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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

257 S 4TH ST

PARTIAL DEMOLITION TO THE REAR PART OF EXISTING STRUCTURE, WITH ERECTION OF BRICK WALL AROUND NEW REAR YARD WITH 6 FEET IN HEIGHT. KEEP THE EXISTING 2 ACCESSORY PARKING SPACE IN THE REAR YARD, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WALL AROUND THE PARKING AREA AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ROOF ABOVE THE PARKING AREA. SIZE AND LOCATION AS PER PLAN.

Council district
District 1
Developer / applicant
Continuum Architecture & Design, PC
Property owner
WALTER R EDMUNDS
OPA account
871508120
ZIP
19106-3819
Approved
2026-02-18
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Mark Squilla
District 1 · D
215-686-3458
City Hall Room 332
785 projects in this district
2336 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Society Hill Civic Association
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Paul Boni
2153562583
Meets: Pennsylvania Hospital (Zubrow Auditorium) 800 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Unless another location is specified for a particular meeting.
Neighborhood context (census tract 001002)
Median income
$144,922
Renter occupied
29.62%
Rent burdened
41.07%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
3,583
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk

Displacement signal

L&I demolition permits, last 3 yrs, within 400m

Philly doesn't publish eviction filings, so this uses demolition permits as the closest proxy for housing stock loss in the immediate area. 1 permit found.

239 CHESTNUT ST2025-08-05
Data source · last refreshed 5/16/2026, 6:20:02 PM
Zoning Permits (last 2 years)
Philadelphia L&I

Pulled from the city's Carto SQL API. Capped at 5000 most-recent permits per refresh. Geocoding is by the city L&I system and is decent but not perfect; ~1% of permits fall outside Philadelphia bounds and get dropped. Status field is normalized from L&I's free-text values with a best-effort mapping. The Zoning Board of Adjustment decisions dataset (which would have been a better fit) appears to have been retired from OpenDataPhilly.