Not yet. It's season 2 of American Rust

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The city claims it found it was losing money with the old fee schedule. Inflation is causing prices of everything to go up, and it sounds like they just needed to adjust their fee to account for this, otherwise taxpayers are subsidizing the reviews. This isn't about putting up roadblocks or sending messages, it's just the rising cost of doing business for developers. This article just happened to totally frame it from the whiny developer's perspective.

The law allows for the fees to cover the reasonable and actual costs of the work required. The city said $15k was too low, and raised it.

All that really matters is if they can prove the actual use of the funds in court. What are the typical lifetime costs associated with the Zoning variances for this sort of work? They mentioned trying to make this work faster, which implies to me they're looking to use this funding to offset more staff.

It sounds huge, but for huge multi-million dollar projects being done for long-term profit I am not going to shed a lot of tears as long as it's provably justified.

When their opinion is "quickly murder our incarcerated" I think it's okay to treat them as at least somewhat unreasonable.

That lane is getting turned into a bike lane this summer anyway so it was just getting you prepared for that’s next

Yea wtf is up with that

80 percent of statistics are made up.

And it's actually a typo on the website

> $15,000 to $255,00

Should be $25.5k

Skiing in a little town called Assspen.

MORE THAN ONE

NIMBYs and the poorly educated certainly think so.

imagine looking at the average Pgh house and thinking “this is perfect, ban all new development and we’ll end up like Prague or the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona.” Lol.

And they're going to be using Smallman at around 30th soon. They have no parking cones set up for Wednesday to Saturday.

They've been using that brick building on the corner and have big cranes set up outside and there are video wires in the alley.

Bill Gatti, how did you choose this username?

Developers! Developers! Developers!

Less development is a good thing?!

Gainey has been in over his head since he took office, and the foundering hasn’t improved over time. Classic one term and done mayor.

Ever take an economics class?

While I can’t speak on any of the districts you have listed, I highly recommend setting up a meeting with the special education department at the districts you are interested in. It would also be a good idea to see if there is a Facebook group for the district run by parents and ask in there for opinions and experiences. I didn’t do that with my son’s former district and learned my lesson the hard way.

My son went to Gateway School District in Monroeville prior to our move out of state at the beginning of this school year. He is 8 years old w/ an IEP and has autism, ADHD, and disruptive behavior disorder. While Gateway isn’t on your list, I figured I’d let you know to steer clear just in case. The special education teachers, paraprofessionals and principal we dealt with were wonderful! The custodian and school resource officer were equally as great! They went above and beyond for us and we loved them! The downfall for that district was the superintendent, director of special education, and the school board. It seemed like most of the board and the superintendent only cared about the appearance of the schools and sports. They always answered around questions that had to do with special education, it was extremely frustrating. The director of special education was no better. You would’ve thought she was getting paid extra to block the teachers efforts to help our children and secure proper services as hard as she fought against literally everything. It was like her against everyone else on the IEP team. I ended up having to get an advocate and she did change her tune after that.

American Rust - Season 2

Found the developer

Not anymore. Unless they replacing Renner

So you’re glad the zoning review fee has gone up 1600%, ensuring less new housing gets built, which keeps the housing stock shittier and more expensive?

If only there were a more tactful way to encourage more equitable development instead of punishing and discouraging all development with extortive fees. /s

What a short sighted take. Keep Pittsburgh shitty!

Yup. “That’ll show ‘em”.

Makes me glad I voted for him lol

Mayor of Kingstown. It’s always Mayor of Kingstown.

Yes you are confirming exactly what I said. It is a systemic issue.