READ AND PASSED

The enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to acquire all or part of certain parcels between Princeton Avenue, Pennypack Path, the Delaware River, and State Road in the Tacony-Holmesburg area. The land may be acquired through purchase, donation, dedication, condemnation, or other agreements to create, expand, connect, extend, operate, and maintain public parks for recreation.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire fee simple title or a lesser interest, by purchase, dedication, donation, condemnation, agreement in lieu of condemnation or otherwise, of certain parcels of land along the Delaware River in the Tacony-Holmesburg area for the purpose of making, enlarging, connecting, extending, operating and maintaining public parks for recreational use, under certain terms and conditions.