WATER RENAISSANCE v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Civil Action No. 07-1045.

701 F.Supp.2d 633 (2010)

WATERFRONT RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

March 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Michael Mather, Christina M. Hughes, Robert D. Aversa, City of Phila Law Dept., James P. Cousounis, City Solicitor's Office, Arthur W. Lefco, Aaron E. Moore, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendants.

River's Edge Civic Association, Philadelphia, PA, pro se.

Andrew Sacksteder, Philadelphia, PA, pro se.


MEMORANDUM

STENGEL, District Judge.

Waterfront Renaissance Associates contends that a City of Philadelphia ordinance is unconstitutional. Enacted in March, 2006, the ordinance set a new building height restriction.1 According to Waterfront Renaissance, the ordinance empowers unelected civic associations to control re-development, delegates land-use decisions to private entities, and employs a variance process for coercive purposes...

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