Official:Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 107 of an area bounded by Fairmount avenue, Forty-fourth street, Haverford avenue and Forty-sixth street, by striking from the City Plan and vacating Melville place from Fairmount avenue to a dead-end southwardly, Lex street from Fairmount avenue to Melon place, and Melon place from Forty-fourth street to a dead-end westwardly; by striking from the City Plan and vacating the southernmost thirty-eight (38) feet wide portion of Fairmount avenue from a point eighty (80) feet east of Melville place to a point eighty (80) feet west of Lex street; and by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain fourteen (14) foot wide right-of-way extending from Melville place to Forty-sixth street, and a certain variable width right- of-way extending from Melon place to former Wallace street, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Blackwell
Introduced: February 14, 2002
Signed: April 4, 2002
: Committee on Streets and Services
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill revises a portion of Philadelphia's City Plan by removing several streets and right-of-ways from the plan and vacating them for future development or construction projects.
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