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September 2025 Community Meeting

Our September Community Meeting is 9/25 at The City School

7:00PM Refeshments

7:30 Meeting Start Time

John Sigmund Fairmount Park Conservancy / Lemon Hill Mansion Caretaker will be our speaker (Rescheduled to December meeting)

Zoning – 2301 Perot St (Single Family Use in a CMX-2 and >25% open area on lot) – See attached plans

2310 Perot Plans

Other Updates and Committee Reports

FCA / Penn AC Rowing Association

Join the Fairmount Civic Association and the Pennsylvania Athletic Club Rowing Association for a joint gathering at the Penn AC Boathouse 10/17/2024 from 7:00 – 8:15PM. Refreshments provided and registration is free please use the following link https://forms.gle/xEmUawz3oopj2Bg99

PPD Town Hall – Special Meeting 5/23/2024

The Philadelphia Police Department has asked us to host a town hall event to address concerns in the neighborhood related to 2100 Girard. It will be Thursday May 23rd at the City School 860 N 24th Street. at 7:00PM. 

No refreshments we will have the meeting right at 7:00PM

We will have officials from both the 9th and 22nd districts there to make statements and answer questions.

2100 Girard Ave – Feedback and Meeting

The FCA Board met at our monthly meeting last night (5/7/2024) to discuss the City of Philadelphia’s activities at 2100 Girard. We are still gathering information and evaluating the options we have as a community. We are also securing a time and place for a special meeting which will be announced here and through the newsletter when that information is available.

The Board will meet again on Thursday night (5/9/2024).

In the meantime we created this google form to gather questions and comments related to 2100 Girard, which is as the link below.

https://forms.gle/t3854yQxWMAHFX428

FCA Changes to Bylaw / Articles of Incorporation

We have been working on a draft of our bylaws and articles or incorporation. The most updated versions are on our website and can be accessed at the following links (PDFs). We are hoping to propose a vote to approve the changes at our Oct and December 2022 meetings.

https://www.fairmountcivicassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FCA-Bylaws-revised-October-2022-clean-version.pdf

https://www.fairmountcivicassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FCA-Amendment-to-Articles-of-Incorporation-2022.pdf