149 Greenwood Avenue

About this project

Greenwood Avenue, LLC plans to tear down a small, dilapidated two-story building at 149 Greenwood Avenue in Wyncote, Cheltenham Township, and replace it with a parking lot on the roughly 0.13-acre lot. The building was the childhood home of a Hall of Fame baseball player, and the applicant proposes a historic marker on the site. The county planning commission generally supports the plan but says a parking lot is not allowed as a main use in the R-3 district and recommends combining the lot with neighboring parcels.

County planning commission: Supports, with comments

Issues raised: Parking lot not permitted as principal use in R-3; variance may be needed, Recommends consolidating with commonly owned adjacent lots, No landscaping plan submitted, Street trees and parking lot perimeter landscaping required, Impervious coverage calculation (78.6%) needs verification, Historic marker design duplicates Hall of Fame plaque

Applicant

Greenwood Avenue, LLC

Engineer / rep.

Nave Newell

Zoning

R-3

Approvals needed

variance (parking lot as a principal use in R-3), waivers (parking lot perimeter landscaping), possible zoning relief, lot consolidation recommended

Demolition

Existing two-story dilapidated building at 149 Greenwood Avenue, plus removal of one 8-inch tree