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File #: 180691    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 6/21/2018 In control: Committee on Streets and Services
On agenda: Final action: 10/25/2018
Title: Authorizing Shift Capital LLC, ("Owner") to install, own and maintain proposed access vault encroachments at 3701-07 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140 ("Property"), under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: ENCROACHMENT
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy18069100.pdf

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Authorizing Shift Capital LLC, (“Owner”) to install, own and maintain proposed access vault encroachments at 3701-07 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140 (“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 proposed access vault encroachments at the Property (“Encroachments”) as follows: 

 

Encroachment Description:

 

A set of three (3) access vaults (areaways), located along the north Right-of-Way line of West Airdrie Street and along the west Right-of-Way line of North Watts Street, in three (3) parts:

 

Part 1:

From a point approximately eight feet (8’-0”) west of the North Watts Street west Right-of-Way line to a point approximately twelve feet six inches (12’-6”) farther west and encroaching into the north footway of West Airdrie Street approximately six feet six inches (6’-6”) toward the south.

 

Part 2:

From a point approximately eighteen feet (18’-0”) north of the West Airdrie Street north Right-of-Way line to a point approximately thirteen feet four inches (13’-4”) farther north and encroaching into the west footway of North Watts Street approximately five feet (5’-0”) toward the east.

 

Part 3:

From a point approximately eighteen feet (37’-4”) north of the West Airdrie Street north Right-of-Way line to a point approximately seventeen feet (17’-0”) farther north and encroaching into the west footway of North Watts Street approximately five feet (5’-0”) toward the east.

 

A minimum five feet (5’-0”) of clear passable sidewalk space is to remain after installation.

 

The discharge of high-heat generator exhaust exiting through the areaway is prohibited.

 

 

SECTION 3.                     Before exercising any rights or privileges under this Ordinance, Owner must first obtain or have its contractor(s) obtain all required permits, licenses and approvals from all appropriate departments, boards, agencies or commissions. No such department, board, agency or commission shall be required to issue any such permit, license or approval solely because this Ordinance has been enacted, it being the express intent of this Ordinance not to supersede any other provision of law governing the issuance of such permits, licenses or approvals. In addition, before exercising any rights and privileges under this Ordinance, Owner shall enter into an agreement (“Agreement”) with the appropriate City department or departments, satisfactory to the City Solicitor, to provide that Owner, inter alia:

 

(a)                      agrees that upon thirty (30) days notice from the City, it shall remove the Encroachment without cost or expense to the City and shall remove the Encroachment at no cost and expense to the City of Philadelphia when given written notice to do so by the City of Philadelphia to accommodate a municipal or municipal sponsored construction project;

 

(b)                      shall secure all necessary permits, licenses and approvals from all appropriate departments, agencies, boards or commissions of the City as may be required by regulation or law.  No such department, board, agency or commission shall be required to issue any such permit, license or approval solely because this Ordinance has been enacted;

 

(c)                     shall assume the costs of all changes and adjustments to, and relocation or

abandonment of City utilities and City structures wherever located as may

be necessary by the reason of the construction of the Encroachment;

 

(d)                      shall carry public liability and property damage insurance, co-naming the City of Philadelphia as an insured party, in such amounts as shall be

satisfactory to the City Solicitor, or in lieu thereof, submit documentation                      in form and content acceptable to the City that Owner is self-insured and                      is providing the City of Philadelphia the same coverage and benefits had                      the insurance requirements been satisfied by an insurance carrier                      authorized to do business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;

 

(e)                     shall insure that all construction contractors for the Encroachment carry public liability and property damage insurance, naming the City of Philadelphia as an insured party in such amounts as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the City Solicitor;

 

(f)                      shall give the City and all public utility companies the right-of-access, ingress and egress for the purpose of inspection, maintenance, alteration,

relocation or reconstruction of any of their respective facilities which may lie within the public footway adjacent to the Encroachment described in Section 1;

 

                     (g)                     indemnify and hold harmless the City, its officers, employees and agents                                                                from and against any and all loss resulting from injury to, or death to                                                                persons or damage to property arising out of, resulting from, or in any                                                                manner caused by the                      presence, location, use, operation, installation,                                                                maintenance, replacement or removal of the Encroachment. Owner shall                                                                also agree to release the City from any and all claims relating to the                                                                Encroachment, including if ordered removed or when street, sidewalk or                                                                utility construction occurs; and  

 

                     (h)                     furnish the City with either a bond with corporate surety in an amount                                                                required by the Department of Streets and in a form satisfactory to the                                                                Law Department to insure the compliance with all the terms and                                                                                     conditions of this Ordinance and the Agreement, or in lieu thereof,                                                                                     submit documentation in a form and content acceptable to the City                                                                                     that Owner self-assumes the liabilities and obligations normally covered                                                                by the Surety Bond.

 

 

SECTION 4.                     The City Solicitor shall include in the Agreement such other terms and conditions as shall be deemed necessary to protect the interests of the City.

 

SECTION 5.                     The permission granted to Owner to install own and maintain the Encroachment described in Section 1 shall expire without any further action by the City of Philadelphia if Owner  has not entered into an Agreement and satisfied all requirements of the Agreement that are listed in Section 3 of this Ordinance within one (1) year after this Ordinance becomes law.

 

SECTION 6. This Ordinance shall not become effective unless the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), toward costs thereof, is paid into the City Treasury within sixty (60) days after the date this Ordinance becomes law.

 

 

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