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Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 517 and 518 also sometimes identified by respective house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 517 as 3220-3224 Clifford street and for Parcel No. 518 as 3219-3221 Cecil B. Moore avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Vernon House Housing Partnership, L.P. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia as hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority", has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, as hereinafter "Model Cities", for which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 15, 1969, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, designated as Parcel Nos. 517 and 518 also sometimes identified by respective house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 517 as 3220-3224 Clifford street and Parcel No. 518 as 3219-3221 Cecil B. Moore avenue (hereinafter “Properties”). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 517 (3220-3224 Clifford street). All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-ninth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the east side of Natrona street (thirty feet wide) and the south side of Clifford street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Clifford street forty six feet four inches and extending of that width in length or depth southward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Clifford street and along the easterly side of the said Natrona street ninety feet to a point on the north side of Hollingsworth street (thirty feet wide).
Parcel No. 518 (3219-3221 Cecil B. Moore avenue). All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-ninth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the east side of Natrona street (thirty feet wide) and the north side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Cecil B. Moore avenue thirty seven feet and extending of that width in length or depth northward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue and along the easterly side of the said Natrona street one hundred feet to a point on the southerly side of Hollingsworth street (thirty feet wide).
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council.
WHEREAS, Vernon House Housing Partnership, L.P. desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for Properties; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon Properties.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of Model Cities, as hereinabove more particularly described, is hereby approved. City Council authorizes the Redevelopment Authority to proceed with minor changes in substantial conformity with the hereby approved redevelopment contract and disposition supplement. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Vernon House Housing Partnership, L.P. hereinafter "Redeveloper"). The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract as may be necessary to carry it out.
RESOLVED, The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to prepare or cause to be prepared for introduction into the Council such ordinances or resolutions as may be necessary for changes in zoning, streets, alleys, public ways, street patterns, location and relocation of public utilities, and related items which are required in order to facilitate and effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
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