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File #: 2016-0033    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 1/15/2016 In control: Standing Committee
On agenda: 4/13/2016 Final action: 4/19/2016
Enactment date: 4/19/2016 Enactment #: 11
Effective date: 4/22/2016    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article I, Section 902.03 Zoning Map, by changing a certain property known as 5600 Penn Ave, block number 83-N, lot 125 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from RP, Residential Planned Unit Development, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development, and changing a certain property known as Enright Parklet, block number 84-A, lot 176 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from R3-M, Residential Three-unit, Moderate Density, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development. Specific Conditions for approval of this zone change are attached to the Ordinance as Exhibit A.
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 09 - ZONING
Related files: 2015-2259

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Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article I, Section 902.03 Zoning Map, by changing a certain property known as 5600 Penn Ave, block number 83-N, lot 125 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from RP, Residential Planned Unit Development, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development, and changing a certain property known as Enright Parklet, block number 84-A, lot 176 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from R3-M, Residential Three-unit, Moderate Density, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development.  Specific Conditions for approval of this zone change are attached to the Ordinance as Exhibit A. 

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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

 

Section 1.  Amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article I, Section 902.03 Zoning Map, by changing a certain property known as 5600 Penn Ave, block number 83-N, lot 125 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from RP, Residential Planned Unit Development, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development, and changing a certain property known as Enright Parklet, block number 84-A, lot 176 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System from R3-M, Residential Three-unit, Moderate Density, to AP, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development. Specific Conditions for approval of this zone change are attached to the Ordinance as Exhibit A. 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

Conditions

1.                     (a) Amended PLDP comes before, not concurrent with FLDP; (b) PLDP goes through community process and standard City Planning process as outlined in Planning’s handouts. Standard City Planning process includes design review and CDAP, and submission and review of the following prior to Planning Commission hearing:

                     Master plan

                     Site plan

                     Contextual and precedent images

                     AP Zoning analysis

                     List of allowable uses

                     Building massing studies or diagrams

                     Shade and shadow studies

                     Building location and massing controls

                     Landscaping and screening design/guidelines and standards

                     Tree protection and replacement strategy [in accordance with 915.02.D of the Pittsburgh Zoning Code]

                     Perspectives

                     Design standards and guidelines

                     Traffic, transportation and parking study/analysis

                     Conceptual stormwater management plan

                     Conceptual street/ROW design

                     Accessibility and universal design summary

                     Environmental innovation and sustainability summary

                     Summary of community process

                     Statement of compliance with PLDP review criteria in Zoning Code

                     Any other plans or studies as deemed necessary to complete review by City Planning

 

2.                     Enright Park (a) shall remain publicly owned; (b) a recreation facility; (c) equivalent size and function of existing park; (d) City will pursue zoning or other means to protect the park for public use.

 

3.                     A new street, designed with park compatibility in mind, may connect from S. Negley along the northern border of the park, pending traffic study review and approval. Streets or access drives shall not bisect the park but shall be limited to park edges.

 

4.                     (a) Any park area utilized to provide for a street on the northern border of the park shall be provided as useable park area in-kind such that the contiguous functional park area remains at a minimum of 2.2 acres, and (b) the PLDP process and traffic study will consider bike pedestrian connection to S Euclid as a priority.

 

5.                     Existing neighborhood streets will not be connected to the development pending traffic study review and approval.

 

6.                     Parking, loading and other site access to the development will be limited to Penn, S. Euclid, S. Negley and newly established streets on the development pending traffic study review and approval.

 

7.                     (a) There will be no commercial uses fronting on the park below the new street on the northern border of the park, (b) all adjacent uses to the park shall be buffered with landscaping and screening, and (c) there will be sufficient building setback along the eastern border of the park to protect and preserve the existing trees.

 

8.                     (a) The reconfigured Enright Park shall be owned by the City of Pittsburgh, and shall count toward the development’s open space requirements as required by code and by Planning Commission’s condition. (b) Developer shall assist in programming and in developing enhanced amenities for the reconfigured Enright Park