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File #: 030378    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 5/15/2003 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 6/5/2003
Title: Granting permission to Coleman Properties, a Pennsylvania partnership, its successors and assigns to construct, maintain and operate, replace, and remove a ductbank for telecommunications purposes under the Delaware River and the Frankford Creek Channel and aerial facilities for telecommunications purposes along, over, in and under the public rights-of-way, City streets and Frankford Creek Channel; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Krajewski
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy03037800.pdf
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Granting permission to Coleman Properties, a Pennsylvania partnership, its successors and assigns to construct, maintain and operate, replace, and remove a ductbank for telecommunications purposes under the Delaware River and the Frankford Creek Channel and aerial facilities for telecommunications purposes along, over, in and under the public rights-of-way, City streets and Frankford Creek Channel; all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. (a) Permission is hereby granted to Coleman Properties, a Pennsylvania partnership, 202 Titus Avenue, Warrington, PA 18976, and its successors, assigns, and agents (collectively "Coleman Properties"), to construct, maintain, operate, replace, and remove 1) a ductbank containing thirty (30) one and one half inch (1 1/2") inner ducts beneath the Delaware River and the bed of Frankford Creek Channel as described in Route A below, and 2) telecommunications cables, conduits, access manholes and associated appurtenances along, in and under the public rights-of-way of the City of Philadelphia or private property, subject to the property owner's permission, and telecommunications cables within existing conduit, and on the existing utility poles or catenary poles of any other entities holding a grant pursuant to other City ordinances, subject to such owners consent, as described in Routes A and B designated below, both to create an infrastructure system used to transmit, receive and distribute telecommunications (collectively, the "Telecommunications Infrastructure System").

Route A. Delaware River and Frankford Creek HDD Bore and Underground Conduit: Starting in the State of New Jersey, a twenty inch (20") diameter conduit horizontal directional drilling ("HDD") Bore, containing thirty (30) one and one half inch (1 1/2") inner ducts, proceeds beneath the Delaware River, across the state line and enters the channel of the Frankford Creek Channel....

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