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A
Hello
and
welcome
to
Pittsburgh
City
Council's
public
hearing
for
Tuesday
July
16th
2019.
My
name
is
Kim
Clark,
Baskin
and
I'm
your
deputy
city
clerk
with
us.
Today
we
have
our
sign
language
interpreter
david
Tatro.
The
following
is
a
piece
of
legislation
to
be
heard
by
Pittsburgh
City
Council
bill
number,
1415,
ordinance
amending
the
pittsburgh
code,
title
9,
zoning
article
1,
section
9,
o
2.03
zoning
map
and
article
3
overlay
zoning
districts,
chapter
907
development,
overlay
districts,
section
ina,
7.02,
ipod,
interim
planning,
overlay
district
by
adding
a
new
section,
907
point:
zero.
A
B
Good
afternoon,
everyone
and
welcome
to
this
cable
cast
public
hearing
of
Pittsburgh
City
Council
for
today,
Tuesday
July,
the
16th
2019
I'm,
councilman
Krause
I'll
be
chairing
this
afternoon's
public
hearing.
We
want
to
thank
you
in
advance
for
being
here.
I
am
joined
by
councilmembers
gross
and
Strassburger
I'm
sure
other
members
will
be
joining
us
shortly.
We
will
begin
by
having
the
clerk
breed
the
purpose
of
the
bill
as
to
why
we
are
gathered
today
and
then
we'll
have
a
brief
presentation
from
our
planning
department
and
then
go
directly
into
your
comment.
Madam
Clerk.
The.
B
D
Assistant
director
Department
of
City
Planning,
we're
here
today.
This
is
the
required
City
Council
hearing
for
the
interim
planning
overlay
district
6.
What
that
is
is
a
temporary
zoning
control
for
a
span
of
18
months.
It
can
be
extended
extended
by
an
additional
six
months
by
City
Council
after
it
is
approved
by
council
and
the
intent
of
this
ordinance.
Is
you
know,
during
that
interim
Planning
overlay,
district
time
frame
to
work
on
permanent
zoning
for
inclusionary
housing,
inclusionary
zoning
that
is
informed
by
the
pilot
as
well
as
further
study
and
further
outreach.
D
Recent
interim
Planning
overlay
districts,
you
know
iPod
for
was
completed
in
2015,
expired
in
2017
and
then
the
riverfront
when
we
replaced
that
both
Inc
both
cases
were
replaced
by
permanent
zoning.
There
have
been
a
lot
of
changes
to
the
city
and
its
housing
market
both
in
rent,
and
you
know-
and
you
know,
understanding
where
we
have
income
restricted
developments.
D
You
know
the
recommendations
for
this
interim
planning.
Overlay
district
came
from
the
work
of
the
city's
affordable
housing
task
force,
which
was
created
in
2016,
which
looked
at
and
tried
to
understand
the
gap
of
affordable
housing
that
we
have
here
at
the
city.
So
roughly
you
know
over
you
know
at
the
time
determined
gap
of
roughly
17,500,
affordable
units
across
the
city
looked
at
doing
so
in
a
number
of
ways.
I
won't
get
into
those,
but
one
of
those
ways
was
was
you
know,
inclusionary
zoning,
which
is
what
we're
here
for
today.
D
It
is
a
tool
that
you
know
achieves
that.
You
know
that
intent
of
you
know
you
know
for
affordable
housing
and
the
creation
of
affordable
housing
by
requiring
new
residential
development
to
make
a
percentage
of
the
unit's
affordable
to
residents
of
a
certain
income
level.
After
we
concluded
the
work
of
the
affordable
housing
task
force,
there
was
an
additional
committee
that
met
in
2017
in
the
beginning
of
2018
that
looked
specifically
at
this
issue.
I
won't
go
into
all
the
details
of
that
we
do.
D
We
have
incentive
based
inclusionary
zoning
that
exists
both
in
the
uptown
public
realm
and
the
riverfront
zoning
district.
The
difference
between
that-
and
this
is
that
this
would
be
mandatory
in
the
pilot
area,
which
is
defined
as
the
three
neighborhoods
of
Lawrenceville.
It's
a
community
process
with
the
councilman's
office
and
Lawrenceville
United
Lawrenceville
corporation
at
the
end
of
2018,
which
led
to
the
work
a
lot
of
reasons
why
we
chose
Lawrenceville
as
a
pilot
based
on
development
activity
and
the
change
in
rapid
appreciation
in
prices.
D
D
Specifically
sorry,
the
the
this
this
this
did
go
to
the
Planning
Commission
Planning
Commission
did
I.
You
know
hear
testimony.
We
did
mail,
two
four
thousand
three
hundred
ninety
six
recipients,
which
are
all
the
people
within
three
Lawrenceville
neighborhoods,
all
property
owners
within
three
Lawrenceville,
neighborhoods,
plus
all
properties
within
150
feet
of
that
boundary.
D
You
know
that
you
know
we
did
receive
response
rate
of
eight
of
those
surveys.
We
also
then
had
testimony
that
came
to
the
Planning
Commission
by
forty.
Three
community
members
at
that
time,
the
Planning
Commission
did
make
a
recommendation
to
City
Council
that
they
approve
the
inclusionary
housing
interim
Planning
overlay
district
with
the
conditions
that
are
listed
there
and
will.
B
D
D
E
B
All
right
very
good.
Thank
you
good
great.
Thank
you
very
much,
okay.
So
with
that,
we
want
to
be
respectful
of
your
time.
We
appreciate
that
you've
come
to
speak
to
the
council
today,
so
I
am
going
to
begin
to
go
into
our
list
of
register
speakers
just
a
couple
ground
rules
before
we
get
started
when
you
come
to
the
podium,
we're
gonna.
Ask
that
you
please
begin
by
giving
your
name
and
the
neighborhood
in
which
you
reside.
