Sweet & Sour PHILLY; landslide-prone hazard area

[eub]

Sushi Express has a big new menu on their door, facing out. The back side, facing in, says

YES
We're OPEN
Sweet & Sour
PHILLY

Scratch scribbling at the sign-maker's?

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The city sent me a notice of PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IN A LANDSLIDE PRONE HAZARD AREA. It concerns a project to turn three lots into a park, right near my building. It's a hilly area, so you can see how it might be landslide-prone, and I imagine these notices let them both cover their butts, and gather any tales unknown to city records of the form "Well, back when I was a boy, they built a park on those lots, and you know what, the park sank into the swamp."

The unsettling thing is that the notice has a map, showing the three lots in question, and the roads on the map are not right. Forty-fifth Street doesn't do that. It doesn't connect through from Palatine to 1st NW, and it certainly doesn't connect through from 1st NW to 2nd NW. I trust the geotechnical engineers they speak of have to be aware of this. I hope maybe this map just happens to date from before the last landslide in the area.

Comments

[ironangel]

I wouldn't assume that. When the city redid the sidewalks/curbs in my neighborhood, the resifdents of my street had to petition to have our street done - it wasn't on the maps. :)

[eub.livejournal.com]

I like living in a slightly forgotten zone, but... sidewalks are good.