Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area designated as Parcel No. 29 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 887 June street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Housing Authority and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.

WHEREAS,

The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an amended urban renewal plan and an amended redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the 44th and Aspen Redevelopment Area, 44th & Aspen Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "44th & Aspen "), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on July 7, 2003, as amended; and

WHEREAS

, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract which includes,

inter alia

, a portion of 44th & Aspen designated as Parcel No. 29 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 887 June street (the “Property”). The areas of the Property is bounded as follows:

Parcel No. 29 (887 June street).

All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the east side of June street (thirty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred nineteen feet six inches south from the south side of Westminster avenue (sixty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said June street fourteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth eastward between parallel lines at right angles to the said June street thirty eight feet six inches to a point on the west side of a certain three feet wide alley that extends southward and communicates with a certain four feet wide alley that extends eastward into Forty-sixth street (sixty feet wide).

The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plans and the amended redevelopment proposals approved by the Council; and

WHEREAS,

Philadelphia Housing Authority (hereinafter “Redeveloper”) desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Property; and

WHEREAS,

The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing,

inter alia

, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the Redeveloper.

RESOLVED,

BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of Greenway, Mantua and West Philadelphia, as hereinabove more particularly described, is hereby approved. City Council authorizes the Redevelopment Authority to proceed with minor changes in substantial conformity with the hereby approved redevelopment contract. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Housing Authority (hereinafter "Redeveloper"). The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract as may be necessary to carry it out.

RESOLVED

, The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to prepare or cause to be prepared for introduction into the Council such ordinances or resolutions as may be necessary for changes in zoning, streets, alleys, public ways, street patterns, location and relocation of public utilities, and related items which are required in order to facilitate and effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the redevelopment contract.

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