We
need
that
for
our
public
record,
the
green
light
indicates
the
start
of
your
three
minutes.
B
When
the
yellow
light
comes
on.
You
have
one
minute
to
summarize
your
thoughts
when
the
red
light
comes
on,
then
your
time
will
have
expired
and
we'll
call
the
next
invited
guests
up
to
speak.
So
we
will
begin
with
David
bryggen,
I
hope
I
said
that
correctly
David
right,
okay,
as
our
first
registered
speaker
and
you
will
be
followed
by
Gary
Phillip
Nelson
welcome
David
thanks
thanks
good.
F
Afternoon
my
name
is
Dave
Brennan
I'm,
a
Lawrenceville
resident
and
the
executive
director
of
Lawrenceville
United.
Our
mission
is
to
improve
and
protects
quality
of
life
for
all
arts
for
residents
and
I'm
here
today,
hopefully,
for
the
last
time
to
express
our
strong
support
for
Councilwoman
grosses
inclusionary
housing,
interim
planning
overlay
district
in
Lawrenceville
Lawrenceville
urgently
needs
this
legislation
and
Lawrenceville
makes
a
lot
of
sense
to
pilot
inclusionary
zoning
in
Pittsburgh.
Our
crime
rates
have
plummeted
and
made
us
the
safest
neighborhood
in
Zone.
Two,
our
neighborhood
public
schools
and
transportation
infrastructure
are
improving.
F
The
business
district
is
taken
off
and
brought
local
jobs
and
services
to
the
community.
Yet
the
benefits
of
revitalization
have
not
been
shared
with
everyone.
Rising
housing
costs
have
priced
out
significant
groups
of
our
residents.
You
stand
to
benefit
from
and
help
to
bring
about
these
positive
changes.
It's
just
one
measure
between
2011
and
2016
Lawrenceville
lost
over
half
of
its
Housing
Choice
Voucher
units
in
the
neighborhood,
representing
the
displacement
of
a
hundred
and
twenty
low-income
families
and
the
greatest
proportional
loss
of
any
city.
Neighborhood.
F
Three
hundred
Somali
Bantu
immigrants,
who
called
Lawrenceville
their
first
home
in
America,
have
all
been
priced
out
of
the
neighborhood,
largely
getting
pushed
away
from
the
resources
they
depend
on
in
the
city
and
to
significantly
less
safe
areas
of
Pittsburgh
and
according
to
census,
figures
Lawrenceville
lost
nearly
a
third
of
its
black
population
and
a
quarter
of
its
longtime
homeowners
in
just
three
years.
While
data
shows
that
evictions
are
disproportionately
being
use
against
renting
households
with
school-aged
children.
F
At
the
same
time,
Lawrenceville
is
currently
undergoing
its
physik
biggest
housing
boom
in
decades
with
over
700
units
and
new
multi-family
residential
development.
In
recent
years,
almost
all
of
this
housing
is
being
created
at
the
very
top
end
of
the
market.
Only
10
affordable
units
were
created
in
the
last
decade
by
private
developers.
In
Lawrenceville.
F
Had
this
inclusionary
zoning
legislation
been
in
place
five
years
ago,
Lawrenceville
would
have
created
over
60
additional
units
of
housing
for
the
people
most
impacted
by
displacement,
while
it
won't
solve
all
of
our
housing
issues
in
Lawrenceville,
it
can
play
a
significant
role
and,
with
still
lots
of
develop,
will
develop
a
bull
land
in
Lawrenceville
inclusionary.
Zoning
will
continue
to
be
relevant.
Mandatory
inclusionary
zoning
is
an
internationally
tried-and-true
tool
to
create
quality,
affordable
housing
and
areas
of
opportunity
and
an
incredible
amount
of
expertise.
F
Feasibility
studies
and
community
engagement
went
into
the
formation
of
this
legislation,
as
demonstrated
by
the
Planning
Commission's
unanimous
approval.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
though,
this
is
about
what
kind
of
community
we
are
planning
for.
Do
we
want
to
live
in
a
city
where
revitalization
means
growing
opportunities
for
some
and
inevitable
exclusion
for
many
of
our
neighbors,
or
do
we
insist
on
a
higher
standard
for
development
and
growth
in
Pittsburgh?
I
strongly
urge
city
council
to
pass
this
legislation
thanks,
David.
B
G
G
That's
going
to
take
place,
that's
resulting
in
demanding
more
rent
for
those
business
locations
and
making
it
harder
for
them
to
to
rent
them,
because
the
the
increase
the
increases
in
the
rent,
a
diverse
neighborhood,
on
the
other
hand,
would
result
in
diverse
business
community
as
as
well
and
I.
Think
that,
with
passage
of
this
legislation,
will
give
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
an
opportunity
to
address
a
problem
as
well
as
experiment
with
solutions
that
will
address
the
problem.
Haven't
taken
my
for
three
minutes.
I
hope
you.
B
H
All
right
good
afternoon,
my
name
is
Celeste
Scott
and
I'm.
The
housing
justice
organizer
for
Pittsburgh
United
I
live
in
Homestead
I
used
to
live
in
Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh
is
at
a
critical
moment.
We
have
an
opportunity
to
be
a
national
leader,
not
just
in
terms
of
economic
revival,
but
equitable
development
that
puts
people
first
to
be
truly
liveable.
H
The
revitalization
of
Pittsburgh
must
include
both
the
high
tech
and
the
service
sectors
of
the
economy,
while
lifting
up
every
neighborhood
in
the
city,
revitalization
is
benefiting
some,
but
the
fabric
of
low-income,
neighborhoods
and
communities
of
color
are
being
torn
apart.
Creating
and
preserving
housing
affordability
is
a
critical
issue
and
in
2016
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
identified
a
shortage
of
affordable
housing
of
over
20,000
units
at
the
lowest
incomes.
