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File #: 2023-1147    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 1/20/2023 In control: Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure
On agenda: 1/24/2023 Final action: 2/7/2023
Enactment date: 2/7/2023 Enactment #: 45
Effective date: 2/10/2023    
Title: Resolution granting a vacation of a portion of Wylie Avenue, laid out in the Lower Hill Planned Development District Improvement Subdivision Site Plan No. 1, from the intersection of Logan Street to its southwestern terminus in the 3rd Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh.
Indexes: VACATING A STREET
Attachments: 1. 2023-1147 Cover Letter-council-signed, 2. 2023-1147-Application, 3. Summary 2023-1147
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Resolution granting a vacation of a portion of Wylie Avenue, laid out in the Lower Hill Planned Development District Improvement Subdivision Site Plan No. 1, from the intersection of Logan Street to its southwestern terminus in the 3rd Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh.

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WHEREAS, a portion of Wylie Avenue located in the 3rd Ward of the City of Pittsburgh was dedicated to the City of Pittsburgh through Resolution 41 of 2019, File No. 2018-1238, effective January 10, 2019.

WHEREAS, an unused portion of the dedicated Wylie Avenue extends beyond the intersection of Logan Street and is not necessary to provide access or otherwise further development.

WHEREAS, the Sports and Exhibition Authority and Urban Redevelopment Authority have requested that that certain portion of Wylie Avenue be vacated to allow for other development.

WHEREAS, the owners of all property fronting or abutting the portion of Wylie Avenue to be vacated consent to the vacation.

WHEREAS, the City wishes to act on the Sport and Exhibit Authority and Urban Redevelopment Authority's request, conditioning the proposed vacated area to a public access easement.


Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. The City hereby vacates and releases any and all rights to that certain parcel of land situate in the 3rd Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is more particularly bounded and described as follows:

All that certain tract of ground situates in the 3rd Ward, City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being a part of Parcel "5" (Street 5) to remain, as shown on the Lower Hill Planned Development District Improvement Subdivision Site Plan No. 1 as recorded in Plan Book Volume 285, page 23, being more particularly described to wit:

Beginning at a point on the southerly right of way line of said Street 5, a 78 foot right of way, where the same is inte...

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