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
Unanimous actions actions from the January 31, 2008 meeting.
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Showing 19-34 of 34 actions from January 31, 2008
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on the Environment to hold public hearings about Philadelphia International Airport’s recycling policies and goals.
Authorizing the Committee on the Environment to hold public hearings to examine Philadelphia International Airport's recycling policies and goals, and to explore alternative approaches to increasing the Airport's recycling rate of both public and internal waste.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Streets and Services to hold public hearings about sidewalks closed during construction projects.
Authorizing the Committee on Streets and Services to hold public hearings to investigate sidewalk closures during construction projects and examine ways to improve pedestrian access to these sidewalks by requiring covered and protected walkways around construction sites.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution recognizing Electric Factory Concerts on its 40th anniversary.
Recognizing the Electric Factory Concerts, one of the world's most successful and influential concert promoters, on the occasion of their 40th Anniversary.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance prohibits street and sidewalk vending on certain portions of 17th Street.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, by amending Section 9-203 relating to Street Vendors and Section 9-205 relating to Sidewalk Sales, by prohibiting street and sidewalk vending on certain portions of 17th Street.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance creates Philadelphia protections for people who buy used cars from dealers.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Section 9-630, entitled "Sale of Used Cars," providing for protections against sale of cars in need of substantial repairs, commonly known as a "lemon law"; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia officials to lease City-owned land south of Shelmire Avenue, next to Fox Chase Cancer Center, through the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development and the Fairmount Park Conservancy so Fox Chase can construct, maintain, and operate cancer research and treatment facilities.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission, the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, and the Public Property Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), to lease City-owned land south of Shelmire Avenue adjacent to the campus of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Inc. ("Fox Chase") to PAID, under which PAID will enter into a sublease with the Fairmount Park Conservancy ("Conservancy"), a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, under which the Conservancy would enter into a sub-sublease and other agreements with Fox Chase, pursuant to which Fox Chase will construct, maintain, and operate cancer research and treatment facilities on the property; and authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission, the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, the Public Property Commissioner, and the City Solicitor to enter into additional agreements and take all other actions necessary to co...
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have changed the curblines and grades of portions of Christopher Columbus Boulevard and Tasker Street, vacated part of Tasker Street, and revised or abandoned certain mapped rights-of-way near the Delaware River.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 12-S, 19-S, 71, 238, and 308 by revising the curblines and grades of Christopher Columbus Boulevard from a point approximately nine-hundred feet south of Spruce Street to a point approximately one-thousand two-hundred feet south of Tasker Street, by revising the curblines and grades of Tasker Street from Christopher Columbus Boulevard to a point approximately two-hundred fifty feet westwardly therefrom, by striking from the City Plan and vacating Tasker Street from Christopher Columbus Boulevard to a dead end approximately seven-hundred ten feet eastwardly therefrom, by reserving and placing on City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes, gas main purposes, and public utility purposes within the lines of Tasker Street being stricken from the City Plan by authority of this Ordinance, by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for water main purposes...
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s zoning maps for certain land in the area bounded by Delaware Avenue, the former Marlborough Street right-of-way, the Delaware River, and former Shackamaxon Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Delaware Avenue, former Marlborough Street Right-of-way, the Delaware River and the former Shackamaxon Street.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Shailesh Tilvawala permission to construct, use, and maintain conduits under and across the public right-of-way at Eighth and Market Streets to provide electrical and telephone service to his newsstand.
Granting permission to Shailesh Tilvawala, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Market Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Market Street, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance establishes the Queen Village Neighborhood Conservation District, covering an area generally bounded by Washington Avenue, Bainbridge Street, 6th Street, and Front Street, with an exception for properties under South Street/HeadHouse Square controls.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by adding a new Section 14-908, entitled "Queen Village Neighborhood Conservation District."
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have submitted a ballot question to Philadelphia voters on April 22, 2008, asking whether to amend the Home Rule Charter to create and fund an independent Police Advisory Commission.
Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to create an independent Police Advisory Commission and provide for its funding, and to empower Council to provide by ordinance for the appointment, powers and duties of such Commission, as approved by Resolution of the City Council; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot question to be voted on; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia officials to enter into a concession agreement with Billy Casper Golf, LLC, for the company to improve, operate, manage, and maintain four 18-hole golf courses and the City Line Sports Center.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission, the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, and the Procurement Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a Concession Agreement with Billy Casper Golf, LLC, under which Billy Casper Golf, LLC, would improve, operate, manage and maintain four 18-hole golf courses and one sports center under the jurisdiction of the Fairmount Park Commission, including Olde Course and Karakung Course at Cobb's Creek Golf Club, Franklin D. Roosevelt Golf Course, John D. Byrne Golf Course, and the City Line Sports Center; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance continued the Roxborough neighborhood improvement district for five years, through June 30, 2013, and kept the Roxborough Development Corporation as its manager.
Continuing a neighborhood improvement district beyond the date of termination of such district in an area that generally includes both sides of Ridge Avenue from Main Street to 7220 Ridge Avenue and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Ridge Avenue and which is known as the Roxborough District ("District"); continuing the designation of the Roxborough Development Corporation, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association for the District; approving a plan for the District, including a list of proposed improvements and their estimated cost, and providing for assessment fees to be levied on property owners within the District; authorizing the Director of Commerce, on behalf of the City, to execute an agreement with the Roxborough Development Corporation relating to the District; and authorizing the Roxborough Development Corporation to assess property owners within the District a special property assessment fee t...
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure revised Philadelphia Gas Works’ Fiscal Year 2008 capital budget, increasing the maximum authorized amount from $70.648 million to $70.727 million.
Amending Bill No. 070368 entitled "An Ordinance approving the Fiscal Year 2008 Capital Budget providing for expenditures for the capital purposes of the Philadelphia Gas Works (including the supplying of funds in connection therewith) subject to certain constraints and conditions, and acknowledging receipt of the Forecast of Capital Budgets for Fiscal Years 2009 through 2013" by approving a revised Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2008.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have allowed Philadelphia code officials to issue one violation notice covering multiple prohibited signs posted by the same person within the same numerical block.
Amending Chapter 10-1200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Posting of Signs," by authorizing code officials to issue a single code violation notice for multiple sign violations by the same person, in certain circumstances, and making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution confirms Lori Shorr's appointment as Philadelphia's Public School Family and Child Advocate.
Confirming the appointment of Lori Shorr as the Public School Family and Child Advocate.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.