I did mosquito treatment for a local government during college where we went to people's houses to help with mosquito prevention and untreated pools actually aren't typically a big source because they are big enough to host predators of mosquitos as well. It was always buckets or garbage cans, French drains, bird baths, unused fountains, and other small pockets of water. Definitely good advice to toss a bunch of granular mosquito bits over the fence if your neighbors have those.

>In an order filed Friday afternoon, Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler said the seven articles filed against Krasner, which were approved by the House last month, did not sufficiently show that he’d failed to perform his duties with an improper or corrupt motive, which is required under the state constitution to impeach a public official.

>The practical implications of the ruling were not immediately clear...

>“It seems to me that these impeachment proceedings are based on disagreements with public policy and an elected officials’ discretion,” she said. “And I think that this proceeding could set terrible precedent in the future.”

And it's less white than it used to be. What is your point?

Ironic comment coming from someone who lives in what used to be a nearly all white neighborhood that's been diversified through new development.

>“Gentrification is our number one problem,” longtime Point Breeze resident Betty Buford told Billy Penn in late September, standing with her neighbors at a Save Black Point Breeze rally. 

Anti-Gentrification here appears to just be code for maintenance of racial concentration/segregation based on the name of the organization doing the rally.

> $56 million would only buy 2-3 blocks of a subway line in Center City

The $56M is just to design the line here.

So you claimed I had no academic experience, I gave it to you, and I'm the one waving a diploma around? Fucking moronic. So you have no alternative definition of "inner city" or any reason why it's worth preserving? Super strong case for keeping a neighborhood of suburban style projects immediately adjacent to Center City.

What is your definition of "inner city" then if you're such an expert? Why is "inner city" culture something we want to sustain when it never refers to a prosperous and safe neighborhood? I focused on housing policy during law school, your expertise seems to be Darrell Clarke style NIMBYism.

Lol, "inner city," is just another term for poor and shitty. No one calls Fairmount or Nolibs the inner city despite a similar geographic location.

If you "love" the suburban style projects and trashnados of West Poplar I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye on urban planning . The inefficient use of space there will eventually be corrected like every other Center City adjacent neighborhood. There's already big apartment developments in Poplar and a ton of development along North Broad which will make West Poplar more attractive and valuable enough to densely develop. The projects there have and will hold it back some but they'll be built around like Queen Village or Nolibs and will eventually be demoed or converted. They won't be rebuilt as dense or moved, Section 8 vouchers are a much better solution than concentrating poverty in projects.

>Love the "responding to demand" myth though, that's always a good one. No one responds to demand, they respond to profitability. There's very little demand to turn Kensington into a future condominium graveyard

What's that you said about opinions about places you don't live? I'm in South Kensington and there is massive demand to live here near public transit, world class restaurants and a booming arts scene. And they're building densely for that demand because our neighborhood isn't full of suburban project NIMBYs concerned about keeping their neighborhood poor and shitty.

My point is you're lamenting the potential destruction of existing homes for new dense development when you live in a neighborhood that would be massively improved by demolishing what is currently there for new dense construction.

You're also conflating the anti-urban actions of the government in the 20th Century with private developers that are responding to market demand, they're very dissimilar.

This is pretty ironic coming from someone with "West Poplar" in their flair. Most of that neighborhood is a monument to the failures of government urban planning and housing policy in the late 20th Century. Turns out sticking suburban style homes in what should be a dense urban neighborhood doesn't solve all the ills of poverty. The apartment buildings and rowhomes developers are putting up now look awesome compared to the garbage projects in West Poplar.

So shouldn't it be reposted without the misleading old one? I've had posts removed when the site changed after posted.

...in a Domestic dispute.

I thought there was a rule against editorialized titles?

It's actually going up in the neighborhood, I'm in South Kensington and there's at least 500 units under construction within 2 blocks of me, way more in the entire neighborhood. It's like a whole new City.

The area he's talking about has plenty of empty lots and abandoned industrial buildings so no need to destroy anything. It's also full of apartment construction on those empty lots and industrial buildings.

You're acting like this is New York or SF, we don't have 400k extra people handing this way soon and Philadelphia has historically been a City of homeowners. It's true that desirable locations are limited but even those are still incredibly underdeveloped now.

I'm Fishtown adjacent and my neighbors that bought their houses for $5-15k in the 80s and 90s are very happy about the changes to the neighborhood. Many bought empty lots near their houses for next to nothing and sold them for incredible profits. "Gentrification" is such a vastly diverse experience based on hyper local circumstances that the term is near worthless and just used as a boogeyman for change.

> It’s Philadelphia… there’s only so much room for new construction before you have to start replacing residents.

Huh? There used to be 2 million people living in the City, now it's 1.6. Have you ever been to North Philadelphia? There's plenty of room.

That term is way more ambiguous and loaded than the accurate title.

Maybe with China easing out of its lockdown we can boost those international numbers back too. Prior to Covid there were always throngs of Chinese tourists in the Independence Mall area.

I agree they should be worried about poaching, just not from DC. It's the suburban municipalities with typically less stressful jobs and good pay and benefits that poach experienced Philadelphia cops. Also less of a life change to move to the burbs. We definitely need to make it more attractive to be a police officer here but not because of this DCPD scheme.

My wife and her immediate family are all from the DC area, I'm very familiar. Life is great there, like it is here, if you make good money. It just takes more there for a similar lifestyle and these jobs don't pay the difference. Not sure why that triggers you so much.

>Extend that to 45 min and the possibilities are endless.

Lol, the possibilities are all smaller and shittier for the price and good school districts are more expensive than here. Cool stats. 45 min from DC is also like 5-10 miles, the traffic is horrendous.

It's not like repaving obviates the need to maintain and improve underground infrastructure... Looks like they are hooking up that new building to gas and/or water.

>Cost of living only matters if they are buying a home in DC/etc.

Are they going to commute from the Philadelphia area? The median cost of a family home in the DC metro area is over double the Phila metro area.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare/philadelphia-pa-vs-washington-arlington-alexandria-dc-va