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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

1357 E RITTENHOUSE ST

For the creation of a roof deck at the rear of an existing attached structure. Size and location as shown in plan.

Council district
District 8
Developer / applicant
MAGDALIS MELO
Property owner
SMITHS CHOICE LLC
OPA account
591142200
ZIP
19138-1916
Approved
2026-05-11
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
Chew and Belfield Neighbors Club Incorporated
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Rev. Chester H. Williams
2158498021
Meets: 6211 Chew Ave PO Box 14134 Philadelphia PA 19138
Neighborhood context (census tract 024900)
Median income
$28,855
Renter occupied
32.84%
Rent burdened
63.59%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
2,614
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk
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.