We
are
currently
in
an
affordable
housing
crisis
in
city
of
Pittsburgh,
as
housing
prices
have
increased
across
the
city.
H
Many
folks
have
been
displaced
from
the
neighborhood's
they
lived
in
for
generations
and
forced
to
live
in
neighborhoods
many
times.
Second
and
third
reading
suburbs,
like
you,
came
to
McKeesport,
without
access
to
amenities
like
transportation,
health
care
and
healthy
places
to
get
groceries.
I
have
personal
experience
with
this.
Well
I,
don't
currently
live
in
Lawrenceville
I
used
to
until
I
was
priced
out
of
the
neighborhood
I
now
live
in
the
borough
of
Homestead.
H
Do
my
work
at
Pittsburgh
United
and
our
partnership
with
Lawrenceville
United
in
their
housing
advocacy
efforts
I've
become
reacquainted
with
the
neighborhood
of
Lawrenceville,
which
is
a
great
example
of
why
affordability
should
be
a
part
of
any
neighborhood
improvement
strategy.
This
policy
being
in
place,
could
have
allowed
my
family
to
stay
in
the
place
we
called
home
over
the
last
20
years,
or
so.
Thousands
of
low-income,
mostly
black,
renters,
have
been
uprooted
and
thousands
of
units
of
affordable
housing
have
been
demolished
in
the
name
of
creating
mixed
income
communities.
H
Examples
are
of
equipment,
Terrence,
Hope,
6,
Manchester,
Hope
6,
therefore,
Hill
Hope,
six
federal,
American
properties,
third
East
Hills,
Garfield,
Heights,
Edison
terrorists,
East,
Liberty,
Gardens,
Allegheny
dwellings,
and
this
list
only
includes
mixed-income
redevelopment.
It
doesn't
include
demolition,
elimination
of
affordable
housing
like
broadhead
Manor,
where
I'm
from
Westgate
Village
and
st.
Clair
Village.
Raising
our
development
standard
by
including
a
small
percentage
of
affordable
units
in
luxury
housing
development
pales
in
comparison
to
the
burden
that
the
city
has
inflicted
on
thousands
of
men,
our
households,
in
the
name
of
creating
mixed
income
communities.
H
If
this
city
really
values
mixed
income,
communities
and
I
think
we
do
equitable
development,
then
everyone
should
share
the
burden
of
creating
mixed
income
housing.
Otherwise,
it's
just
willful
displacement
strategies
that
the
city
is
using
to
displace
thousands
of
black
tenants
and
destroyed
thousands
of
units
of
affordable
housing.
Please
do
the
right
thing
it
has
to
our
part
legislation.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
Thanks
you,
thank
you.
Dear
members
of
council,
my
name
is
Brandon
Mendoza
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
neh
op
Pittsburg
at
the
commercial
real
estate
association
I,
have
an
office
in
the
South
Hills.
We
also
have
an
office
in
Market
Square.
We
have
nearly
400
members
in
Pittsburg
and
our
National
Association,
which
we
are
part
of,
has
over
20,000
members
across
the
u.s.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
offer
remarks
on
this
policy.
I
While
citizens
may
now
may
not
always
agree
on
on
policy
options,
we
should
not
take
for
granted
the
ability
to
speak
freely
on
issues
that
impact
our
communities
and
neighborhoods.
As
many
of
you
know,
I
in
the
constituency,
as
I
represent
at
neh
up,
have
some
serious
apprehensions
about
this
policy,
not
because
we
don't
acknowledge
the
importance
of
affordable
housing
we
do,
but
because
there
are
better
ways
to
produce
affordable
units
than
this
policy.
The
policy
as
written
is
a
hurdle
development
when
it
does
not
have
to
be.
I
We
should
be
seeking
to
use
some
carrots
or
incentives
to
stimulate,
affordable,
like
development,
as
opposed
to
sticks
or
hurdles.
So,
just
last
month
we
brought
in
a
renowned
Urbanists
and
economist
and
housing
expert
from
Portland
by
the
name
of
Joe
at
court.
Right
Joe
is
done
extensive,
my
research
on
urban
economies
and
affordable
housing
in
a
nonpartisan
like
fashion
his
research.
His
research
on
affordable
housing
is
clear.
21St
century's
21st
century
cities
should
prepare
policies
to
support
to
support,
affordable
housing.
I
I
What
he
has
says
is
that
we
should
use
market
signals
to
try
to
incentivize
more
affordable
units
and,
for
example,
you
know,
he's
he's
recommended
a
tax
increment
like
financing
strategy
that
has
been
successful
in
Portland
in
several
other
cities,
for
example,
in
Portland,
in
New
York's
own
New
York
has
an
inclusionary
like
policy
and
all
like
five
like
boroughs.
In
the
same,
like
time
period,
the
folks
in
Portland
have
produced
more
affordable
units
in
their
apparel
district,
but
if
strategy,
then
all
five
like
barrels
of
New
York
have
produced
with
their
inclusionary
zoning
strategy.
I
B
J
Afternoon,
my
name
is
Corey
Richie
I'm,
a
Lawrenceville
resident
of
in
a
city
of
the
Pittsburgh
resident
for
about
ten
years
now,
I'm
speaking
a
little
earlier
than
I
planned
to
so
a
little
more
opening
statement
than
closing
argument
like
I
intended,
but
I
do
need
to
respond
to
that
a
little
bit.
Those
of
us
who
are
here
we're
actually
kind
of
fighting
for
our
home.
This
is
where
we
live.
This
is
where
the
people
we
know
live,
and
we
want
to
keep
it
the
way.
The
way
it
is,
we
want
to
make
it
better.
J
We
don't
want
to
keep
losing
the
people
that
we
love
and
while
yes
I
understand
that
there
may
even
be
some
better
ideas
than
inclusionary
zoning
that
might
create
more.
