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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 West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 44A and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 44A as 4837-4859 Aspen street including 749-757 North Forty-ninth street and 4850-4858 Folsom street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Neighborhood Gardens Association - A Philadelphia Land Trust 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 amended urban renewal plan and an amended redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area, West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "West Mill Creek "), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on May 15, 1964, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a contract for a portion of West Mill Creek, designated as Parcel No. 44A and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 44A as 4837-4859 Aspen street including 749-757 North Forty-ninth street and 4850-4858 Folsom street (hereinafter the “Properties”). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 44A (4837-4859 Aspen street including 749-757 north Forty-ninth street and 4850-4858 Folsom street).
ALL THOSE CERTAIN lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, known as Disposition Parcel No. 44-A, part of west Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, situate in the Forty-fourth Ward of the City Philadelphia, beginning at the intersection of the southerly side of Folsom street (thirty feet wide) and the easterly side of Forty-Ninth street (sixty feet wide); thence extending north eighty four degrees twenty two minutes twenty seconds east along the southerly side of Folsom street, one hundred sixty eight feet nine and three-eighths inches, more or less, to a point; thence extending south five degrees thirty seven minutes forty seconds east along a boundary line of the property now or late of Joseph Smilk, et ux, one hundred sixty three feet, to a point on the northerly side of Aspen street (sixty feet wide); thence extending south eighty four degrees twenty two minutes twenty seconds west along the northerly side of Aspen street, one hundred seventy four feet two and three-quarters inches, more or less, to a point on the easterly side of Forty Ninth street; thence extending north three degrees forty two minutes thirty seconds west along the easterly side of forty Ninth street, one hundred sixty three feet one and one-eighth inches, to the place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the Redeveloper.
WHEREAS, Neighborhood Gardens Association - A Philadelphia Land Trust (hereinafter "Redeveloper") desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the above described Property.
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 portions of West Mill Creek, 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 Neighborhood Gardens Association - A Philadelphia Land Trust (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. 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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