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Zoning: Zoning Permit

4655-61 LANCASTER AVE

FOR THE REMOVAL OF ONE (1) FREESTANDING SIGN AND FOR ERECTION OF ONE (1) DOUBLE FACED FREESTANDING WITH ANIMATED ILLUMINATION (DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SIGNS) ACCESSORY TO EXISTING RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN PLAN.

Council district
District 3
Developer / applicant
EZ SIGNS & SERVICES LLC
Property owner
CHRISTIAN STRONGHOLD
OPA account
774214500
ZIP
19131-4632
Approved
2025-11-12
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Jamie Gauthier
District 3 · D
215-686-0454
City Hall Room 580
588 projects in this district
3367 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Mill Creek Advisory Council
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Dymiere Finch
2677127024
Meets: 4700 Brown Street Philadelphia, PA 19139
Neighborhood context (census tract 010500)
Median income
$37,708
Renter occupied
62.93%
Rent burdened
50.86%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
4,251
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. 9 permits found.

922-26 N 46TH ST2025-08-04
1006 N 45TH ST2025-05-15
911 N 45TH ST2024-09-16
920 N 45TH ST2024-09-16
928 N 45TH ST2024-09-16
1221 BELMONT AVE2024-09-16
926 N 45TH ST2024-09-16
1238-46 BELMONT AVE2024-06-14
936 N 48TH ST2024-05-10
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.