long-term issues.

The Philadelphia Planning Commission has accepted our Neighborhood Plan, the first acceptance of any neighborhood plan by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. This means that the Commission will take the Plan's recommendations into account when deliberating on projects in our area, although it does not necessarily mean that the Commission agrees with each of the recommendations. Our Plan will be placed on the Commission's website together with the only other accepted neighborhood plan, that of Logan Square.

The Neighborhood Plan was produced through the efforts of many board members, most significantly, Lou Coffey (past President), who was ably assisted by Heather Ascher (former Vice President). The original draft of the Plan was prepared by a team of professionals assembled by John Gibbons of Kise Straw & Kolodner. At the Board's request, the first draft was revised by a committee chaired by Steve Huntington, and which included Tim Kerner, Lenora Berson, George Brodie, Michelle Langer, Josh Abbell, and Marjorie Arendt.

View the entire the plan here as an Adobe PDF.

If you print the Neighborhood Plan from our website, we recommend that you use a color printer so that the extensive graphics will be meaningful.

Introduction/Resolution

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Overview and Background

Chapter 2: Exisiting Conditions

Chapter 3: Neighborhood Issues

Chapter 4: Planning Principles

Chapter 5: Plan Recommendations

Index

To obtain a hard copy in color
Copies of the Neighborhood Plan with excellent full-color graphics can also be purchased* from CCRA for $50 plus $7.95 for shipping and handling to cover CCRA's costs. Simply send a check in the amount of $57.95 payable to "CCRA" with the memo "Plan Book" to

Center City Residents' Association
1616 Walnut Street
Suite 705
Philadelphia, PA 19103

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