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Honoring and recognizing the work and accomplishments of the Stadium Stompers, whose dedication to advocating for the North Philadelphia community and for housing rights for all people have helped secure neighborhood stability for communities in the City of Philadelphia.
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WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers was founded in 2015 as a movement of community members, students, and faculty who came together in opposition to a proposed football stadium on Temple University's campus at Broad and Norris; and
WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers brought the North Philadelphia community into the public discussions about the stadium proposal, opening up the space to involve the surrounding community in the planning process, which at the time did not have a Neighborhood Advisory Committee, Registered Community Organization, or Community Development Corporation,; and
WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers, out of concern for a new stadium's impact on neighboring quality of life, including restricting nursing home road access, exacerbating growing traffic problems, raising property values and taxes that would displace longtime residents, opposing the use of public funds for stadium development, and lacking accompanying affordable housing, among other reasons, championed these issues with the developers on behalf of their community; and
WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers served as a connection point between the surrounding Temple community, students, faculty, and the rest of the Philadelphia public to discuss and work with each other around a major university development project; and
WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers helped inform the public about important considerations relating to a potential stadium development, by holding public education events such informational briefings, regular public discussions, Temple-community conversations, and actions to demonstrate the potential impacts flowing from a stadium's construction such as limiting traffic flow to simulate game-day traffic; and
WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers...
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