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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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June 13, 2019
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring and recognizing the Math, Civics & Sciences Charter School basketball team, the “Mighty Elephants,” for winning the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class A State Championship on March 22, 2019.
Honoring and recognizing the Math, Civics & Sciences Charter School Basketball Team, the "Mighty Elephants" for Winning the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class A State Championship.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring the First Haitian Church of God of Philadelphia for its 40th anniversary.
Honoring the First Haitian Church of God of Philadelphia on the Occasion of its 40th Anniversary Celebration.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution recognizes and honors Philadelphia city workers and partner organizations for their work during the Office of Homeless Services’ 2018–2019 Winter Initiative and the Managing Director’s Office Encampment Resolution Pilot.
Recognizing and honoring the City of Philadelphia workers and partners for saving lives through their steadfast work and dedicated public service as part of the Office of Homeless Services' 2018-2019 Winter Initiative and Managing Director's Office Encampment Resolution Pilot program.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove and vacate a portion of Old York Road from the City Plan near Sixty-Sixth Avenue, reducing the road’s width in that area to 50 feet.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 242 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of the bed of Old York Road, on the southeasterly side thereof, from a point approximately fifty-five feet southwest of Sixty-Sixth Avenue to a point approximately two-hundred eighty-four feet further southwestwardly therefrom, thereby reducing the width of Old York Road within this area, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Frank Strawbridge to own and maintain a sign anchored in the sidewalk’s public right-of-way at 801 Market Street, subject to the location limits and City requirements in the ordinance.
Authorizing Frank Strawbridge to own and maintain a sign anchored into the sidewalk in the Public Right-of-Way at 801 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have authorized Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer some or all of City-owned parcels near Frankford Avenue, East Butler Street, Wheatsheaf Lane, and the former Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad right-of-way to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to convey to Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development all or a portion of a parcel or parcels of land in and about the area bounded by Frankford Avenue, East Butler Street, Wheatsheaf Lane and the railroad right-of-way of the former Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance adds requirements for gender-neutral bathrooms in City buildings.
Amending Section 16-104 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Gender-Neutral Bathrooms," to impose additional requirements regarding installation of gender-neutral bathrooms in City buildings; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance requires organizations and institutions that serve people under 18—including educational, recreational, and residential programs—to adopt and share policies prohibiting discrimination against transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.
Amending Chapter 9-1100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Fair Practices Ordinance: Protections Against Unlawful Discrimination," by adding a new Section 9-1133, to require that institutions or organizations that serve youth adopt and make known policy guidelines providing for non-discriminatory treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming youth, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes paving Sigma Way between Erdrick Street and Tackawanna Street, and Tackawanna Street between Vankirk Street and Sigma Way.
Authorizing the paving of Sigma Way, from Erdrick Street to Tackawanna Street, and Tackawanna Street, from Vankirk Street to Sigma Way, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance extended, to January 14, 2021, the deadline for meeting requirements tied to an earlier ordinance that changed the City Plan for portions of Fourth and Lippincott Streets and established sewer and drainage rights-of-way.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 120903) approved January 14, 2013, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 156 by striking from the City Plan Fourth Street from Allegheny Avenue to Lippincott Street, striking from the City Plan Lippincott Street from Fourth Street to its terminus westwardly therefrom, reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes within the lines of Lippincott Street being stricken, placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes extending from the intersection of Fourth Street and Lippincott Street eastwardly to the intersection of American Street and Lippincott Street, and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes extending from the intersection of Clearfield Street, Fourth Street, and Gurney Street northeastwardly to the intersection of American Street and Lippincott Street and authorizing the acceptance...
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to add portions of Sigma Way and Tackawanna Street to the official City Plan in the area northeast of Vankirk Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 270 by placing on the City Plan Sigma Way from Erdrick Street to Tackawanna Street, northeast of Vankirk Street, and Tackawanna Street from Vankirk Street to Sigma Way, northwest of Erdrick Street, under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City of the beds of said Sigma Way and Tackawanna Street.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to acquire full or partial interests in parcels along the Schuylkill River between South Street and Grays Ferry Avenue.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire fee simple title or a lesser interest, by purchase, dedication, donation, condemnation, agreement in lieu of condemnation or otherwise, in parcels of land generally bounded by South Street, the Bulkhead Line of the Schuylkill River and Grays Ferry Avenue for public recreational purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The pocket-vetoed bill would have created Philadelphia rules requiring certain large or high-impact development projects receiving City support or financial assistance to enter into Community Benefits Agreements with the affected community.
Establishing a new Chapter 17-2300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Community Benefits Agreements," and requiring Community Benefits Agreements for certain High Impact Projects or Development Projects that receive City Support or Financial Assistance; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance extended the deadline for meeting the conditions of a 2017 ordinance concerning the widening of part of University Avenue near Curie Boulevard.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 170002) approved May 22, 2017, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 269 by relocating the easterly houseline of University Avenue, from a point approximately five-hundred forty-five feet north of Curie Boulevard to a point approximately two-hundred thirty-six feet further northwardly therefrom, a variable distance eastwardly, thereby widening said University Avenue, under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City, without cost and free and clear of all encumbrances, of the bed of the said widened portion of University Avenue," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for land within an area bounded by Baring Street, Saunders Avenue, Powelton Avenue, 38th Street, Filbert Street, Sloan Street, Powelton Avenue, and 39th Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Baring Street, Saunders Avenue, Powelton Avenue, 38th Street, Filbert Street, Sloan Street, Powelton Avenue, and 39th Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have started the process to continue the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District, covering certain existing and future hotel properties, through December 31, 2039.
Initiating action to continue a business improvement district encompassing certain existing and future hotel properties within the boundaries of the City of Philadelphia (the "City"), known as the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District (the "District"), and to continue the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District Corporation as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association (the "NIDMA") of the District; approving a preliminary plan and report for the District; and authorizing and directing the Committee on Rules and the Clerk of Council to take all actions that are required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act (the "Act"), prior to adoption of an ordinance that would formally continue the District.
ORDER THE RESOLUTION PLACED ON NEXT WEEK'S SUSPENSION CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have increased civil penalties for various parking, stopping, and standing violations, including higher fines in Center City and University City.
Amending Section 12-2809 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Civil Penalties and Costs," by amending penalties for certain parking, standing or stopping violations.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have increased civil penalties for various parking, stopping, and standing violations, including higher fines in Center City and University City.
Amending Section 12-2809 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Civil Penalties and Costs," by amending penalties for certain parking, standing or stopping violations.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.