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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Whitman Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 7 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 509-535 Jackson street including 2132-2138 South Fifth street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Presbytery Homes, Inc. 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 urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Whitman Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter "Whitman"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on September 2, 1964; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of the Whitman Urban Renewal Area, consisting of one parcel designated as Parcel No. 7 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 509-535 Jackson street including 2132-2138 South Fifth street hereinafter more particularly described (the "Parcel"). The area of said Parcel is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 7 (Revised) (2132-2138 South Fifth street including 509-535 Jackson street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground located in the Thirty-ninth Ward of the City of Philadelphia with the buildings and improvements thereon erected beginning at a point on the westerly side of South Fifth street (fifty feet wide) at the distance of twenty four feet three and one-half inches southward from the southerly side of Winton street (thirty two feet wide); Thence extending southward along the westerly side of said Fifth street a distance of sixty five feet eleven and one-half inches in the northwesterly side of Moyamensing avenue (sixty feet wide); Thence extending southwestward along the northwesterly side of Moyamensing avenue forty nine feet seven and three-eighths inches to the northerly side of Jackson street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending westward along the northerly side of Jackson street two hundred thirty one feet three-quarters inches to a point; Thence extending northward along a line at right angles to Jackson street fifty seven feet to the southerly side of a five feet wide alley; Thence extending eastward along the southerly side of said alley two hundred six feet four and one-half inches, more or less, to the easterly side of a certain other three feet wide alley; Thence extending northward along the easterly side of the last mentioned alley a distance of thirty six feet two and one-half inches, more or less, to a point; Thence extending in an eastward direction a distance of five feet nine inches to a point; Thence extending in a southward direction of a distance of seven feet six inches to a point; Thence extending eastward at right angles to Fifth street a distance of sixty four feet seven inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the urban renewal plan and the development proposal approved by the Council; and
WHEREAS, Philadelphia Presbytery Homes, Inc., desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Parcel.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of the Whitman 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 with Philadelphia Presbytery Homes, Inc., (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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