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Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by restricting sidewalk sales on certain portions of Woodland Avenue, all under certain terms and conditions

AI summary

This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s rules for commercial activities on streets to prohibit vendors and other people from displaying or selling goods, or leaving sales stands, on both sides of Woodland Avenue between 58th Street and Island Avenue. It also would have removed an exception allowing business owners to conduct sidewalk sales on the sidewalk next to their businesses.

File details

Status
LAPSED
Introduced
February 14, 2019
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Full text

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER 9-200. COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON STREETS

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§ 9-205. Sidewalk Sales.

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(8)

Prohibited Conduct. No vendor or person shall:

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(p)

exhibit, display, offer for sale or sell any goods, wares, or merchandise or place or allow any stand to remain on the sidewalks of the following streets or any other location which the Council shall from time to time ordain:

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(.43)

Both sides of Woodland avenue, between [Sixtieth street and Sixty-seventh]

Fifty-eighth

street

and Island avenue

[, except that sidewalk sales shall be permitted by business owners on the sidewalk abutting their business properties];

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Explanation:

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted.

Italics

indicate new matter added.

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File history

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