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Authorizing Michael and Alexis Birnbaum, LLC, ("Owner") to install, own and maintain an exterior metal staircase and planter encroachments at 1714-20 S. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19148 ("Property"), 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 Owner to install, own and maintain an exterior metal staircase and concrete planter encroachments at the Property ("Encroachments") as follows:
Encroachment Description:
An exterior metal staircase along the north building line of 1714-20 S. 2nd Street from a point fifty feet (50'-0") west of the west curbline of N. 2nd Street to a point approximately thirty four feet (34'-0") farther west and extending three feet two inches (3'-2") into the southern footway of Watkins Street, with approximately four feet six inches (4'-6") of passable sidewalk space remaining. The total height of the encroachment is not to exceed twenty feet seven inches (20'-7") above the finished sidewalk elevation.
Planters on the west footway of S. 2nd Street from a point nine feet (9'-0") south of the south curbline of Watkins Street to a point sixty two feet (62'-0") farther south and set a minimum of one foot six inches (1'-6") off the curb face, leaving at a minimum six feet (6'-0") of clear passable sidewalk space.
SECTION 2. The construction, use and maintenance of the Encroachment described and listed in Section 1 shall be in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations of the City of Philadelphia, including but not limited to those of the Department of Licenses and Inspections, the Department of Streets, and the Art Commission, 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 exercising any rights or privileges under this Ordinance, Owner mu...
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