Tag: zoning use
How to Open a Restaurant in Philadelphia
You’re ready to open a restaurant in Philadelphia. You have everything you need: a great building, all the right equipment on order, a dedicated team, and some amazing recipes. Now you just need to get a food license from the City of Philadelphia. Is that just one form? Maybe a little inspection? Not quite. While…
Philadelphia Overlay Districts
In this space, we’ve explained what zoning districts are, and summarized the three main categories of zoning district: commercial, residential (single-family and multi-family), and industrial. We’ve even reviewed the basics of sign permitting. So you might think that our Philadelphia zoning guide is complete! … you would be wrong. Having a zoning code with detailed…
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: Industrial Zoning in Philadelphia
Industrial Zoning = Hipster Zoning 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 the age-old question, “Yo, can I turn my single-family house into a multi-family house?” But you’re not here for that conventional stuff: you’re into the darker,…
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…
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…
