Megan Shannon

5000 Warrington, Part 6 — Government Transparency Blog This is part six in a series of posts about a zoning dispute near my house. I know how to have a good time! (I am on maternity leave with baby #2, writing this while she naps in my arms. It really is...

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5000 Warrington, pt. 5 — Government Transparency Blog The City’s Motion for Summary Judgment I wrote about in my last post was denied. So this case will go to trial!! It was originally scheduled for trial on June 2nd, but an emergency motion for conti...

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5000 Warrington, Part 4 — Government Transparency Blog The 5000 Warrington spot zoning litigation is almost over. But my blog posts about it aren’t! Previous blogs on this topic here , here , and here . Trial is scheduled to begin on June 2nd. The C...

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Traffic Calming Review in Philly vs. peer cities (New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis) — Government Transparency Blog Previous related posts here and here . About a year ago, the City announced major changes to the way they review requests for traffic calming/speed bumps. I submitted a new RTKL request to find o...

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@councilmemberjg.bsky.social is your office going to do another report card on the mixed income neighborhoods overlay? I want to see more affordable housing going up in D3!

5000 Warrington, Pt. 3 — Government Transparency Blog This is the third post I am doing about this zoning dispute. Feel free to read Part 1 and Part 2 first. Some background: in 2020, a developer put out a proposal to build a 174 unit affordable a...

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germantown ymca — Government Transparency Blog A new thing I am trying is getting non-docketed documents from interesting litigation going on around the city. A little background for any non-lawyers reading this blog: when you file a lawsuit, a...

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Please sign this petition demanding full funding for Vision Zero in this year’s city budget

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5000 Warrington pt. 2 — Government Transparency Blog The first blog post I did about 5000 Warrington is here . I hadn’t been following the zoning dispute over 5000 Warrington that closely since someone appealed the ZBA’s grant of a variance back in ...

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mildly interesting emails unrelated to the topic of a rtkl request — Government Transparency Blog The arena is such a contentious topic! I am really interested in how this process is playing out behind closed doors. The Mayor and CM Squilla have to make public statements, and the opposition is v...

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