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 October 18, 2007 meeting.
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Authorizing Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings to investigate the Administration's failure to enter into contracts necessary to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Fourth Councilmanic District as authorized by Resolution No.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings to investigate the Administration's failure to enter into contracts necessary to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh Council District as authorized by Resolution No.
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings to investigate the Administration's failure to enter into contracts necessary to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh Council District as authorized by Resolution No.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Granting permission to Bradresh Shah, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northwest corner of Sixteenth Street and Market Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the northwest corner of Sixteenth Street and Market Street, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey a certain tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon known as 2815 Ridge Avenue, located on the northeast side of Ridge Avenue, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration, for further conveyance.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Amending Section 9-213 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Farmers' Markets," by adding as a permissible location Aviator Park, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Amending Section 9-618 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sale of Spray Paint Containers, Indelible Markers and Etching Acid," by requiring proof of lawful age prior to any purchase of spray paint or indelible marker, by requiring sellers to make a record of such age prior to any sale, and by requiring appropriate programming of electronic equipment to ensure compliance, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Amending Section 9-1802 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Use of Electronic Scanners," by requiring, as a condition of licensure, that retail establishments program their electronic scanners to reject any sale of tobacco products or malt or brewed beverages unless a birth date is entered into the register based on a visual inspection of a photo identification, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of The City of Philadelphia, to grant to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority an easement across a portion of a certain parcel of land in the vicinity of the intersection of 13th Street and Market Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its agents, successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain encroachments into the right-of-way of the east side of North Broad Street between Arch and Race Streets and the south side of Race Street between North Broad and 12th Streets, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing Rimas Properties to construct, own and maintain, a raised entrance plaza encroachment at 1352 South Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Amending Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled, "The Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code," by amending Subcode "F" ("The Philadelphia Fire Code"), by adding a new subsection requiring the installation of carbon monoxide alarms in all new and existing R-3 and R-4 occupancies; by making conforming amendments to Subcode "B" ("The Philadelphia Building Code"), Subcode "EB" ("The Philadelphia Existing Building Code") and Subcode "R" ("The Philadelphia Residential Code"); and by making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey certain tracts of land with the buildings and improvements thereon known as 332-52 East Tioga Street, located on the south side of Tioga Street, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration, for further conveyance.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the installation of a traffic signal at the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue and Walnut Lane.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing Brandywine Cira South, L.P., owner and developer for the Cira Centre South, bounded by Walnut Street, 30th Street, Chestnut Street and Schuylkill Avenue, to construct, own and maintain various encroachments to be installed in conjunction with a mixed-use development, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by prohibiting vending within an area bounded by 60th Street, Elmwood Avenue, 67th Street and Kingsessing Avenue, on both sides.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to enter into a lease agreement between the City and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") providing for the leasing to PAID of a certain City owned building located at 2529-33 West Lehigh Avenue for further sublease to the Philadelphia Public Access Corporation, a nonprofit corporation to be incorporated by the City, 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.