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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

823 E CHELTEN AVE

FOR THE ERECTION OF AN ATTACHED STRUCTURE. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN THE APPLICATION / PLANS. AMENDMENT APPROVED AS OF 10/21/25: TO CHANGE THE TOTAL HEIGHT. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN THE AMENDED PLANS.

Council district
District 8
Developer / applicant
PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE STUDIO LLC
Property owner
RAM PHILA COMMUNITY 16 LLC
OPA account
591010800
ZIP
19138-1711
Approved
2025-06-03
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Cindy Bass
District 8 · D
215-686-3424
City Hall Room 410
524 projects in this district
1745 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Awbury Arboretum Neighbors
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Brenna Kelly
6462690712
Meets: 5725 Sprague Street Philadelphia, PA 19138
Neighborhood context (census tract 024800)
Median income
$43,347
Renter occupied
25.10%
Rent burdened
85.34%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
2,250
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. 6 permits found.

916 E STAFFORD ST2026-03-04
5523 BOYER ST2026-03-03
921-23 E CHELTEN AVE2024-10-22
5547 BLOYD ST2024-09-27
833 LOCUST AVE2024-08-04
5611 BLOYD ST2024-07-22
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.