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Resolution adopting the Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for the Arrott Building Hotel project which will involve the repurposing of the existing 18 story office building into a hotel with a full-service restaurant at street level. The site is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Wood Street and Fourth Avenue (401 Wood Street), in the 1st Ward of the City of Pittsburgh.
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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, Urban Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel Company, LLC has proposed the development of a certain parcel of land identified as the Arrott Building Hotel, located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Wood Street with Fourth Avenue (401 Wood Street), Pittsburgh 15222, Allegheny County, Lot & Block # 1-H-188, in the 1st 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 sewer tap-ins to the City of Pittsburgh sewage systems; and
WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Water Sewer Authority, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, and the City of Pittsburgh Planning 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 Arrott Building Hotel, which will consist of the repurposing of the existing office building into a hotel with full-service street level restaurant, located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Wood Street with Fourth Avenue (401 Wood Street), City of Pittsburgh, 15222, Allegheny County, Lot & Block # 1-H-188, in the 1st Ward.
Finally, that any Ordinance or Resolution or part thereof conflicting with the provisions of this Resolution, is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this Resolution.