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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Other actions actions from the October 27, 2004 meeting.
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Showing 1-8 of 8 actions from October 27, 2004
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to build and the Fox Chase-Rockledge Business Association to maintain a roughly four-by-five-foot “Welcome to Fox Chase” sign in the traffic island between Hasbrook and Oxford Avenues.
Authorizing The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to construct, and the Fox Chase-Rockledge Business Association to maintain, a Welcome to Fox Chase sign in the Fox Chase Traffic Island located between Hasbrook and Oxford Avenues, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s sidewalk-cafe rules to permit sidewalk cafes on both sides of Ninth Street between Christian Street and Federal Street.
Amending Section 9-208 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Cafes," by permitting sidewalk cafes to be maintained on Ninth street, both sides, between Christian street and Federal street, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan that remove and vacate Morse Street between Beach Street and Allen Street, and about 80 feet of Allen Street northeast of Morse Street.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 146 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Morse street from Beach street to Allen street, by striking from the City Plan and vacating Allen street from Morse street northeastwardly approximately eighty feet to a dead end, and by reserving and placing a right-of-way for gas main purposes within the lines of Morse street from Beach street to Allen street, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the Procurement Commissioner to contract for paving parts of Capri Drive, Verona Drive, and DaVinci Drive.
Authorizing the paving of Capri Drive, DaVinci Drive and Verona Drive, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s rules on sidewalk sales and vending.
Amending Section 9-205 of the Philadelphia Code, relating to "Sidewalk Sales" and vending in residential areas by adding a new provision prohibiting sidewalk sales and vending in the area bordered by and including Chew avenue, Stenton avenue, Johnson street , and Mount Airy Avenue, both sides.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance revises the City Plan by vacating a portion of Salmon Street between Castor Avenue and Butler Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 187 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of Salmon Street between Castor Avenue and Butler Street and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes within the bed of Salmon Street, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, without payment, the City’s ownership of 2815 Ridge Avenue—including its buildings and improvements—to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), without consideration, a deed conveying fee simple title to a certain tract of City-owned land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate at 2815 Ridge Avenue, generally under and subject to the terms and conditions of the Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Agreement between the City, the PAID, and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation.
SIGNED
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This adopted resolution authorized City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings about the Philadelphia Water Department’s proposed nearly 43% water and sewer rate increase, which was to take effect July 1, 2004.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate the proposed nearly 43% water and sewer cost rate increase to be effective July 1, 2004, requested by the Philadelphia Water Department, and in furtherance of such investigation authorizing issuance of subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents to the full extent authorized under Section 2-401 of the Home Rule Charter.
RECESSED
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