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Originally Posted by newbie2006
The phila.gov website basically says that the objectors need to present "compelling evidence" that the project will have a negative impact on the quality of life.
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Actually, the person seeking the variance must show non-economic hardship justifying the variance and that granting the variance will not adversely affect health, safety and welfare (including density, traffic, light and air, etc., etc.). You might remind the zoning board of that standard at the outset.
This philadelphia process of handing out variances like penny candy has got to stop. Either change the zoning laws or live with them, but the existing process of a planning vacuum filled by a bunch of mayoral appointees deciding on ad hoc variances for just about everything should have ended a long time ago. In the end it is not fair to adjoining landowners like you. You have no way to determine in advance what might possibly be built right next to you, with those decisions far too routinely made by appointees who are not accountable to you. That sort of crap shoot is not the way to run city planning.
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