The
point
is
we're
not
done
after
today.
This
is
the
start.
This
is
what
people
have
been
working
for
and
because
we
want
it,
we
want
it
for
ourselves.
We
understand,
there's
other
people
in
other
parts
of
the
city
that
that
want
it
too.
J
We
want
to
show
that
it
works,
so
they
can
get
it
too,
but
they
they
have
to
ask
what
we're
not
trying
to
impose
this
on
anyone
else,
this
our
neighborhood-
and
this
is
what
we
want
and
yes
I
understand
that
again
the
developers
may
prefer
another
method,
but
I've
been
to
two
different
community
meetings
in
the
past
couple
of
months,
where
developers
have
come
since
this
has
been
introduced
and
they've
been
ready
to,
they
understand
it,
they've
been
ready
to
go.
They
understand
how
many
units
they
need
to
make.
J
They
have
plans
for
it
and
they're
ready
to
do
it
saying
this
isn't
feasible,
saying
this
won't
work
is
just
nonsense.
It's
possible
that
we
can
do
more,
it's
possible.
We
can
do
better
in
the
future,
but
that's
not
a
reason
to
not
do
this.
We
are
losing
people,
we
are
losing
our
community
right
now
and
honestly,
we're
sick
of
it.
If,
if
you
guys
won't
help
us
we're
gonna
have
to
find
something
else,
but
right
now
again,
this
is
a
fantastic
idea
and
I
just
beg
you
guys
to
you
know,
support
this.
K
K
If
I
had
to
move
there
now
and
I,
don't
think
many
of
my
neighbors?
Could
they
were
lucky
enough
and
I
was
lucky
enough
to
be
able
to
move
at
it
at
a
time
when
affordable
housing
was
the
norm
and
I
met
over
the
few
years
after
I
moved
in
lots
of
people
who
also
took
advantage
of
affordable
housing
in
Lawrenceville
and
the
diversity
in
the
neighborhood
and
the
people
that
I
met
and
the
close-knit
character
of
the
neighborhood
has
been
amazing.
K
I,
don't
know
my
neighbors
anymore,
I,
don't
know
the
people
that
are
moving
in
I,
don't
know
the
people
that
live
near
me
anymore,
and
the
people
that
I
did
know
that
moved
in
for
opportunities
have
all
left.
They've
left
because
they've
been
forced
out,
they've
been
priced
out.
They
saw
an
opportunity
to
sell
their
house
and
make
some
money
and
take
it
elsewhere.
K
The
reality
is
back
when
I
moved
in
in
2015
the
tenths
award.
The
tenth
Awards
biggest
issue
was
that
we
didn't
have
a
business
district
that
was
thriving
the
way
it
was
in
central
or
lower
Lawrenceville.
We
wanted
restaurants,
we
wanted
shops,
but
apparently
we
didn't
want
restaurant
workers
and
we
wanted
shops,
but
we
don't
want
shopkeepers
and
we
want
art,
but
we
don't
want
artists,
because
my
friends
and
the
people
that
I
know
that
work
in
these
careers
can't
afford
to
live
in
Lawrenceville
anymore.
K
So
Lawrenceville
wants
what
they
have
to
provide
and
wants
to
take
their
service,
but
doesn't
want
to
provide
anything
in
return.
I
think
we're
well
overdue
for
affordable
housing.
This
is
a
really
small
step
and
it's
the
least.
We
can
do
right
now.
I
encourage
us
to
move
forward
with
this
and
then
find
additional
ways
to
keep
affordable
housing
in
the
neighborhood.
B
L
Good
morning,
my
name
afternoon,
sorry,
my
name
is
Nancy
gibart
I
live
at
222,
46th,
Street
I
lived
in
Pittsburgh
a
long
time
ago
and
then
moved
to
hit
Harrisburg
and
moved
back
as
soon
as
I
retired.
About
five
years
ago,
I
landed
in
Lawrenceville.
I
am
strongly
in
support
of
inclusionary
zoning
I
moved
in
just
in
time,
because
if
I
was
trying
to
buy
my
house
now,
I
couldn't
afford
it,
and
that
was
just
five
years
ago.
L
Lawrenceville
is
a
great
place
to
live
and
I
want
us
to
maintain
that
sense
of
an
inclusive
neighborhood
that
is
always
existed
here.
We
don't
want
Lawrenceville
to
turn
into
a
giant
gated
community
for
the
upper
10%.
I
live
on
this
great
little
street,
with
cottage-like
houses
resting
on
a
steep
hill
across
the
street
from
a
park.
There
is
not
a
single
child
on
my
street
long
time.
Families
are
moving
out,
renters
are
moving
out
because
they
can't
keep
up
with
the
rent.
L
As
Dave
pointed
out,
evictions
are
high
and
it's
families
with
children
who
are
being
evicted
and
there
is
no
housing
for
those
families
to
move
into,
and
it's
fine
that
all
my
new
neighbors
are
young
singles
or
couples,
but
we
also
need
housing
to
be
development
to
be
development
developed,
it
can
be
afforded
by
families.
Inclusionary
zoning
is
one
tool
to
help
bring
kids
back
to
our
neighborhood.
This
is
a
policy
that's
been
effective
in
other
neighborhoods
in
other
cities
and
I
urge
you
to
move
forward.
Thank
you.
Okay,.
B
M
I'm
Helen
get
her
I
live
at
seven.
Four.
Four
seven
pin
fill
court
in
North
Point
Breeze
at
Pittsburgh,
just
harvest
in
a
Pittsburgh
Food
Policy
Council,
are
pleased
to
testify
in
support
for
the
inclusionary
iPod
in
Lawrenceville,
introduced
by
Councilwoman
gross.
Just
harvest
works
with
many
partners
across
Allegheny
County
to
address
hunger
at
its
root
economic
and
justice
through
a
focus
on
public
policy,
food
access
and
community
power.
