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File #: 090544    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/18/2009 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/18/2009
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. 442 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1926 Poplar street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Joel Schmitt and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke
Indexes: MODEL CITIES URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 09054400.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. 442 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1926 Poplar street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Joel Schmitt 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 No. 442 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1926 Poplar street (the “Property”).  The area of said Property is bounded as follows:  
Parcel No. 442 (1926 North Poplar street).      
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Fifteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the southeast corner at the intersection of North Opal street (twenty five feet wide) and West Poplar street (fifty feet wide):  Containing in front or breadth along the southerly side of the said Poplar street sixteen feet four inches and extending of that width in length or depth between parallel lines at right angles to the said Poplar street and along the southwesterly side of the said Opal street sixty feet to the northeasterly side of a certain three feet wide alley extending southeastward to a point and northwestward into the said Opal street.
      The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council.
      WHEREAS, Joel Schmitt 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 (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 Joel Schmitt (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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