Committees

Committees are groups of Council members tasked with reviewing legislation around specific subject areas. Committees play a crucial role in reviewing proposed legislation, conducting hearings, and making recommendations to the full council for action. These committees change each term.

Councilmember Lozada is the Chair of the Committee on Public Property & Public Works and The Vice Chair of the Special Committee on Kensington, which was established by her this year and is focused specifically on the Kensington neighborhood. For more information on this neighborhood: click here. (Link to Special Committee Page)

She is Vice-Chair of the Committees on Public Service and Public Health & Human Services. Through the Public Health and Public Safety Committees, Councilmember Lozada will also work to close the open-air drug market in Kensington.

She serves as a member on several other committees as well. As a member of the Committee on Appropriations, she will ensure money from the city’s budget is spent responsibly and distributed for important projects. She will have similar responsibilities as a member of the Legislative Oversight and Labor & Civil Service committees, two committees that are focused on accountability from local government and assuring employees have necessary resources to serve our city.

Councilmember Lozada is working to improve the lives of children and teenagers through her service on the Education Committee. This committee oversees all operations related to the Philadelphia School District. Councilmember Lozada uses her position in the Neighborhood Services committee to improve and connect families to City programs that can improve their quality of life.

She has used her position on the Education Committee to advocate for Latino charter schools during hearings. She assembled leaders from Latino charter schools to unite with Black led schools in the fight for resources, developing an equitable facilities plan, and support for teachers and lay workers.

Bills

Legislating to Find Solutions in Kensington

Formulating a Data Driven Solution
  • Bill 240017:  Adding a new Chapter 10-2700 to The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Reports on Impermissible Camping," to require certain reports from the Office of the Managing Director to Council concerning camping activities carried out in violation of the Code and the City's efforts to address such activities, all under certain terms and conditions. Read More
  • Bill 240015:  Adding a new Chapter 6-1600 to The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Reports on Opioid Antidote Use," to require certain reports from the Office of the Managing Director to Council concerning the City's use of opioid antidote, all under certain terms and conditions. Read More
Immediate Action to Stabilize the Community
  • Bill 240013:  Amending Chapter 9-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Service and Other Businesses", by adding a new section regulating the hours of operation of certain establishments and providing for penalties within an area bounded by East Lehigh Avenue, Kensington Avenue, D Street, E Tioga Street and Frankford Avenue, all under certain terms and conditions. Read More
    • Read More about the amendment to expand this to more commercial corridors
  • Bill 230410: Amending Chapter 14-500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Overlay Zoning Districts,” to add an overlay district pertaining to injection sites for narcotics, all under certain terms and conditions.
    • Read More about how Councilmember Lozada is making sure the community always has a say when it comes to a controversial method of responding to the opioid epidemic
  • Resolution 230662: Holding hearings to examine and address Human Trafficking
    • Authorizing the Council Committee on Children and Youth to hold public hearings examining the response to human trafficking in the City of Philadelphia. Read More
Improving Quality of Life and Safety
  • Verizon Franchise Agreement BILL NO. 240383: Authorizing the City’s Chief Innovation Officer or their designee to enter into a cable television franchise renewal agreement with Verizon Pennsylvania LLC, renewing the cable television franchise granted by the City to Verizon, for Franchise Areas I, II, III and IV of the City, all under certain terms and conditions.
    • Renewing the city’s contract with Verizon and securing free public Wi-FI at 183 Rec Centers in the City Read More
  • Bill 230714: Laying the groundwork for a new health center, grocery store, and affordable housing units
    • To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Pratt Street, Darrah Street, Dyre Street, and Frankford Avenue.
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  • Bill 240246: Laying the Groundwork for a new health center at Friends Hospital
    • To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Roosevelt Boulevard, Adams Avenue, Ramona Street, Wyoming Avenue, and Whitaker Avenue.
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  • Bill 240016:  Amending Chapter 11-708 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Calming Measures for Schools," by authorizing the Department of Streets to additionally install traffic calming measures in the vicinity of recreation centers, playgrounds, parks, and libraries; all under certain terms and conditions.
  • Bill 240014: Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, by amending Section 9-203 relating to Street Vendors, by prohibiting street vending in the 54th Ward; all under certain terms and conditions.
  • Bill 230775: Keeping streets from flooding
    • Authorizing the plotting upon City Plan Nos. 157 and 226 of two certain drainage areas, located on either side of Erie Avenue between Third Street and Lawrence Street, and the relocation of portions of the curblines of said Erie Avenue, all in order to conform with conditions established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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  • Bill 230777: Making a busy intersection safer and simpler
    1. Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 226 by placing on the City Plan an irregularly-shaped area along the easterly side of Fifth Street, between Hunting Park Avenue and Bristol Street, in order to conform with conditions established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Modernizing our city’s code to keep housing affordable and responsibly develop
  • Bill 230776: Legislation making affordable housing more attainable
    • Amending Section 7-202 of Title 7 (“Housing Code”) of The Philadelphia Code to modify the definition of “affordable housing property,” under certain terms and conditions.
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  • Bill 230776: Amending Section 7-202 of Title 7 ("Housing Code") of The Philadelphia Code to modify the definition of "affordable housing property," under certain terms and conditions. (NEW MARKET TAX CREDITS)
  • Bill 230648: Extending the deadline a tax saving program that makes living more affordable
    • Amending Chapter 19-3900 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Tax Exemptions for Longtime Owner-Occupants of Residential Properties,” to extend the tax year 2023 application deadline for real estate tax exemptions for longtime residential owner-occupants, all under certain terms and conditions.
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  • Bill no. 240332: “An Ordinance approving the sixth amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the American Street Industrial Corridor Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by Lehigh Avenue, Berks Street and Montgomery Avenue on the north, by Second Street and Philip Street on the east, by Girard Avenue, Oxford Street and Jefferson Street on the south and by Germantown Avenue, Sixth Street and Third Street on the west, including the sixth amendment to the urban renewal plan which provides, inter alia, for changes that would make it consistent with the North Philadelphia Redevelopment Area Plan and generally consistent with the most recent Comprehensive Plan approved by the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia.”
  • Bill no. 240333: “An Ordinance amending Section 14-533 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled ‘/MIN, Mixed Income Neighborhoods Overlay District,’ to update the illustrative maps to reflect recent redistricting changes, all under certain terms and conditions.”
    • Updating our city’s Mixed Income Neighborhoods to match the newly established borders of each council district: Read More