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
Every non-roll-call council action we currently track from the September 27, 2012 meeting.
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Showing 19-36 of 71 actions from September 27, 2012
The adopted resolution authorizes spending up to $11,900 in Neighborhood Transformation Initiative bond proceeds to obtain title reports, plot plans, legal descriptions, and appraisals.
Authorizing the use of Neighborhood Transformation Initiative bond to acquire title reports, plot plans, legal descriptions and appraisals.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Adopted, this resolution recognizes, commends, and supports organizations and individuals that educate and encourage people with criminal convictions to exercise their right to vote.
Commending the efforts of the many organizations and individuals that work to educate and encourage ex-offenders to exercise their right to vote.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Adopted, this resolution recognizes, commends, and supports organizations and individuals that educate and encourage people with criminal convictions to exercise their right to vote.
Commending the efforts of the many organizations and individuals that work to educate and encourage ex-offenders to exercise their right to vote.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have placed a proposed Philadelphia Home Rule Charter amendment on the May 21, 2013 ballot.
Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for the line item appropriation of certain amounts in the annual operating budget ordinance, and to require the expenditure or encumbrance of amounts so appropriated, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted measure approves the seventh amendment to the redevelopment proposal and urban renewal plan for the Point Breeze East Urban Renewal Area, generally bounded by Washington Avenue, Broad Street, Moore Street, and Twenty-fifth Street.
Approving the seventh amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Point Breeze East Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by the southerly side of Washington avenue on the north, the westerly side of Broad street on the east, the northerly side of Moore street on the south and the easterly side of Twenty-fifth street on the west, including the seventh amendment to the urban renewal plan and the second amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of forty-three (43) properties for residential, recreational and related reuses; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance changes rules for Philadelphia newsstands by allowing additional products, expanding certain advertising options, and permitting movable awnings subject to size, height, safety, and operating requirements.
Amending Section 9-212 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Newsstands," by revising the requirements for advertising and permitting the placement of awnings on newsstands and permitting the sale of additional products from newsstands; amending Chapter 11-600, entitled "Construction, Encroachments and Projections Over, On and Under Streets," by making conforming amendments regarding the placement of awnings on newsstands; and amending Chapter 19-3400, entitled "Excise Tax on Outdoor Advertising Transactions," to include outdoor advertising signs located on newsstands, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of the vacant City-owned properties at 2308 Collins Street and 2170 East Gordon Street to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-first Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution calls on Congress and the President to direct the Veterans Administration to give returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans more flexibility to receive care from civilian health care providers.
Calling on the Congress and the President of the United States to direct the Veterans Administration to allow maximum flexibility in authorizing our returning Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans to access civilian health care providers when these veterans are unable to obtain timely mental health and other critically needed medical care from the Veterans Administration.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Adopted, this resolution supports a Commonwealth Court decision that found Act 13 unconstitutional for limiting local governments’ ability to regulate oil and gas development through zoning.
Supporting the Commonwealth Court decision which found Act 13 unconstitutional because it removes from local governments the ability to meaningfully legislate in a manner that protects the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens by addressing localized concerns to oil and gas development and violates both the Pennsylvania and U.S. Constitutions, creating a zoning scheme that supersedes the protections local officials are sworn to uphold; as well as the health, safety and welfare of its residents that local officials must protect.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, without payment, conditional ownership of nine City-owned properties to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Seventh, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third and Thirty-seventh Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
City Council adopted a resolution approving a Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority contract to redevelop 1300 Cadwallader Street in the American Street Industrial Corridor Urban Renewal Area.
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the American Street Industrial Corridor Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1300 Cadwallader street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with American Studios Phila, LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of nine City-owned properties to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Sixth, Twenty-fourth, Forty-sixth, Fifty-first and Sixtieth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to move portions of the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue and Penn Street northwestward.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by relocating the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue, from Spring Garden Street to Ellen Street, a variable distance northwestwardly and relocating the southeasterly curbline of Penn Street from Delaware Avenue to Ellen Street, sixteen feet northwestwardly, thereby increasing the width of the southeasterly footway areas of said Delaware Avenue and Penn Street.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to move portions of the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue and Penn Street northwestward.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by relocating the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue, from Spring Garden Street to Ellen Street, a variable distance northwestwardly and relocating the southeasterly curbline of Penn Street from Delaware Avenue to Ellen Street, sixteen feet northwestwardly, thereby increasing the width of the southeasterly footway areas of said Delaware Avenue and Penn Street.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to move portions of the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue and Penn Street northwestward.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by relocating the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue, from Spring Garden Street to Ellen Street, a variable distance northwestwardly and relocating the southeasterly curbline of Penn Street from Delaware Avenue to Ellen Street, sixteen feet northwestwardly, thereby increasing the width of the southeasterly footway areas of said Delaware Avenue and Penn Street.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance extends until June 21, 2014, the deadline for meeting the terms and conditions of a 2004 authorization to revise lines and grades on part of City Plan No.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 040511) approved June 21, 2004, entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 55 in the area bounded by Aramingo Avenue, Frankford Creek, and Adams Avenue, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance extends until June 21, 2014, the deadline for meeting the terms and conditions of a 2004 authorization to revise lines and grades on part of City Plan No.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 040511) approved June 21, 2004, entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 55 in the area bounded by Aramingo Avenue, Frankford Creek, and Adams Avenue, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance extends until June 21, 2014, the deadline for meeting the terms and conditions of a 2004 authorization to revise lines and grades on part of City Plan No.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 040511) approved June 21, 2004, entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 55 in the area bounded by Aramingo Avenue, Frankford Creek, and Adams Avenue, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.