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 October 18, 2007 meeting.
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The adopted resolution authorizes Council’s Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings about the Administration’s failure to enter into contracts needed to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Fourth Councilmanic District.
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. 070405 (adopted June 7, 2007) and Resolution No. 070744 (adopted September 20, 2007).
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes Council’s Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings about the Administration’s failure to enter into contracts needed to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh and Ninth Council Districts.
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. 070595 (adopted June 14, 2007) and in the Ninth Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070588 (adopted June 14, 2007).
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes Council’s Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings about the Administration’s failure to enter into contracts needed to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh and Ninth Council Districts.
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. 070595 (adopted June 14, 2007) and in the Ninth Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070588 (adopted June 14, 2007).
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Bradresh Shah, who operates the newsstand at Sixteenth and Market Streets, permission to construct, use, and maintain conduits under and across the public right-of-way to provide electrical and telephone service to the newsstand.
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.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer the property at 2815 Ridge Avenue, including its buildings and improvements, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal amount.
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.
This enacted bill amends Philadelphia's rules for farmers' markets to add Aviator Park as a permissible location.
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.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s rules for selling spray paint and indelible markers.
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.
This lapsed bill would have required retail establishments that sell tobacco products or malt or brewed beverages to program electronic scanners to reject a sale unless a birth date was entered after a visual inspection of the buyer’s photo ID.
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.
This lapsed bill would have authorized changes to the City Plan affecting parts of Mansion Street, Fowler Street, and Cinnaminson Street, including removing certain street segments, widening part of Cinnaminson Street, and creating a cul-de-sac.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 231 and 275 by striking from the City Plan Mansion Street and Fowler Street each from Cinnaminson Street to Lemonte Street and Cinnaminson Street from a point approximately 182' southwest of Silverwood Street to a point approximately 30' southwestwardly therefrom; by widening Cinnaminson Street 4' and a variable width on the northwesterly side thereof from a property line in the vicinity of Mansion Street (to be stricken by this Ordinance) to a point approximately 700' northeastwardly therefrom and by placing a cul-de-sac at the resultant dead-end of Cinnaminson Street under certain terms and conditions including the dedication to the City, free and clear of all encumbrances of the widened portion of Cinnaminson Street and the area of the portion of the cul-de-sac lying outside Cinnaminson Street as currently placed on the City Plan.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to grant SEPTA an easement through a portion of city-owned land below Market Street near 13th Street.
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.
This enacted bill authorizes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, own, and maintain several overhanging structures extending into the public right-of-way over 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.
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.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Rimas Properties to construct, own, and maintain a raised entrance plaza extending about five feet onto the public sidewalk at 1352 South Street.
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.
This enacted ordinance requires carbon monoxide alarms in new and existing R-3 and R-4 residential occupancies when the building has a fossil-fuel-burning appliance or an attached garage.
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.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer the City-owned property at 332–352 East Tioga Street, including its buildings and improvements, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal payment.
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.
The enacted ordinance authorizes a traffic signal for vehicles traveling east and west on Cheltenham Avenue at its intersection with Walnut Lane.
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.
This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
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.
This enacted measure amended Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit vending in the area bounded by 60th Street, Elmwood Avenue, 67th Street, and Kingsessing Avenue.
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.
The enacted bill authorizes the City to lease its building at 2529–33 West Lehigh Avenue to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, which would sublease the building to the Philadelphia Public Access Corporation, a nonprofit corporation to be incorporated by the City.
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.
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Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.