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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 400 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2152 North Fourth street and 2159 North Leithgow street), 417 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2202 North Leithgow street and 2203 North Lawrence street), 2151 North Fourth street and 2153-2155 North Leithgow street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Norris Square Civic Association and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter Redevelopment Authority) has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter Model Cities), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 15, 1969, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 400 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2152 North Fourth street and 2159 North Leithgow street), 417 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2202 North Leithgow street and 2203 North Lawrence street), 2151 North Fourth street and 2153-2155 North Leithgow street (the Properties). The areas of the said Properties are bounded as follows:
400 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2152 North Fourth street and 2159 North Leithgow street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point, said point being the intersection of the westerly line of North Fourth street (fifty feet wide) with the southerly line of West Susquehanna avenue (sixty feet wide); Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, along the easterly line of said North Fourth street, a distance of eighty feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance ninety feet to a point on the easterly line of North Leithgow street (thirty feet wide); Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, along said line of North Leithgow street, a distance of seventeen feet to a point; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, a distance of seventy-five feet to a point; Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, a distance of sixty-three feet to a point on the southerly line of said West Susquehanna avenue; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, along said line of West Susquehanna avenue, a distance of fifteen feet to the point and place of beginning.
417 West Susquehanna avenue (including 2202 North Leithgow street and 2203 North Lawrence street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point, said point being thirty-one feet zero inches westerly from the intersection of the westerly line of North Leithgow street (thirty feet wide) with the northerly line of West Susquehanna avenue (sixty feet wide); Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, along the line of said West Susquehanna avenue, a distance of fourteen feet to a point; Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, a distance of fifty-seven feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance of forty-five feet to a point on the easterly line of North Lawrence street (fifty feet wide); Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, along said North Lawrence street, a distance of eighteen feet eight inches to a point, on the easterly side of a three feet wide alley; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, a distance of forty-eight feet six inches to a point on the westerly line of a three feet wide alley; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, crossing said alley, a distance of two inches to a point; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, along said alley, a distance of forty-one feet six inches to a point on the westerly line of said North Leithgow street; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, along said North Leithgow street, a distance of eighteen feet six inches to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance of thirty-one feet to a point; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, a distance of fifty-seven feet to the point and place of beginning.
2151 North Fourth street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point, said point being eighty feet southerly from the intersection of the easterly line of North Fourth street (fifty feet wide) with the southerly line of West Susquehanna avenue (sixty feet wide); Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, on the eastern side of North Fourth street, parallel to West Susquehanna avenue, a distance of one hundred two feet six inches to a point on the westerly line of North Orianna street (thirty feet wide); Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, along the same, a distance of twelve feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance of forty-eight feet to a point on the easterly line of North Orianna street parallel to a three feet wide alley to a point; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, on the northerly line of a three feet wide alley, a distance of nine feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, crossing said alley, a distance of four feet six inches to a point on the westerly line of said alley; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, along said alley, a distance of two feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance of fifty feet to a point on the easterly line of said North Fourth street; Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, along the same, a distance of twenty-three feet to the point and place of beginning.
2153-2155 North Leithgow street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point, said point being ninety-six feet southerly from the intersection of the easterly line of North Leithgow street (thirty feet) with the southerly line of West Susquehanna avenue (sixty feet); Thence, south seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds east, along the center of a two feet two inch wide alley, a distance of forty-three feet to a point; Thence, south eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds west, a distance of thirty-two feet to a point; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees thirty-nine minutes zero seconds west, a distance of forty-three feet to a point on the easterly line of said North Leithgow street; Thence, north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes zero seconds east, a distance of thirty-two feet to the point and place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and
WHEREAS, Norris Square Civic Association desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter Redevelopment Authority) for the redevelopment of that portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, as hereinabove more particularly described, is hereby approved. City Council authorizes the Redevelopment Authority to proceed with minor changes in substantial conformity with the hereby approved redevelopment contract. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Norris Square Civic Association (hereinafter Redeveloper). The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract as may be necessary to carry it out.
RESOLVED, The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to prepare or cause to be prepared for introduction into the Council such ordinances or resolutions as may be necessary for changes in zoning, streets, alleys, public ways, street patterns, location and relocation of public utilities, and related items which are required in order to facilitate and effectuate the redevelopment contract hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the redevelopment contract.
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