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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Meeting date
January 29, 2004
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings on strategies to increase immigration to Philadelphia and improve immigrants’ experiences in the city.
Authorizing City Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings on strategies to increase foreign immigration to Philadelphia and to improve the immigrant experience within Philadelphia.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have required people licensed for certain street-based commercial activities—such as curb markets, street vending, sidewalk sales, sidewalk cafes, telephone booths, news boxes, and newsstands—to obtain written consent from the owner of the abutting property.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities On Streets," by requiring persons licensed under that Chapter (including under Section 9-201 ("Curb Markets"); Section 9-203 ("Street Vendors"); Section 9-204 ("Sidewalk Vendors in Center City"); Section 9-205 ("Sidewalk Sales"); Section 9-206 ("Sidewalk Vendors in Neighborhood Business Districts"); Section 9-208 ("Sidewalk Cafes"); Section 9-210 ("Telephone Booths"); Section 9-211 ("Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material"); and Section 9-212 ("Newsstands")) to obtain the consent of the property owner abutting the location at which the licensed commercial activities are conducted, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited permitted vending locations on both sides of Twelfth Street between Arch Street and Chestnut Street to vendors licensed to sell prepared food.
Amending the Ordinance approved January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1205-AA), which, pursuant to subsection 9-204(8)(a) of The Philadelphia Code, designates the locations in Center City at which vending is permitted, by providing that all permitted vendor locations on both sides of Twelfth Street between Arch Street and Chestnut Street shall be assigned only to vendors licensed to sell prepared food, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have changed permitted vending locations on Eighth and Ninth Streets between Arch Street and Market Street so they could be assigned only to vendors licensed to sell prepared food.
Amending the Ordinance approved January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1205-AA), as amended, which, pursuant to subsection 9-204(8)(a) of The Philadelphia Code, designates the locations in Center City at which vending is permitted, by providing that all permitted vendor locations on both sides of Eighth Street and Ninth Street between Arch Street and Market Street shall be assigned only to vendors licensed to sell prepared food, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited all permitted vendor locations on both sides of Eleventh Street between Arch Street and Chestnut Street to vendors licensed to sell prepared food.
Amending the Ordinance approved January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1205-AA), which, pursuant to subsection 9-204(8)(a) of The Philadelphia Code, designates the locations in Center City at which vending is permitted, by providing that all permitted vendor locations on both sides of Eleventh Street between Arch Street and Chestnut Street shall be assigned only to vendors licensed to sell prepared food, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have changed how Philadelphia determines the portion of a business’s net income subject to the Business Privilege Tax.
Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," by amending the definition of "Net Income" with respect to determining what portion of net income is properly attributable to the doing of business in Philadelphia and therefore subject to tax, and by making technical amendments; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited the Philadelphia Revenue Commissioner’s examination of taxpayer returns to the most recent three years, or six years when a tax understatement exceeded 20%.
Amending Chapter 19-500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Taxes and Rents--General," by providing for time limitations on examinations and assessments, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Meeting date
January 22, 2004
The enacted bill requires the City and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID) to enter into an agreement before City Council can approve certain PAID real estate transactions.
Requiring the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development to enter into a certain agreement with the City regarding Authority transactions involving non-City government agencies as a condition of Council approval of future Authority transactions under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes 111 S.
Authorizing 111 S. 15th Street Associates LLP, 232 N. Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, its successors and assigns, to construct and maintain a marquee, raised planters and rigid awnings on and over the public footways on Chestnut Street, S. 15th Street and Sansom Street adjacent to the property, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to purchase, for $335,000, about 9.97 acres of land and its buildings near Algon Avenue and Fox Chase Road from Jane W.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to purchase fee simple title to a certain parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated on the Northwest side of Algon Avenue at Fox Chase Road, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain areas of land bounded by Roosevelt Boulevard, Southampton Road, Carter Street, and Poquessing Creek.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Roosevelt Boulevard, Southampton Road, Carter Street and the Poquessing Creek.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes the zoning designations for four parcels near McNulty and Townsend Roads.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located in the vicinity of McNulty and Townsend Roads under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance grants 900 S.
Granting permission to 900 S. Front Street, LLC, owner of the property 900 S. Front Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, to operate and maintain an open air sidewalk cafe on the southwest corner of Front and Christian Streets, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Robert Bitros permission to operate a sidewalk cafe with 10 tables and chairs on the east sidewalk of N.
Granting permission to Robert Bitros, owner of the property 931-933 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123, to operate and maintain an open air sidewalk cafe on the east sidewalk of N. 2nd Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance allows Ride the Ducks International LLC to replace its existing ticket booth on the west sidewalk of South Independence Mall West between Ranstead and Chestnut Streets with a larger kiosk.
Amending Section 1(a) and (c) of an Ordinance (Bill No. 030344) approved July 31, 2003, entitled "An Ordinance 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 6th 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," by enlarging the ticket booth kiosk with the conditions stated therein.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Nehal Desai and Raju Desai, owners of the newsstand at 13th and Market Streets, permission to install and maintain electrical and telephone conduits under the surrounding public rights-of-way to serve the newsstand.
Granting permission to Nehal Desai and Raju Desai, owners of the newsstand at the corner of 13th & Market Streets, 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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill amended the Philadelphia Code to designate a Pending Public Acquisition District.
Amending Section 14-1200 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "Pending Public Acquisition District," by designating a Pending Public Acquisition District in the area bounded on the east by North Thirteenth Street, on the north by Race Street, on the west by North Broad Street and on the south by Arch Street.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have reduced Philadelphia’s business privilege tax rates on business receipts and net income over time.
Amending Section 19-2604 of The Philadelphia Code, relating to tax rates, credits and alternative tax computation for the business privilege tax, by reducing certain tax rates; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.