City of Philadelphia - File #: 070274

• File #: 070274
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 4/12/2007
• In control: Committee on Streets and Services
• Title: Authorizing Beech Interplex, Inc., owner of the property located on the southwest corner of 15th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, to install signs on the building located on such property, for purposes of building identification, news broadcasts, entertainment and public service announcements, under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke
• Indexes: ENCROACHMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/6/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/6/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	RECESSED
6/6/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING HELD
4/26/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/26/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING HELD
4/26/2007	0	Committee on Streets and Services	RECESSED
4/12/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
4/12/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing Beech Interplex, Inc., owner of the property located on the southwest corner of 15th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, to install signs on the building located on such property, for purposes of building identification, news broadcasts, entertainment and public service announcements, under certain terms and conditions.
Body
WHEREAS, Beech Interplex, Inc. owns the property located on the southwest corner of 15th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; and

WHEREAS, Beech Interplex, Inc. has requested permission to install signs for purposes of building identification, news broadcasts, entertainment and public service announcements on the building located on such property; now, therefore

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Beech Interplex, Inc., owner of the property located on the southwest corner of 15th street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, is hereby authorized to install signs on the building located on such property as follows:

A building identification sign, consisting of seventeen (17) individually mounted internally illuminated letters no more than eighteen (18) inches in height; lighting shall not glare directly toward the public right-of-way.

An informational sign for the purpose of providing news broadcasts, entertainment and public service announcements, consisting of monochromatic light- emitting diode (LED) moving letters. This sign shall be no more than twenty-four (24) inches in height and no more than twenty-six (26) feet in length on each of the two (2) building façades, with a total length not exceeding fifty-two (52) feet.

Entertainment signs consisting of no more than three (3) internally illuminated flat wall signs with fully translucent faces and graphics to be located on the upper stories of the building, mounted no lower than fifteen (15) feet above the sidewalk. No individual sign shall exceed forty-eight (48) square feet in area, and lighting shall not glare directly toward...