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File #: 140496    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/22/2014 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/5/2014
Title: 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 1312 North Sixteenth street and 1314 North Sixteenth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the City of Philadelphia and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: MODEL CITIES URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 14049600.pdf, 2. Signature14049600.pdf
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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 1312 North Sixteenth street and 1314 North Sixteenth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the City of Philadelphia 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 1312 North Sixteenth street and 1314 North Sixteenth street (the “Properties”).  The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:
 
1312 North Sixteenth street.
 
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the west side of Sixteenth street (fifty feet wide) and the north side of Seybert street (forty feet wide);  Containing in front or breadth on the said side of Sixteenth street eighteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth westward of that width ninety-two feet six inches to a four feet wide alley leading southward into the said Seybert street.
 
1314 North Sixteenth street.
 
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate on the west side of Sixteenth street at the distance of one hundred and fifty-eight feet northward from the north side of Thompson street in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia;  Containing in front or breadth on the said Sixteenth street eighteen feet and extending in length or depth westward of that width ninety-two feet six inches to a four feet wide alley leading southward into Seybert street.  
 
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and
 
WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia 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 the City of Philadelphia (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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