The Frankford Civic Association wrote a letter on February 9, 2010 to Eva Gladstein, the Executive Director of the Zoning Code Commission, requesting that recovery houses and rehabilitation centers to the Zoning Code's list of Regulated Uses.

The letter, which includes a more detailed explanation, can be viewed here. 

This letter was reported on in the Northeast Times on February 18th:

In a letter to Eva Gladstein, executive director of the 31-member Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission, the civic association's president, Frances Clay, wrote "according to existing state and local regulations, a residential property owner can turn their property into a recovery house with no more than a business privilege license."

Nothing prevents recovering addicts from living next to day-care centers, a playground or other sensitive area, the letter continued.

Read the full article here. 

The Department of Behavioral Health provided community groups with a list of Treatment Centers, OAS-Funded Recovery Houses and Privately Owned/Operated Recovery Houses at a community meeting on January 13, 2009. Properties in the 19124 zip code have been entered into our spreadsheet for our visitors to view.

Click here to view the listings

Please Note: The representative from the Office of Addiction Services admitted "this is not necessarily a comprehensive list" - just the ones they "know about." If you know locations of any others, please contact us.

The 'Category' column contains 3 different types of listings - Treatment Centers, which are regulated, OAS-Funded Recovery Houses, which receive funding from the Philadelphia Office of Addiction Services, and Privately Owned/Operated Recovery Houses.

While the former 2 categories have gone through city/state authorities for licenses and/or receive funding, privately owned recovery houses have absolutely no regulation (other than basic L&I building codes) and require no licensing from the city or the state (other than a Business Privelage License)

Residents who turned out for Frankford Civic Association's Jan. 8 meeting learned about a few new services that may be offered in their community.

Terry Devlin, director of government and community relations for CORA Services, spoke of a feature that may be added to the current CORA-owned site at 1000 Orthodox St. in Frankford.

The site, CORA Services Neumann Center, opened in 1980. It offers alternative training and education programs that are geared to students ages 16 to 18 who have dropped out of public, private or parochial high schools...

Read the full article here.

Frankford Civic Association members and board members are still trying to prevent the Wedge Medical Treatment Center from opening on Frankford Avenue.

During their Nov. 6 meeting, they complained that City Council and the Office of Addiction Services, a division of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health & Mental Retardation Services, have not scheduled a town hall meeting, which civic group members say they were promised, to discuss the issue of Wedge and other treatment centers in Frankford, as well as so-called "recovery houses."

Read the full article here.