Official:Approving the first amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Center City Redevelopment Area, Franklin Town Project, being the area beginning in the vicinity of Spring Garden and Twenty-first streets, which provides, inter alia, for amending the land use map and regulations to add religious institutional as a permitted use, modifying the regulations to exclude certain portions of the project area from building setbacks and adjusting height limitations, and for amending the regulations by adding provisions related to gates, fences and walls within certain portions of the project area.
Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke
Introduced: October 28, 2010
Signed: December 9, 2010
: Committee on Rules
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill amends the redevelopment proposal for the Franklin Town Project in Center City Philadelphia, allowing religious institutions as a permitted use and adjusting regulations on building setbacks, height limitations, gates, fences, and walls.
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