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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May 8, 2008
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...
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This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s business privilege tax rates for tax years 2008 and later.
Amending Section 19-2604 of The Philadelphia Code, relating to tax rates, credits and alternative tax computation for the business privilege tax, by reducing certain tax rates; all under certain terms and conditions.
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Meeting date
May 7, 2008
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council committees on Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs and Commerce and Economic Development to hold joint hearings about Philadelphia’s creative economy.
Authorizing the Committee on Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs and the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold joint hearings regarding Philadelphia's Creative Economy, with a focus on young professionals (25 to 34), and to explore potential methods and strategies to retain this demographic for the future of Philadelphia's economic growth.
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to hold hearings about how Protection From Abuse orders are served in Philadelphia County.
Authorizing the Committee on Public Safety to hold hearings to examine the current laws, programs and procedures regarding service of Protection From Abuse orders in Philadelphia County and to explore alternative laws, practices, programs and procedures to ensure that an abuse victim will not suffer further mental and physical trauma by having to confront his or her abuser with service of the Protection From Abuse order.
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May 6, 2008
Meeting date
May 5, 2008
The adopted resolution calls on the City Council’s Environment and Commerce and Economic Development committees to hold joint hearings on creating a Green Job Corps in Philadelphia.
Calling on the Committee on the Environment and the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold joint hearings on adopting a Green Job Corps to help Philadelphia create a qualified, trained workforce to support local green businesses and contractors.
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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.
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May 1, 2008
This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill approving the thirty-seventh amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, being the area beginning at the northwest corner of Front street and Spring Garden street, including the twenty-ninth amendment to the urban renewal plan and the twenty-seventh amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately eleven (11) properties for residential and related uses; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority.
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This communication, which was placed on file, transmitted a proposed bill that would authorize the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer the parcel at 3548 Germantown Avenue, including its buildings and improvements, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City of Philadelphia to transfer to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, for nominal consideration, a certain parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, known as 3548 Germantown Avenue, for further conveyance.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of Leithgow Street south of Reno Street and by reserving and placing on the City Plan a right of way for public utility purposes within the lines of Leithgow Street being stricken, all under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication transmitted a proposed bill to extend the period for complying with the terms and conditions of a 2006 ordinance concerning changes to the City Plan and the vacation of portions of Jefferson Street, Heston, and Paxon Street.
Transmitting a bill amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 051234) approved February 16, 2006, entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 266 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Jefferson Street and Heston, each from 52nd Street to Paxon Street; by striking from the City Plan and vacating Paxon Street from Jefferson Street to Columbia Avenue; and by reserving and placing on the City Plan rights-of-way for gas main purposes, water main purposes, and drainage purposes within the beds of the streets being stricken by this Ordinance, if necessary, all under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 350, in the area northeast of Susquehanna Road and northwest of Verree Road, by placing on the City Plan a right of way for gas main purposes and public utility purposes, and a right of way for gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication transmits a proposed bill concerning City Plan No.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 109 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portion of Melon Street from Thirty-Fifth Street westward to a dead end, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication, which was placed on file, transmitted a proposed bill about revising the City Plan and vacating legally open portions of Tweny-Third Street from Allegheny Avenue to the Norristown Branch railroad right-of-way.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 129 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portions of Tweny-Third Street from Allegheny Avenue northwardly to its terminus at the southwesterly right of way line of the Norristown Branch of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication concerned a proposed bill to authorize paving Delaware Avenue between Lewis Street and Orthodox Street, subject to certain terms and conditions.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the paving of Delaware Avenue from Lewis Street to Orthodox Street, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication transmits a proposed bill concerning the paving of relocated Harlan Street between Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, under certain terms and conditions.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the paving of the relocated Harlan Street from Nineteenth Street to Twentieth Street, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 308 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of Clifton Street southward from Irving Street and by reserving, and placing on the City Plan, a right of way for drainage and public utility purposes within the lines of Clifton Street being stricken, all under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City, to execute a Mutual Aid Agreement by and between the City of Philadelphia and the State of New Jersey, under certain terms and conditions.
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