PHOENIXVILLE — The council meeting room at Borough Hall was filled to the brim while residents strained to listen from the building’s lobby as council heard public comments against a planned development at Friendship Field Tuesday night.
“I think you can pretty much sense the temperament of the community in this council room,” Council President Rich Kirkner told a lawyer representing the development group, Michael B. Murray Jr.
After almost a dozen people got up to voice their opposition to the project set for the corner of Franklin and Fillmore streets, council unanimously voted to strike the project from its agenda amid cheers and applause from those in the audience.
The proposed plan, by Housing Development Corporation MidAtlantic, which focuses on providing affordable housing, called for four-story-tall apartment buildings called Parkview Heights.
Roy's Rants - For Your Information 
It’s interesting to note that one of the owners of the Fecera’s building in Pottstown, (the site under consideration for the very same kind of housing development), lives in Phoenixville. It would be interesting to know if he wants low-income rental housing in HIS own backyard?
Kudos to the P.ville Peeps!!