DN Editorial: Best-laid waterfront plans

FOUR YEARS ago, almost to the day, Mayor John Street signed an executive order to begin a public planning process for the Central Delaware waterfront. Just two weeks later, Harris Steinberg, of PennPraxis, began the planning proces by leading the first public tour of the Delaware.

After countless public meetings, a vision and action plan was released in 2008. In years past, this plan would likely be put on a shelf and forgotten. But because of its public nature, the process has delivered something that every other attempt to reclaim our waterfront asset hasn't: progress.

Tonight, you can see just how much, at a public meeting hosted by the Delaware River Waterfront Corp., the new governing body for the Central Delaware. It will discuss concepts on development, open space and transportation for the waterfront, and the public will see how much closer to reality their own visions have become. The meeting is at Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Mayor Nutter is scheduled to attend, since he's a champion of the project. If you can't make it, www.plancen

traldelaware.com will post the details following the meeting. *