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Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City to convey to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a certain parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon situate on the northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue near Shelbourne Street, being a portion of the Ryers Station parking lot, for further conveyance to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, under certain terms and conditions.

AI summary

The enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to convey a parcel that is part of the Ryers Station parking lot, near Cottman Avenue and Shelbourne Street, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development. The property would then be conveyed to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for fair market value, under terms approved by the City Solicitor.

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Status
ENACTED
Introduced
March 18, 2010
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City of Philadelphia is hereby authorized to convey to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, a certain parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate on the northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue near Shelbourne Street, being a portion of the Ryers Station parking lot, generally described as follows, for further conveyance to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for fair market value:

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Sixty-third Ward of the City of Philadelphia and described according to a plan made by John J. McKeough, Jr., Surveyor and Regulator of the First District on September 9, 1965, as follows to wit:

BEGINNING at a point on the Northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue (seventy feet wide) partly in Philadelphia County and partly in Montgomery County, measured South fifty-one degrees, twelve minutes and fifty-six seconds East along the said Northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue the distance of one hundred twenty feet from the Southeasterly side of Shelbourne Street (sixty feet wide) thence extending north thirty-nine degrees fifty-nine minutes three seconds East along the Southeasterly side of a twelve feet wide driveway which extends Northeasterly from Cottman Avenue one hundred seventy-one feet and one-eighth inch to a point, thence South fifty-two degrees thirty-four minutes and eleven seconds East one hundred twenty-one feet eight and seven-eighths inches to a point, thence Southwestwardly on the arc of a circle curving to the right; having a radius of two thousand eight hundred thirty-seven feet nine and one-quarter inches, the arc length of one hundred seventy-three feet ten and five-eighths inches to a point on the said Northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue, thence North fifty-one degrees, twelve minutes, fifty-six seconds West along the said Northeasterly side of Cottman Avenue, one hundred twenty-seven feet and one-quarter inch to a point; being the first mentioned point and place of beginning. TOGETHER with the free and common use, right, liberty and privilege of the aforesaid driveway as and for a driveway and watercourse at all times hereafter, forever in common with the owners, tenants and occupiers of the lots of ground bounding thereon and entitled to the use thereof, SUBJECT to the proportionate part of the expense of keeping said driveway in good order and repair.

SECTION 2. The City Solicitor is hereby authorized to review and approve all instruments and documents necessary to effectuate this Ordinance, which instruments and documents shall contain such terms and conditions as the City Solicitor shall deem necessary and proper to protect the interests of the City and to carry out the purposes of this Ordinance.

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File history

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  1. Council actionMAYOR

    Signed

  2. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Read

  3. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Ordered placed on next week`s second reading calendar

    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Suspend the rules of the council

    Pass
    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Ordered placed on this day`s first reading calendar

  4. Council actionCommittee on Public Property and Public Works

    Reported favorably, rule suspension requested

    Council actionCommittee on Public Property and Public Works

    Hearing held

    Council actionCommittee on Public Property and Public Works

    Hearing notices sent

  5. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Introduced

    Pass
    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Referred