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Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 242 by striking from the City Plan and vacating portions of the beds of Old York Road and a certain cut-back area at the southerly side of Sixty-sixth Avenue between Old York Road and Broad Street, thereby reducing the width of Old York Road from Sixty-sixth Avenue to a point approximately one-hundred sixty-three feet southwestwardly therefrom, by relocating the southeasterly curbline of Old York Road from Sixty-sixth Avenue to a point approximately one-hundred ninety-eight feet southwestwardly therefrom, and by placing on the City Plan a curb bumpout at the northeasterly corner of Old York Road and Sixty-fifth Avenue, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 11-403 of The Philadelphia Code, the Board of Surveyors of the Department of Streets is hereby authorized to revise the lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 242 by:
a) Striking from the City Plan and vacating the southeasterly nineteen feet wide portion of Old York Road from Sixty-sixth Avenue to a point approximately ninety-three feet southwestwardly therefrom, thereby reducing the width of Old York Road within this area from seventy feet to fifty-one feet.
b) Striking from the City Plan and vacating the southeasterly eleven feet wide portion of Old York Road from a point approximately ninety-three feet southwest of Sixty-sixth Avenue to a point approximately seventy feet further southwestwardly therefrom, thereby reducing the width of Old York Road within this area from seventy feet to fifty-nine feet.
c) Striking from the City Plan and vacating a certain cutback area at the southerly side of Sixty-sixth Avenue between Old York Road and Broad Street, thereby making the southerly houseline and curbline of Sixty-sixth Avenue within this area uniform with the lines of Sixty-sixth Avenue to the east and west of this area...
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