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
The enacted ordinance names the Southwark Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia at 932 South Seventh Street the Charles Santore Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Naming and designating the Southwark Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia located at 932 South Seventh street as the "Charles Santore Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia."
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The enacted measure expands Philadelphia’s restrictions on skateboarding, rollerblading, and bicycling on certain public property and on privately owned areas open to the public when the owner posts a prohibition.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code relating to "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," by amending Section 10-610 entitled "Skateboarding on Public Property" and Section 10-1608, entitled "Hearings," to prohibit additional conduct, revise enforcement procedures, and make certain technical amendments, all under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted bill approved Philadelphia Gas Works’ Fiscal Year 2003 capital budget of up to $67.694 million and acknowledged its forecast for capital budgets from Fiscal Years 2004 through 2008.
Approving the Fiscal Year 2003 Capital Budget providing for expenditures for the capital purposes of the Philadelphia Gas Works, including the supplying of funds to be obtained in connection therewith, and acknowledging receipt of the Forecast of Capital Budgets for Fiscal Years 2004 through 2008.
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This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Lehigh avenue, Aramingo avenue, a railroad right-of-way and the Delaware Expressway.
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This enacted bill authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to enter into a 10-year sublease with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority for portions of Three Parkway at 1601-45 Cherry Street.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a Sublease Agreement to lease from the Philadelphia Municipal Authority portions of the building located at 1601-45 Cherry street, also known as Three Parkway, for use by the City and affiliated agencies as office space, under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
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This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Broad street, Cecil B. Moore avenue, Fifteenth street and Oxford street.
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This enacted measure amended Philadelphia’s rules for dance halls to prohibit pyrotechnic devices, fireworks, explosives, and similar materials inside those venues.
Amending Chapter 9-700 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "Amusement Businesses," by amending Section 9-703 to prohibit the use of pyrotechnic devices, fireworks, explosives or similar materials within dance halls; all under certain terms and conditions.
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Meeting date
July 23, 2003
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to revise the mapped curb and house lines of Delaware Avenue between Tioga Street and Wheatsheaf Lane so they more closely match existing conditions.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 197 by narrowing Delaware Avenue, from Tioga Street to Wheatsheaf Lane, to conform more closely with existing as-built conditions and, if necessary, reserving and placing on the City Plan a certain right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia to acquire a specific parcel on the south side of Bartram Avenue for use by Philadelphia International Airport.
Authorizing real estate transactions necessary to permit the City of Philadelphia to acquire property needed for use by the Philadelphia International Airport; in particular, authorizing the Director of Commerce and the Commissioner of Public Property to acquire, by amicable negotiation, swap or by condemnation, any and all interests in a certain parcel of property located on the south side of Bartram avenue within the limits of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Meeting date
July 7, 2003
This enacted ordinance approves a project for Drexel University College of Medicine and declares that Philadelphia’s Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority may issue up to $41 million in revenue bonds for it.
Declaring it desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people in the area served by Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which operates a graduate school of medicine under the authority of Drexel University and provides medical education under the name "Drexel University College of Medicine," and which operates facilities at its Center City Hahnemann campus and its Queen Lane campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to undertake a project for Drexel University College of Medicine.
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The enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia officials to apply for federal and state funding for housing and community development programs, including community development, affordable housing, emergency shelters, housing for people with AIDS, and blight prevention.
Authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City, to file applications with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and to use the Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program; authorizing the Housing Director to file applications with HUD to participate in the HOME Investment Partnership program and the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program; authorizing the Housing Director, on behalf of the City, to file an application with HUD for a Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) grant; authorizing the Managing Director, on behalf of the City, to file an application or applications to obtain grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the Act of April 12, 1956, P.L. 1449, Section 4, as amended, to prevent and eliminate blight; and, authorizing the Mayor, the Housing Director and the Managing Director to enter into all understandings and assurances contained in such applications and take all necessary action to...
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This enacted ordinance authorized The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to refinance outstanding 1993 bonds for health centers providing intermediate care and habilitation services.
Declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety and welfare of citizens of the City of Philadelphia that The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia undertake a project involving the current refunding of the Authority's Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series of 1993 (Philadelphia MR Project) that remain outstanding, and to issue and sell Revenue Refunding Bonds for the purpose of financing such refunding project; authorizing the Authority to undertake the refunding project; authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to enter into a supplemental lease with the Authority providing for such refunding project; providing for the terms of such supplemental lease; covenanting to be bound by the terms of the supplemental lease, providing that the rental payments thereunder do not exceed revenues derived by the City from the operation of the MR Facilities; covenanting to make appropriations in each fiscal year of the City to provide for re...
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This enacted bill approves the seventh amendment to the redevelopment and urban renewal plans for the Southwest Temple Urban Renewal Area.
Approving the Seventh amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Southwest Temple Urban Renewal Area, being the area situate in the Twentieth Ward beginning at the intersection of the northerly side of Columbia avenue and the easterly side of Broad street, including the seventh amendment to the urban renewal plan and the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately two (2) properties for commercial and related uses; a change of the land use and related controls for the area generally bounded by West Girard avenue, North Ninth street, Hutchinson street and Thompson street from industrial and related uses to commercial 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.
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This enacted ordinance approves the thirty-first amendment to the redevelopment proposal for the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area in North Philadelphia.
Approving the thirty-first 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-third amendment to the urban renewal plan and the twenty-second amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately four hundred eighty-one (481) properties for residential and related uses; the additional land acquisition of approximately thirteen (13) additional properties for commercial and related reuse; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project.
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This enacted bill approves the first amendment to the redevelopment and urban renewal plans for the Brewerytown Urban Renewal Area, bounded generally by Oxford Avenue, Thirtieth Street, Girard Avenue, Thirty-third Street, and the Amtrak Railroad right-of-way.
Approving the first amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Brewerytown Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by Oxford avenue on the north, Thirtieth street on the east, Girard avenue on the south, Thirty-third street on the west and the Amtrak Railroad right-of-way on the northwest, including the first amendment to the urban renewal plan and the first amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately nineteen (19) 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.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill approves the eleventh amendment to the redevelopment and urban renewal plans for the Cecil B.
Approving the eleventh amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by Fifteenth street on the east, Jefferson street on the south, Nineteenth street on the west and Montgomery avenue on the north, including the eleventh amendment to the urban renewal plan and the seventh amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately five (5) properties for residential and related uses; the additional land acquisition of approximately four (4) properties for commercial 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.
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance approves the fourteenth amendment to the redevelopment and urban renewal plans for Philadelphia’s South Central Urban Renewal Area.
Approving the fourteenth amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the South Central Urban Renewal Area, being the area beginning at the intersection of the southerly side of Washington avenue projected and the easterly side of Delaware avenue, including the fourteenth amendment to the urban renewal plan and the twelfth amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately four (4) properties for residential and related reuses; the additional land acquisition of one (1) property for commercial and related reuse; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project.
SIGNED
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This enacted bill approved the fourth amendment to the redevelopment and urban renewal plans for the New Kensington and Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, including acquiring about 66 additional properties for residential and related uses.
Approving the fourth amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the New Kensington and Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by the rear property lines on the northerly side of Lehigh avenue on the north, the centerline of Delaware avenue and I-95 on the east, the southerly side of Laurel street on the south and the rear property lines on the westerly side of Front street and Kensington avenue on the west, including the fourth amendment to the urban renewal plan and the second amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately sixty-six (66) 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.
SIGNED
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