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File #: 020267    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 4/25/2002 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/25/2002
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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 322 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1425-1443 North American street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember DiCicco
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 02026700.pdf

 

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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 No. 322 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1425-1443 North American street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development 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 as hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority", for has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, as hereinafter "Model Cities", for 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 No. 322 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1425-1443 North American street (the “Property”).  The area of said Property is bounded as  follows:

 

Parcel No. 322 (4125-4143 North American street).

 

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Seventeenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia with the buildings and improvements thereon erected beginning at a point on the easterly side of American street (one hundred twenty feet wide) at the distance of thirty three feet two inches southward from the southerly side of Jefferson street (fifty feet wide);  Thence extending southward along the easterly side of American street one hundred fifty eight feet ten inches to a point;  Thence extending eastward at right angles to said American street sixty five feet nine  inches to a point;  Thence extending northward parallel with American street a distance of one hundred forty four feet to a point;  Thence extending eastward along a line at right angles to American street twenty six feet to a point;  Thence extending northward parallel with American street a distance of fourteen feet ten inches to a point; Thence extending westward along a line at right angles to said American street a distance of ninety one feet nine 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 amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council.

 

                     WHEREAS, the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Property; and

 

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

 

                     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 as 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 the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development as (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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