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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Meeting date
July 31, 2003
This enacted ordinance grants Nahal Desai, owner of the newsstand at Juniper and Market Streets, permission to install and maintain underground electrical and telephone/fiber optic service lines in the public right-of-way to serve the newsstand.
Granting permission to Nahal Desai, owner of the newsstand at the northeast corner of Juniper street and Market street, to construct, use and maintain an electrical conduit with an electrical service line and a fiber optic conduit with a telephone service line in and under the public rights-of-way for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to the newsstand, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance authorizes removing and vacating Salter Street between Third Street and Orianna Street from the City Plan.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 238 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Salter street from Third street to Orianna street and by reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for gas main purposes and public utility purposes within the lines of Salter street being stricken from the City Plan and vacated under authority of this Ordinance, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance grants Lougeswaran Vijayhratnam, owner of the newsstand at Ninth and Walnut Streets, permission to install, use, and maintain electrical and telephone conduits and service lines beneath the public right-of-way to serve the newsstand.
Granting permission to Lougeswaran Vijayhratnam, owner of the newsstand at the southeast corner of Ninth street and Walnut street, to construct, use and maintain an electrical conduit with an electrical service line and a telecommunications conduit with a telephone service line in and under the public rights-of-way for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to the newsstand, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill authorizes the National Constitution Center to construct, own, and maintain part of its building on the east footway of Independence Mall West and a retaining fence or wall on the west footway of Independence Mall East.
Authorizing National Constitution Center, Bourse Building, Suite 560, 111 S. Independence Mall East, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, lessee of the property on the east side of Independence Mall West (formerly North Sixth street) and the west side of Independence Mall East (formerly North Fifth street), Philadelphia, PA 19106, its successors and assigns to construct, own and maintain the National Constitution Center encroachment on the east footway of Independence Mall West and a retaining fence/wall encroachment on the west footway of Independence Mall East, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance grants Ride the Ducks International LLC permission to remove an existing newsstand on the west sidewalk of South Independence Mall West and install a prefabricated ticket booth kiosk with signage.
Granting permission to Ride the Ducks International LLC, to remove an existing wood and metal newsstand located on the west sidewalk of South Independence Mall West (formerly Sixth street) between Ranstead and Chestnut streets and erect a new prefabricated metal ticket booth kiosk with signage, including an electrical conduit with an electrical service line and a telecommunications conduit with a telephone service line in and under the public rights-of-way for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to the ticket booth kiosk, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill authorizes Wills Eye Hospital at 800 Walnut Street to construct, own, and maintain a roof beam architectural feature that extends over the public right-of-way on South Ninth Street.
Authorizing Wills Eye Hospital, 800 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, its successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain a roof beam architectural embellishment encroaching above the Ninth street public right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance grants Johnny Mañanas Restaurant at 4201 Ridge Avenue permission to operate a sidewalk cafe on the northeast corner of Ridge and Midvale avenues, with 10 tables for up to 20 people.
Granting permission to Johnny Mañanas Restaurant located at 4201 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, to operate and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe on the northeast corner of Ridge and Midvale avenues, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit people and vendors from displaying or selling goods, or leaving sales stands, on sidewalks in the area bordered by and including both sides of Olney Avenue, Cheltenham Avenue, Broad Street, and Fifth Street.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, relating to "Sidewalk Sales" and vending in residential areas by adding a new provision prohibiting sidewalk sales and vending in the area bordered by and including Olney avenue, Cheltenham avenue, Broad street, and Fifth street both sides.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance grants Exclusive Enterprises, Inc.
Granting permission to Exclusive Enterprises, Inc., owner of the property 210 East Lippincott Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134 to operate and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe on the west footway of B street adjacent to 210 East Lippincott street, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit vendors from displaying, offering, or selling goods, or leaving a stand, on the north side of the 5600–5700 block of Baltimore Avenue.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by prohibiting sidewalk vending on portions of Baltimore avenue.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, without payment, a City-owned tract with its buildings and improvements near Thirty-first and Oakford Streets to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), without consideration, a deed conveying fee simple title to a certain tract of City-owned land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate at the southeast corner of Thirty-first and Oakford Streets, generally under and subject to the terms and conditions of the Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Agreement between the City, the PAID, and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance increases the amount any entity may receive from Philadelphia’s Recreation Assistance Program, administered by the Philadelphia Activities Fund, from $5,000 to $6,500 in a fiscal year.
Amending an Ordinance (Bill No. 877), approved September 16, 1994, by amending an exhibit thereto, in order to increase the limit of the amount of funding any entity may receive in any fiscal year.
SIGNED
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The enacted legislation names and designates the gymnasium at the Lonnie Young Recreation Center, located at 1100 East Chelten Avenue, as the “David P.
Naming and designating the gymnasium of the Lonnie Young Recreation Center at 1100 East Chelten avenue as the "David P. Richardson, Jr. Memorial Gymnasium."
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance updates Philadelphia’s rules for restaurant sidewalk cafes.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code ("Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions"), by amending Section 9-208 relating to sidewalk cafes by amending and adding certain provisions for regulating sidewalk cafes; all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted measure expands the area where sidewalk sales are prohibited on both sides of Comly Road, extending the restriction from Caroline Road to Roosevelt Boulevard.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by revising and expanding an existing area in which sidewalk sales are prohibited so as to prohibit sidewalk sales on both sides of Comly road, as extended from Caroline road to Roosevelt boulevard, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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The enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan for an area north of Unruh Avenue and Oakley Street, including removing portions of Kerper Street and Kerper Place.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 253 of the area lying generally northwardly from the intersection of Unruh avenue and Oakley street by striking from the City Plan a portion of Kerper street and Kerper place; by placing on the City Plan certain portions of rights-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes; by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance changes the zoning designations for certain properties in the area bounded by Sixth Street, Randolph Street, Fitzwater Street, and East Passyunk Avenue.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Sixth street, Randolph street, Fitzwater street and East Passyunk avenue.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes Gold Inc., the owner of 1648–1652 East Passyunk Avenue, to construct, own, and maintain a one-story building addition extending about four feet onto the east footway of Twelfth Street.
Authorizing Gold Incorporated to construct, own, and maintain a one story building addition on the east footway of Twelfth street adjacent to the property 1648-1652 East Passyunk avenue, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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