Giving Kudos To City Planning

Instead of deriding the Philadelphia Planning Commission, everyone should be celebrating their achievements, says Michael Sklaroff.

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November 4, 2005, 10:00 AM PST

By Brenda Meyer

"Residences, hotels and entertainment and other commercial uses have transformed the riverfront. In large measure, the plan has worked, notwithstanding a 1989 real-estate recession, the bursting of a gaming bubble in the early '90s and, more recently, a weakening national retail commercial market that frustrated Mel Simon's proposal for a family entertainment center at Penn's Landing.

So let's for once as Philadelphians celebrate our success. The Planning Commission has done what it is supposed to do and not micromanage the site design of important projects coming to market."

FULL STORY: CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF CITY PLANNING

Friday, November 4, 2005 in The Philadelphia Daily News

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