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Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 703, 704 and 705 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 703 as 2126 North Twenty-eighth street, for Parcel No. 704 as 2152-2154 North Twenty-eighth street and for Parcel No. 705 as 2155-2157 North Twenty-eighth street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Project H.O.M.E. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
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WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (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 a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the redeveloper; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, designated as Parcel Nos. 703, 704 and 705 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 703 as 2126 North Twenty-eighth street, for Parcel No. 704 as 2152-2154 North Twenty-eighth street and for Parcel No. 705 as 2155-2157 North Twenty-eighth street (the “Properties”). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 703 (2126 North Twenty-eighth street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-second Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of North Twenty-eighth street (fifty feet wide) at the distance of two hundred seventy-four feet six inches southward from the southerly side of Susquehanna avenue (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Twenty-eighth street fifteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth westward between parallel lines at right angles to said Twenty-eighth street seventy feet to the easterly side of a certain three feet wide alley extending northward communicating with a certain other three feet wide alley extending eastward into said Twenty-eighth street and westward into Newkirk street (thirty feet wide).
Parcel No. 704 (2152-2154 North Twenty-eighth street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-second Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of North Twenty-eighth street (fifty feet wide) at the distance of sixty-four feet southward from the southerly side of Susquehanna avenue (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Twenty-eighth street thirty feet six inches and extending of that width in length or depth westward between parallel lines at right angles to said Twenty-eighth street seventy feet to the easterly side of a certain three feet wide alley extending southward to a point and northward communicating with a certain other three feet wide alley extending eastward into said Twenty-eighth street and westward into Newkirk street (thirty feet wide).
Parcel No. 705 (2155-2157 North Twenty-eighth street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-second Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the easterly side of North Twenty-eighth street (fifty feet wide) at the distance of seventy-five feet southward from the southerly side of Susquehanna avenue (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Twenty-eighth street thirty feet and extending of that width in length or depth eastward between parallel lines at right angles to aid Twenty-eighth street seventy-two feet to the westerly side of a certain three feet wide alley extending northward to an angle point extending eastward three feet, communicating with a certain other three feet wide alley extending further northward into the said Susquehanna avenue.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and
WHEREAS, Project H.O.M.E. desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal 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 and disposition supplement. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Project H.O.M.E. (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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