Politics & Government
With City Avenue Rezoning Vote at Hand, Where Do You Stand?
Commissioners want to act. The Neighborhood Club wants changes. Vote in Patch's poll.
On the eve of a scheduled vote on sweeping changes in City Avenue’s commercial zoning, Bala Cynwyd’s civic association and municipal legislators ended two hours of debate Tuesday night further apart than they had been before.
“This is actually a really disappointing turn,” said John Grugan, president of the Neighborhood Club of Bala Cynwyd. Lower Merion's Board of Commissioners voted 8-5 in November to introduce a rezoning ordinance that would, most notably, raise the height restriction for City Avenue-corridor buildings from 120 to as much as 200 feet in some areas.
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