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File #: 250606    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: IN COUNCIL
File created: 6/5/2025 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Authorizing HOWARD FOREMAN, ("Owner") to install, own and maintain a proposed fence encroachment at 1338-44 Rising Sun Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19140 ("Property"), under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Young
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
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Authorizing HOWARD FOREMAN, ("Owner") to install, own and maintain a proposed fence encroachment at 1338-44 Rising Sun Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19140 ("Property"), 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 Owner to install, own and maintain a proposed fence encroachment at the Property ("Encroachments") as follows:

Encroachment Description:

A proposed fence will be located along the north sidewalk of West Westmoreland Street along the property line of 1338-44 Rising Sun Avenue and will encroach a distance of approximately five feet (5'-0") towards the south along the north footway of West Westmoreland Street starting from a point approximately twenty-eight feet four inches (28'-4") east of the Rising Sun Avenue east curbline to a point approximately seventy-one feet (71'-0") farther east leaving a minimum five feet (5'-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 its 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 supersede any other provision of law governing ...

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