Currently
rising
housing
costs
are
not
only
directly
eating
into
the
food
budgets
of
low-income
people
across
our
region.
M
Knacks
unequal
access
to
housing
and
neighborhoods
of
opportunity
is
both
an
economic
justice
issue
and
an
ongoing
failure
of
city
and
county
to
meet
their
civil
rights
obligations
to
affirmatively,
furthering
fair
housing,
housing
in
Pittsburgh
and
Allegheny
County
remains
largely
segregated
with
persons
of
color
people
with
disabilities,
families
with
children
and
others
that
should
be
protected
by
applicable,
fair
housing
laws
generally
having
many
fewer
choices
and
less
access
to
critical
needs.
The
impacts
of
displacement
are
myriad
from
inferior
access
to
educational
and
employment
opportunities
to
far
poorer
health
outcomes.
M
Just
harvest
is
among
several
organizations
partnering
with
the
Allegheny
County
Health
Department
in
a
Center
for
Disease
Control,
the
funded
initiative
to
assess
and
address
racial
health
inequities
in
Allegheny
County.
Access
to
nutritious
food
is
widely
understood
as
a
key
factor
in
such
adverse
health
outcomes
as
heart
disease,
diabetes
and
infant
mortality.
By
increasing
neighborhood
diversity
by
race
and
income.
Inclusionary
zoning
can
be
a
powerful
force
in
maintaining
access
to
nutritious
food.
This
zoning
tool
is
just
one
important
component
of
a
city
strategy
to
ensure
equitable
food
access.
M
We
strongly
encourage
the
Planning,
Commission
and
City
Council
to
approve
this
measure
as
a
means
to
protect
the
public's
health,
especially
among
those
at
risk
of
displacement
into
food
deserts.
While
this
iPod
legislation
only
affects
Lawrenceville
mandatory
inclusionary
zoning
is
something
that
was
recommended:
citywide
by
the
affordable
housing
task
force
and
the
inclusionary
housing
and
incentive
zoning
exploratory
committee,
as
well
as
the
affirmatively
furthering
fair
housing
task
force.
This
iPod
is
an
important
first
step
in
realizing
those
recommendations
with
clear
evidence
of
stress
and
damage
through
displacement
and
Lawrence's
bills,
hot
housing
market.
B
B
N
N
We
support,
diverse,
inclusive,
affordable
neighborhoods
and
access
to
high
quality
education
and
workforce
development
for
all.
We
have
worked
to
advance
these
goals
as
a
member
of
the
formative
ly
furthering
fair
housing
task
force
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
and
through
our
support
of
the
proposed
inclusionary
zoning
policy.
N
Inclusionary
zoning
is
just
one
tool
in
the
toolbox
needed
to
address
the
affordable
housing
crisis
in
Pittsburgh,
but
the
legislation
before
you
today
is
unique.
Not
only
is
it
good
policy,
but
it
is
policy
that
was
homegrown
and
driven
by
the
community,
as
you
have
heard,
and
will
continue
to
hear
today.
This
legislation
has
the
overwhelming
support
of
the
community.
Thus
allegis
Latian
is
an
opportunity
to
listen
to
honor
and
defend
the
people
of
Lawrenceville.
We
would
like
to
commend
Councilwoman
gross
and
the
Department
of
City
Planning
for
their
thoughtful
approach
to
this
legislation.
N
We'd
also
like
to
thank
community
organizations,
including
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
affordable
housing
task
force,
the
inclusionary
housing
and
incentive
zoning,
exploratory
committee,
Lawrenceville,
United
and
Lawrenceville
corporation
for
their
leadership,
as
well
as
Pittsburgh
City,
Planning,
Commission
Commission
for
their
unanimous
recommendation
of
this
legislation
and,
most
importantly,
we
would
like
to
thank
all
of
the
community
members
who
have
worked
so
hard
to
keep
Lawrenceville
and
Pittsburgh
home
members
of
City
Council
on
behalf
of
pump.
We
hope
you
will
take
this
opportunity
to
vote
in
favor
of
this
legislation.
Thank
you.
So
much.
O
Council
members,
thank
you
for
your
time
today.
My
name
is
Edie
new
sir
I'm,
the
director
of
real
estate
for
city
of
bridges,
Community
Land,
Trust,
we're
located
at
143
Street
in
Lawrenceville
I'm
here
today
to
strongly
strongly
encourage
you
and
to
echo.
My
partners
and
colleagues
have
come
before
me
to
pass
this
legislation.
This
is
legislation
that
is
desperately
needed,
the
neighborhood
of
Lawrenceville
and
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
and
I.
Think
importantly,
a
director
touched
on
this
during
his
presentation.
O
I
was
fortunate
enough
to
be
a
part
of
the
inclusionary
zoning
exploratory
committee
that
met
almost
beginning
beginning
two
years
ago
over
the
course
of
eight
months
to
look
at
these
questions,
to
look
at
questions
of
incentives
and
hurdles
to
look
at
how
we
still
get
the
housing
that
our
neighborhoods
in
our
residents
need
that
the
committee
did
phenomenal
work
or
eight
months
was
represented
by
three
for-profit
developers,
two
lenders,
one
non-profit
developer,
various
CDC
and
other
grassroots
representatives.
That
was
a
broad
swath
of
individuals
on
that
committee
that
helped
develop
the
policy
recommendations.
O
That
became
Councilwoman,
grosses
iPod
legislation,
and
that
committee
did
not
agree
on
everything,
but
it
came
to
a
consensus
and
what
that
committee
want
that
committee
found
was
that
inclusionary
zoning
is
both
necessary
and
economically
feasible
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
just
in
Lawrenceville
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
and
I
think
to
take
some
time
quickly
to
tuchis
things.
We've
heard
earlier.
