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Mayor’s Land Recycling Taskforce Meeting II
Thursday, June 3, 2010
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Luke RavenstahlMayor, City of Pittsburgh
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Agenda
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Welcome, Introductions and Review Purpose of the Task Force
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
Tools We Currently Have: Local, State and National Level
Irene McLaughlin, J.D., Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania House Bill 712
Kendall Pelling, East Liberty Development, Inc.
Next Steps & Proposed Work Process for Moving Forward
Kim Graziani, Office of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
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City of Pittsburgh – Bureau of Police
Scope of the Problem
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City has lost 50% of its population in 50 years
City has lost only 15% of its housing stock
Currently 1,400 condemned structures
Currently 6,000 vacant buildings
Currently 24,000 vacant lots (11,000 publicly owned)
Almost 20% of our parcels are tax delinquent
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Tax Delinquency and Declining Market Value
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Addressing the Problem
Initiatives are underway (e.g. CARC buyback, Land Reserve, Green Up
Program, Increase in demolition budget, City’s first Comprehensive Plan)
But they are not enough Treasurer’s sales are time and cost intensive Pittsburgh’s Land Reserve process is limited to a few
hundred parcels Demolitions do not keep up with rate of
condemnationsGreen Up Pittsburgh and other greening initiatives
do not tackle the scale and need of open spaces
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Progress to Date
Collected data (i.e. Market Value Analysis, SNAP, PNCIS)
Community outreach(i.e. PCRG, Foundations)
Advocacy and input on current
legislation (i.e. HB 712)
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