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 June 18, 2015 meeting.
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Showing 37-54 of 106 actions from June 18, 2015
This adopted resolution supports the City of Philadelphia Flood Risk Management Task Force, an interagency group working on a citywide strategy to reduce flood risk, inform the public, and review flood-related policies and zoning.
Showing support for the City of Philadelphia Flood Risk Management Task Force by offering engaged partnership and thoughtful consideration of forthcoming recommendations.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution supports the City of Philadelphia Flood Risk Management Task Force, an interagency group working on a citywide strategy to reduce flood risk, inform the public, and review flood-related policies and zoning.
Showing support for the City of Philadelphia Flood Risk Management Task Force by offering engaged partnership and thoughtful consideration of forthcoming recommendations.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Adopted by City Council, this resolution honors and celebrates the crews of the USS Dace SS 247 and USS Dace SSN 607 during their reunion weekend on September 11–13, 2015.
Honoring and celebrating the crew of the USS Dace on their reunion weekend of September 11 -13, 2015.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Adopted by City Council, this resolution honors and celebrates the crews of the USS Dace SS 247 and USS Dace SSN 607 during their reunion weekend on September 11–13, 2015.
Honoring and celebrating the crew of the USS Dace on their reunion weekend of September 11 -13, 2015.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of 2029 West Oxford 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 Forty-seventh 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.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have required people riding bicycles to use designated bicycle lanes when available.
Amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Code," Chapter 12-800 "Bicycle Regulations and Penalties," Chapter 12-913 "Prohibitions in Specified Places," and Chapter 12-2800 "Administrative Adjudication of Parking Violations," by making it mandatory for persons riding bicycles to ride on designated bicycle lanes when available, and imposing new penalties and increasing the current penalty for vehicles blocking designated bike lanes; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove from City Plan No.
Authorizing the striking from City Plan No. 13-S and abandoning of a certain right-of-way reserved for gas main purposes which extends from Fourth Street to Fifth Street, north of Dickinson Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance amends the Institutional Development District Master Plan for the Holy Redeemer Lafayette retirement community at 8560 Verree Road.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of the Holy Redeemer Lafayette retirement community, located at 8560 Verree Road, by allowing for an addition to the Skilled Nursing Building.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted law requires the Finance Director to prepare an annual report on workforce diversity in projects and contracts that require Economic Opportunity Plans.
Amending Chapter 17-1600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Economic Opportunity Plans," to provide for the preparation and filing of an annual report by the Finance Director that analyzes the extent of workforce diversity on projects and contracts requiring Economic Opportunity Plans and identifies appropriate workforce diversity goals for future projects and contracts, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have allowed new residential construction in the RSA-5 and RM-1 zoning districts to use a minimum lot area of 800 square feet if it included an approved green roof and met existing minimum lot-width requirements.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Chapter 14-700, entitled "Development Standards," by revising minimum lot area requirements, and other dimensional requirements in certain residential zoning districts for new construction that includes an approved green roof, amending Chapter 14-200, entitled "Definitions," and making technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized a $25 million transfer within Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2016 General Fund, moving money from the City Council’s appropriation to the Director of Finance for a contribution to the School District of Philadelphia.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2016 within the General Fund from the City Council to the Director of Finance-Contribution to School District.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s six-year Capital Program for fiscal years 2016 through 2021.
Amending Bill No. 150162-A (approved June 18, 2015), entitled "An Ordinance to adopt a Capital Program for the six Fiscal Years 2016-2021 inclusive," by adding and revising certain projects, amounts and sources, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s building code to require at least one food-waste disposer in each kitchen of certain new residential buildings.
Amending Title 4 "The Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code," of The Philadelphia Code, by amending Subcode "B," (The Philadelphia Building Code) by adding new requirements for food waste disposers in some new residential construction; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2016 capital budget.
Amending Bill No. 150163-A (approved June 18, 2015), entitled "An Ordinance to adopt a Fiscal 2016 capital Budget," by adding and revising certain projects, amounts and sources, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have authorized Monica Torres to construct, own, and maintain a garage extension extending into the public right-of-way at 4165 N.
Authorizing Monica Torres, to construct, own, and maintain a structural encroachment at 4165 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance legalizes an existing stair enclosure at 5070 Whitaker Avenue for property owner Hugo Campoverdes as a permitted encroachment in the public right-of-way.
Legalizing an existing stair enclosure at 5070 Whitaker Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19124, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have created a South Broad Street Gateway neighborhood commercial zoning overlay for commercially zoned lots between Broad Street, Washington Avenue, 13th Street, and Carpenter Street.
Amending Section 14-503 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "/NCA, Neighborhood Commercial Area Overlay," by adding a new subsection entitled "South Broad Street Gateway," and making related changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City to add an approximately 30-by-25-foot sewer and drainage right-of-way north of Pattison Avenue and east of The Delaware Expressway, next to the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant.
Authorizing the plotting upon a portion of City Plan No. 41-S of a right-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes, approximately thirty feet by twenty-five feet, in the area lying north of Pattison Avenue and east of The Delaware Expressway, and authorizing acceptance of the grant to the City of the said right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.