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Approving an amendment to 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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 362, 363 and 366 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 362 as 1520-1542 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 363 as 1525-1543 North Nineteenth street and for Parcel No. 366 as 1501-1509 North Nineteenth street including 1500-1506 North Gratz street and an additional portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 424 (Rev.), 425 (Rev.) and 515 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 424(Rev.) as 1511-53 North Twentieth street including 1914-1924 West Oxford street, for Parcel No. 425(Rev.) as 1902-1906 West Oxford street and for Parcel No. 515 as 1925-1943 West Oxford street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the amendment to the redevelopment contract with the Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract, as amended, and disposition supplement.
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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (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, (hereinafter "Model Cities"), 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 and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter "Cecil B. Moore"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 22, 1987, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has executed a redevelopment contract for a portion of Cecil B. Moore, designated as Parcel Nos. 360 though 366 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 360 as 1500 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 361 as 1514 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 362 as 1520-1542 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 363 as 1525-1543 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 364 as 1519-1521 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 365 as 1515 North Nineteenth street and for Parcel No. 36|1013| as 1501-1509 North Nineteenth street including 1500-1506 North Gratz street and a portion of Model Cities, designated as Parcel Nos. 424 and 425 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 424 as 1511-53 North Twentieth street including 1501-53 North Opal street, 1510-1552 North Opal street, a portion of the Bed of the 1500 block of Opal street & 1914-1924 West Oxford street and for Parcel No. 425 as 1501-1553 North Garnet street including 1902-1906 West Oxford street and the bed of the 1500 block of Garnet street, which said redevelopment contract and disposition supplement were approved by Resolution No. 040687 adopted by the Council of the City of Philadelphia on June 10, 2004; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared an amendment to the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement delete a portion of Cecil B. Moore designated as Parcel Nos. 360, 361, 364 and 365 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 360 as 15|10�13|0 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 361 as 1514 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 364 as 1519-1521 North Nineteenth street and for Parcel No. 365 as 1515 North Nineteenth street and for the redevelopment and urban renewal by the Redeveloper of an additional portion of the Model Cities, designated as Parcel Nos. 424 (Rev.), 425 (Rev.) and 515 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 424 (Rev.) as 1511-53 North Twentieth street including 1914-1924 West Oxford street, for Parcel No. 425 (Rev.) as 1902-1906 West Oxford street and for Parcel No. 515 as 1925-1943 West Oxford street (hereinafter the “Additional Properties”). The areas of said Additional Properties are bounded as follows:
Model Cities Urban Renewal Area.
Parcel No. 424 (Rev.) (1511-1553 North Twentieth street including 1914-1924 West Oxford street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the easterly side of Twentieth street (fifty feet wide) and the southerly side of Oxford street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Twentieth street three hundred ninety one feet to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line at right angles to the said Twentieth street one hundred seventy eight feet to a point on the west side of Uber street (forty feet wide); Thence extending northward along the said side of Uber street three hundred ninety one feet to a point on the said side of Oxford street; Thence extending westward along the said side of Oxford street, one hundred seventy eight feet to the point of intersection with the said Twentieth street being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Parcel No. 425 (Revised)(1902-1906 West Oxford street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the southerly side of West Oxford street (sixty feet wide) and the westerly side of Nineteenth street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Nineteenth street four hundred seventy five feet to a point on the northerly side of Jefferson street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending westward along the said side of Jefferson street, crossing the bed of the said Garnet street, one hundred seventy eight feet to a point on the east side of Uber street (forty feet wide); Thence extending northward along the said side of Uber street four hundred seventy five feet to a point on the said side of Oxford street; Thence extending eastward along the said side of Oxford street, one hundred seventy eight feet to the point of intersection with the said side of Nineteenth street, being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Parcel No. 515 (1925-1943 West Oxford street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the northeast corner of the intersection at North Twentieth street (fifty feet wide) West Oxford street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth along the northerly side of the said Oxford street one hundred seventy nine feet six and one-half inches and extending of the width in length or depth northward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Oxford street and along the easterly side of the said Twentieth street one hundred thirty feet to the southerly side of Turner street (forty feet wide).
The said amendment to the redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plans and the amended redevelopment proposals for Cecil B. Moore and Model Cities approved by the Council.
WHEREAS, Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation (hereinafter “Redeveloper”) desires to enter into the said amendment to the redevelopment contract to include the hereinabove described Additional Properties; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a revised disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations to be imposed upon the Redeveloper.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA That the amendment to the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment, Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of the additional 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 approved redevelopment contract, as amended, and disposition supplement. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved amendment to the redevelopment contract with the Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation (hereinafter "Redeveloper") to include the Additional Properties. The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract, as amended, 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, as amended and disposition supplement hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract, as amended 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, as amended, and disposition supplement.
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