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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Procedural actions actions from the November 21, 2000 meeting.
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Showing 1-2 of 2 actions from November 21, 2000
This enacted measure changes how the City pays contractors for paving or repaving alleys and driveways and building or rebuilding retaining walls when the work is ordered to address a nuisance.
Amending Section 11-506 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Alleys, Driveways, and Retaining Walls," by providing additional methods by which the City may pay contractors the City hires to pave or repave alleys or driveways or to construct or reconstruct retaining walls pursuant to orders to abate nuisances, and by providing a maximum amount that property owners may be assessed for the costs of such work; all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the City Council’s Streets and Services Committee to hold hearings about deteriorating retaining walls, driveways, and alleys, including the challenges of coordinating repairs among abutting property owners.
Authorizing the Committee on Streets and Services to hold hearings on the dangers and damage caused by the deterioration of retaining walls, driveways and alleys and the complications involved in coordinating necessary repairs by abutting property owners; and, to determine the scope of these dangerous conditions throughout the City and the cost to repair them; and further authorizing the Committee to formulate a program to correct these hazardous and dangerous conditions in neighborhoods through the City.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.