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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Other actions actions from the December 1, 2020 meeting.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia to issue up to $400 million in new water and wastewater revenue bonds, along with additional bonds to refinance existing related debt.
Constituting the Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Ordinance to the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989, as supplemented; authorizing the Bond Committee to issue and sell one or more series or subseries of tax-exempt or taxable water and wastewater revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds; authorizing agreements to provide credit enhancement or payment or liquidity sources (or any combination of the foregoing) for such Bonds; providing that such Bonds shall bear interest at fixed or variable rates; determining the sufficiency of pledged Project Revenues; authorizing the Director of Finance to take certain actions with regard to the sale of such Bonds, the investment of proceeds thereof and the City's continuing disclosure obligations with respect to such Bonds; setting forth the use of proceeds of such Bonds; covenanting the payment of interest and principal; supplementing the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989; and specifyin...
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia to issue up to $400 million in tax-exempt or taxable water and wastewater revenue bonds, including short-term commercial paper, and to use credit or liquidity agreements related to those obligations.
Constituting the Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Ordinance to the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989, as supplemented; authorizing the Bond Committee to issue and sell one or more series or subseries of tax-exempt or taxable water and wastewater revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds, some or all of which may be used for the implementation of a revolving commercial paper program for the System; authorizing agreements to provide credit enhancement or payment or liquidity sources (or any combination of the foregoing) for such Obligations; providing that such Obligations shall bear interest at fixed or variable rates; authorizing the Bond Committee to take certain action with regard to the terms and conditions of the water and wastewater revenue bonds or notes and related agreements and the elections under the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989; determining the sufficiency of pledged Project Revenues; authorizing the Directo...
SIGNED
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This bill, currently held in committee, would amend Philadelphia’s Zoning Code to create a new “Multi-Modal Logistics Center Overlay District.” The provided text does not identify where the district would apply or specify the development rules it would establish; it also references an Economic Opportunity Plan approved by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Amending Chapter 14-500 of the Philadelphia Zoning Code, entitled "Overlay Zoning Districts," by creating a new subsection, entitled "Multi-Modal Logistics Center Overlay District," all under certain terms and conditions.
RECESSED
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This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s rules for newsstands.
Amending Section 9-212 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Newsstands," by expanding the allowable items newsstands can sell and offer, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance establishes a no-truck-parking-anytime regulation on both sides of E.
Establishing a no truck parking regulation on both sides of E. Godfrey Avenue from Tabor Avenue to Whitaker Avenue.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes Maitreyi Roy, doing business as the John Bartram Association, to own and maintain an existing metal bench on the southeast corner of South 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard.
Authorizing Maitreyi Roy, DBA John Bartram Association, to own and maintain an existing metal bench on the southeast corner at the intersection of South 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19143, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s red-light enforcement law to authorize the use of an approved automated red-light enforcement system at the intersection of 31st Street and Spring Garden Street.
Amending Chapter 12-3000 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Use Of An Automated Red Light Enforcement System To Prevent Red Light Violations," by authorizing the installation of red light enforcement systems at the intersection of 31st & Spring Garden Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance regulates residential property wholesalers—people or businesses seeking to buy homes as investments rather than for their own residence—by requiring a license and barring misrepresentations or false information.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Chapter, entitled "Residential Property Wholesalers," to regulate the solicitation of purchases of real property and require certain disclosures by property purchasers to homeowners, and amending Chapter 9-1100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Fair Practices Ordinance: Protections Against Unlawful Discrimination," to provide protections to homeowners from solicitation and related problems, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance changes the City Plan by removing a specified portion of Parker Avenue southwest of Matthias Street and establishing a right-of-way there for sewer, drainage, water, gas, and other utility purposes.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 299 by striking from the City Plan Parker Avenue from a point approximately one-hundred fifty-six feet southwest of Matthias Street to its terminus southwestwardly therefrom and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for various utility purposes within a portion of Parker Avenue being stricken and authorizing acceptance of the grant to the City of the said right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance amended a 2018 ordinance concerning the vacation of the legally open portion of Montour Street between Adams Avenue and Foulkrod Street.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 180560) approved July 10, 2018, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 250 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portion of Montour Street from Adams Avenue to Foulkrod Street, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance extended the period that Bill No.
Amending Bill No. 200352, entitled "An Ordinance amending Chapter 11-100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled 'General Provisions,' to authorize the Streets Department to permit closure of the public right-of-way," to extend the date Bill No. 200352 will remain in effect, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance extended the effect of Bill No.
Amending Bill No. 200351, entitled “An Ordinance authorizing the operation of sidewalk cafes during the COVID-19 emergency until December 31, 2020 in areas of the City where such activity currently must be otherwise authorized by special ordinance, and allowing expanded activity by currently licensed sidewalk café operations,” to extend the date Bill No. 200351 will remain in effect, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the Churchview Commons Condominium Association to own and maintain up to four existing streetlights along the sidewalk frontage of 102-22 Church Street, between Front and Market Streets.
Authorizing the Churchview Commons Condominium Association ("Owner") to own and maintain street lighting Encroachments along the One Hundred (100) Block of Church Street in the City of Philadelphia, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted measure amended Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant rules for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amending Chapter 9-800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Landlord and Tenant," to address matters related to the landlord and tenant relationship during the novel coronavirus of 2019 pandemic, including providing for repayment agreements, and making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant rules for the COVID-19 emergency period.
Amending Chapter 9-800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Landlord and Tenant," to address matters related to the landlord and tenant relationship during the novel coronavirus of 2019 pandemic, including providing for the temporary waiver of certain fees, and making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance to transfer $10 million in Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations from the City Council’s General Fund budget to the Director of Finance’s General Fund budget.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2021 from the General Fund, the Council to the General Fund, the Director of Finance.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance adds certain misuse of Philadelphia’s 911 emergency response system to the conduct covered by the city’s hate-crimes rules when it is motivated by hatred based on characteristics such as race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or age over 65.
Amending Chapter 10-2200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Hate Crimes," to provide for penalties for criminal conduct involving misuse of the 911 emergency response system motivated by hatred toward certain characteristics of other persons; all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted measure adds a Good Parking Jobs for Philadelphia Review Committee to examine job quality, working conditions, training, safety, advancement, and economic issues in the parking industry.
Amending The Philadelphia Code to add a new Section, entitled "Good Parking Jobs for Philadelphia Review Committee," to provide for the creation of an advisory body to consider the quality of jobs and opportunities for workers in the parking industry and the potential to make adjustments to the Parking Tax, including with respect to the goal of reducing the parking tax to seventeen percent by July 1, 2022, based on a review of working conditions in the parking industry, and to provide reports related thereto, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.