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 April 10, 2008 meeting.
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This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings on safety in Philadelphia’s subways, elevated trains, buses, and commuter rail lines.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings on the safety of the Philadelphia subways, elevated trains, buses and commuter rail lines and the measures that SEPTA, the City, the Department of Public Property and the Police are is taking to protect all riders on the public transportation system.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution proposed eliminating Philadelphia’s funding for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania over a four-year period, including seeking reimbursement for certain costs the City provides.
Declaring the Council of the City of Philadelphia's intention to eliminate funding to the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania within the next four-year period and urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to carry-out its constitutionally-mandated and court-ordered responsibility to fund the First Judicial District, as mandated by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Grasso Holdings, Inc., the owner and developer of 1601 Vine Street, to construct, own, and maintain canopies, a façade overhang, and balconies that extend over portions of the public footways on Vine Street, Franklintown Boulevard, 16th Street, and Wood Street as part of a mixed-use development.
Authorizing Grasso Holdings, Inc. the owner and developer of 1601 Vine Street to construct, own and maintain various encroachments to be installed in conjunction with a mixed-use development, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Arch Street Hotel Partners, LLC to construct, own, and maintain a decorative awning, two movable plant urns, and a bicycle rack at 1421 Arch Street, extending into or placed on the public right-of-way.
Authorizing Arch Street Hotel Partners, LLC to construct, own and maintain various encroachments at 1421 Arch Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Mariner Commercial Properties, Inc., the owner and developer of 1441 Chestnut Street, to construct and maintain specified building features that extend over the sidewalks on Chestnut Street and 15th Street as part of a mixed-use development.
Authorizing Mariner Commercial Properties, Inc., owner and developer of 1441 Chestnut Street to construct, own and maintain various encroachments to be installed in conjunction with a mixed-use development, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This withdrawn proposal would have changed the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain properties in the area bounded by Delaware Avenue, Fairmount Avenue, Front Street, and Poplar 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, Fairmount Avenue, Front Street, and Poplar Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to move the east curb line of Broad Street about 9 feet 6 inches eastward along a roughly 112-foot section south of Fitzwater Street.
Authorizing and directing the revision of curb lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 97 by relocating the easterly curb line of Broad street approximately nine feet six inches eastwardly, from a point approximately seventy-seven feet one inch south of the south curb line of Fitzwater street the distance of approximately one hundred twelve feet two inches to a point approximately one hundred eighty-nine feet three inches south of the south curb line of Fitzwater street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have amended Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2009 operating budget by eliminating $114,552,203 in General Fund appropriations for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Amending Bill No. 080156, entitled "An Ordinance adopting the Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2009," by eliminating funding to the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2009 operating budget by reducing the city’s funding for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Amending Bill No. 080156, entitled "An Ordinance adopting the Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2009," by decreasing funding to the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amends LaSalle University’s Institutional Development District Master Plan to allow Holroyd Hall to be expanded.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of LaSalle University by allowing for the expansion of Holroyd Hall.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The ordinance establishes the Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District in an area generally bounded by Wadsworth Avenue, Broad Street, Cheltenham Avenue, 67th Avenue, and Michener Avenue.
Establishing a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes Cheltenham Avenue with boundaries of Wadsworth Avenue on the west and Broad Street on the east, Ogontz Avenue with boundaries of Cheltenham Avenue on the north and 67th Avenue on the south and Wadsworth Avenue with boundaries of Cheltenham Avenue on the northeast and Michener Avenue on the southwest; to be known as The Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District; designating Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District Inc., 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 Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District Inc. rel...
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill establishes Brighton Street as a one-way street traveling eastbound from Sackett Street to Rowland Avenue.
Establishing a one way regulation on Brighton Street, from Sackett Street to Rowland Avenue, eastbound.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance establishes Guilford Street as a one-way street westbound from Crispin Street to Rowland Avenue.
Establishing a one way regulation on Guilford Street, from Crispin Street to Rowland Avenue, westbound.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes how authorized towing companies assess fees for towing and storing abandoned vehicles.
Amending Section 12-1120 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Abandoned Vehicles," by providing that towing and storage fees, charged by authorized salvors for the towing and storage of abandoned vehicles, be assessed in accordance with the provisions of Section 12-2406.1, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to revise the City Plan and place a variable-width drainage right-of-way along the southwest side of Welsh Road, northwest of Banes Street.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 367 by placing on the City Plan a variable width right-of-way for drainage purposes on the southwesterly side of Welsh Road approximately two-hundred forty-seven feet northwest of Banes Street and extending southeastwardly approximately four-hundred thirty-nine feet in depth, 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.
This enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan to place Twenty-sixth Street from Penrose Avenue south about 1,832 feet to a dead end.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 52-S and 53-S by placing on the City Plan Twenty-sixth Street from Penrose Avenue southwardly approximately one-thousand eight-hundred thirty-two feet to a dead end, and the dedication to the City, free and clear of all encumbrances, of the bed of said Twenty-sixth Street, 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.
This enacted bill authorizes the City’s Procurement Commissioner to contract for paving River Road from the existing northwesterly end of Nixon Street to a point about 10 feet southeast of the Philadelphia-Montgomery County Line.
Authorizing the paving of River Road from the existing northwesterly terminus of Nixon Street to a point approximately ten feet southeast of the Philadelphia-Montgomery County Line.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Procurement Commissioner to enter into a contract to build public sanitary sewers and related facilities.
Authorizing the construction of sanitary sewers and appurtenant work in portions of River Road and Nixon Street.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.