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Approving the first amendment to the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area, identified by house number and street address as 6161 West Girard avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the first amendment to the redevelopment contract with Calvary Agape Development Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the first amendment to the redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, In accordance with the provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Law, being the Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 991, as amended and supplemented, the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia has on August 20, 1963, certified the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area as a redevelopment area and has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area dated March 16, 1962, as amended (hereinafter "West Philadelphia"); and
WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has executed a redevelopment contract with Calvary Agape Development Corporation (hereinafter "Redeveloper") for a portion of West Philadelphia, identified by house number and street address as 6161 W. Girard Avenue (the "Property"), which said redevelopment contract was approved by Resolution No. 170645, adopted by Council on June 22, 2017; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a first amendment to the redevelopment contract to, among other things, change the use of the Property and submit revised plans. The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
6161 West Girard avenue.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the building and appurtenances thereto, if any, situate in the Thirty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia and described according to a Survey and Plan thereof, made by George T. Shegog, Esq., Surveyor and Regulator of the Seventh District dated October 6, 1949, as follows, to wit: Beginning at the point formed by the intersection of the northeastwardly side of Girard avenue (sixty feet wide) and the southeasterly side of Sixty-second street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending north eleven degrees, one minute, east along the said side of Sixty-second street sixty-one feet, two and five-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending south seventy- nine degrees, forty-eight minutes, thirty-nine seconds east through a wall nine feet to a point; Thence extending northeastwardly on a line at right angles to Girard avenue through a wall three inches to a point; Thence extending southeastwardly on a line parallel with Girard avenue through a wall fifteen feet to a point; Thence extending south ten degrees, thirty-eight minutes, thirty-seven seconds west along the center line of a wall forty-two feet, eight inches to a point; Thence extending southwestwardly through a wall on a line at right angles to Girard avenue eighteen feet, eleven and one-quarter inches to a point on the northeasterly side of Girard avenue aforesaid; Thence extending north seventy-eight degrees, fifty-nine minutes, west along the said side of Girard avenue twenty-four feet, three and three-eighths inches to the first mentioned point of intersection and place of beginning.
The said first amendment to the redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended redevelopment area plan approved by Council; and
WHEREAS, Calvary Agape Development Corporation desires to enter into the said first amendment to the redevelopment contract for the Property.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the first amendment to the redevelopment contract submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of the West Philadelphia 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 first amendment to the redevelopment contract. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved first amendment to the redevelopment contract with Calvary Agape Development Corporation (hereinafter "Redeveloper"). The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the first amendment 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 first amendment to the redevelopment contract. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the first amendment to 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 first amendment to the redevelopment contract.
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