Presenter
Presented by Ms. Burns
Title
An Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, by adding Section 907.02.H (IPOD-3) and 922.13.C (IPOD-3) Baum-Centre Corridor. The purpose of this amendment is to create an Interim Planning Overlay District in the Baum Boulevard-Centre Avenue corridors. Council Districts 6, 8 and 9.
Body
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. Supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning by adding Section 970.02.H (IPOD-3) and 922.13.C (IPOD-3) Baum-Centre corridor. The purpose of this amendment is to create an Interim Planning Overlay District in the Baum Boulevard-Centre Avenue corridors.
907.02.H IPOD-3 Baum-Centre Corridor
907.02.H.1 General Boundaries
The Baum-Centre Corridor Interim Planning Overlay District is generally defined by properties along the Baum Boulevard and Centre Avenue corridors between North Oakland and East Liberty. Specific boundaries of the district are mapped as a supplement to the City's Zoning District Map.
907.02.H.2 Intent
The intent of the Baum-Centre Corridor Interim Planning Overlay District is to create a regulatory mechanism in an area where substantial development growth is imminent and where both the impact of individual development projects and the collective impact of such development on public resources and private properties are not mitigated through the existing regulations of the Code. Specifically, the intent of the Baum-Centre Corridor IPOD is:
(a) To protect existing residential, commercial and office uses and encourage new uses that are complimentary to the context of the mixed-use nature of the Baum-Centre Corridor; and
(b) To protect and enhance the Corridor's architectural context, which includes building siting, massing, facade treatment, materials, proportion, and scale.
(c)
907.02.H.3 Need for Interim Zoning
Interim Zoning in the Baum-Centre Corridor is necessary to provide the ...
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