PASSED

This enacted bill authorized the Commissioner of Public Property to record a permanent conservation covenant for a tidal wetland within Bartram’s Garden, a park and botanical garden at 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard. The covenant preserves the area’s natural features and limits activities such as construction, excavation, dumping, and the introduction of non-native species, while allowing certain conservation and approved project-related activities; it binds future interests in the property.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to record a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants for Conservation with the Philadelphia County Recorder of Deeds on that certain deed conveying a parcel of land to the City of Philadelphia dated June 17, 1897 and recorded on June 18, 1897 in deed book WMG, Number 192, Page 155, for conservation of a tidal wetland located within Bartram's Garden, a park and botanical garden located at 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, under certain terms and conditions.