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To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by the Delaware River, lands belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Terminal Avenue, lands belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio-Pennsylvania Railroad, Twenty-Sixth Street, lines of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, lands belonging to the Pier Hayes Terminal, and the Schuylkill River, this land also being known as the Philadelphia Naval Base.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 14-103 of The Philadelphia Code, The Philadelphia Zoning Maps are hereby amended by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land within an area bounded by the Delaware River, lands belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Terminal Avenue, lands belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio-Pennsylvania Railroad, Twenty-Sixth Street, lines of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, lands belonging to the Pier Hayes Terminal, and the Schuylkill River, this land also being known as the Philadelphia Naval Base, from the existing zoning designations of partly "G-2" General Industrial and partly "LR" Least Restricted, to the zoning designations as set forth below.
The following area shall have the zoning designation of "G-2" General Industrial applied:
Portions of Parcels 2, 3, 4, & 5
and Portions of Retained Areas 2, 3, & 4.
BEGINNING AT A POINT being the common corner for lands now or formerly of Consolidated Rail Corporation and Parcel 3 of lands for the Philadelphia Naval Base, the said corner being on the Westerly side of Twenty-Sixth Street;
THENCE, from the point of beginning, along the Westerly side of Twenty-Sixth Street, along the Easterly side of Parcel 3, the following two (2) courses and distances:
(1) South 13 degrees 22 minutes 53 seconds West, 439.18 feet to the point of curvature, thence continuing;
(2) Southwesterly, by a curve...
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