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 September 12, 2002 meeting.
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This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Legislative Oversight to hold public hearings and investigate the City’s “Live Stop” program, which removes unregistered and uninsured vehicles from Philadelphia streets.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Legislative Oversight to hold public hearings on the City's "Live Stop" program and to investigate its impact on high automobile insurance premiums in the City.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution proposed a Philadelphia Home Rule Charter amendment that would have created an independent nine-member Public School Performance and Accountability Board, with members appointed by the Mayor and Council President.
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for the creation, appointment, powers and duties of an independent Philadelphia Public School Performance and Accountability Board, to provide for certain actions by the Mayor relating to the work of such Board, and to provide for a process by which local control of the School District may be returned to the citizens of Philadelphia, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorized the Council Committee of the Whole to hold hearings on Philadelphia’s real estate tax system and the potential use of land-value taxation to encourage development and discourage blight.
Authorizing the Council Committee of the Whole to hold hearings on real estate taxation in Philadelphia and the potential of land-value taxation to encourage development and discourage blight creation in the city; and, further authorizing the Committee to seek advice and recommendations on real estate tax policy and land-value taxation from citizens, community groups, economists, academia, business executives, officials from other jurisdictions, and state legislative and executive branch officials.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on the east side of Taylor Street between Aspen Street and Brown Street, from 8:00 a.m.
Establishing a parking regulation on Taylor street, east side, Aspen street to Brown street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on the south side of Fairmount Avenue between Twenty-first and Twenty-second Streets.
Establishing a parking regulation on Fairmount avenue, south side, Twenty-first street to Twenty-second street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes three-hour parking on the north side of Fairmount Avenue, between Corinthian Avenue and Twenty-second Street.
Establishing a parking regulation on Fairmount avenue, north side, Corinthian avenue to Twenty-second street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on the west side of Park Avenue, between Rising Sun Avenue and Ontario Street.
Establishing a parking regulation on Park avenue, west side, Rising Sun avenue to Ontario street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure establishes two-hour parking on the west side of Croskey Street between Brown Street and Aspen Street.
Establishing a parking regulation on Croskey street, west side, Brown street to Aspen street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have established one-hour parking on both sides of Aspen Street between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets.
Establishing a parking regulation on Aspen street, both sides, Twenty-third street to Twenty-fourth street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on the south side of Perot Street between 23rd and 24th Streets.
Establishing a parking regulation on Perot street, south side, Twenty-third street to Twenty-fourth street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on both sides of Corinthian Street between Fairmount Avenue and Brown Street.
Establishing a parking regulation on Corinthian street, both sides, Fairmount avenue to Brown street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes two-hour parking on both sides of Fifteenth Street between Norris Street and Diamond Street, from 8:00 a.m.
Establishing a parking regulation on Fifteenth street, both sides, Norris street to Diamond street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s zoning rules for fences on certain residential properties.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by increasing the permissible height for fences located on the front lot line of certain properties in residential districts; by prohibiting the use of barbed/razor/concertina wire or any similar type of wire on residentially-zoned property; and by permitting certain architectural embellishments on fences; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Atul Amin, the owner of a newsstand at Fifteenth and Arch Streets, permission to install and maintain electrical and telephone conduits under the north sidewalk of Arch Street to serve the newsstand.
Granting permission to Atul Amin, owner of the newsstand at the northeast corner of Fifteenth street and Arch street, to construct, use and maintain an electrical conduit with an electrical service line and a telecommunications conduit with a telephone service line in and under the north footway of Arch street for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to the newsstand, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have expanded Philadelphia’s senior citizen low-income special tax provisions to include seniors eligible for Pennsylvania’s PACENET prescription drug assistance program.
Amending Section 19-2900 of Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Senior Citizen Low Income Special Tax Provisions," by expanding the coverage of this Chapter to include senior citizens who are eligible to participate in the Commonwealth's Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly Needs Enhancement Tier ("PACENET") program.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance repeals Bill No.
Repealing an Ordinance (Bill No. 010339), 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.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s school tax rules for tax years 2003 and later.
Amending Chapter 19-1800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "School Tax Authorization," by providing that real estate taxes imposed by the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia for tax year 2003 and thereafter shall be based upon the assessed value of real estate as certified by the Board of Revision of Taxes in 2001, thereby freezing such taxes at the level imposed for tax year 2002, and by requiring that any other real estate taxes imposed by the Board of Education be based upon such assessed values, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s real estate tax rules so taxes on taxable property were based on assessed values recorded by the Board of Revision of Taxes in 2001.
Amending Section 19-1301 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Real Estate Taxes," by providing that real estate taxes imposed under that Section shall be based upon the assessed value of real estate as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in 2001, thereby freezing such real estate taxes at the level imposed for tax year 2002, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.