City of Philadelphia - File #: 150818

• File #: 150818
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 10/29/2015
• In control: Committee on Public Property and Public Works
• Final action: 12/10/2015
• Title: Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire title or a lesser interest such as an easement, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, in parcels of land along the Delaware River and the Delaware River Trail, and authorizing an agreement between the City and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the PRA to act as the City's condemnation agent, under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Squilla
• Indexes: EASEMENTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/15/2015	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/10/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ AND PASSED	Pass	15:0
12/3/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
12/3/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL	Pass
12/3/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ AND ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK'S SECOND READING CALENDAR
12/3/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ AND ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK'S SECOND READING CALENDAR
12/1/2015	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/1/2015	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING HELD
12/1/2015	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
10/29/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Referred	Pass

Title
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire title or a lesser interest such as an easement, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, in parcels of land along the Delaware River and the Delaware River Trail, and authorizing an agreement between the City and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the PRA to act as the City's condemnation agent, under certain terms and conditions.

Body
WHEREAS, The City would like to acquire title to an easement or a lesser interest, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, in parcels of land along the Delaware River and the Delaware River Trail (the "Delaware River Trail Expansion"); and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to § 6.1 of the Redevelopment Cooperation Law, Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 982, § 6.1; added by the Act of January 19, 1968, P.L. (1967) 987, § 2; 35 P.S. § 1746.1, the City may designate and appoint the PRA its agent to perform any specified activity that the City is authorized by law to perform, so long as such activity is in furtherance of the public purposes specified in the Urban Redevelopment Law (the "URL"); and

WHEREAS, The City and the PRA desire to enter into an Agreement of Agency Designation (the "Agency Agreement") wherein the City will designate PRA as the City's agent to perform the activities necessary to allow the City to acquire the necessary real property interests for the Delaware River Trail Expansion; and

WHEREAS, The Delaware River Trail Expansion furthers the public purposes specified in the URL and, therefore, the Redevelopment Cooperation Law authorizes the Agency Agreement; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Cooperation Law requires that the Council of the City of Philadelphia approve the Agency Agreement, now, therefore

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, is authorized to acquire by purchase, ...