City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2017-1600

• File #: 2017-1600
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Died due to expiration of legislative council session
• File created: 6/2/2017
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 6/6/2017
• Final action: 12/31/2017
• Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 267 - Exemptions for Industrial and Commercial Improvements. (Public Hearing Held, July 10, 2017; Post Agenda Held, July 11, 2017)
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 02 - FISCAL

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2017	1	City Council	Died due to expiration of legislative term
7/11/2017	1	Committee on Hearings	Post Agenda Held
7/10/2017	1	Committee on Hearings	Public Hearing Held
6/14/2017	1	Standing Committee	Held for Cablecast Post Agenda	Pass
6/14/2017	1	Standing Committee	Held for Cablecast Public Hearing	Pass
6/6/2017	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 267 - Exemptions for Industrial and Commercial Improvements.
(Public Hearing Held, July 10, 2017; Post Agenda Held, July 11, 2017)

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

Section 1.
CHAPTER 267: - EXEMPTIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL IMPROVEMENTS
? 267.01 - DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings set forth below:
(a) BOARD. The Office of Property Assessments of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania or its successor(s), if any, responsible for assessing properties in the city.
(b) DETERIORATED AREAS. Those locations in the City which Council, after public hearings, has determined to be physically impaired on the basis of one (1) or more standards including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) The buildings, by reason of age, obsolescence, inadequate or outmoded design or physical deterioration have become economic or social liabilities.
(2) The buildings are substandard, unsanitary, unhealthy or unsafe.
(3) The buildings are overcrowded, poorly spaced or so lacking in light, space and air as to be unwholesome.
(4) The buildings are faultily arranged, cover the land to an excessive extent, show a deleterious use of land, or exhibit any combination of the above which is detrimental to health, safety or welfare.
(5) A significant percentage of buildings is more than twenty (20) years of age.
(6) A substantial amount of unimproved, overgrown and unsightly vacant land exists which has remained so for a period of five (5) years or more indicating a growing or total lack of utilization of land for economically desirable purposes.
(7) A disproportionate number of tax delinquent properties exists.
(8) The area is impoverished as certified by the Department of Community Affairs, now the Department of Community and Economic Development, and approved b...