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Frankford NAC meeting Update

The Frankford NAC meeting on June 13th had no zoning issues to discuss but several important announcements were made.

  • The NAC office as relocated to the office of the Frankford CDC at 4900 Griscom Street.  It is staffed by Simone Smith Monday through Friday from 9AM till 5PM.
  • The computer lab at this location is now also available when the NAC office is open.
  • Kimberly Washington, Executive Director of the Frankford CDC and Business Corridor manager is now working out of the CDC office.
  • Charlene Lewis will be assuming duties of the Northeast EPIC Stakeholders group formerly held by Kim Washington.
  • Representative Clay is sponsoring a Community Fair at the Glading Memorial Presbyterian Church at 1267 E. Cheltenham Ave. on Saturday June 22nd from 11AM to 3PM.

The next NAC meeting will be held on July 11th at 7PM at 2nd Baptist Church.

 

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Frankford NAC Zoning Board Meeting for April

From Douglas Bryant, President of the Frankford NAC

The Frankford NAC Zoning Board meeting was held Thursday April 13, 2013 at Second Baptist Church of Frankford at 7:00 pm. There were two properties seeking zoning variances. The first property at 1728 Orthodox St was for the building of a vehicle and tool storage garage. The owner of the property explained that he needed a facility to store his work trucks, various tools and related work equipment. After much discussion the community members present rejected his proposal.

The second property discussed is located at 4731 Griscom St. The owner of the property was seeking a zoning variance to open a Crown Chicken fast food restaurant. Due to the amount of increasing negative activity in the area he was questioned extensively on issues regarding security, hiring intentions and hours of operation, particularly concerning the hours of operation. The community was unanimous in rejecting the proposal.

On Wednesday April 24, 2013 Wissinoming Civic Association and the Frankford NAC Zoning Board met at Wissinoming Presbyterian Church to hold a joint board meeting. The purpose of this community meeting was to discuss a new site development at Tulip St. and Harbison Ave. The developer Carl Freedman of FC Development Group is proposing a Retail Shopping Center on that site. The site is 12.5 acres which extends from Harbison Ave. to Sanger St. on Tulip St. The existing factories will be demolished.

The Shopping Center will be anchored by a 67,000 square foot Supermarket with Retail Stores, a Fitness Center, Restaurant and a large Gas station with a convenience store. Carl Freedman explained that Green Technology will be incorporated in the construction. This development will create 250 – 300 construction jobs and 400-500 ongoing jobs. Security was discussed and there will be cameras that tie into the Police Department. The property will have trees and 700 parking spaces. There will be community give backs to the community. The developer was concerned about being so close to the railroad tracks and will install a 6 ft. fence. The community was concerned about truck traffic on Tulip St. to the shopping center. The plan is to have trucks enter from Harbison St.

Although no formal vote was taken at this time, the proposal was well received by the community. There will be follow up meetings to discuss this project. For more information on the FC Development Group and their projects you can go to www.fcdevelopmentgroup.com .

 

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Notes on NAC April Meeting

The NAC (Neighborhood Advisory Council) met on April 11th at 2nd Baptist Church to hear two zoning cases.

The group heard a presentation from the owner of 1708 Orthodox street who wants to build a one story garage/storage facility on the property for his contracting business.  He needs a zoning variance for this use of the property.  Members expressed concern about the traffic in the residential area.  The vote taken was to not support the request for the variance.IMG_2018web

The owner of 4731 Griscom Street made his case for a Crown Fried Chicken take out store.  He needs a zoning variance for that type of business.  The location is at the corner of Griscom and Oxford and the entrance would actually be on the Oxford Avenue side of the building. Members raised the issue of the store hours and the fact that the 4700 block of Griscom is a residential area.  The vote was unanimous against supporting the variance.

The next NAC meeting is scheduled for Thursday May 9th at 2nd Baptist Church at 1801 Meadow Street.

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Frankford NAC Reports on March 14th Meeting

We had four speakers:

  • Carol Rodgers from Healthy Philadelphia who is
    asking for support for a new Health Center in the Lower Northeast area
  • Jason Dawkins speaking on the AVI Actual Value Initiative and Property
    Tax Assessment
  • Ray Gant on the Frankford Ave and Neighborhood Cleanup
    Initiatives
  • Ian Litwin from the City of Philadelphia Planning
    Commission who spoke on the Lower Northeast District Plan and the
    available Philadelphia CPI Course series.

The next Frankford NAC meeting will be held on April 11th at 7:00 PM at the 2nd Baptist Church at 1801 Meadow Street.

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EPIC Stakeholders Meeting 1/31/13

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Joan Todd, Program Coordinator at Carson Valley Children’s Aid

It was another busy night at the EPIC Stakeholders meeting on Thursday, January 31st.

Simone Smith made her first appearance for the Frankford NAC. Erica Smith from TreePhilly updated the group on this year’s tree give aways.   Julia Hilligas from the mayor’s Office of Educations talked about funding for college. Gail Anderson, from  Job Corps, Cheryl Lang from I-Lead were also on the agenda.  Laura Wagner from First Home Care talked about their program recruiting foster parents.

Coming up on  on Saturday, February 9th and Saturday February 16 is civic engagement training.  If you are interested in earning a little extra money and participating on the Philadelphia Board of Elections see the flyer at this link.

Joan Todd updated the group on the C.H.I.C.K.S. afters chool program for girls at Harding Middle School.  There will be a health forum at St. Mark’s on Saturday February 16th from 10AM to 1PM.  There will be Spoken word by Ursula Rucker, Jeanine Kayembe & Denise Forham and musical performances by Yazz The Greatest & She Is Phoenix.  For further information see the flyer at this link.

The Philadelphia Police C.H.E.E.R.S. Saturday morning program for children 8 to 17 will be starting up on March 2nd from 9AM to 1PM at St. Joachims this year.  It will run for 7 consecutive weeks and breakfast and lunch are provided.  See the flyer at this link.

The EPIC meeting is always a good program.  The next meeting will be on February 28th at 530PM at 2nd Baptist Church at 1801 Meadow Street.