Legislation Details

File #: 260693    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: IN COMMITTEE
File created: 9/17/2026 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Authorizing encroachments in the nature of a sidewalk café in the vicinity of 4201 Manayunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Jones
Indexes: SIDEWALK CAFES
Code sections: 9-208 - Sidewalk Cafes
Attachments: 1. Bill No. 26069300
Title
Authorizing encroachments in the nature of a sidewalk café in the vicinity of 4201 Manayunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA, under certain terms and conditions.

Body
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Permission is hereby granted to the owner of the property identified below, currently, 4201 LLC (the “Owner”), to install, own, and maintain an encroachment at the Property, as follows:

Encroachment Description:

Property: 4201 Manayunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA

A total of five (5) tables and twenty (20) seats for a sidewalk café will be located along the property line of 4201 Manayunk Avenue and will encroach a distance of approximately four feet (4’-0”) towards the south along the north footway of Pensdale Street starting from a point approximately twenty-five feet two inches (25’-2”) east of the Manayunk Avenue east curbline to a point approximately fifty-five feet ten inches (55’-10”) farther east leaving a minimum six feet (6’-0”) of clear unobstructed footway.

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 their contractor(s) obtain all required permits, licenses and approvals from all appropriate departments, boards, agencies or commissions. No such department, board, agency or commission shall be required to issue any such permit, license or approval solely because this Ordinance has been enacted, it being the express intent of this Ordinance not to supe...

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