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File #: 030249    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 4/25/2003 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 6/5/2003
Title: Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 253 of the area lying generally northwardly from the intersection of Unruh avenue and Oakley street by striking from the City Plan a portion of Kerper street and Kerper place; by placing on the City Plan certain portions of rights-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes; by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember O'Neill
Indexes: CITY PLAN, STRIKE FROM & VACATE
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy03024900.pdf
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Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 253 of the area lying generally northwardly from the intersection of Unruh avenue and Oakley street by striking from the City Plan a portion of Kerper street and Kerper place; by placing on the City Plan certain portions of rights-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes; by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 11-405 of The Philadelphia Code, the Board of Surveyors of the Department of Streets is authorized and directed to revise the lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 253 of the area lying generally northwardly from the intersection of Unruh avenue and Oakley street by restoring all lines and grades to their locations prior to July 1, 1991, more fully by:

(a) Striking from the City Plan:

(1) Kerper street from the former dead-end of Kerper street at a point approximately two hundred sixty-eight (268) feet northwest of Oakley street to a dead-end turnaround approximately four hundred fifty (450) feet northwest of Oakley street.

(2) Kerper place from Kerper street northeastwardly to a dead-end turnaround.

(b) Placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes (fifty feet wide) lying within the bed of Kerper street being stricken from the City Plan under authority of this Ordinance.

(c) Placing on the City Plan an approximately one hundred fifty square foot triangular right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes (variable width) located exactly where it existed prior to 1990, at the southwest corner of the right-of-way to be abandoned in Section 1(d) of this Ordinance.

(d) Striking from the City Plan and abandoning a right-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes (fifty feet wide) loca...

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