READ AND PASSED

The enacted bill approves the first amendment to the redevelopment proposal for the Franklin Town Project in the Center City Redevelopment Area, near Spring Garden and Twenty-first streets. The amendment changes land-use rules to allow religious institutions, adjusts building setbacks and height limits in parts of the project area, adds glazing requirements for some buildings, and sets rules for gates, fences, and walls.

Approving the first amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Center City Redevelopment Area, Franklin Town Project, being the area beginning in the vicinity of Spring Garden and Twenty-first streets, which provides, inter alia, for amending the land use map and regulations to add religious institutional as a permitted use, modifying the regulations to exclude certain portions of the project area from building setbacks and adjusting height limitations, and for amending the regulations by adding provisions related to gates, fences and walls within certain portions of the project area.