O
The
people
who
want
who
will
benefit
from
incentives
always
want
to
see
incentives,
that's
just
how
incentives
work,
but
what
we
have
seen
time
and
time
again
across
the
country
is
that
inclusionary
zoning,
like
the
legislation
before
you
works
in
Washington
DC
ize,
was
in,
was
introduced
in
2009
and
2017.
A
city
lab
analysis
showed
that
applications
for
housing
permits
increased
every
single
year
from
the
adoption
of
an
inclusionary
of
an
inclusionary
zoning
policy.
The
National
Housing
Conference
Center
for
Housing
Policy
found
the
most
high
most
highly
regarded.
O
Empirical
evidence
suggests
that
inclusionary
housing
can
produce
affordable
housing
units
and
does
not
lead
to
significant
declines
in
overall
housing
production
or
to
increases
in
market
rate
prices.
And
if
you
want
to
talk
about
the
benefit
or
anticipated
benefit
of
incentives,
you
can
look
at
San
Diego,
which
a
whole
swath
of
these
supply-side
ideas,
reducing
parking
requirements,
increasing
density
bonuses,
increasing
height
bonuses
and
what
San
Diego
has
seen
over
the
time
that
those
policies
have
been
in
place
without
inclusionary.
P
Afternoon
my
name
is
Jackie
Smith
I'm
in
the
Park
Place
neighborhood
in
Pittsburgh
I'm,
a
sociologist
at
the
University
of
Pittsburgh
and
I
volunteer
with
the
human
right
city
Alliance
here
in
the
city
and
I
want
to
remind
us
that
our
conversation
today
is
really
addressing
what
is
a
global
housing
crisis.
What
we
see
here
is
something
that
cities
around
the
world
are
experiencing,
and
this
is
linked
to
the
growth
and
concentration
of
the
global
financial
industry,
which
has
distorted
our
democratic
processes
and
really
undermine
the
feedback
mechanisms.
P
That
government
needs
to
know
what
communities
need
and
how
to
address
community
problems.
So
we
have
a
broken
system
that
we're
trying
to
address
here,
and
this
legislation
could
be
one
small
step
and
moving
us
in
the
right
direction.
In
response
to
this
global
housing
crisis,
global
leaders
are
calling
for
a
fundamental
paradigm
shift
where
housing
is
treated
as
a
human
right
and
not
as
a
commodity.
P
We
need
to
subordinate
markets
to
human
needs
and
I
think
all
the
evidence
we're
hearing
today
illustrates
why
that's
the
case
and
earlier
this
month,
I
delivered
to
your
office's
a
copy
of
a
letter
that
was
written
by
the
United
Nations
Special
Rapporteur
on
the
right
to
housing.
I
have
additional
copies
here
for
you,
but
the
special
rabbit
or
Leilani
farha
pointed
out
two
heads
of
government,
including
the
Trump
administration,
specific
areas
where
improvements
are
needed
to
address
international
legal
obligations
that
governments
have
to
respect
human
rights.
P
First,
financial
supports
and
tax
breaks,
encourage
institutional
investment
in
housing
and
undermine
government's
responsibility
under
international
law
to
ensure
access
to
adequate
housing
for
the
most
vulnerable
populations.
Second,
she
criticized
government's
failure
to
enact
legislation
to
ensure
adequate
supplies
of
affordable
housing
such
as
rent
control
and
policies
linking
housing
prices
with
minimum
wage
regulations.
And
finally,
she
criticized
the
disproportionate
impacts
on
african-american
households,
which
contradicts
government
obligations
under
the
Convention
on
the
elimination
of
all
forms
of
racial
discrimination.
P
So
I
urge
you
to
move
forward
this
legislation
as
just
the
first
step
in
helping
recognize
the
human
right
to
housing
in
Pittsburgh
and
I'll
remind
you
that
Pittsburgh,
this
council
passed
a
proclamation
to
make
Pittsburgh
a
human
right
city
in
2011,
and
this
would
be
evidence
that
you're
committed
to
that
that
principle
and
that
designation.
Thank
you.
Q
R
Afternoon,
thank
you
for
having
me
my
name
is
Jesse
Perkins
I've
been
a
city
of
Pittsburgh
resident
for
my
entire
life
and
now
live
in
Lawrenceville.
When
I
bought
my
home
in
2013,
you
could
still
find
properties
there
for
less
than
$50,000.
It
took
me
three
years
and
I
was
able
to
fully
gut
and
renovate
my
house
and
I'm
so
proud
to
call
Lawrenceville
my
home,
but
while
I
worked,
Lawrenceville
housing
market
shifted
the
opportunities
that
used
to
be
available
have
grown
out
of
reach
for
many
of
the
people
that
grew
up
in
the
community.
R
Folks
that
stuck
it
out
through
the
rougher
times,
are
now
having
trouble
figuring
out
how
to
stay
in
the
neighborhood.
They've
lived
in
their
whole
lives
and
more
market-rate
developments
are
not
helping
them.
This
legislation
helps
provide
one
way
to
protect
the
people
that
make
our
neighborhoods.
So
wonderful.
Please
help
us
keep
Lawrenceville
a
neighborhood
for
everybody.
Please
use
your
power
to
support
this
inclusionary
zoning,
which
thank
you,
hey,
Jesse,
Thank,
You,.
B
S
Name
is
Randy
Sargent
I
live
in
South
Auckland.
Excuse
me
at
36,
34
Fraser,
Street
I'm,
a
researcher
at
Carnegie,
Mellon
University
and
together
with
fellow
residents,
Tyriq
Williams
and
Anne
Wright,
who
are
also
in
this
room.
Today
we
founded
and
run
an
after-school
technology
and
arts
program
in
South
Auckland
serving
a
95
percent
black
population
of
kids
in
our
neighborhood
over
recent
decades,
as
rents
have
gone
up
faster
than
in
Kemps
of
our
residents.
