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File #: 250368    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: IN COMMITTEE
File created: 4/24/2025 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Authorizing an encroachment in the nature of planters and benches in the vicinity of 2300 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Council President Johnson, Councilmember Gilmore Richardson
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
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Authorizing an encroachment in the nature of planters and benches in the vicinity of 2300 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 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, 2300 MARKET STREET OWNER LLC or the owner's designee (the "Owner"), to install, own, and maintain an encroachment at the Property, as follows:

Encroachment Description:

Property: 2300 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

A total of eight (8) proposed planters and two (2) planters with benches will be adjacent to the curbline of 2300 Market Street along Market Street and S 23rd Street and written in three parts:

Part 1:

Two (2) proposed planters will encroach a distance of approximately five feet six inches (5'-6") towards the west along the west curbline of S 23rd Street starting from a point approximately forty-feet five inches (40'-5") south of the Market Street south curbline to a point approximately sixty feet nine inches (60'-9") farther south leaving a minimum of six feet five inches (6'-5") of clear unobstructed footway.

Each planter along S 23rd Street is constructed at grade with the following dimensions: beginning at the southernmost point the first planter measures twenty feet four inches (20'-4") in length and five feet six inches (5'-6") in width; the second planter measures twenty-three feet eight inches (23'-8") in length and five feet six inches (5'-6") in width.

Part 2:

Six (6) proposed planters will encroach a distance of approximately eight feet one inch (8'-1") towards the south along the south curbline of Market Street starting from a point approximately thirty-five feet four inches (35'-4") west of the S 23rd Street west curbline to a point approximately two hundred seventeen feet five inches (217'-5") farther west leaving a minimum of ten feet (10'-0") of clear unobstructed footway.

Each planter along Market...

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