Squilla also proposed a Chinatown zoning overlay that is “intended to include affordable housing, protect small businesses and implement use controls.”
City Councilmember Mark Squilla introduces legislation to authorize the 76ers’ Center City arena proposal
City Councilmember Mark Squilla on Thursday introduced 13 pieces of legislation that, if approved, would allow the 76ers to build a new arena in Center City, a controversial proposal that the team is hoping lawmakers will approve by the end of the year.As the clerk read out the titles of the bills, scores of anti-arena demonstrators who had packed Council chambers disrupted proceedings by chanting, “No arena,” and hanging a banner from the gallery reading, “Say no to billionaires.
One would create a zoning overlay in Chinatown that is “intended to include affordable housing, protect small businesses and implement use controls.”The other would create a new special services district around the arena that could provide public safety, street cleaning and other services. Squilla also said that in the future he intends to propose a “cultural TIF,” a tax increment financing district that will “capture increases in tax revenues to reinvest in the Chinatown community.”
The introduction of the legislation kicks off a legislative process that will likely involve days of high-profile committee hearings and tense public debates pitting progressives and advocates for Chinatown against powerful interests like the building trades unions that support the project.Squilla has long said he will not move forward with the legislation needed to approve the arena if communities impacted by the project did not have adequate protections.
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