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 1, 2008
Meeting date
April 30, 2008
This enacted ordinance establishes the Aramingo Avenue Shopping District, a neighborhood improvement district covering specified sections of Aramingo Avenue and nearby streets.
Establishing a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes the east and west sides of Aramingo Avenue starting at 2700 Aramingo Avenue to 3995 Aramingo Avenue and the following blocks of streets: 2345 to 2363 E. Allegheny Avenue; 3300 to 3700 Gaul Street; 3300 to 3700 East Side Tulip Street; 3300 to 3400 Memphis Street; 2201 to 2270 E. Butler Street; 2230 to 2701 Castor Avenue; 2500 E. Ontario Street; 3701 to 3801 Sepviva Street; 3740 E. Thompson Street; 2400 to 2627 E. Tioga Street; 2335 to 2501 E. Westmoreland Street; 2415 to 2651 Wheatsheaf Lane; to be known as the Aramingo Avenue Shopping District; designating Impact Community 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; ...
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Environment and Transportation and Utilities Committees to hold joint public hearings.
Authorizing City Council's Committees on the Environment and on Transportation and Utilities to hold joint public hearings to investigate the steps the City of Philadelphia and its various Departments are currently taking and are planning to take to investigate the creation of a Public Use Bicycle Program as an additional method of urban transportation to enhance the personal mobility of Philadelphia residents and workers.
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Environment and Transportation and Utilities Committees to hold joint public hearings.
Authorizing City Council's Committees on the Environment and on Transportation and Utilities to hold joint public hearings to investigate the steps the City of Philadelphia and its various Departments are currently taking and are planning to take to investigate the creation of a Public Use Bicycle Program as an additional method of urban transportation to enhance the personal mobility of Philadelphia residents and workers.
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This lapsed bill would have approved a development plan for a proposed Commercial Entertainment District in an area bounded generally by former Reed Street, extended Tasker Street, Christopher Columbus Boulevard, and the Delaware River.
Approving the Plan of Development for a Commercial Entertainment District in the area generally bounded by former Reed Street, Tasker Street (Extended), Christopher Columbus Boulevard, and the Delaware River.
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This lapsed bill would have changed the zoning designations for land between Christopher Columbus Boulevard, former Reed Street, the Delaware River, and Tasker Street (Extended), including creating a Commercial Entertainment District.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Christopher Columbus Boulevard, (former) Reed Street, the Delaware River, and Tasker Street (Extended), under certain terms and conditions.
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Meeting date
April 29, 2008
This enacted amendment authorizes the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia to impose a tax on people or businesses using or occupying real estate in the School District for commercial or industrial activities.
Amending Chapter 19-1800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "School Tax Authorization," by amending Section 19-1806, entitled "Authorization of Realty Use and Occupancy Tax," to further authorize the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia to impose a tax on the use or occupancy of real estate within the School District of Philadelphia.
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The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s tax code to authorize the School District of Philadelphia’s Board of Education to impose an annual tax on real estate in the city for school district purposes.
Amending Section 19-1801 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Authorization of Tax," to further authorize the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia to impose a tax on real estate within the City of Philadelphia; all under certain terms and conditions.
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Meeting date
April 28, 2008
The enacted ordinance amended the conditions for changing the City Plan to include Florist Street between portions of 2nd and 3rd Streets.
Amending Section 2 of Bill No. 050952, approved December 22, 2005, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by placing on the City Plan Florist Street from a point on 2nd Street approximately 131' north of the north side of Race Street to a point on 3rd Street approximately 157' north of the north side of Race Street, under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City, free and clear of all encumbrances, of the bed of Florist Street", by revising the terms and conditions stated therein and extending the period for compliance.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to remove and vacate a two-foot-wide strip along the northeast side of Stout Road between City Avenue and a point about 563 feet southeast, reducing that section’s planned width from 70 feet to 68 feet.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 190 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the northeasterly two feet wide portion of Stout Road from City Avenue to a point approximately five-hundred sixty-three feet southeastwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions.
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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.
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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.
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The enacted measure prohibits boats, motor homes, truck campers, and vending carts from staying in an on-street parking space on the same block for more than 30 days, and requires them to remain on wheels and readily movable.
Amending Chapter 12-900 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parking Regulations and Penalties," by regulating on-street parking of boats, motor homes, truck campers and vending carts, and amending Section 12-2405, entitled "Removal or Immobilization of Parked Vehicles; Notice," and Section 12-2809, entitled "Civil Penalties and Costs," to provide for penalties and towing for violations; all under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted ordinance amends Community College of Philadelphia’s Institutional Development District Master Plan.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of Community College of Philadelphia by allowing for the construction of an addition to an already existing building to be used for additional classroom and educational space at the College.
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This enacted ordinance amends Community College of Philadelphia’s Institutional Development District Master Plan to allow construction of the two-story, 37,776-square-foot Pavilion Building next to the existing West Building at 17th and Spring Garden Streets.
To amend the Institutional Development District Master Plan of Community College of Philadelphia by allowing for the construction of a new building to be used for additional classroom space, dining and educational space at the College.
SIGNED
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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.
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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.
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This enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan to establish River Road from the end of Nixon Street to near the Philadelphia-Montgomery County line, open currently unopened sections, and vacate parts of the existing River Road, also known as Nixon Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 240 and 296 by placing on the City Plan River Road from the existing northwesterly terminus of Nixon Street to a point approximately ten feet southeast of the Philadelphia-Montgomery County Line; by placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes, gas main purposes, public utility purposes, and emergency access purposes extending from the northwesterly terminus of River Road to the Philadelphia-Montgomery County Line; and by placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes and a pumping station on the southwesterly side of the proposed River Road approximately two-thousand one-hundred fifty-nine feet northwest of the existing terminus of Nixon Street; authorizing the opening of the unopened portions of the proposed River Road and the vacating of certain portions of the existing River Road (also known as Nixon Street); and authorizing the acquisition of the said re...
SIGNED
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