City of Philadelphia - File #: 070179

• File #: 070179
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 3/8/2007
• In control: Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
• Title: Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine the progress of the Market Elevated Reconstruction Project and to further investigate and determine whether SEPTA cannot do more to alleviate the displacement and financial desolation suffered by many of the small business owners and residents who are directly impacted by this project and the Philadelphia Community at large; and to investigate and determine what SEPTA has done, as a neighbor for the neighborhoods adjacent to this project and to determine why SEPTA cannot be more responsive to the complaints of this Community and the larger Philadelphia Community during the course of this reconstruction project.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Blackwell, Council President Verna, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Rizzo

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/12/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/12/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	WITHDRAWN
3/8/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
3/8/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
3/8/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine the progress of the Market Elevated Reconstruction Project and to further investigate and determine whether SEPTA cannot do more to alleviate the displacement and financial desolation suffered by many of the small business owners and residents who are directly impacted by this project and the Philadelphia Community at large; and to investigate and determine what SEPTA has done, as a neighbor for the neighborhoods adjacent to this project and to determine why SEPTA cannot be more responsive to the complaints of this Community and the larger Philadelphia Community during the course of this reconstruction project.
Body
WHEREAS, SEPTA started the Market Elevated Reconstruction Project (MERP) several years ago; and

WHEREAS, The MERP is the subject of numerous complaints from small business owners and residents living in Philadelphia, and in West Philadelphia specifically; and

WHEREAS, The MERP has negatively impacted the ecosystem that exists in West Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, SEPTA has a moral, prima facie obligation to do whatever is necessary to maintain the integrity of Philadelphia's communities, and especially the West Philadelphia Community, including all those who live, work, recreate and otherwise pursue life in West Philadelphia; now therefore

RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That Council hereby authorizes City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine the progress of the Market Elevated Reconstruction Project and to further investigate and determine whether SEPTA cannot do more to alleviate the displacement and financial desolation suffered by many of the small business owners and residents who are directly impacted by this project and the Philadelphia Community at large; and to investigate and determine w...