Folks: Today's University City Review has a great article on Penn's newest slap in the neighborhood's face. A proposal for a 127-unit 7-story apartment building at 40th & Pine (which won't increase traffic congestion because Penn "has pledged to reserve parking for its occupants at a nearby garage" (free -- or at the kind of prices that gets all those Penn people parking around 44th & Spruce then walking or taking Septa to Penn?). And... not to worry about the 7-story height... there are going to be two terraces on the 7th floor. Whatever that is supposed to mean. According to the Review's article, the Spruce Hill Community Assn is holding a meeting about this tomorrow (Thursday) at the SHCA clubhouse (257 S 45th). Meeting to start at 6:00 but Zoning Chair Barry Grossbach says this proposal probably won't come up until about 7:30 because of other things on the agenda. They'll probably come out against it because, as everybody knows, SHCA is adamantly opposed to anything that increases the population density in our neighborhood and isn't influenced by Penn's -- er -- largesse.
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