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Approving an amendment to the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of an additional portion of the Tioga Urban Renewal Area, by including an additional property designated as Parcel No. 8 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 2857 North Garnet street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the amended redevelopment contract with The Allegheny west Foundation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the amended redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Tioga Urban Renewal Area, which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on July 7, 2003; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract and disposition supplement with The Allegheny west Foundation (hereafter “Redeveloper”) for a portion of Tioga, designated as Parcel Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 also sometimes identified by respective house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 1 as 2810 North Garnet street, for Parcel No. 2 as 2828 North Garnet street, for Parcel No. 3 as 2839-2841 North Garnet street, for Parcel No. 4 as 2859 North Garnet street, for Parcel No. 5 as 2860-2862 North Garnet street, for Parcel No. 6 as 1916-1918 West Somerset street and for Parcel No. 7 as 2830 North Nineteenth street which said redevelopment contract and disposition supplement were approved by Resolution No. 030833 adopted by the Council of the City of Philadelphia on December 4, 2003 ; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared an amendment to the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement for the redevelopment and urban renewal of an additional portion of the Tioga Urban Renewal Area, by including an additional property designated as Parcel No. 8 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 2857 North Garnet street (hereinafter "Additional Property”). The area of the said Additional Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 8 (2857 North Garnet street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-eighth Ward of the City of Philadelphia and described as beginning at a point on the easterly side of Garnet street (forty feet wide) and the distance of sixty one feet south from the southerly side of Cambria street (sixty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Garnet street fifteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth between parallel lines at right angles to the said Garnet street forty five feet to a point on the westerly side of a certain three feet wide alley that extends north into the said Cambria street.
The said redevelopment contract, as herein amended, is in substantial conformity with the urban renewal plan and the redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and
WHEREAS, Redeveloper desires to enter into the said amendment to redevelopment contract to include the Additional Property.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the amendment to the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment of that additional portion of the Tioga Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 8 also sometimes identified as 2857 North Garnet street and 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, as amended. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved amendment to the redevelopment contract with the Redeveloper. The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the amendment 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, as amended and hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract, as amended, 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, as amended.
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