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File #: 250274    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 3/27/2025 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 4/24/2025
Title: Authorizing an encroachment in the nature of planters in the vicinity of 219 West Rittenhouse St, Philadelphia, PA 19144, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Bass
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
Attachments: 1. Bill No. 25027400, 2. CertifiedCopy25027400
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Authorizing an encroachment in the nature of planters in the vicinity of 219 West Rittenhouse St, Philadelphia, PA 19144, under certain terms and conditions.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Permission is hereby granted to the owner of the property identified below, currently, RITTENHOUSE SOUNDWORKS PR or the owner's designee (the "Owner"), to install, own, and maintain an encroachment at the Property, as follows:

Encroachment Description:

Property: 219 West Rittenhouse St, Philadelphia, PA 19144

A total of three (3) proposed planters will be adjacent to the curbline of 219 W Rittenhouse Street and will encroach a distance of approximately one foot nine inches (1'-9") towards the north along the north curbline of W Rittenhouse Street starting from a point approximately one hundred ninety-two feet (192'-0") west of the Greene Street west curbline to a point approximately forty-three feet eight inches (43'-8") farther west leaving a minimum of six feet three inches (6'-3") of clear unobstructed footway.

Each planter is four feet four inches (4'-4") in length one foot nine inches (1'-9") in width and two feet two inches (2'-2") in height.

SECTION 2. The construction, use and maintenance of the Encroachment described and listed in Section 1 shall be in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations of the City of Philadelphia, and specifically those of the Department of Licenses and Inspections, the Department of Streets, and the Art Commission, provided that the Department of Streets, in its sole, unreviewable discretion, may allow minor variations of the dimension limits of Section 1, within standard tolerances of current engineering practice.

SECTION 3. Before exercising any rights or privileges under this Ordinance, Owner must first obtain or have its contractor(s) obtain all required permits, licenses and approvals from all appropriate departments, boards, agencies or commissions. No such department, boar...

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