Susan Jaffe, Anthony Lewis, Jr., Joseph Manko, Lynette Brown-Sow and Carol Tinari. Jaffe will be the chair.
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Susan O.W. Jaffe is a respected community leader serving on local and national non-profit boards. She is a former member and vice chair of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, where she conducted public hearings and voted on approximately 1,500 cases per year. Her areas of expertise include city planning, Philadelphia architecture and history and community relations.
Anthony Lewis, Jr. serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Association of Delaware Valley, the nation’s oldest non-profit housing agency, where he has worked since 1979. He is a recognized and respected leader on housing issues. Since 2002, Mr. Lewis has served on the City of Philadelphia Fair Housing Commission.
Joseph M. Manko is a founding partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP. Earlier in his career, he served as the Regional Counsel of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Middle Atlantic Region (region 3). Manko served for seven four-year terms on the Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners and served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council from 1988 until 1999, and remains an emeritus member of their Board of Directors where he has served for more than 25 years. Mr. Manko serves as Governor Rendell's representative and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority. He is a member of the Fairmount Park Commission. He was an Adjunct Professor at Penn Law School for 18 years, where he taught environmental law.
Lynette Brown-Sow is the Vice President for Marketing and Government Relations at the Community College of Philadelphia, a position she has held since 1995. Under the Rendell administration, Ms. Brown-Sow served as Deputy Mayor of Administration for the City of Philadelphia. In 1997, Ms. Brown-Sow was appointed to the City of Philadelphia Planning Commission.
Carol Tinari is currently the Managing Director/Consultant for NVT & Associates. A resident of Overbrook Farms and active community leader, Ms. Tinari is a member of the License and Inspection Review Board, a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Vice President and Director of Government Relations for Overbrook Farms Civic Foundation, Vice President of Wynnefield Overbrook Revitalization Corporation and a member of the Girard College Board of Managers.
Comments (3)
Wow. There is an over the hill, out of touch group for you. This group hardly represents much progressive thinking on the development of the city.
Posted by Anonymous | January 18, 2008 8:27 AM
Posted on January 18, 2008 08:27
I think the new zoning crew should reopen and investigate what happened and is sill happenning at the corner of Devon and Sydney in East Mt Airy near Sedgwick train station, R7. This is a huge case of environmental injustice and crimes, violation of the civil rights of the neighbors and bad planning and contempt and harm done to a street and area that held all the promises of sustainable building/ transportation -connected building, protection of the watershed and good use of open space that was very needed and desired in the area. Clean up of a long history of environmental contaminates that were ignored, until one person ended up in the hospital and displaced from her home. Even then, proper protocol for clean up was not followed. The environmental and zoning crimes are blantant and have caused great harm, but can still be rectified. Some of the current Council members, the old zoning board and some Planning sectors seem to believe they are above Federal environmental law and that it perfectly okay to ruin adjacent neighbors for their friend's building projects, and commit environmental injustices. Serious checks and balances need to be put in place on the zoning "powers" of councilmembers, especially those who traditionally seem to attract staff that always end up in trouble over real estate matters.
Posted by Margaret Motheral | January 18, 2008 9:03 AM
Posted on January 18, 2008 09:03
wow! Joe Manko from Lower Merion? So busy so fast. So like Hillary Clinton when she moved from Arkansas to DC to New York! Who knew?
Well, he likes eminent domain so he should be great, eh?
How is Joe on the Barnes?
Will he be running for offic in Philly soon? Or is this just the appointed way of life?
Good luck to y'all
Posted by anonymouse | January 18, 2008 2:39 PM
Posted on January 18, 2008 14:39