Mayor of Kingstown finished filming around October. American Rust is the only current big production filming in town.

well this is reddit, so you should probably empty it and then bury it in your house somewhere for a future owner to uncover and get karma from.

> Ever take an economics class?

Ah, economics, the "science" that assumes everyone is a perfectly rational actor that does exactly what is best for themselves every single time.

> Eh, if the prices they point out are remotely accurate,

 
This is basically an opinion piece and I don't believe the numbers that get thrown around on this shit any more than I believe the guy on WTAE a few months back who claimed that he saved $3000 dollars by driving to Ohio to fill his truck with thirty cent cheaper gas.
 
People lie, all the time, and journalists in this country abdicated their responsibility to do journalism a long time ago.

Eh, if the prices they point out are remotely accurate, it's a pretty ridiculous raise. Inflation alone doesn't take something from 15k to 255k.

I’ve heard the same, basically makes it so time consuming it makes people give up on projects

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The city adjusted the zoning fee schedule just a few years ago. No one is suggesting that the reviews should be fully subsidized. The problem is the city has spent the past decade making the code and reviews more complicated and time consuming all while complaining about being understaffed. Projects that used to take 3 months to review can now take over a year, and that’s before applying for a building permit.

The development review process in Pittsburgh is broken and is basically run by special interests and lefty activists. Architects, engineers developers and contractors do not have a seat at the table.

Does anywhere do this?

Harvard Circle

I agree. I’m a small local neighborhood developer and it’s really hard for small time developers without lawyers and project managers on staff to navigate and afford the process. In my opinion it pushes local developers away. Building or renovating a 4 unit mixed use project in milvale or dormont or etna is soooo much easier than city of PGH.

The article is so poorly written, I'd be embarrassed if I was the writer.

School is definitely getting better and has come a long way, but they have huge bullying issues with no support from administration. My partner has kids in this district. Also, in other posts OP has mentioned a desire to stay away from districts that are into book banning. Deer Lakes isn't as prevalent as Norwin and Franklin Regional in this regard, but there have been rumblings of book bannings bc the district definitely skews conservative. Def worth checking out, but just proceed with caution I'd say.

It’s not a typo. The city website says the fee for commercial projects is $3 per $1000 of project value.

> extortive fees

Reminds me of the way Detroit used to charge (IIRC) $9,000 for a permit to tear down a derelict house.(And thus it became a tradition to set them on fire on Devil's Night. Would you look at that? It burned to the ground ...)

The Planning Department is staffed by holdovers from the Peduto Administration. They have been implementing bad NIMBY, anti-development and anti housing policies for years. This is just getting press because it’s the most egregious.

I work as a designer in a firm with multiple offices and really got interested in the YIMBY movement after experiencing how awful and damaging zoning is in Pittsburgh compared to other cities where I was working.

So the $400K fee was only supposed to be $40K as well?

>But what the city also needs to do is ensure we have the capacity and the staff

Translation: "My brother-in-law needs a job."

You will own nothing and be happy!

Thank you so much for the heads up! When we moved to our current district, we had zero choice as we moved here for my job. I love this advice as we have been battling our current district with bullying and IEP issues from the start. I will check into the areas and see if they have FB groups as well as when we narrow down the list see about setting up something with their special education department! Good luck to you and your kiddo!

I really did give Gainey a chance. And, I think his heart is in the right place. But, at this point I think he’s in over his head. I think a change from peduto was necessary, but we need someone who deeply understands policy, from development to homelessness, to take charge.

this comment is under rated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33grif58qO8

Wait, is this true? If so that’s a huge typo. Changes the framework of the whole argument.

Georgism 101

He's recovering pretty well.