Category: Zoning Permits
Parking! Parking! Parking!
Let’s talk about parking rules in Philadelphia. You have to abide by them, even though you may not know what they are, and every living human in the city has a very angry opinion about them. Many RCOs rage against developments without parking. Residents want their curbside parking secured – keep the new people away…
Zoning Guide: Philadelphia Sign Permits
Zoning Guide to the Philadelphia Sign Permit Welcome back to Permit Philly’s Philadelphia zoning guide! In this series, we’ve covered commercial zoning in Philadelphia, single-family residential zoning, multi-family residential zoning, and that sweet sweet hipster zoning. Now we’re going to talk about the Philadelphia sign permit. Warning: this story features graphic descriptions of bureaucracy.
Philadelphia Zoning Guide: Multifamily Zoning
Welcome to Permit Philly’s Philadelphia Multifamily Zoning Guide! If you’d like to see the other parts of this series, click here. Oh my god we’re back again. We’ve covered Commercial MiXed-use (CMX) and Residential Single-family Attached (RSA) zoning in our Philadelphia zoning guide. Now it’s time to tackle Philadelphia multifamily zoning.
Rezoning Property in Philadelphia
We interrupt Permit Philly’s zoning guide for an important message. In this blog we’ve been slowly progressing through the Philadelphia Zoning Code’s classification of properties (if you’d like to see the series, click here). But today we’re not going to do that: today, we’re going to talk about rezoning property in Philadelphia. Specifically, we’re going…
Philadelphia Zoning Guide: RSA Zoning
Welcome to Permit Philly’s RSA Zoning Guide! If you’d like to see the other parts of this series, click here. Hello again! After last week’s discussion of commercial zoning in Philly, it’s time for some lighter reading in our Philadelphia zoning guide: residential zoning! Specifically: RSA zoning districts! I can feel your excitement. But this…
Philadelphia Zoning Guide: CMX Building Overview
Welcome to Permit Philly’s Philadelphia Zoning Guide! I was recently at a neighborhood meeting where a member of the group casually observed that the Philadelphia Code allows for an 8.5-foot-wide garage, but should really allow only a 9.5-foot-wide garage. If you are this person, you might not need this blog post. But for most of…
Philadelphia Building Permits
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Philadelphia Building Permits Whether you’ve just bought your first house or are an experienced contractor, a Philadelphia building permit can be a confusing document. Not the permit itself: the process of getting the permit. Depending on the project, there might be a lot of documents required to successfully…
Zoning or Use Variance
In our last post, we covered the basic terms and ideas of the zoning process in Philly. Now, let’s talk about the most complicated part: The Philadelphia zoning variance and special exception process. In Philly’s zoning rules, property owners or tenants might want to use their space differently than Philly’s zoning code allows. This can…
Zoning Basics
If you’re confused about the Philadelphia Zoning Code, don’t worry! You’re in good company. The law that governs zoning in Philadelphia is quite complex, but the actual process that comes out of it isn’t so bad. Here are the zoning basics of our city.
