SPONSORED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS DAN GILMAN, DARLENE M. HARRIS, AND THERESA KAIL-SMITH
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Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, Article I: Public Rights of Way, by amending Chapter 420: Uniform Street Naming and Addressing, to clarify Subchapters 420.02 and 420.10 thereof so that only proposed new street names must be approved by City Council, not other minor decisions that come out of the Addressing Review Committee.
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WHEREAS, Chapter 420 of the City Code sets forth the required procedures pertaining to the City's uniform street naming and addressing system; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 420 of the City Code assigns various duties to the City of Pittsburgh Addressing Review Committee ('Committee"); and
WHEREAS, City Council seeks to streamline the legislative process such that it will only need to approve the proposed new street names and the Committee will make final determinations as to other decisions with respect to the City's uniform street naming and addressing process in accordance with Chapter 420 of the City Code.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property; Article I: Public Rights of Way; Chapter 420: Uniform Street Naming and Addressing, Section 420.02: Definitions, is hereby amended as follows:.
§ 420.02 - DEFINITIONS
(a) NENA means the National Emergency Number Association.
(b) BUILDING means any combination of materials constructed, placed or erected permanently on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals or property, or supporting any use, occupancy or function.
(c) STREET means any public right-of-way in the City of Pittsburgh including but not limited to any public alley, avenue, boulevard, circle, court, drive, extension, freeway, highway, lane, place, road, street or way.
(d) DEPARTMENT means Department of Public Works City Planning.
(e) COMMITTEE means the City of Pittsburgh Addressing Review Committee, which shall include the Directors, or their designees, from the following Departments: Public Safety, Public Works, City Planning, the Bureau of Building Inspection Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspection, Allegheny County Emergency Services Emergency Operations Center Allegheny County Administrative Services and the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
(f) ROOT STREET NAME means all parts of a street name except the suffix and, where applicable, the predirectional and/or postdirectional.
(g) NEW STREET NAME means a new name for an existing street or a new name for a newly created street.
Section 2. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property; Article I: Public Rights of Way; Chapter 420: Uniform Street Naming and Addressing, 420.10: Street Name and Address Notification, is hereby amended as follows:
§ 420.10 - STREET NAME AND ADDRESS NOTIFICATION
(a) Upon the recommendations of the Committee with respect to proposed new street names, the Department shall transmit such recommendation(s), in writing, to City Council and the City Clerk. No other recommendations of the Committee with regard to other matters referred to in Chapter 420 shall be submitted to Council for voting. Council shall approve said recommendation(s) with an affirmative vote of a simple majority of its members. Should Council wish to reject the Committee's recommendations regarding proposed new street names, it shall require the negative vote of six (6) members of Council. Should Council fail to act on the Committee's recommendations within forty-five (45) days, that failure to act shall be deemed an approval of said recommendation(s). Upon approval of the Committee's recommendation(s), the Department shall notify the applicant, in writing, of the name and/or address assigned to the property and except in the case of new construction, shall allow up to ninety (90) days before the effective date of the street name and/or address change.