Check out the so called, new "overlay map" to check out zoning areas. When you look at the 43rd to 42nd, Baltimore to Chester block, you will see that the map is 50-75 years out of date. The Best House and Royal pizza have the correct CMX zoning for their business use, which go back over 100 years. However, the health center, the green line cafe, the businesses next to Royal pizza, and the USP dormitory tower are shown as Rm1 zoned parcels.
Ask yourself, why this contradiction in a supposedly new map? Does this mean that zoning for 43rd and Baltimore Ave was changed, and the map effectively gives misinformation by being 75 years out of date? How can a "mixed use retail" project move into Rm 1 zoned parcel, when the project appears to be appropriate for CMX 2.5? Why did the SHCA link fail to mention the very significant "mixed use retail" in its leak about the project?
Here is the link to the official new map for your viewing. You need to follow the redirection link, and zoom onto that block.
I have no answers and haven't followed zoning for the city I no longer think of as my community. But I do have a great deal of questions. Why is pulling one's teeth so much easier than finding accurate information or the truth?
http://www.phila.gov/map/ZoningRedirect
PS: Off to the Nutter AVI invitation. Wish me luck?
