PASSED

This enacted measure changes how the City pays contractors for paving or repaving alleys and driveways and building or rebuilding retaining walls when the work is ordered to address a nuisance. It allows the City to pay contractors with endorsed assessment bills when the contract permits and caps the amount assessed to affected property owners at $50 per assessable linear foot; unpaid bills may become liens with a 6% penalty after 30 days.

Amending Section 11-506 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Alleys, Driveways, and Retaining Walls," by providing additional methods by which the City may pay contractors the City hires to pave or repave alleys or driveways or to construct or reconstruct retaining walls pursuant to orders to abate nuisances, and by providing a maximum amount that property owners may be assessed for the costs of such work; all under certain terms and conditions.