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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 New Kensington - Fishtown Redevelopment Area, designated as Parcel No. 21 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 2000-2008 Frankford avenue, authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with New Kensington Community Development Corporation 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 (hereinafter “Redevelopment Authority”) has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the New Kensington - Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter “New Kensington - Fishtown”), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 13, 1997, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Commission has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the New Kensington - Fishtown Redevelopment Area dated November 7, 1996; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of the New Kensington - Fishtown Redevelopment Area, designated as Parcel No. 21 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 2000-2008 Frankford avenue (hereinafter “Property”) The area of said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 21(2200-08 Frankford avenue).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground located in the Thirty-first Ward of the City of Philadelphia with the buildings and improvements beginning at a point of intersection of the northerly side of East Susquehanna avenue and the westerly side of Frankford avenue; Thence extending Northward along the westerly side of Frankford avenue a distance of eighty seven feet eight inches to a point; Thence extending north fifty one degrees fourteen minutes forty three seconds west a distance of sixty feet to a point; Thence extending south thirty nine degrees four minutes seventeen seconds west a distance of twenty eight feet seven and five-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending northwestward along a line of property now or late of Joan Sutton a distance of forty feet, more or less, to a point on the easterly side of Blair street; Thence extending southward along the easterly side of Blair street twenty eight feet ten and one-half inches to the northerly side of aforementioned East Susquehanna avenue; Thence extending eastward along the northerly side of Susquehanna avenue a distance of one hundred five feet five and three-eighths inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council.
WHEREAS, New Kensington Community Development Corporation desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Property.
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the Redeveloper.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter “Redevelopment Authority”) for the redevelopment of that portion of the New Kensington - Fishtown Redevelopment Area, 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. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with New Kensington Community Development Corporation, (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 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.
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