Complete side note, but I was looking for some rural 'property' to buy in central PA...just as an escape and a way to return to my roots. Jesus christ everything is so expensive because of shale speculators. Compare land prices in PA to upstate NY (where fracking is banned). It's wild.

Congratulations to everyone who drives a huge car

GREAT QUESTION

Because this stuff grinds my gears, I've done some amateur field research and I've concluded 80% of the cars on my (busy, Center City tree street) block move maybe once a month. I wish there was street sweeping simply so people would stop taking up public space with cars they rarely use.

My psychotic take is that Lincoln, Kelly and MLK should be tolled and the proceeds should go directly to Parks & Rec

There are a few of these planned around there

I don't see how Rhynhart can stay in if he runs...honestly I'd rather he get involved with her campaign as an advisor/endorser.

The wenches appear to be just about done...not sure who is next.

Saturday. Sunday is for stressing out, not for fun.

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Hate it

Note that the report focuses on retail activity on Walnut Street and East Market.

Seen

I hope they get moving on the new development, that hole is such an eyesore. Glad to hear there may be street level retail/restaurants at the base of the tower.

It would be interesting to see this just for the city of Philadelphia.

A not insignificant amount of obscured license plates have the little FOP badge on the plate. Saw it all the time when I was in South Philly.

This is the world's dumbest argument

Honey Bee across the street is one of my go to spots

>having to potentially do maintenance in the future, and a developer not wanting to have to deal with a large tree on shared HOA property.

You named two potential reasons right there. There's also the root system impacting potential utility lines and foundation, insurance, etc.

There is a bill that would apply new fees for removing trees that developers are supposed to pay if they don't save / replace trees on the lot.

Personally I think the whole premise is dumb as regulations against building in dense urban environments encourage greenfield development in exurban areas that require the clearing of forests, not to mention that auto-oriented development patterns objectively worse for the environment. Your objections seem to be around the fact that you like big trees in your neighborhood - fair, but that's just as selfish of a reason as the developer taking the tree down to make construction easier.

Short sighted is blocking housing for a tree. You can plant more trees.

I'm voting for her, but I think the moderate boomers will vote for Domb and the terminally online moderates will vote for Rhynhart. The ticket will get split and we'll end up with the Democratic Machine candidate (Parker).

One of the weirder things of second half 2022

How would you describe his time as councilperson self dealing?

He's pretty harmless imo. The ward council people are way worse because they have a say over zoning and land Bank disposition in their districts. They're all corrupt.

This city desperately needs an a-partisan good governance & reform party. Everything else is just nonsense until we can get the local government to a functional state again.

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