City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2011-1965

• File #: 2011-1965
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 7/26/2011
• In control: Committee on Public Works
• Final action: 8/1/2011
• Enactment date: 8/1/2011
• Enactment #: 541
• Effective date: 8/8/2011
• Title: Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for the purpose of investigation, design, construction, and remediation of a critical wall and slope failure, certain property in the 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Richard Fleming and designated 3919 Hewitt Street, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, and designating the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh as the City's acquisition agent, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof. Cost for the property not to exceed $22,000 payable from Account 600000, Fund 6100, Organization 440000, Sub-Class PGHPR, Project/Grant 2239103, Budget Year 2010. Necessary and incidental acquisition costs related to acquisition of the property may not exceed $3,000 payable from Account 600000, Fund 6100, Organization 440000, Sub-Class PGHPR, Project/Grant 2239103, Budget Year 2010.
• Indexes: PROPERTY ACQUISITION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/9/2011	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
8/1/2011	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
7/27/2011	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
7/26/2011	1	City Council	Read and referred
7/26/2011	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass

Title
Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for the purpose of investigation, design, construction, and remediation of a critical wall and slope failure, certain property in the 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Richard Fleming and designated 3919 Hewitt Street, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, and designating the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh as the City's acquisition agent, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof. Cost for the property not to exceed $22,000 payable from Account 600000, Fund 6100, Organization 440000, Sub-Class PGHPR, Project/Grant 2239103, Budget Year 2010. Necessary and incidental acquisition costs related to acquisition of the property may not exceed $3,000 payable from Account 600000, Fund 6100, Organization 440000, Sub-Class PGHPR, Project/Grant 2239103, Budget Year 2010.

Body
Whereas, on June 1, 2010, the Department of Public Works, Robert Kaczorowski, Director, determined that the retaining wall supporting Portman Avenue is failing and the most cost effective method of mitigating the problem is to build a new wall in front the existing wall, and recommended that the City of Pittsburgh purchase the three houses located on Hewitt Street which connect Portman Avenue with Mairdale Avenue in the Perry North neighborhood to provide property for the new wall and access; and

Whereas, the failure of the Portman Avenue wall has caused Portman Avenue to subside from the almost the median to the edge, with potentially dangerous conditions for the more than fifteen homeowners residing there; and

Whereas, in January 2011, the City of Pittsburgh successfully purchased two of the three houses on Hewitt Street from the property owners, it has been unable in the past six months to purchase the Fleming property because the owner is not motivated to sell. Wells-Fargo Bank holds a mortga...