Changing Skyline: Council still snubs planners

March 21, 2008

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, “Philadelphia’s City Council members really, really want to be good, but they just can’t help being bad. They swear they won’t hand out more special zoning favors. They promise to give power back to professional planners. They assure neighborhood leaders they will never again have to go unarmed into battle with Goliath developers.”