Official:Granting permission to Nitin Desai owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northwest corner of 18th Street and Arch Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across 18th Street and Arch Street, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand.
Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke
Introduced: March 15, 2007
Signed: May 3, 2007
: Committee on Streets and Services
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill allows a newsstand owner to install fiber optic conduits for electrical and phone service under/around two streets in Center City.
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