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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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 629, 630 & 632 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 629 as 1713-1747 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 630 as 1702-1740 North Nineteenth street including 1900-1920 West Montgomery avenue and 1701-1743 North Uber street and for Parcel No. 632 as 1705-1745 North Twentieth street including 1924-1936 West Montgomery avenue and 1700-1740 North Uber street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation 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 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 redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, designated as Parcel Nos. 629, 630 & 632 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 629 as 1713-1747 North Nineteenth street, for Parcel No. 630 as 1702-1740 North Nineteenth street including 1900-1920 West Montgomery avenue and 1701-1743 North Uber street and for Parcel No. 632 as 1705-1745 North Twentieth street including 1924-1936 West Montgomery avenue and 1700-1740 North Uber street (the “Properties”). The area of said Properties are bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 629 (1713-1747 North Nineteenth street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the east side of Nineteenth street (fifty feet wide) and the south side of Montgomery avenue (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Nineteenth street the distance of three hundred seven feet eight inches to a point; Thence extending eastward along a line at right angles to the said Nineteenth street the distance of one hundred feet to a point on the west side of a certain four feet wide alley that extends northward communicating with a certain four feet wide alley at the north end and a certain three feet wide alley at the south end, both extending eastward into Gratz street (forty feet wide); extending northward along said side of alley, crossing the head of the said certain other four feet wide alley that extends eastward into the said Gratz street and along the east side of a certain other two feet six inches wide alley, the distance of three hundred seven feet eight inches to a point on the said south side of Montgomery avenue; Thence extending westward along the said side of Montgomery avenue one hundred feet to the point of intersection with the said side Nineteenth street being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Parcel No. 630 (1702-1740 North Nineteenth street including 1900-1920 West Montgomery avenue and 1701-1743 North Uber street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the west side of Nineteenth street (fifty feet wide) and the south side of Montgomery avenue (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Nineteenth street four hundred eight feet to a point on the north side of a certain three feet wide alley that extends westward into Uber street (forty feet wide); Thence extending westward along said alley the distance of one hundred seventy seven feet ten inches to a point on the east side of the said Uber street; Thence extending northward along the said side of Uber street the distance of four hundred eight feet to the point of intersection with the said side of Montgomery avenue; Thence extending eastward along the said side of Montgomery avenue the distance of one hundred seventy seven feet ten inches to the point of intersection with the said side of Nineteenth street being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
Parcel No. 632 (1705-1745 North Twentieth street including 1924-1936 West Montgomery avenue and 1700-1740 North Uber street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the east side of Twentieth street (fifty feet wide) and the south side of Montgomery avenue (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Twentieth street the distance of three hundred seventy feet three inches to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line at right angles to the said Twentieth street the distance of eighty seven feet six and five-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending southward on a line parallel with the said Twentieth street the distance of thirty seven feet to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line at right angles to the said Twentieth street the distance of ninety feet three and three-eighths inches to a point on the west side of Uber street (forty feet wide); Thence extending northward along the said side of Uber street the distance of four hundred eight feet to the point of intersection with the said south side of Montgomery avenue; Thence extnding westward along the said side of Montgomery avenue the distance of one hundred seventy seven feet ten inches to the point of intersection with the said side of Twentieth street being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council.
WHEREAS, Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing inter alia for development controls and regulations imposed upon the Properties.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of Model Cities, 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 Housing Enrichment Renaissance Board Community Development Corporation (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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