Many agencies and groups track and influence Philadelphia’s planning and development issues. Below are some of important city planning and development websites.

www.philaplanning.org
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is responsible for guiding the orderly growth and development of the City of Philadelphia. Its website offers a wealth of information—from meeting schedules to urban design and transportation reports for select neighborhoods and regions.

www.PlanPhilly.org
PlanPhilly is an independent news gathering entity affiliated with PennPraxis, the clinical arm of the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania. Former reporters and editors from The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as citizen journalists, provide daily news coverage of the built and planned environment.

www.ZoningMatters.org
ZoningMatters.org was initially developed as a website to educate and inform the public about the need for zoning reform, funded by a grant from the William Penn Foundation. With the May 2007 passage of the voter referendum to create a Zoning Code Commission to update the city’s zoning code, the site was revised in order to follow the progress of the Zoning Code Commission as members are appointed and they begin their work.

www.dvrpc.org
Serving the Greater Philadelphia, Camden, Trenton, Chester area for more than 40 years, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) is an interstate, inter-county and intercity agency that provides continuing, comprehensive and coordinated planning to shape a vision for the future growth of the Delaware Valley region. The region includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, as well as the City of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania; and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties in New Jersey.