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Planning Commission approves rezoning for Italian Market apartment project

http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/10/2...ing-for-italian-market-apartment-project

Also, you gotta love this at the bottom of the article:

Some background is in order: that earlier bill plays into a long and boring saga related to Finnigan’s Wake, a bar and local Democratic Party outpost at 3rd and Spring Garden streets in Northern Liberties. Earlier this year, Council approved, with the Planning Commission’s endorsement, a bill rezoning the Finnigan’s Wake site from CMX-2 to CMX-3 in anticipation of a planned conversion of the bar into a 5-story office complex.

On Tuesday—you couldn’t make this up, and why would you want to?—the Commission was considering a bill that would undo the earlier rezoning, introduced by Councilman Mark Squilla because the office project had fallen through.

After some discussion, the Commission voted to recommend approving the bill that would repeal the bill that the Commission had recommended approving. Though some Commissioners pointed out this was a strange way to plan, they ultimately decided that the Finnigan’s Wake property might as well be in conformity with the surrounding properties on the north side of Spring Garden—CMX-2, to wit, rather than CMX-3.