Category: Sustainable Development
What are we tolerating and putting up with?
| August 2, 2009 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Allegheny-County, Civic Engagement, Community Development, Jobs, Labor, Location, Mon Valley, Neighborhoods, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning, voting |
Last week as we left Loew’s and a sneak preview of Funny People, once again we found ourselves appreciating just how awful the design of the Waterfront is. It’s as if the bad mall martians flew in from outer space, landing on one of the most key-critical, history rich and defining sites of Pittsburgh’s past,…
CBA Post-Agenda, According to Twitter
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by Seenster under Blogs, Community Development, Politics, Sustainable Development |
Today’s post-agenda on Community Benefit Agreements held in Pittsburgh’s City Council Chambers had some in the audience all a-twitter. Here’s what happened:
Kevin Acklin on CBAs
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by Seenster under 2009, Community Development, Politics, Sustainable Development |
Today, City Council held a post-agenda to give residents the opportunity to speak about the issue of Community Benefit Agreements in the City and other recent events. The Acklin campaign posted a video of Kevin Acklin’s remarks: Kevin Acklin: CBA Remarks Before City Council from Acklin for Pittsburgh on Vimeo.
Is Development Really Moving Pittsburgh Forward?
| July 24, 2009 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Civic Engagement, Community Development, Jobs, Labor, Politics, Sustainable Development |
So while the battle for heath care is being waged on a National Level it is interesting that some things have also been brought to light here in Pittsburgh about development and jobs. Here is a quick summary… Last Week It has been an interesting frew weeks in Pittsburgh. Last week Northside United staged a…
North Shore vs. North Side — Rally July 23
| July 21, 2009 | Posted by committeegrrl under Health Insurance, Jobs, Labor, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Image via Wikipedia Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondent has the press release from last weeked protest and the PGH Comet has a posts about the protestors that were arrested last week. The protests took place outside the Delmonte headquarters The Delmonte HQ is managed by Continental Real Estate Continental pays their building service workers poverty wages with no…
The Billboards Are Back: City Hearing Next Week
| March 5, 2009 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Advertising, Civic Engagement, Community Development, Downtown, Get Involved, Government, Issues, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Take Action |
Remember the big debacle last year regarding a certain LED billboard on a certain transportation center (at the corner of Grant and 11th Streets in Downtown Pittsburgh)? (See this, that, or the other post from last year.) Well, lucky for us, we have a say in the issue. As the City prepares to develop policy…
Who is benefits from leasing or selling the parking garages?
| January 27, 2009 | Posted by insider under Community Development, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
Image by UtopianLibrary via Flickr Mayor Luke Ravenstahl‘s idea to lease the city’s parking garages (more here) has generated quite a bit of buzz in Pittsburgh and beyond. The article from the PG was also picked up by Harvard’s Kennedy School here and on the blogs Milwaukee Talkie and Planetizen. This idea has also been…
Did you know there’s a ballot initiative this election?
| October 29, 2008 | Posted by p2wp under 2008, Environment, Government, Pennsylvania, Public Health, Sustainable Development |
There is a ballot initiative in Pennsylvania to support a bond issue for water infrastructure. You should support it and here is why. Clean water? Vote ‘yes’ Ballot question targets funding source Sunday, October 26, 2008 BY TANYA DIEROLF On Nov. 4, we will be deciding more than the next president. We in Pennsylvania can…
What is the purpose of public transit?
| September 24, 2008 | Posted by TransitGeek1 under Government, Issues, Jobs, Pittsburgh, Politics, Poverty, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning, Western PA |
Again, there’s a really interesting conversation about transit going on over at Nullspace: http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/2008/09/transit-tuesday-metrics-to-be-proud-of.html Chris B. deconstructs some of the “facts” touted in a recent Forbes.com report and P-G article about Pittsburgh being in the top 5 commuter-friendly regions. He points out that the figures that put us in the top 5 are ridership numbers…
CBA Signed in Hill
| August 21, 2008 | Posted by breen under Community Development, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development |
After a long and persistent effort, residents of the Hill District, united under the One Hill Coalition, finally received a community benefits agreement signed by local elected leadership. This is a very positive step toward more sustainable development in Pittsburgh; CBAs provide a vehicle for community input into large scale development.
Tool includes transportation costs in defining housing affordability
| July 27, 2008 | Posted by april under Community Development, Environment, Events, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Urban Planning |
A timely topic, as energy becomes a sharper issue for the American public and we watch changes in consumer behavior hash out against a backdrop of slow-to-change and often contradictory public policy. Will there be any long-term impact on where people choose to live? Well, this index is a project of The Urban Markets Initiative…
The Plight of the Casino
| June 26, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Government, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development |
An article in the Wall Street Journal from a year ago illustrates how the proliferation of casinos is not the answer to our public revenue problems. This excerpt from today’s Harrisburg Online demonstrates how the credit crunch is further stunting the anticipated windfall: A Sub-Prime Mess of Another Sort??…construction workers and others are preparing to…
More Buildings to Come Down in Uptown
| June 23, 2008 | Posted by breen under Civic Engagement, Community Development, Environment, Issues, Pittsburgh, Sustainable Development, Urban Planning |
Many a Pittsburgh resident has seen the sad shape of Pittsburgh’s Uptown (a.k.a. Soho) neighborhood today. It’s sprinkling of old buildings awash in a sea of parking lots. And all of those parking lots are owned by one man, Sal Williams. Many a community advocate has been puzzled and stymied by this accumulation of parking…
Mayor Vetoes Campaign Finance Reform
| June 10, 2008 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Elections, Government, Pittsburgh, Politics, Sustainable Development |
On Tuesday, June 3rd, Pittsburgh City Council passed a bill to implement local campaign finance reform (article). On Monday, June 9th, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl vetoed that bill (article). An attempt today to override the veto failed in Council (article). Campaign finance reform, at whatever level, is a mechanism that levels the playing field for political…
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