Park Place Blog

The Zoning Board of Adjustments will hold a public hearing on the first floor of 200 Ross Street in downtown Pittsburgh at 9:20am on Thursday September 11, 2008.

This hearing is to review an application for a variance from the zoneing code regarding signage. The  Department of City Planning was unable to actually locate the application in the file, so that could not entirely explain what the request was. However, they took my contact information and promissed to call when the application was complete. It was thought that it was specifically regarding the number of signs permitted per facade (normally only one is permitted) as well as the size of the signs, and a sign wall on the corner of Penn and South Braddock.

Nothing looked particularly out of the ordinary on the signage on the building itself. The sign wall might potentially be a concern with it’s height being about 5′9″ on the plan, though it may be far enough back into the lot to not pose an issue. It is hard to tell for sure, as the plans on file were very small and hard to read.

Missing Dog: medium-sized gray and white dog (Bearded Collie), collar,
no tags, missing from Celeron Street since afternoon on Wednesday (May
21).  Please call 412-242-5208, for Penn and Katherine Hackney.

The GPPNA was able to negotiate $10,000 from Paradise Developers for street tree planting. The street tree program offered by the GPPNA aims to help beautify the neighborhood by providing free trees to property owners. The GPPNA will be working with the Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest (FPUF), Nine Mile Run Watershed Association (NMRWA), and local governments on this program.This street tree program is different from the street tree program offered by the city. The city offers street trees through the shade tree commission (based out of the mayors office, http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/html/shade_tree_commission.html) and the Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest (FPUF), however there is currently a long waiting list for trees. The GPPNA street tree program is separate from the city’s street tree program and there will be no long waiting list for trees through the GPPNA street tree program. In fact, we hope to start planting trees in April! (more…)

Link to the PRNewswire press release

The fall clean-up campaign is coming soon. Park Place’s clean-up date is Saturday October 13th, 2007. We had good turn out last spring, and are looking for and even better one this fall. We will meet again at the corner of Forbes and South Braddock, in front of the Waverly church, at 9 the morning. Bags will be provided.

Food, live music and many other fun activites were the center of this year’s Park Place picnic. A couple hundred attended to see the petting zoo, get airbrush tattoos, play the Park Place trivia challenge, and collect balloon art. Many took a break from the heat by volunteering for the dunking station or joining in the water ballon fights.

See the event photo album here.

2007 Park Place Trivia Challenge

Abbott Street, Sunday June 3rd, 1pm-4pm

Come join your friends and neighbors at Park Place’s annual picnic. Abbott Street will be blocked off and set up for the annual community picnic. Hotdogs and beverages will be provided for free, and attendees are encouraged to bring side dishes or desserts to share. This is a great way to meet your neighbors and have fun.

Come enjoy:

• Live Music
• Moon Bounce
• Air Brush Tatoos
• Petting Zoo
• Park Place Trivia Game
• Information Booth
• And More!

Spnsored by Pittsburgh City Parks.

See PhotosBraving the chilly and soaking spring rain, twenty-one volunteers from Park Place showed up Saturday, April 28, 2007 to represent Park Place in the Squirrel Hill/Point Breeze/Homewood Redd-Up Coalition. Armed with gloves, vests, bags for trash and recycling, and free coffee from Startbucks- the volunteers were able to cover most of the streets in Park Place.

Streets covered by
clean-up volunteersIndividuals, couples, children, and the occasional accompanying dog took to the streets and alleys to amass a huge pile of trash which the city picked-up later that day at points along Edgerton Street. Old bicycle tires, hub caps, bottles, and other trash made its way from street to bag.

A big thank you to everyone that turned out to help!