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ZONING REMAPPING IN PHILADELPHIA
Since 1965, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission has been engaged in rezoning major portions of the City through the Zoning Remapping Program. By the end of 1999, 183 different City neighborhoods had been rezoned through this program, representing 70% of the land area of the City.
Zoning Remapping in Philadelphia is a primer for land use planning in the City of Philadelphia. It contains sections entitled:
- What is Zoning?
- How Does Zoning Work?
- How Does the Zoning Remapping Program Work?
- A History of Zoning in Philadelphia
- An Overview of the Philadelphia Zoning Code
- Residential Districts
- Commercial Districts
- Industrial Districts
- Special Purpose Districts
- Miscellaneous Zoning Controls
Click on this link to Zoning Remapping in Philadelphia if Portable Document Format (PDF) files can be viewed with your Web browser. Please note that this document is a 1280K download. Adobe Acrobat Reader and browser plug-ins for viewing PDF files are available for free from the
Adobe Web site.
Printed copies of Zoning Remapping in Philadelphia may also be obtained by telephone, postal mail, or e-mail request.
The full text of the Philadelphia Code of Ordinances, including the Zoning Code, can be viewed by following this link to the American Legal Publishing Corporation site.
Philadelphia Zoning Maps can be viewed by following this link to the
City of Philadelphia Web site.
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