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 14, 2002 meeting.
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Showing 19-33 of 33 actions from November 14, 2002
This enacted ordinance authorizes Borders Bookstore, a tenant at One South Broad Street, to construct, own, and maintain six rigid awnings extending over the public sidewalks along Broad Street and Chestnut Street.
Authorizing Borders Bookstore, a tenant of the property One South Broad Street to construct, own and maintain six rigid awnings projecting from the building One South Broad Street and over the east footway of Broad street and the north footway of Chestnut street, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Federal Reserve Bank, which owns Ten Independence Mall West, to build, own, and maintain concrete planters, fixed bollards, and removable bollards on nearby sidewalks along Independence Mall West, Arch Street, and Seventh Street.
Authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank to construct, own, and maintain concrete planters, bollards and removable bollards on the west footway of Independence Mall West, north footway of Arch street and the east footway of Seventh street adjacent to the property Ten Independence Mall West, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Federal Reserve Bank, which owns Ten Independence Mall West, to build, own, and maintain concrete planters, fixed bollards, and removable bollards on nearby sidewalks along Independence Mall West, Arch Street, and Seventh Street.
Authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank to construct, own, and maintain concrete planters, bollards and removable bollards on the west footway of Independence Mall West, north footway of Arch street and the east footway of Seventh street adjacent to the property Ten Independence Mall West, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan involving portions of Kingston Street and Allen Street near I-95, including removing them from the plan and vacating the portions outside the expressway right-of-way.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 197 by striking from the City Plan Kingston street from Richmond street to Allen street and Allen street from Kingston street to Venango street, and by vacating those stricken portions of Kingston and Allen streets that lie outside the right-of-way lines of the Delaware Expressway (I-95) and by reserving and placing on the City Plan two (2) rights-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes and gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan involving portions of Kingston Street and Allen Street near I-95, including removing them from the plan and vacating the portions outside the expressway right-of-way.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 197 by striking from the City Plan Kingston street from Richmond street to Allen street and Allen street from Kingston street to Venango street, and by vacating those stricken portions of Kingston and Allen streets that lie outside the right-of-way lines of the Delaware Expressway (I-95) and by reserving and placing on the City Plan two (2) rights-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes and gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps, by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded generally by Oregon avenue, Twentieth street, the Walt Whitman Bridge Approach and I-76.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps, by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded generally by Oregon avenue, Twentieth street, the Walt Whitman Bridge Approach and I-76.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited increases in Philadelphia School District real estate taxes caused by higher property assessments.
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 on a property shall not increase in any one year by more than a specified percentage as the result of an increase in the assessed value of the property as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes, under certain terms and conditions.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited increases in Philadelphia School District real estate taxes caused by higher property assessments.
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 on a property shall not increase in any one year by more than a specified percentage as the result of an increase in the assessed value of the property as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited increases in Philadelphia real estate taxes caused by higher property assessments.
Amending Section 19-1301 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Real Estate Taxes," by providing that the taxes levied on a property under that section shall not increase in any one year by more than a specified percentage as the result of an increase in the assessed value of the property as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes, under certain terms and conditions.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited increases in Philadelphia real estate taxes caused by higher property assessments.
Amending Section 19-1301 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Real Estate Taxes," by providing that the taxes levied on a property under that section shall not increase in any one year by more than a specified percentage as the result of an increase in the assessed value of the property as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted measure requires structures in the Educational Use Group that are owned or operated by entities receiving substantial City funding to obtain a special inspection certificate each year before they can be occupied, with inspections covering fire, safety, electrical, lead paint, water quality, and other property-related hazards.
Amending Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code ("The Philadelphia Building and Occupancy Code"), by requiring that special certificates of inspection must be issued in connection with structures in Use Group E, the Educational Use Group, on an annual basis in order for such structures to be occupied, establishing certain reporting requirements regarding the inspections performed in connection with applications for such certificates, and making certain lead paint requirements applicable to such structures, under certain terms and conditions.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted measure requires structures in the Educational Use Group that are owned or operated by entities receiving substantial City funding to obtain a special inspection certificate each year before they can be occupied, with inspections covering fire, safety, electrical, lead paint, water quality, and other property-related hazards.
Amending Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code ("The Philadelphia Building and Occupancy Code"), by requiring that special certificates of inspection must be issued in connection with structures in Use Group E, the Educational Use Group, on an annual basis in order for such structures to be occupied, establishing certain reporting requirements regarding the inspections performed in connection with applications for such certificates, and making certain lead paint requirements applicable to such structures, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s Business Privilege Tax rules.
Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," by eliminating the prepaid structure of the tax, by clarifying the period to be used in computation of the tax, by requiring the payment of an estimated payment, by ensuring that gains from the termination of the business are subject to tax, by clarifying the treatment of calendar and fiscal taxpayers and by amending definitions of the tax, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s Business Privilege Tax rules.
Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," by eliminating the prepaid structure of the tax, by clarifying the period to be used in computation of the tax, by requiring the payment of an estimated payment, by ensuring that gains from the termination of the business are subject to tax, by clarifying the treatment of calendar and fiscal taxpayers and by amending definitions of the tax, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.