THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY FARNESE, JANUARY 3, 2012

REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 3, 2012  

AN ACT

Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the

approval of the Governor, to remove the restrictions imposed

on certain lands situate in the City of Philadelphia,

Philadelphia County.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Removal of certain restrictions imposed on certain

lands in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

County.

(a)  Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with

the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to remove the restrictive use

of the property for any purpose other than for community social

service programs or attempts to convey the property on certain

lands situate in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

for fair market value. Such approval shall be subject to all

applicable local ordinances and regulations regarding zoning and

land use.

(b)  Description.--The property that is the subject to

subsection (a) is bounded and described as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings

thereon erected SITUATE on the East side of Broad Street in the

Twenty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia composed of six

contiguous lots or pieces of ground viz three thereof commencing

at the distance of one hundred and twenty-five feet Northward

from the North side of Wharton Street, containing together in

front or breadth on the said Broad Street seventy-five feet and

extending in length or depth Eastwardly two hundred and twenty

feet six inches, bounded on the South by ground now or late of

Robert Ross, on the East by ground now or late of James Bond and

William G. Alexander, on the North by the lot next described,

and on the West by Broad Street aforesaid; one other thereof

commencing at the distance of two hundred feet Northward from

the North side of Wharton Street, containing in front or breadth

on the said Broad Street twenty-five feet and extending in

length or depth Eastward of that width between parallel lines at

right angles to the said Broad Street two hundred and twenty

feet six inches; bounded Northward by the lot next described,

Southward by the lot last above described, Eastward by ground

late of James Bond and William G. Alexander and Westward by said

Broad Street; one other of them commencing at the distance of

two hundred and twenty-five feet Northward from the North side

of Wharton Street, containing in front or breadth on the said

Broad Street seventeen feet and extending in depth Eastward on

the South line thereof parallel with said Wharton Street, two

hundred and twenty feet six inches and on the North Line in a

Northeasterly direction two hundred and twenty-two feet more or

less, and containing on the rear and thereof and parallel with

Broad Street, thirty-four feet seven inches; bounded on the

North by the lot next described, on the East by ground late of

said Bond and Alexander on the South by the lot last described,

and on the West by Broad Street; and the other thereof at the

distance of two hundred and forty-two feet Northward from the

North side of Wharton Street, thence extending on a line South

Eighty-two degrees fifteen minutes East by the lot last

described two hundred feet ten and a half inches to a fifty feet

wide street called Watts Street, thence Northward along the West

side of the said Watts Street Eleven feet two inches, thence

Westward at right angle to said Broad Street, two hundred feet

to the said Broad Street, and thence Southward along the East

side of the said Broad Street thirty feet to the place of

beginning.

(c)  Execution of documents.--All documents necessary to

effectuate the removal of the herein referenced restrictive

covenants shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services

in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect immediately.