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File #: 150506    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 5/21/2015 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 6/18/2015
Title: Authorizing the Philadelphia Parking Authority to construct, own and maintain various right-of-way encroachments within the public right-of-way on Arch Street, Filbert Street, and Eighth Street, Philadelphia, PA, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Henon
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy15050600.pdf
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Authorizing the Philadelphia Parking Authority to construct, own and maintain various right-of-way encroachments within the public right-of-way on Arch Street, Filbert Street, and Eighth Street, Philadelphia, PA, under certain terms and conditions.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Permission is hereby granted to the Philadelphia Parking Authority ("Owner") to construct, own and maintain various right-of-way encroachments ("Encroachments") within the public right-of-way on Arch Street, Filbert Street, and Eighth Street, Philadelphia, PA as follows:

Encroachment Description:

a) Along the twenty feet wide eastern sidewalk of Eighth Street, from a start point at the southern edge of Arch Street to the northern edge of Filbert Street for the placement of cast concrete street furnishings within the existing public right-of-way maintaining a clear six feet wide pedestrian zone and at a distance of eighteen inches from the existing curb line and not to exceed a quantity of twenty six benches;

b) Along the twelve feet western sidewalk of Eighth Street, from a start point at the southern edge of Arch Street to the northern edge of Filbert Street for the placement of cast concrete street furnishings within the existing public right-of-way maintaining a clear six feet wide pedestrian zone and at a distance of eighteen inches from the existing curb line and not to exceed a quantity of fourteen benches.

SECTION 2. The construction, use and maintenance of the Encroachments described and listed in Section 1 shall be in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations of the City of Philadelphia, and specifically those of the Department of Licenses and Inspections and the Department of Streets, provided that the Department of Streets, in its sole, unreviewable discretion, may allow minor variations of the dimension limits of Section 1, within standard tolerances of current engineering practice.

SECTION 3. Before...

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