Mayor Nutter’s appointments to Development Review agencies

Licenses and Inspections Commissioner (Acting) – John Elfrey
Streets Commissioner- Clarena Tolson
Water Commissioner (Acting) – Bernard Brunwasser
Acting Planning Commission Director:  Gary J. Jastrzab

Zoning Board of Adjustments

• Susan O.W. Jaffe, Chair,  returns to the board she served on for 12 years during the administrations of W. Wilson Goode and Ed Rendell.
• Lynette Brown-Sow, a vice president at Community College of Philadelphia and a member of the City Planning Commission under Mayor John Street;
• Anthony Lewis Jr., executive director of the Housing Association of Delaware Valley;
• Joseph M. Manko, a politically connected environmental attorney who served on Lower Merion Township’s Board of Commissioners for 28 years; and
• Carol Tinari, civic activist.

Zoning Code Commission (often called the Zoning Reform Commission)

Chair: 

• Director of City Planning Department to be named

Members:

• Susan O.W. Jaffe, Chair of City Zoning Board of Adjustment
• John Elfrey, Acting Director of City Department of Licenses and Inspections
• City Councilman Darrell Clarke
• City Councilman Frank DiCicco
• City Councilman Brian J. O’Neill
• John Westrum, CEO Westrum Development Co., builder of Brewerytown and Packer Park homes. 
• Emmanuel Kelly AIA, of Kelly/Maiello Architects
• Eleanore Sharpe, Urban planner and associate director of UPenn’s Center for Community Partnerships.
• Greg Pastore, Bellavista Town Watch 
• Guy Pigliacelli, Local 1050 Carpenters & Joiners Union  
• Ann Hoskins-Brown, South of South Neighborhood Association 
• Richard DeMarco, zoning attorney, Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers LLP 
• MeLinda DeNofa, Molly Construction Co. 
• Wendella Fox, U.S. Dept.of Education, Office for Civil Rights 
• Judith Eden, Esq. is a zoning attorney in private practice.
• Natalia Olson de Savyckyj, Transportation Planner and Project Manager at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning
• Commission (DVRPC).Guillermo (Bill) Salas, Jr., Co-founder of the Hispanic Association of Contractors and
• Enterprises (HACE)
• Sam Staten Jr, Business Manager and Political Director for Local 332 of the Laborers Union.
• Daniela Voith, Principal at a Philadelphia architecture, preservation, planning, landscape, and interiors firm.

Planning Commission

• Andrew Altman, Chairman
• Camille Cates Barnett
• Rob Dubow
• Patrick J. Eiding
• Alan Greenberger, AIA, Vice-Chairman
• Bernard Lee, Esq.
• Natalia Olson de Savyckyj
• Joe Syrnick
• Nilda Iris Ruiz