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Councilwoman Smith passed along the following info: The City of Pittsburgh advises that the Department of Public Works will close McArdle Roadway, from Liberty Bridge to Grandview Avenue, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 through Friday, September 10, 2010 in order to allow workers to remove invasive trees and tree [...]

Drilling for natural gas doesn’t seem like it would be a concern for a gal living in the city. But I am worried. You should probably be concerned too. Although the approximately 2,000 Marcellus Shale drilling sites that have been permitted are not being developed in the City of Pittsburgh right now, landowners in Lawrenceville [...]

Councilwoman Rudiak and the snow preparedness task force continued their probe into the events of February 2010 at a meeting yesterday and both the Post-Gazette (‘Snow preparedness meeting proves pretty stormy itself’) and Tribune-Review (‘Pittsburgh Councilwoman criticizes lack of communication’) reported a contentious atmosphere. Makes you wonder why a task force looking objectively at data and interviewing people about a government [...]

Councilwoman Rudiak would like to know what you think about how the city responded to the record snowfalls we experienced this year. She’s trying to piece together the events that led to the unfortunate circumstances a lot of us found ourselves in when we couldn’t move our cars or walk the sidewalks for weeks. If [...]

Typically us Mount Washtonians don’t have to worry about these 3 Rivers and their crazy floods. That being said, Teresa Smith’s office wanted to get out the word about some local Flood Evacuation Procedures. Below you’ll find .pdf files that break down the evacuation procedures for different areas of flood prone areas in Pittsburgh. Beck’s [...]

Councilwoman Smith recently met with Mr. Craig Cozza of Grandview Avenue vacant lot fame and representatives from the MWCDC and was kind enough to share a synopsis of the meeting with us. (If you’re not familiar with Mr. Cozza’s role in the development story in our neighborhood, you can check out some of the media coverage [...]

A little over a year ago, a request for an occupancy permit for a strip club on Carson Street was rejected unanimously by the City Planning Commission. That would have been the end of the story save for the fact that Pittsburgh City Council failed to hold a public hearing on the matter, which led Judge James of the [...]

If your comments and e-mails are any indication of the larger population, most people are directing any anger they have about the City’s response to this winter’s snow storms at the Mayor. I think this simplifies a complex issue, but I’m just reporting what we hear here at 15211. Although yesterday someone did send an [...]

Impassable streets in 19 neighborhoods were attended to by the City yesterday. Here’s the list. I can’t hold the suspense any longer–Mt. Washington isn’t on it. No one has reported why these neighborhoods were chosen. I don’t think these decisions were politically motivated. At least I hope they weren’t.  I had started to map each neighborhood back to [...]

So apparently we’re getting smacked with snow again this afternoon neighbors and I’m a little worried about more muck piling on top of what we already have now. Part of me remains patient and understanding with the City because I cant imagine it’s easy to manage 2+ feet of snow, but the other part is a little [...]