Council actions
Philadelphia City Council actions
These are actions recorded in Legistar without a published member-by-member vote. They include unanimous decisions, procedural steps such as hearings, notices and amendments, and other entries such as referrals and signatures.
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Every non-roll-call council action we currently track from the May 16, 2000 meeting.
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Showing 19-32 of 32 actions from May 16, 2000
The enacted measure adds rules for newsstands on Philadelphia public sidewalks, including licensing, fees, location limits, size and design requirements, permitted sales and advertising, maintenance, and removal of abandoned or violating stands.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by adding a new section regulating the location, size, operation and maintenance of newsstands on the public sidewalk, and by making conforming amendments to other sections of the Chapter, all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted measure adds rules for newsstands on Philadelphia public sidewalks, including licensing, fees, location limits, size and design requirements, permitted sales and advertising, maintenance, and removal of abandoned or violating stands.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by adding a new section regulating the location, size, operation and maintenance of newsstands on the public sidewalk, and by making conforming amendments to other sections of the Chapter, all under certain terms and conditions.
RECESSED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted measure adds rules for newsstands on Philadelphia public sidewalks, including licensing, fees, location limits, size and design requirements, permitted sales and advertising, maintenance, and removal of abandoned or violating stands.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by adding a new section regulating the location, size, operation and maintenance of newsstands on the public sidewalk, and by making conforming amendments to other sections of the Chapter, all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted measure adds rules for newsstands on Philadelphia public sidewalks, including licensing, fees, location limits, size and design requirements, permitted sales and advertising, maintenance, and removal of abandoned or violating stands.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by adding a new section regulating the location, size, operation and maintenance of newsstands on the public sidewalk, and by making conforming amendments to other sections of the Chapter, all under certain terms and conditions.
RECESSED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s rules for investing City Treasury funds.
Amending Chapter 19-200 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "City Funds - Deposits, Investments, Disbursements" by amending Section 19-202 entitled "Authorized Investments" by adding subsection on United States Treasury certified Community Development Financial Institutions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit people and vendors from displaying, offering, or selling goods, or leaving sales stands, at specified street blocks in the area bounded by Reed Street, Twenty-first Street, Morris Street, and Twenty-fifth Street.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales" by prohibiting sidewalk sales at various locations within the area bounded by Reed street, Twenty-first street, Morris street, and Twenty-fifth street, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Anthony Lucidoni, the owner of 39 Oregon Avenue, to place a four-table sidewalk café, awning, electric sign, and seasonal enclosure over the north sidewalk next to the property.
Authorizing Anthony Lucidoni, owner of the property 39 Oregon avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19148, to construct and maintain a sidewalk café, awning, electric sign and seasonal enclosure onto and over the north footway of Oregon avenue adjacent to the property 39 Oregon avenue; all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This lapsed bill would have defined an automated parking garage as a structure using mechanical or other automated systems to park or retrieve more than three vehicles.
Amending Chapter 9-601 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "Garages, Parking Lots, Sales Lots and Sales Showrooms" by adding a definition for automated parking garages and restricting the operation and maintenance of said automated parking garage to within three hundred (300) feet of any residentially zone property, all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure regulates motorcycle parking in metered spaces on streets in two designated areas of Center City.
Amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Code," by adding provisions regulating the parking of motorcycles at metered parking spaces within certain portions of the area generally bounded by Front street, Pine street, Eleventh street and Bainbridge street, and by providing civil penalties for violations of such provisions to be imposed pursuant to Chapter 12-2800, entitled "Administrative Adjudication of Parking Violations," all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance amended Section 2 of a 1999 ordinance concerning the vacation of Eighteenth Street between Cambria Street and Indiana Avenue and the reservation of a right-of-way for drainage and water-main purposes.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 980717) approved March 23, 1999, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 128 of an area bounded by Cambria street, Nineteenth street, Indiana avenue and Seventeenth street by striking from the City Plan and vacating Eighteenth street from Cambria street to Indiana avenue, and reserving and placing on the City Plan a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes, under certain terms and conditions," therein.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance grants Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, and its successors permission to build, operate, maintain, replace, and remove telecommunications facilities in specified Philadelphia streets and public rights-of-way, including by using certain existing utility and transportation facilities with their owners’ permission.
Granting permission to Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, its successors and assigns to construct, maintain and operate, replace, and remove a telecommunications system along, over, in and under the public rights-of-way and City streets and/or to place such telecommunications system on or within the existing facilities owned by Bell Atlantic-PA, PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern, Consolidated Rail Corporation Shared Assets or other entity holding a grant pursuant to other City Ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.
RECESSED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance grants Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, and its successors permission to build, operate, maintain, replace, and remove telecommunications facilities in specified Philadelphia streets and public rights-of-way, including by using certain existing utility and transportation facilities with their owners’ permission.
Granting permission to Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, its successors and assigns to construct, maintain and operate, replace, and remove a telecommunications system along, over, in and under the public rights-of-way and City streets and/or to place such telecommunications system on or within the existing facilities owned by Bell Atlantic-PA, PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern, Consolidated Rail Corporation Shared Assets or other entity holding a grant pursuant to other City Ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure requires Philadelphia businesses that use video surveillance systems for security or theft prevention to keep recordings for 30 days after their initial use, or for a longer period set by the Police Department.
Amending Title10 of the Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity" requiring the retention of video surveillance tapes in commercial businesses for thirty days after use of those tapes and regulating the quality of tapes.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s property maintenance rules for city demolitions of unsafe or imminently dangerous structures.
Amending Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "The Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code," by amending Subcode PM (The Philadelphia Property Maintenance Code), by amending Section PM-307.0 entitled "Unsafe and Unfit Structures and Equipment" and Section PM-308.0 entitled "Imminently Dangerous Structures" by providing for the installation of a fence or other protective devices and other related measures after demolition of a structure, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.