As it is Melani's job, and her opinion differs from Liz's on more than
one real-estate concern. Peace to you, Frank, and good luck on your own
zoning issue. If it's truly an open-and-shut case under current law, no
doubt you'll have an easy win.
In the meantime, people who are interested in the Campus Inn proposal
might want to attend an upcoming civic-association meeting on a very
similar case in Fishtown. The date is allegedly 7 p.m. on Mar. 12 at
Fishtown Rec Ctr., Montgomery & Girard but that date should be
confirmed. Fishtown Neighbors Association will hear a proposal to erect
a hotel tower on the site of Beer City at Berks & Girard. This land has
been low-rise commercial forever but behind it lies a densely-settled
low-rise rowhouse residential community. Immediately before it, however,
is an I-95 exit.
A couple of thousand feet away lies the massively complex and
controversial SugarHouse casino site. Fishtown is fiercely divided on
the merits of that project and the degree of maneuvering and acrimony
dwarfs anything in University City.
So it should make for good zoning theater and it might prove instructive
for some people around here with related concerns.
-- Tony West
I dunno. Liz seems to know what she's talking about without any
verbose puffery or bringing other people into it. It's part of her job
to know about such things, though.
Frank
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