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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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 210 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 3616-3626 Melon street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1260 Housing Corporation 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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter "Mantua"), 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 Mantua designated as Parcel No. 210 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 3616-3626 Melon street (the “Property"). The area of the said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 210 (3616_3626 Melon street). All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the south side of Melon street (forty feet wide) one hundred seventy five feet six inches west from the west side of North Thirty-sixth street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward on a line at right angles to the said Melon street seventy feet to a point on the north side of a certain four feet wide alley extending eastward to a point and also westward communicating with a certain other four feet wide alley which extends northward into the said Melon street; Thence extending west on a line parallel with the said Melon street eighty four feet along the north side of the first mentioned alley and also crossing the head of the second mentioned alley to a point; Thence extending north from the head of the first mentioned alley on a line at right angles to the said Melon street twenty one feet to a point; Thence extending west on a line parallel with the said Melon street fourteen feet to a point; Thence extending north on a line at right angles to the said Melon street fifty five feet to a point on the south side of the said Melon street; Thence extending east along the south side of the said Melon street ninety eight feet crossing the northern head of the first mentioned alley 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; and
WHEREAS, 1260 Housing Corporation (hereinafter "Redeveloper") 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 Redeveloper.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment of that portion of Mantua, 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 1260 Housing Corporation (the “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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