SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

Community Input from Phase 1

Several hundred people participated in GreenPlan Philadelphia community meetings, responded to survey questions, and provided comments and suggestions on this website's blog. All of this public input has been cataloged and organized as an important step in the planning process, and is summarized below for this planning area and on a citywide basis for comparison.

The information presented here does NOT constitute recommendations of GreenPlan Philadelphia, but instead simply reports back what participants identified as important open-space issues, concerns, and/or locations they believe the plan should consider. Some of these suggestions will become plan recommendations, others—for reasons ranging from being too specific to financially infeasible—will not. For an in-depth look at what participants had to say, please download the full summary report for this planning area.

Next steps: This public input—along with various technical analyses (including demographic, public-health, and environmental factors) and research on best practices in other cities—is being "synthesized" into draft GreenPlan Philadelphia recommendations to be published in the fall. Check the website during the summer for updates and information on how you can review the recommendations when they are ready.

Top Issues of Interest

South Philadelphia vs. Citywide
  • Improve sanitation services
  • Change planning policies on new development
  • Improve neighborhood communication and coordination
  • Improve maintenance of facilities
  • Plant more trees
  • Provide new open space
  • Improve community open space
  • Invest in Streetscapes
  • Provide new open space for recreation
  • Improve transit system and infrastructure
  • Plant more trees
  • Provide new open space
  • Provide new community open space
  • Improve maintenance of park, recreation and other facilities
  • Change planning policies on new development
  • Improve neighborhood communication and coordination
  • Improve maintenance of vacant properties
  • Improve lighting
  • Improve appearance of transit stops and corridors
  • Improve access to parks by transit
  • Improve sanitation services

Most Frequently Cited Locations of Interest



FDR Park
Delaware River
Schuylkill River / Park
Marconi Park
Dickinson Square Park
I-95
Beck Park
Smith Playground
Gold Star Park
Broad Street
Guerin Recreation Center
Hawthorne Cultural Center
Oregon Avenue
Point Breeze
15th & Passyunk Avenue
South of South
Vare Recreation Center
Bardascino Park
Barry Playground
Murphy Recreation Center
Starr Garden Playground
Jefferson Square
Reading Viaduct (outside of map)




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