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Authorizing the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation to execute a lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), obligating PAID to execute a sublease with the Zoological Society of Philadelphia (the "Society"), under which the Society would construct, manage, operate, maintain, and repair a multi-story parking garage and related streetscape improvements along West Girard Avenue, and exempting the proposed lease from the requirements of Philadelphia Code Section 15-101 et seq., commonly called the "Open Lands Protection Ordinance," because the Society has already satisfied the requirements of the Open Lands Protection Ordinance, all under certain terms and conditions.