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 November 15, 2007 meeting.
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s joint Committees on Public Safety and Public Property to hold public hearings about alternative Philadelphia properties for the Philadelphia Prison Department’s training facility.
Authorizing the joint Committees on Public Safety and Public Property to hold public hearings to examine alternative sights in the City of Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Prison Department to operate a training facility.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter an agreement with the owners of 4641 East Roosevelt Boulevard to grant the City a right-of-way along part of the Tacony Creek for drainage and sewer purposes.
Authorizing the Water Commissioner, on behalf of the City, to enter into an agreement with the owners of 4641 East Roosevelt Boulevard for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage and sewer purposes through the property along the Tacony Creek from approximately 550 feet east of Whitaker Avenue to approximately 750 feet west of former "I" Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended a 2005 ordinance concerning the removal of Harlan, Stewart, and Nassau Streets from the City Plan between 21st and 22nd Streets, while reserving gas-main rights-of-way in parts of Stewart and Nassau Streets.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 050516) approved June 29, 2005, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 120 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Harlan Street, Stewart Street, and Nassau Street, each from 21st Street to 22nd Street and by reserving and placing on City Plan a right-of-way for gas main purposes within the beds of Stewart Street and Nassau Street being stricken under authority of this Ordinance, all under certain terms and conditions", by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance adds inclusionary affordable housing requirements for development projects that build or rehabilitate 20 or more dwelling units in Philadelphia.
Amending Totle 7 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Housing Code," by adding a new Chapter establishing inclusionary affordable housing requirements, by requiring that certain developments, consisting of a certain number of dwelling units, provide a certain percentage of those units for affordable housing or provide other options for affordable housing, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have authorized paving Cinnaminson Street from Smick Street to a cul-de-sac turnaround about 1,454 feet to the north and northeast.
Authorizing the paving of Cinnaminson Street from Smick Street to a cul-de-sac turnaround approximately one-thousand four-hundred fifty-four feet northwardly and northeastwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have changed the official City Plan for part of Cinnaminson Street by relocating and widening a section, changing its grades, adding a cul-de-sac turnaround, and removing another section from the plan.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 231 and 275 by relocating the lines and changing the grades of Cinnaminson Street from a point approximately six-hundred sixty-two feet north and northeast of Smick Street to a point approximately one-thousand four-hundred fifty-four feet north and northeast of said Smick Street, including increasing the width of said Cinnaminson Street and placing on the City Plan a cul-de-sac turnaround at the proposed northeasterly terminus of said Cinnaminson Street, and striking from the City Plan Cinnaminson Street from a point approximately one-hundred eighty-three feet southwest of Silverwood Street to a point approximately two-hundred eighty-five feet southwest of said Silverwood Street, all under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City, free and clear of all encumbrances, of the bed of Cinnaminson Street as revised on the City Plan by authority of this Ordinance.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This vetoed bill would have required the Department of Recreation to dedicate 10% of program activities and budget spending at one Class A recreation center to children with autism spectrum disorders.
Amending Title 15 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parks and Recreation," by requiring the Department of Recreation to provide ten percent of all program activities and budgetary expenditures at one Class A Recreation Center to children with autistic disorders, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance requires city building renovation and repair projects funded through the capital budget to have at least one wheelchair-accessible entrance or include the creation of one that meets Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
Amending Chapter 16-300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Public Property Maintenance and Supervision," by creating a new Section 16-305 under certain terms and conditions.
Re-Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have required the Philadelphia Recreation Department to install surveillance cameras in all Class A and Class B recreational facilities.
Amending Title 15 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parks and Recreation," by requiring the Recreation Department to install surveillance cameras in all Class A and Class B Recreational Facilities, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the City to lease Belmont Mansion and related buildings, grounds, and facilities to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a ground lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, under which the City would lease Belmont Mansion and appurtenant buildings, grounds and facilities (collectively, the "Belmont Mansion Complex") to PAID and pursuant to which PAID would enter into a ground sublease with the American Women's Heritage Society, under which AWHS would occupy, operate, and help maintain the Belmont Mansion Complex and develop and operate a museum about the Underground Railroad, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill approved the Center City District’s 2008–2012 plan to provide business improvements and administrative services in Philadelphia’s central business district, including enhanced evening cleaning and expanded landscape maintenance.
Approving the plan, estimated costs and proposed method of assessment and charges of the Center City District for and concerning business improvements and administrative services to the central business district of the City of Philadelphia for 2008-2012; and approving estimated costs for debt service through 2025; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City to revise the official city plan and vacate Reese Street between Kater Street and Bainbridge Street.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 97 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Reese Street from Kater Street to Bainbridge Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill amends a 2007 ordinance involving Ashwin B.
Amending an Ordinance (Bill No. 060937) approved February 22, 2007, entitled "Granting permission to Ashwin B. Patel and Rams Newsstand, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the southwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the southwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand," by deleting Section 5 it in its entirety.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill deletes Section 5 from a 2007 ordinance that allowed Aruna Patel, owner and operator of the newsstand at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, to construct and maintain fiber-optic conduits under and across the northeast corner.
Amending an Ordinance (Bill No. 060935) approved February 22, 2007, entitled "Granting permission to Aruna Patel, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the northeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets, for the purpose of supplying telephone service to said newsstand," by deleting Section 5 it in its entirety.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized Philadelphia officials to enter agreements with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority for the expansion, renovation, financing, operation, and management of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Authorizing the Director of Finance, Commissioner of Public Property and other officials of the City to execute either directly or through the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development various agreements, instruments of conveyance and other transactional documents by and among the City, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority related to the development, construction, financing, operation and management of an expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center and including the defeasance of outstanding Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority bonds, the release of the lien of the Trust Indenture dated as of December 15, 1989, as amended and supplemented, relating to such bonds, the termination of the existing Lease and Service Agreement, the sale of the existing Convention Center building and improvements to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for further conveyance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or its designee and the exe...
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The vetoed bill would have revised the City Plan to add a 15-foot-wide drainage right-of-way along the northwest side of Bustleton Avenue, from Scotchbrook Drive to a point about 671 feet northeast.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 361 and 367 by placing on the City Plan a fifteen feet wide right-of-way for drainage purposes adjacent to the northwesterly side of Bustleton Avenue and extending from Scotchbrook Drive to a point approximately six-hundred seventy-one feet northeastwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes LaSalle University to construct, own, and maintain an overhead pedestrian bridge across the 5600 block of East Wister Street, connecting its Main Campus with Germantown Hospital.
Authorizing LaSalle University to construct, own and maintain, an overhead pedestrian bridge crossing the 5600 block of E. Wister Street connecting the Main Campus with Germantown Hospital, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes Evangelismos of Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church to legalize and maintain an existing entrance at 6501-05 Bustleton Avenue.
Authorizing Evangelismos of Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church to legalize the construction, operation and maintenance of an existing raised platform entrance which consists of two exterior stairs, a handicapped entrance ramp and a raised platform landing providing ingress/egress from the church located on the eastern part of 6501-05 Bustleton Avenue, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.