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Committee backs citywide encroachment bill to fund 2026 corridor beautification; nonprofit urges easing insurance barriers
Summary
Bill 250887 would authorize the city to install and maintain right-of-way encroachments—benches, planters, banners and lighting—to support a $3.5 million corridor beautification program tied to Philadelphia’s 2026 commemoration.
The Committee on Streets and Services heard extended testimony supporting Bill 250887, which would authorize the city to construct, own and maintain right-of-way encroachments in commercial corridors citywide to support neighborhood beautification in 2026 and beyond.
Karen Fegley, acting director for the Department of Commerce, said the program—described as part of Philadelphia's 2026 commemoration and branded in testimony as a corridor-beautification effort—focuses on three pillars: activations, beautifications and celebrations. Fegley told the committee Commerce allocated $3,500,000 for 2026 corridor beautification and that a contracted landscape architect…
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