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Zoning: Zoning Permit

541 W ALLEGHENY AVE

FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF AN EXISTING ATTACHED TWO (2) STORY STRUCTURE; AND FOR THE ERECTION OF A THIRD STORY ADDITION ABOVE AN EXISTING TWO (2) STORY STRUCTURE. FOR USE AS ONE (1) VACANT COMMERCIAL SPACE (USE REGISTRATION REQUIRED PRIOR TO OCCUPANCY) AT THE FIRST FLOOR AND FOR TWO (2) FAMILY HOUSEHOLD LIVING UNITS ABOVE; SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN ON THE PLANS.

Council district
District 7
Developer / applicant
DOTS DESIGN UP LLC
Property owner
MARTELL, JOHNNY JR.
OPA account
193207900
ZIP
19133-2816
Approved
2026-05-05
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Quetcy Lozada
District 7 · D
215-686-3448
City Hall Room 588
489 projects in this district
1858 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
19th Ward Committee RCO
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Maria Matos
2672369857
Meets: 147 W. Susquehanna Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19122
Neighborhood context (census tract 017500)
Median income
$30,149
Renter occupied
48.50%
Rent burdened
59.63%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
6,716
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. 7 permits found.

3047 N 4TH ST2026-01-15
3055 N 4TH ST2025-12-04
3051 N 5TH ST2025-04-03
3425 N FAIRHILL ST2025-03-13
714 W GLENWOOD AVE2025-02-26
444 W GLENWOOD AVE2024-09-18
538 W WESTMORELAND ST2024-01-23
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.