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City Controller Candidates & NLNA Board Nominations at the NLNA April General Meeting – April 28
Join us for the April General Membership Meeting, Thursday April 25, 7pm at the Northern Liberties Community Center (3rd & Fairmount). We’ll be hearing from candidates in the upcoming City Controller’s primary election. Also, we’ll be taking…
Read More »Zoning Committee Openings – Are you interested in neighborhood development?
The NLNA Zoning Committee – which hears zoning variance requests and votes on the issues – has openings. Want to be a part of it? Just contact zoning chair Larry Freedman at zoning@nlna.org to find out more.
Read More »Earth Day Spring Tree Planting, Sunday, April 21!
Join your neighbors in our Earth Day Spring Tree Planting, Sunday, April 21 at 10 am! We will be planting 12 (bare root) street trees all over Northern Liberties and a variety of plants at Madison Memorial Park (aka Dough Boy…
Read More »Northern Liberties Clean-Up on Sat, April 13
9am to 1pm – Meet up and lunch will be held at Liberty Lands Join your fellow neighbors, along with students and teachers from our own, award-winning Bodine High School on Saturday, April 13, as part of Philly’s…
Read More »Zoning Agenda for Wednesday, March 27th
Due to the Jewish Holidays, this month’s Neighborhood Zoning Meetings will be held on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Happy Passover. To review past Zoning Meeting Minutes and approved Motions see NLNA Board Meeting Minutes. To do this…
Read More »Summary of the AVI Meeting on March 14 – Deadlines Are Approaching…
Last week’s special community meeting on AVI was extremely well-attended and included a lot of valuable information, and powerful commentary by neighbors. A full set of minutes for the meeting is up on the NLNA web site…
Read More »Full Minutes from the NLNA Special Actual Value Initiative (AVI) Meeting on March 14
St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church, Thursday, March 14, 2013 Matt Ruben, President of the NLNA, called the meeting to order at approximately 7:15 p.m. Matt made an opening statement about the meeting’s purpose and procedure. The purpose…
Read More »AVI Meetings & Drop-in Sessions
AVI meetings are happening throughout the city. Here’s a list, taken from the city Office of Property Assessment’s news web page. At that page you also can register for free, toll-free, “tele-sessions” that will be conducted by…
Read More »Thank You to Neighborhood Businesses Who Helped Out with Winterfest!
The NLNA would like to thank all of the following businesses that helped make this year’s Winterfest fundraiser such a huge success. Please bring them your business as a show of thanks… Beautiful Blooms Café Chismosa Café…
Read More »11th Annual NoLibs Variety Show Raises Over $2500 for Kearney Elementary
The PLAYWORKS Program comes to Kearney… Full time coach, Coach Anna, was brought on to run PLAYWORKS, a program which teach conflict resolution through play. The Schoolyard and Lunchtime Recess is the core of the program. Coach…
Read More »NLNA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes of February 4, 2013
PRESENT: Matt Ruben, President; Don Phillips, Vice-President; Steve Richman, Treasurer; Janet Finegar, Secretary; Rick Angeli; Fernando Benavides; Michael Coyne; Larry Freedman; Lystra Harris; Katrina Mansfield; Anne Waginger. ABSENT: Erika Goldberg, Chris Somers The meeting was called…
Read More »New Evening Hours at the NLNA – 6 to 9pm on Wednesday Nights!
Drop in Wednesdays, 6-9pm The NLNA’s office – 700 N. 3rd St, on the corner of 3rd & Fairmount – is expanding its hours. If you have questions or concerns about the neighborhood, if you need a…
Read More »New “License to Inspect” Tool Lets You Easily Look Up Permits & Info
PlanPhilly.com and Philly-based firm Azavea have created a new online tool that makes it easy to monitor construction, demolition, and code violations in the city. The tool, called License to Inspect, enables users quickly to search, display, sort,…
Read More »Zoning Meeting Agenda – Mon, February 25
Location: NL Community Center, 3rd & Fairmount As always, the meetings are public and all are welcome to attend and participate. Monday, February 25, 2013 Please note 6:30 start time!!! (6:30) – 938 New Market – Alex Duller…
Read More »NLNA General Meeting TONIGHT! – Thursday, Feb 28
Join us for the February NLNA General Membership meeting. 7pm at the Northern Liberties Community Center – 3rd & Fairmount – as always! This Month’s Agenda Streets Dept. on Laurel St. direction-change proposal DRWC on Spring Garden…
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