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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Council actions
Procedural actions actions from the May 10, 2001 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 39 actions from May 10, 2001
The adopted resolution calls on the City Council Committees on Licenses and Inspections and Public Safety to hold public hearings about whether Philadelphia businesses with liquor licenses should be required to provide responsible alcohol server training.
Calling on the Committees on Licenses and Inspections and Public Safety to hold public hearings on the feasibility of requiring responsible alcohol server training programs for businesses holding liquor licenses.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to revise the City Plan by moving part of the south curb line of Arch Street northward—up to eight feet in the specified section near Sixteenth Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 307 by relocating a portion of the southerly curb line of Arch street between Sixteenth street and Seventeenth street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to acquire specified lots and any buildings within the area bounded by Lehigh Avenue, 28th Street, Oakdale Street, and 29th Street for public library purposes.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to purchase in lieu of condemnation, or to select and appropriate, certain lots or parcels of ground within the area bounded by Lehigh avenue, Twenty-eighth street, Oakdale street, and Twenty-ninth street, for public library purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill declares it desirable for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to issue up to $35 million in revenue bonds to help finance a Community College of Philadelphia Business and Industry/Technology Center.
Declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people of the City of Philadelphia served by the Community College of Philadelphia for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to provide certain financial assistance to the Community College of Philadelphia for the undertaking of a project involving the acquisition, development and construction of an approximately 97,600 gross square-foot Business and Industry/Technology Center for use by the Community College of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill approved the sale of a City-owned property at 826-28 New Market Street for $24,000.
Approving the sale of a certain lot or piece of City-owned ground, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, if any, situate 826-28 New Market street in the City of Philadelphia, and authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver a deed to the purchaser, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the U.S.
Authorizing the United States of America, acting through the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, to construct and maintain various precast concrete planters on the south footway of Arch street and the west footway of Seventh street adjacent to the Federal Detentions Center, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance grants Global Crossing Local Services, Inc., and its successors permission to use existing conduit and fiber and to construct, operate, maintain, replace, and remove telecommunications conduits in specified Philadelphia streets and public rights-of-way serving five properties.
Granting permission to Global Crossing Local Services, Inc., its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, operate, replace, and remove a telecommunications system under certain public rights-of-way and City streets, and or to place such telecommunications system within existing duct facilities holding a legal grant pursuant to other City ordinances, and to lease telecommunications systems or portions of a telecommunications system holding a legal grant pursuant to other City ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan by vacating portions of Latimer Street and Schell Street and adding a relocated section of Latimer Street between Darien Street and Schell Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 308 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Latimer street from Darien street to Schell street, by striking from the City Plan and vacating Schell street from Latimer street to a point approximately thirty-nine (39) feet southwardly therefrom, and by placing on the City Plan a relocated Latimer street from Darien street to Schell street, under certain terms and conditions including the dedication to the City, free and clear of any encumbrances of the bed of relocated Latimer street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill revises the City’s official street plans near the Schuylkill Valley Nature Center.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 296 and 240 in the vicinity of the Schuylkill Valley Nature Center by striking from the City Plan various unpaved and unopened streets and placing on the City Plan a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Kent R.
Granting permission to Kent R. Miller, and to his successors and assigns, to construct, use, own and maintain a private sanitary sewer main within the right-of-way of the Unit block of East Sunset avenue to provide service to 4 East Sunset avenue; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes a one-way traffic regulation on the 7100 block of North Uber Street, between Seventy-second Avenue and Dallas Street.
Establishing a regulation on the 7100 block of North Uber street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have changed Philadelphia rules for conduct on public transportation and in transit stations.
Amending Section 10-602 of The Philadelphia Code with respect to smoking on any vehicle of public transportation and in any public transit station or fare-paid area and increasing the amount to be paid in response to a violation notice to waive court appearance; amending Section 10-605 of the Code to increase the penalty for consuming food or beverages on a vehicle of public transportation; amending Section 10-606 of the Code to clarify the penalties for violations under Chapter 10-600; and amending Section 10-609 of the Code with respect to urination or defecation on a vehicle of public transportation; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to vacate portions of Byberry and Bensalem Road and Burling Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia.
Authorizing the vacating of Byberry and Bensalem road from Southampton-Byberry road to the Philadelphia and Bucks County Line and the vacating of Burling avenue from the Roosevelt boulevard to a dead end approximately three thousand nine hundred (3,900) feet southeast of the Roosevelt boulevard, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s zoning rules for G-2 Industrial Districts by removing several automobile-related uses from the list of uses allowed there.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Section 14-508, entitled "G-2" Industrial District, by deleting certain uses from the list of uses that are permitted in the "G-2" Industrial District, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized a $3.25 million transfer within Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2002 Grants Revenue Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Mayor - Office of Housing and Community Development.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants PF.Net, Inc., and its successors permission to build, operate, maintain, replace, and remove a telecommunications system in or along specified Philadelphia streets and public rights-of-way, including parts of Market Street, Cobbs Creek Parkway, Walnut Street, 23rd Street, Lombard Street, and 27th Street.
Granting permission to PF.Net, Inc., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, 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 within the existing facilities owned by Verizon-PA, PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Consolidated Rail Corporation Shared Assets, AT&T or other entities holding a grant pursuant to other City ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill changes the two-hour parking restriction on the south side of Pine Street between 42nd and 43rd Streets.
Revising parking regulations on Pine street, south side, from Forty-second street to Forty-third street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia officials to lease certain City-owned parcels to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID), which may then sublease the land to the Phillies or an affiliated entity for a new ballpark and related improvements.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property and the Director of Commerce, on behalf of The City of Philadelphia (the "City"), to enter into a Ground Lease Agreement (the "Phillies Ground Lease") with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") providing for the leasing by the City to PAID of certain parcels of land owned by the City, and further providing for the subleasing of said lands from PAID to The Phillies, a Pennsylvania limited partnership or its successor as holder of the Major League Baseball franchise for the City or a controlled affiliate thereof (the "Phillies"); authorizing the Director of Finance and other officials of the City to take all actions necessary to accomplish the intent and purpose of this Ordinance and the Phillies Ground Lease; and authorizing approval of all of the terms of the aforementioned Phillies Ground Lease and other documents and amendments related thereto by the Director of Finance and the City Solicitor.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.