S
We
in
Auckland
have
lost
40%
40%
of
our
black
population
1,600
people
in
the
past
three
years
as
I've
been
helping
run
our
after-school
program
I've,
seen
six
families
of
our
kids
lose
their
housing.
All
families
of
color
I've
watched
our
families
desperately
try
to
find
alternative
housing
in
South
Auckland,
but
be
unable
to
find
anything
in
their
price
range.
I've
seen
our
evicted,
kids
and
parents
become
homeless
and
be
broken
up,
I've
watched
possessions
on
the
curb
get
thrown
in
the
trash
because
the
families
had
no
place
to
to
bring
them.
S
I
watched
our
families
displaced
to
neighborhoods,
away
from
public
transit
and
away
from
many
of
opportunities
of
their
childhood
home
I
learned
that
one
of
our
very
promising
teens
that
I
mentored
up
until
his
family
was
displaced
two
years
ago.
Guess
this
past
month
was
committed
to
juvenile
detention
and
I
keep
reviewing
in
my
head.
How
could
that
have
gone
differently?
It
was
there
a
way
that
we
could
have
prevented
his
displacement
and
his
being
disconnected
from
his
friends.
S
His
support
network
and
the
opportunities
of
our
of
our
neighbourhood
I'm
very
grateful
for
all
the
effort
of
the
people
in
this
room
today
to
develop
the
proposed
inclusionary.
Zoning
overlay
and
I
strongly
support
it,
as
you
might
guess,
and
I
look
forward
to
the
day
when
we
might
be
able
to
use
the
same
or
similar
tool
in
Oakland
to
prevent
the
displacement
of
our
kids
and
families.
Thanks.
T
B
T
T
Pittsburgh
has
to
change
its
history
of
how
it
approaches
developing,
pushing
people
out
who
have
built
and
held
a
community
for
years
in
order
to
gentrify,
we
have
to
value
people
who
lived
in
Lawrenceville
and
called
it
home
before
development
and
make
sure
that
they
can
afford
to
stay
there
and
not
only
shows
that
we
value
our
citizens
who
have
held
Pittsburgh
together
through
good
times
and
bad,
but
that
we
want
them
to
continue
to
be
part
of
the
Pittsburgh
of
tomorrow.
Inclusionary
zoning
also
supports
diversity.
T
Diversity
is
central
to
a
healthy
and
vibrant
community
and
we
cannot
overlook
the
role
that
market
rate
development
plays
in
impacting
diversity.
I
want
my
community,
be
full
of
different
socio-economic
groups,
races,
religions
and
accessible
to
everyone.
We
know
that
there
are
systems
in
place
that
make
could
make
that
less
feasible,
and
this
is
one
drop
in
the
bucket
that
can
help
fight
against
our
growth,
benefiting
only
a
few
and
I
hope.
This
is
just
the
beginning
of
further
efforts
throughout
this
city.
T
Thomas
Jefferson,
although
with
his
own
issues
with
equality,
said
that
the
care
of
human
life
and
happiness
and
not
their
destruction,
is
the
first
and
only
object
of
good
government.
It
is
our
role.
It
is
the
role
of
our
government
to
make
sure
that
Pittsburgh
is
not
the
most
livable
city
for
some,
but
for
all.
Thank
you.
B
B
U
Beth
whiners
and
I
live
in
Lawrenceville
I've
lived
there
for
19
years
and
I
want
to
make
it
clear
before
I
say
anything
else.
I
chose
that
neighborhood
I
wanted
to
live
there.
I
didn't
just
happen
to
move
to
Lawrenceville
I
picked
it
and
I
picked
it
because
I
love
the
neighborhood
I
love
the
diversity,
I'd
loved
everything
about
it,
and
lately
these
developers
have
been
coming
and
they're
taking
away
everything
that
makes
our
neighborhood
special
they're,
taking
away
our
historic
housing
stock
they're,
taking
away
our
green
space
they're,
taking
away
our
long-term
residents.
U
Therefore,
parking
of
they're
taking
away
our
diversity-
and
you
know
they're,
obviously
making
a
lot
of
money
and
when
we
ask
them
what
we
get
in
return,
they
say
well
or
a
lot
better
than
what
was
here
before
right.
Every
single
one
of
them
says
that
and
I
look
around
and
I
I
was
there
before
my
friends
were
there
before
the
businesses
that
I
loved
a
frequent
were
there
before
and
they're
gone
they're
just
and
they
get
money
and
I
get
well
we're
better
than
everything
that
you
loved
and
I
just
I.
U
V
V
A
lot
of
my
friends
also
moved
in
or
around
that
time.
Since
that
time,
almost
every
single
one
of
my
people,
I
know,
has
moved
out.
Other
people,
I
was
lucky.
I
was
able
to
buy
a
house
for
thirty
thousand
other
people
had
to
rent.
So
it
turns
out
that
the
people
who
were
already
vulnerable
have
become
increasingly
vulnerable.
V
You
know
our
city's
responsibility
and
I
really
thank
dip
and
a
Councilwoman
gross
and
everybody
else,
Pittsburgh
United
Lawrenceville
United
for
doing
this
great
work.
You
know
you
know,
thank
you,
because
we
do
have
a
responsibility
to
temper
the
free
for
all
of
development.
You
know
to
make
sure
that
we
protect
the
vulnerable
and
to
make
sure
that
we're
not
here
to
serve
development.
Development
should
be
here
to
serve
our
whole
city
and
I
used
to
have
a
worry.
The
Pittsburgh
was
becoming
a
place
of
two
cities.
V
You
know
the
affluent
stratified
with
the
working
class
being
pushed
further
down
I'm
learning
now
that
it's
becoming
one
affluent
city
slowly
as
people
that
I
know
have
moved
to
Swissvale
Wilkinsburg
Penn
Hills,
you
know
they
are
no
longer
residents
of
Pittsburgh.
