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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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 71 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1712 Cecil B. Moore avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Wilbert E. Foster, Jr. 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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter "Cecil B. Moore"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 22, 1987, 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 the Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 71 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1712 Cecil B. Moore avenue (the “Property”). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 71 (1712 Cecil B. Moore avenue).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements situate on the south side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (formerly known as Columbia avenue) at the distance of one hundred eight feet one inch westward from the west side of Seventeenth street in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia; Containing in front or breadth on the said Cecil B. Moore avenue (formerly known as Columbia avenue) eighteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth southward between parallel lines at right angles with the said Cecil B. Moore avenue (formerly known as Columbia avenue) eighty feet bounded eastward and southward by ground now or late of John L. Carre, westward partly by the head of a two feet six inches wide alley leading into and from Bouvier street and partly by ground now or late of John L. Carre, and northward to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue (formerly known as Columbia avenue).
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the urban renewal plan and the redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and
WHEREAS, Wilbert E. Foster, Jr. desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Property; and
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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue 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. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Wilbert E. Foster, Jr. (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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