Councilman Bobby Henon will introduce a resolution
Thursday morning calling for City Council to hold hearings on industrial land
preservation in Philadelphia.
“A public hearing on these issues will enable the City
and the public to explore ... various recommendations and begin to reach a
consensus on what strategies the City and others can best employ to ensure the
preservation and development of industrial land in the City,” the resolution
says.
Henon, an electrician and former political director for
the electrical workers’ union Local 98, has been working to boost manufacturing
and industry in the city since he took office in 2012. He serves on the Mayor’s
Manufacturing
Task Force, which he also helped create.
Last spring, Henon helped secure land in his northeast Philadelphia
district so that Dietz and Watson, the lunch meat company, could expand its
headquarters there. At that time, he told PlanPhilly he was looking into
introducing a few proposals aimed at preserving industrial land, including a
possible sunset provision on ordinances that change industrial land to another
zoning classification. No word yet on when or if those proposals might be
introduced.
Read the resolution here.
Source: Plan
Philly
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