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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Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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June 11, 2009
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution supporting the creation of a Pennsylvania Consumer Workforce Council and urging Governor Rendell to establish it.
Urging Governor Rendell to create the Pennsylvania Consumer Workforce Council.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
Introduced (By Request) and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
City Council approved the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development’s acquisition of properties at 4610-14, 4616-20, and 4622 Market Street from SEPTA for a nominal payment.
Approving the acquisition by the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID), for nominal consideration, of real property located at 4610-14 Market Street, 4616-20 Market Street, and 4622 Market Street from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have expanded off-street parking options for motor-driven cycles, including motorcycles.
Amending Chapter 12-900 of The Traffic Code, entitled "Parking Regulations and Penalties," and amending Chapter 9-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Service and Other Businesses," to increase the available off-street options for the parking of motor-driven cycles; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure added rules for how the City must publicize Council bill hearings and committee-reported bills, certain contracts open for competitive bidding, and regulations proposed by City departments, boards, and commissions.
Amending Title 21 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Miscellaneous," by adding a new chapter with provisions relating to how and when required notices shall be published and advertised; all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance changes the curblines of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and nearby intersections between Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Streets, including widening parts of the Parkway’s sidewalks and modifying traffic islands.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 63 and 67 by relocating the northeasterly and southwesterly curblines of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from Twenty-First Street to points northwest of Twenty-Second Street; relocating portions of the curblines of intersections affected thereby; striking from the City Plan and vacating Callowhill Street from Twenty-First Street to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; and by placing on the City Plan a right of way for various utility purposes within the lines of Callowhill Street being stricken.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance adds a 3.45% annual assessment on net operating revenue, excluding Medicare revenue, for certain nonprofit hospitals in Philadelphia that provide more than 90,000 days of care to Medicaid patients and are subsidiaries of state-related institutions.
Amending Chapter 19-3500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "General Acute Care Hospital Assessment," by adding an assessment upon the Net Operating Revenue of certain specified hospitals located in the City of Philadelphia; all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the President of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Executive Director of Fairmount Park to enter into a lease making the City the landlord and the Center City District the tenant of Sister Cities Plaza.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Executive Director of Fairmount Park to enter into a lease agreement between the City of Philadelphia as landlord and the Center City District as tenant for a certain parcel of land bounded by 18th Street, Logan Square, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Vine Street, commonly referred to as Sister Cities Plaza, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to enter into a lease agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia for the land and buildings at 328 W.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City to enter into an agreement to lease to the Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia a certain parcel of land and improvements located at 328 W. Coulter Street, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer the land and buildings at 1402–1412 West Erie Avenue to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to convey certain tracts of land with the buildings and improvements thereon known as 1402-1412 West Erie Avenue, located on the south side of West Erie Avenue, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorized the Commissioner of Public Property to record a permanent conservation covenant for a tidal wetland within Bartram’s Garden, a park and botanical garden at 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to record a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants for Conservation with the Philadelphia County Recorder of Deeds on that certain deed conveying a parcel of land to the City of Philadelphia dated June 17, 1897 and recorded on June 18, 1897 in deed book WMG, Number 192, Page 155, for conservation of a tidal wetland located within Bartram's Garden, a park and botanical garden located at 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Public Property Commissioner to transfer about 3.21 acres of City-owned land, including any improvements, south of Pattison Avenue and east of I-95 to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City of Philadelphia to convey to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development all or part of a certain irregularly shaped parcel of land and any improvements thereon situate in an area generally located south of Pattison Avenue and east of I-95, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted measure creates special zoning controls for properties on both sides of Front Street between Girard Avenue and Oxford Street.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Chapter 14-1600, entitled "Miscellaneous," by adding a new Section, entitled "North Central Front Street Special District Controls," all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance changed zoning designations and development rules for land bounded by Cecil B.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 11th Street, Montgomery Avenue and 12th Street; amending Section 14-1402 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parking in Residential Districts;" and by amending Section 14-305 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "C-4 Commercial and C-5 Commercial Districts," all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance extends the period of tax exemptions, abatements, or credits for certain properties in Philadelphia’s Keystone Opportunity Zones and economic development districts, subject to approval by Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development.
Amending Chapter 19-3200, entitled "Keystone Opportunity Zone And Economic Development District," by providing for extensions of the term of benefits for certain properties, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted law prohibits Philadelphia food establishments from selling expired nonprescription drugs, infant formula, baby food, or milk, milk products, and eggs past their sell-by dates, and prohibits altering or removing those dates.
Amending the Health Code, Title 6 of The Philadelphia Code, by amending Section 6-102 entitled "Definitions" and by creating a new Section 6-309 entitled "Outdated Products" to prohibit the sale of expired non-prescription drugs, infant formula, baby food, milk, milk products and eggs, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill amended Philadelphia’s Health Code to remove the requirement that mobile food vendor licenses be renewed every six months; licenses generally remain in force for one year unless revoked.
Amending Title 6 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Health Code," to eliminate the requirement of semiannual license renewal for mobile food vendors and to provide for protective gloves and head coverings as established in regulations of the Board of Health, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure amends Philadelphia’s Health Code to prohibit applying lead-based coatings to jewelry and certain other items, except where federal law allows it.
Amending Section 6-403 of Title 6 ("Health Code") of The Philadelphia Code, to establish prohibitions on items containing lead and to add jewelry to the list of items that may not receive or maintain a lead-based coating, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.