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File #: 100359    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 5/20/2010 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 6/17/2010
Title: Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 154 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the southerly twelve feet wide portion of Erie Avenue from Germantown Avenue to Elder Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Krajewski
Indexes: CITY PLAN, STRIKE FROM & VACATE
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy10035900.pdf
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultTallyAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
6/30/20100 MAYOR SIGNED   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/20100 CITY COUNCIL READ   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/20100 CITY COUNCIL PASSEDPass17:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 Committee on Streets and Services HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 Committee on Streets and Services HEARING HELD   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 Committee on Streets and Services REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 CITY COUNCIL ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 CITY COUNCIL SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCILPass  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/10/20100 CITY COUNCIL ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/2/20100 Committee on Streets and Services HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/2/20100 Committee on Streets and Services HEARING HELD   Action details Meeting details Not available
6/2/20100 Committee on Streets and Services RECESSED   Action details Meeting details Not available
5/20/20100 CITY COUNCIL Referred   Action details Meeting details Not available
5/20/20100 CITY COUNCIL IntroducedPass  Action details Meeting details Not available
 
Title
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 154 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the southerly twelve feet wide portion of Erie Avenue from Germantown Avenue to Elder Street, under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
 
SECTION 1.  Pursuant to Section 11-403 of The Philadelphia Code, the Board of Surveyors of the Department of Streets is hereby authorized to revise the lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 154 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the southerly twelve feet wide portion of Erie Avenue from Germantown Avenue to Elder Street, thereby reducing the width of said Erie Avenue within this area from onetwenty feet to oneeight feet.
 
SECTION 2.  This authorization is conditional upon compliance with the following requirements within two (2) years from the date this Ordinance becomes law:
  1. The filing of an agreement, satisfactory to the City Solicitor, by the owner or owners of property affected thereby, to release the City from all damages or claims for damages which may arise by reason of the City Plan changes authorized herein; in lieu thereof, only after the party in interest has demonstrated best efforts to obtain such agreements and such efforts are unsuccessful, the party in interest shall file an agreement and a bond, with corporate surety, satisfactory to the City Solicitor or an irrevocable letter of credit satisfactory to the City Solicitor, to indemnify the City as aforesaid.
  2. The filing of an agreement, satisfactory to the City Solicitor, by the party in interest, to release, indemnify, and defend the City from all damages or claims for damages that may arise by reason of the City Plan changes authorized herein.
  3. The payment into the City Treasury, as reimbursement to the City, of the appraised value of the portion of Erie Avenue being stricken from the City Plan under authority of Section 1 of this Ordinance.
  4. The payment by the party in interest of the cost of advertising the public hearing by the Board of Surveyors on the City Plan changes authorized by this Ordinance.
 
SECTION 3.  This Ordinance shall not become effective unless the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), toward costs thereof, is paid into the City Treasury within one hundred and twenty (120) days after this Ordinance becomes law.
 
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