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 June 15, 2006 meeting.
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Showing 91-108 of 170 actions from June 15, 2006
This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia’s Housing Director to apply for federal grants for community development, affordable housing, emergency shelter, and housing for people with AIDS, as well as state grants to prevent and eliminate blight.
Authorizing the Director of Housing and Community Development (Housing Director), on behalf of the City, to file applications with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); authorizing the Housing Director to file applications with HUD to participate in the HOME Investment Partnership program and the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program; authorizing the Housing Director, on behalf of the City, to file an application with HUD for a Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) grant; authorizing the Housing Director, on behalf of the City, to file an application or applications to obtain grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the Act of April 12, 1956, P.L. 1449, Section 4, as amended, to prevent and eliminate blight; authorizing the Director of Commerce to use the Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program; and authorizing the Housing Director and the Director of Commerce to enter into all understand...
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This enacted ordinance authorized the Director of Finance to transfer $15 million within the Fiscal Year 2007 Housing Trust Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2007 within the Housing Trust Fund from certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions to certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
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The enacted bill authorizes the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development to apply for up to $1 million in state funding to help develop and improve the Citywide Youth Mini Mall at 1100–1138 W.
Authorizing the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") to file an application with the Office of the Budget, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, in an aggregate amount not to exceed One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) to assist in the development of Citywide Youth Mini Mall; and authorizing the City to enter into an agreement with PAID in furtherance of grant requirements; all under certain terms and conditions.
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The ordinance authorizes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, own, and maintain an overbuild across 13th Street between Race and Arch Streets as part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center expansion and renovation.
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain an overbuild on 13th Street between Race and Arch Streets, under certain terms and conditions.
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The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to revise the official street plan for the area bounded by Broad, Race, Thirteenth, and Arch Streets.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 307 bounded by Broad Street, Race Street, Thirteenth Street and Arch Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted bill authorized the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer City-owned land and buildings at 1328 Race Street to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a deed for nominal consideration conveying fee simple title to a certain tract of City-owned land with buildings and improvements thereon, situate at 1328 Race Street in the City of Philadelphia, for further conveyance at nominal consideration to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or its designee for use in the expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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The enacted measure changes the requirements for banks and other institutions that hold City of Philadelphia deposits.
Amending Chapter 19-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Funds - Deposits, Investments, Disbursements" by amending certain requirements of City depositories; all under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the City to arrange for Epiphany Place to be paved through a contract.
Authorizing the paving of Epiphany Place, under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the owner of 7252 Marsden Street to construct, own, and maintain a vestibule addition extending about 10 feet onto the south sidewalk of Cottman Avenue, while leaving a 10-foot-wide clear walkway.
Authorizing the owner of 7252 Marsden Street at the southwest corner of Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19135, to construct, own and maintain an addition on the south public sidewalk of Cottman Avenue adjacent to the property, under certain terms and conditions.
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The enacted ordinance changes Philadelphia’s parking and towing rules, including the time limit for starting collection on parking penalties, late fees, parking fines, and booting, towing, and storage charges.
Amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Code," to limit the period for collection of certain parking violation penalties, revise procedures for temporary movement of parking meters, revise the penalties for certain parking violations; revise the fees for booting, towing and storage of certain immobilized and impounded vehicles; altering the period for late fees for certain violations, and such fees; and make certain technical changes; all under certain terms and conditions.
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The enacted ordinance amends Temple University’s Institutional Development District Master Plan to allow construction of a new Tyler School of Art building.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of Temple University by allowing for the construction of a new building to be used for the Tyler School of Art.
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This enacted ordinance amends Temple University’s Institutional Development District Master Plan to allow construction of a new seven-story, 202,415-square-foot building for the Fox School of Business and Management.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of Temple University by allowing for the construction of a new building to be used for the Fox School of Business and Management.
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This enacted bill changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain areas bounded by the Montgomery County Line, Pine Road, Bloomfield Avenue, Verree Road, and Red Lion Road.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by the Montgomery County Line, Pine Road, Bloomfield Avenue, Verree Road and Red Lion Road.
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This enacted ordinance amended a 2003 authorization involving the vacation of Salter Street between Third Street and Orianna Street and the reservation of a right-of-way for gas mains and other public utilities.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 030347) approved July 31, 2003, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 238 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Salter Street from Third Street to Orianna Street and by reserving and placing on the City Plan a right of way for gas main purposes and public utility purposes within the lines of Salter Street being stricken from the City Plan and vacated under authority of this Ordinance, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the authorization conditions therein.
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The enacted bill gives Philadelphia’s consent to transfer the Area II cable television franchise from Time Warner Cable to Time Warner NY Cable LLC and then to Cable Holdco Exchange VI LLC.
Consenting to the assignment of Area II cable television franchise from Time Warner Cable Inc. to Time Warner NY Cable LLC, to further assignment of such franchise from Time Warner NY Cable LLC to Cable Holdco Exchange VI LLC, and to change of control of such franchise from Time Warner Inc. to Comcast Corporation, all under certain terms and conditions.
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The enacted ordinance authorizes Temple University to construct, own, and maintain an overhead pedestrian bridge across the 1400 block of West Tioga Street, connecting a proposed medical school building with Kresge Hall on its campus.
Authorizing Temple University, 1601 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, its successors and assigns, to construct an overhead pedestrian bridge crossing the 1400 block of West Tioga Street, connecting a proposed medical school building with Kresge Hall within the Temple University campus, under certain terms and conditions.
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The enacted ordinance removes a specified 57.4-acre property in the 65th Ward near the Delaware River from Philadelphia’s Keystone Opportunity Zone at the request and consent of its owners, to support residential development.
Removing a portion of a property in the 65th ward of the City, in the vicinity of the Delaware River, from the Philadelphia Keystone Opportunity Zone, subject to the request and consent of the owners of said Property, under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the paving of Sloan Street between Fairmount Avenue and Aspen Street.
Authorizing the paving of Sloan Street from Fairmount Avenue to Aspen Street, under certain terms and conditions.
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