City of Philadelphia - File #: 120482

• File #: 120482
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 5/24/2012
• In control: Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
• Final action: 6/21/2012
• Title: Authorizing the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation to execute a lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), obligating PAID to execute a sublease with the Zoological Society of Philadelphia (the "Society"), under which the Society would construct, manage, operate, maintain, and repair a multi-story parking garage and related streetscape improvements along West Girard Avenue, and exempting the proposed lease from the requirements of Philadelphia Code Section 15-101 et seq., commonly called the "Open Lands Protection Ordinance," because the Society has already satisfied the requirements of the Open Lands Protection Ordinance, all under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
• Indexes: PAID, ZOO

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/27/2012	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/21/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ AND PASSED	Pass	17:0
6/14/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
6/14/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL	Pass
6/14/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
6/13/2012	0	Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs	HEARING HELD
6/13/2012	0	Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs	REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
6/12/2012	0	Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/12/2012	0	Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs	RECESSED
5/24/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	Re-Referred
5/24/2012	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation to execute a lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), obligating PAID to execute a sublease with the Zoological Society of Philadelphia (the "Society"), under which the Society would construct, manage, operate, maintain, and repair a multi-story parking garage and related streetscape improvements along West Girard Avenue, and exempting the proposed lease from the requirements of Philadelphia Code Section 15-101 et seq., commonly called the "Open Lands Protection Ordinance," because the Society has already satisfied the requirements of the Open Lands Protection Ordinance, all under certain terms and conditions.

Body
WHEREAS, The Zoological Society of Philadelphia (the "Society") hired Campbell Thomas & Co., a renowned consultant, in 2002 to perform a comprehensive study (the "Parking and Access Study") of traffic and parking needs in the vicinity of the Philadelphia Zoo (the "Zoo"); and

WHEREAS, The Parking and Access Study was completed in 2003 and recommended that the Society create better parking opportunities with direct access to Interstate Highway 76 (the Schuylkill Expressway) and the Zoo, create more parking close to the Zoo, and create better public transportation options for access to the Zoo; and

WHEREAS, In response to the Parking and Access Study, in 2010 the Society completed plans for a "Philadelphia Zoo Intermodal Transportation Project" (the "Project") under which the Society would construct a multi-story parking garage (the "Garage"), provide bus stops to improve public transportation access to the Zoo, and make extensive streetscape improvements along West Girard Avenue between 34th Street and 39th Street and along 34th Street; and

WHEREAS, The proposed Garage would be constructed on a parcel of land in the Fairmount Park system (the "Premises") that the Society has used as a surface parking lot as early as 1953, nearly 60 years ago; a...