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File #: 2015-1755    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 6/19/2015 In control: Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
On agenda: 6/23/2015 Final action: 7/7/2015
Enactment date: 7/7/2015 Enactment #: 424
Effective date: 7/9/2015    
Title: Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh's Official Sewage Facilities Plan for Penn Highland Mixed Use, 111 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh (8th Ward), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Indexes: SEWAGE FACILITIES PLAN
Title
Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh's Official Sewage Facilities Plan for Penn Highland Mixed Use, 111 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh (8th Ward), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
 
Body
WHEREAS, SECTION 5 of the Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535, No. 537, known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act," as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (the "Department") adopted thereunder, Chapter 71 of Title 25 of the Pennsylvania Code, requires the City of Pittsburgh to adopt an Official Sewage Facilities Plan (the "Official Plan") providing for sewage services adequate to prevent contamination of waters of the Commonwealth and/or environmental health hazards from sewage wastes, and to revise said plan whenever it is necessary to determine whether a proposed method of sewage disposal for a new development conforms to a comprehensive program of pollution control and water quality management; and
 
WHEREAS, Walnut Capital-Penn Highland, L.P.  has proposed the development of a certain parcel of land identified Penn Highland Mixed Use, 111 South Highland Avenue, Allegheny County, at lot and blocks 84-B-59, 84-C-39, 84-C-41, and 84-C-42, in the 8th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh and described in the attached Sewage Facilities Planning Module (the "Planning Module") for land development and proposes that project be served by a sewer extension and tap-in to the City of Pittsburgh sewage systems; and
 
WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Water Sewer Authority, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, the City of Pittsburgh Planning Department and the Allegheny County Health Department have reviewed the respective components of the attached Planning Module in regard to each authority/department's expertise and have approved the respective components as explained in the attached Planning Module.  
 
WHEREAS, based upon the approval of the above authorities and departments, the City of Pittsburgh finds that the project described in the attached Planning Module for land development conforms to applicable zoning, subdivision, other municipal ordinances and plans, and to a comprehensive program of pollution control and water quality management.
 
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
 
Section 1.      The City of Pittsburgh hereby adopts and submits to the Department of
Environmental Protection for its approval as a Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh's Official Sewage Facilities Plan, the above-referenced Planning Module for land development, which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
Said Planning Module includes the proposed Penn Highland Mixed Use, Allegheny County at lot and blocks 84-B-59, 84-C-39, 84-C-41, and 84-C-42, in the 8th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh.