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
Every non-roll-call council action we currently track from the March 20, 2003 meeting.
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Showing 37-54 of 82 actions from March 20, 2003
The enacted bill authorizes the City to arrange for paving on specified sections of Markoe, Aspen, Forty-fifth, and Forty-seventh streets.
Authorizing the paving of Markoe street, Aspen street, Forty-fifth street, and portions of Forty-seventh street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove from City Plan No.
Authorizing the striking from City Plan No. 97 and abandoning of a portion of a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes lying within the lines of former Jessup street, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PRINTED AND PLACED ON NEXT FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted law exempts owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard Avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues from the city’s sidewalk-sales rules, including the sidewalk-vending license requirement.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by exempting sidewalk sales by owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues, and by permitting such activity 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 law exempts owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard Avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues from the city’s sidewalk-sales rules, including the sidewalk-vending license requirement.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by exempting sidewalk sales by owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues, and by permitting such activity under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted law exempts owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard Avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues from the city’s sidewalk-sales rules, including the sidewalk-vending license requirement.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by exempting sidewalk sales by owners and tenants of properties on both sides of Girard avenue between Frankford and Susquehanna avenues, and by permitting such activity 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 the City’s Board of Surveyors to vacate a specified approximately 866-foot portion of Sheaff Lane, located south of Penrose Avenue, if stated conditions are met.
Authorizing the vacating of a portion of Sheaff lane, from a point approximately one thousand five hundred and fifty-three (1553) feet south of Penrose avenue to a point approximately eight hundred and sixty-six (866) feet southwardly therefrom, 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 the City’s Board of Surveyors to vacate a specified approximately 866-foot portion of Sheaff Lane, located south of Penrose Avenue, if stated conditions are met.
Authorizing the vacating of a portion of Sheaff lane, from a point approximately one thousand five hundred and fifty-three (1553) feet south of Penrose avenue to a point approximately eight hundred and sixty-six (866) feet southwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to vacate a specified approximately 866-foot portion of Sheaff Lane, located south of Penrose Avenue, if stated conditions are met.
Authorizing the vacating of a portion of Sheaff lane, from a point approximately one thousand five hundred and fifty-three (1553) feet south of Penrose avenue to a point approximately eight hundred and sixty-six (866) feet southwardly therefrom, 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 the City to remove the legally opened portions of Borbeck Avenue between Algon Avenue and Pennway Street from the City Plan and reserve that area as a right-of-way for gas mains.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 317 and 319 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally opened portions of Borbeck avenue from Algon avenue to Pennway street and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for 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 the City to remove the legally opened portions of Borbeck Avenue between Algon Avenue and Pennway Street from the City Plan and reserve that area as a right-of-way for gas mains.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 317 and 319 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally opened portions of Borbeck avenue from Algon avenue to Pennway street and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove the legally opened portions of Borbeck Avenue between Algon Avenue and Pennway Street from the City Plan and reserve that area as a right-of-way for gas mains.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 317 and 319 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally opened portions of Borbeck avenue from Algon avenue to Pennway street and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for 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 enacted bill amended Philadelphia’s zoning rules for the Old City Residential Area Special District.
Amending Section 14-1610 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Old City Residential Area Special District Controls," by providing that telemarketing is a prohibited use within the District, under certain terms and conditions.
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Other recorded action without a published tally.
This lapsed proposal would have required most telemarketing businesses to obtain a certificate from the Zoning Board of Adjustment before operating, even where zoning otherwise allowed them.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," to add a section requiring a Zoning Board of Adjustment Certificate to operate a telemarketing business, 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 requires all-way stop signs to be installed and maintained at the intersection of Thirteenth Street and Brown Street in accordance with PennDOT regulations.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersection of Thirteenth street and Brown street.
ORDERED PRINTED AND PLACED ON NEXT FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter agreements with the owners and successors of properties along the private portion of Blakiston Lane between Frankford Avenue and its dead end.
To Authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of a private street known as Blakiston lane from Frankford avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northeasterly of Frankford avenue for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage, sewer and water main purposes.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter agreements with the owners and successors of properties along the private portion of Blakiston Lane between Frankford Avenue and its dead end.
To Authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of a private street known as Blakiston lane from Frankford avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northeasterly of Frankford avenue for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage, sewer and water main purposes.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter agreements with the owners and successors of properties along the private portion of Blakiston Lane between Frankford Avenue and its dead end.
To Authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of a private street known as Blakiston lane from Frankford avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northeasterly of Frankford avenue for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage, sewer and water main purposes.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance approves participation by The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia in financing up to $7.5 million for renovations and new operating-room and other equipment at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and affiliated facilities.
Declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people in the area served by Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. (the "Hospital") and its affiliates for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to participate with the Hospital in the refinancing or restructuring of certain outstanding indebtedness of the Hospital and its affiliates and the acquisition and construction of capital improvements to the facilities of the Hospital and its affiliates.
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Other recorded action without a published tally.