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File #: 000256    Version: 0 Name:
Type: COMMUNICATION Status: PLACED ON FILE
File created: 4/13/2000 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/13/2000
Title: 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 West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel 50 and identified by house number and street address as 5145-5147 Haverford avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Tommie St. Hill and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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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 West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel 50 and identified by house number and street address as 5145-5147 Haverford avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Tommie St. Hill and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.

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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an amended urban renewal plan and an amended redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area, West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "West Mill Creek "), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on May 15,1964, as amended; and

 

                     WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a contract for a portion of West Mill Creek, designated as Parcel No.50 and identified by respective house number and street address as 5145_5147 Haverford avenue (hereinafter the "Property"). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:

 

                     Parcel No. 50(5145-5147 Haverford avenue).

 

                     ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground located in the Forty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point of intersection of the southeasterly side of Folsom street (thirty feet wide) and the northeasterly side of Haverford avenue (eighty feet wide); Thence extending northeastward along the southeasterly side of Folsom street a distance of forty seven feet six and three-quarters inches to an angle point; Thence extending still further northeastward along said Folsom street a distance of thirty eight feet eight and five-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending southwestward along a line at right angles to Haverford avenue a distance of sixty seven feet two inches to the northeasterly side of said Haverford avenue; Thence extending northwestward along the northeasterly side of Haverford avenue a distance of forty one feet two 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 redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and

 

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the Redeveloper.

 

WHEREAS, Tommie St. Hill (hereinafter "Redeveloper") desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the above described Property. 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 portions of West Mill Creek, 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 Tommie St. Hill (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. 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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