<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'>  <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;"> <h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org">Also visit http://www.manayunkcouncil.org</a></h3> <h3 align="center">ZOOM General Meeting January 8, 2025 at 7:00PM</h3> <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdO2vrDgtHdQ5EUs02z41CI6p8WZzdrFV">Register for the meeting </a>(<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdO2vrDgtHdQ5EUs02z41CI6p8WZzdrFV">https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdO2vrDgtHdQ5EUs02z41CI6p8WZzdrFV</a>) When registering please pick the date of the meeting your are registering for. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. In addition to normal meeting business there will be two zoning cases on the agenda. The cases will involve a presentation and questions and answers with the presenters. After which the presenters will leave the meeting and the attendees will hold any additional discussion and finally a vote. <dl> <dt>Zoning</dt> <dd> <dl> <dt>270 Shurs Lane</dt> <dd> About two years ago the owner illegally converted the third floor of this commercial building to apartments and is now seeking to legalize the conversion. </dd> <dt>4045-4061 Main Street--Littlewood Dye Works (Don't Miss This One)</dt> <dd> Time to say goodbye to the Manayunk Historic District. Land owners and Developers appear to be planning to obliterate the Historic District Standards and National Historic Standards with a eight-story by 400 foot residential block. For 50 years people have nurtured and defended what is Main Street today. Three and four story buildings with mixed commercial and residential. The owners of Littlewood Dye Works at 4055-4061 Main, fifth generation owners of the Dye Works started in the 1860's. The family closed the Dye Works after the damage from Hurricane Ida in 2021 and put it up for sale. The reported asking price over $6,000,000. <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/google-map-4045-4061-main.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/google-map-4045-4061-main.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /> </a> This property is on the National Register of Historic Places Inventory and has been given their highest rating A -- Significant Building or Structure <ul> <li>The hotel building at Shurs and Main is from before 1850.</li> <li>Other mill buildings starting in 1869 when Littlewood's first began operation.</li> </ul> <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-birds-eye.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-birds-eye.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> Birds Eye View <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-hotel.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-hotel.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> Early 1800's Hotel. Now the Dye Works office. <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-cluster.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/littlewoods-cluster.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> Historic Buildings The developers are proposing to demolish the entire site except for a small portion of facade retained as pretend preservation apparently to appease the Historical Commission. The Historic District Standards allow a maximum height of 50 feet at this site (38 feet above the 100 year flood level). The proposed building will be the largest building ever built on Main Street by a wide margin, towering over eight stories and 80 feet above Main Street and 400 feet long. One of the largest, and we believe the tallest, building on Main Street (historic or otherwise not counting the Bridge Five abomination) is the old Mad River at 4100 Main, across the intersection from this property. The 42' tall by 100' wide building is positively dwarfed by the block proposed by the developers. <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/4100-main-mad-river.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/4100-main-mad-river.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> 4100 Main / Old Mad River. Largest building in the central historic district. <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/4100-main-perspective-comparison.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/4100-main-perspective-comparison.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> 4100 Main dwarfed by the proposal <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/perspective-2.png"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/perspective-2.png" width="100%" border="1" /></a> 4100 / Proposal size comparison <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-06-25-main-4045-4051-AC-Application-p67.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-06-25-main-4045-4051-AC-Application-p67.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> Central Main Street Dwarfed by the Proposal <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-06-25-main-4045-4051-AC-Application-p65.jpg"> <img src="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-06-25-main-4045-4051-AC-Application-p65.jpg" width="100%" border="1" /></a> Lower Main Street Dwarfed by the Proposal The developer has large lineup of experts and reports purporting to show that no other project could be viable on this site. We believe we have already debunked all the, apparently deceptive, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man">straw man arguments</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma">false dichotomies</a>, unsupported assertions and irrelevant comparisons, in these reports, in our letters to the Historical Commission. <ul> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-04-18-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc-ac.pdf">04/23/2024 MNC written testimony to the Historical Commission Architectural Committee</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-04-23-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc-ac-oral-testimony.txt">04/23/2024 MNC oral testimony to the Historical Commission Architectural Committee</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-05-10-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc.pdf">05/10/2024 MNC written testimony to the Historical Commission</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-05-10-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc-oral.pdf">05/10/2024 MNC written testimony to the Historical Commission</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-06-25-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc-ac.pdf">06/25/2024 MNC written testimony to the Historical Commission Architectural Committee</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org/zoning/main-4045-4061/2024-07-12-main-4045-4061-mnc-hc.pdf">07/12/2024 written testimony to the Historical Commission</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> The meeting will begin promptly at 7:00 PM. Admission will begin 10 minutes before the start. At 6:50: PM. Please help us out by joining the meeting early and waiting in the ZOOM waiting room to be admitted. During the meeting, attendees will normally be muted. Use the 'raise hand' feature of ZOOM when you wish to ask a question. The meeting administrator will un-mute you and announce you. -- Kevin Smith, President, Manayunk Neighborhood Council. (p)215-487-2125 (f)215-487-3812 <a href="http://www.manayunkcouncil.org" rel="noreferrer">http://www.manayunkcouncil.org</a></div> </body></html>