You
know
so.
Please
I
strongly
support
the
mandatory
inclusionary
zoning
and
thank
you
all
for
making
this
happen.
Thank
You,
Alan.
W
Hi,
my
name
is
Kyle
Webster
I'm
here
today
in
two
capacities:
I'm
a
Lawrenceville
resident
and
homeowner.
My
husband
and
I
bought
our
house
in
Lawrenceville
back
in
2014
I'm,
also
general
counsel
of
action,
housing,
the
largest,
affordable
housing,
nonprofit
developer
in
western
Pennsylvania
I'm
gonna,
mostly
speak
in
that
capacity,
because
I
feel
it's
important
for
me
to
speak
as
a
developer.
Action
housing
as
a
developer
is
absolutely
in
favor
of
this
passing.
W
The
draft
bill,
as
it
reads,
is
not
perfect,
but
it's
such
an
important
tool
in
the
affordable
housing
tool
chest
and
really
what
Bill
is
perfect
action
housing
would
like
to
encourage
you
to
pass
this,
and
then
we
can
work
to
perfect
it
also
for
those
developers
who
are
struggling
to
figure
out
how
to
make
this
work.
I
invite
meetings
with
action
housing.
W
Arguably,
we
should
have
had
this
conversation
at
a
point
before
today,
but
we
have
so
much
development
and
growth
of
head
of
us
that,
even
if
you
think
this
won't
have
an
impact
on
Marshall,
Shadeland
or
Carrick
or
Perry
hilltop
in
10
years,
we
may
find
ourselves
grateful
in
a
way
these
other
cities
can't
so
I
really
want
to
encourage
you
to
do
this
and
I
want
to
tell
you.
It
is
very
possible
to
make
affordable
housing
in
Pittsburgh
happen,
but
it
takes
a
lot
of
approaches.
B
Q
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Darryl
Kensal,
a
former
resident
of
Lawrenceville
current
resident
of
Garfield
I
also
serve
as
the
community
engagement
and
program
manager
for
Lawrence
reunited.
Today,
I
wanted
to
speak
about
the
community
processes
that
we
did
around
Isay
and
Lawrenceville
across
the
country.
Almost
900
jurisdictions
have
inclusionary
housing
and
research
show
that
these
programs
are
effective
and
preventing
displacement
in
some
places
in
the
country,
inclusionary
zoning
is
responsible
for
creating
over
half
of
the
local,
affordable
housing
supply.
Q
The
lack
of
affordable
housing
in
Lawrenceville
is
truly
a
crisis
in
our
office
weekly
we
routinely
hear
of
residents
who
are
facing
increased
rents
or
even
worse,
evictions
and
our
loan
no
longer
able
to
find
suitable
housing
in
the
community,
they've
called
home
for
years
and
a
survey
we
did
last
year
about
how
to
promote
diversity,
inclusion
and
equity
in
the
neighborhood,
affordable
housing
was
by
far
the
number
one
issues
that
residents
identified
to
build.
A
welcoming
community
for
all
Lawrenceville
needs
this
policy.
Q
It's
why
Lawrence
the
United
volunteered
to
be
a
part
of
the
pilot
area
for
the
city's
implementation
of
xyzzy
in
the
fall
of
2018
for
the
Department
of
City
Planning
Councilwoman
grosses
office
in
Lawrenceville
corporation.
We
let
an
extremely
aggressive
community
engagement
process
that
included
three
public
community
meetings.
Now
these
meetings
cover
the
state
of
housing
and
displacement
in
the
neighborhood
and
how
isay
will
work
to
address
the
needs
of
Lawrenceville
every
single
home
across
the
six
ninth
and
ten
Ward's
receive
the
mailing
inviting
residents
to
these
meetings.
Q
Among
many
other
outreach
efforts
that
we've
documented
and
are
prepared
to
share
with
City
Council
today
over
the
course
of
the
meeting
well
over
a
hundred
people
participated
and
provided
input.
Attendees
asked
tough
questions
and
showed
widespread
support
for
IC
and
Lawrenceville.
The
support
of
this
policy
in
Lawrenceville
is
further
demonstrated
by
a
petition.
We
began
that
has
garnered
over
1,100
signatures,
a
jam-packed
room,
a
Planning
Commission
full
of
everyday
citizens,
carpooling
carrying
signs
and
taking
artwork
to
show
their
support
for
isay.
Q
We've
also
been
intentional
about
creating
a
process
and
a
policy
that
other
neighborhoods
in
Pittsburgh
can
adapt,
which
is
why
we're
deliver
and
including
housing
and
community
development
organizations
from
across
the
city.
In
these
discussions,
we're
also
proud
to
have
letters
from
over
20
organizations
here
today,
who
are
supported.
This
legislation
and
closing
City
Council's
should
be
assured
that
great
care
has
gone
into
this
policy
and
it
has
the
support
of
not
only
Lawrenceville
but
also
the
Greater
Pittsburgh
community.
We
urge
you
to
recommend
this
legislation.
Thank
you.
X
X
There
are
people
being
displaced,
and
it's
it's
really
changing.
It
looks
it
looks
very,
very
different,
but
also
very
much
all
the
same,
and
so
I
think
if
we
want
to
tout
that
Pittsburgh
is
a
livable
city.
If
we
want
to
say
that,
oh
this
is
the
most
livable
city,
we
need
to
take
care
of
our
neighborhoods
that
are
actually
in
the
city
and
have
legislation
that
supports
inclusionary
housing
so
that
we
can
have
a
place.
X
Y
You
thank
you
good
afternoon.
My
name
is
Alex
levy.
I
am
a
former
resident
of
Lawrenceville
and
10-year
resident
of
Bloomfield
and
research.
Analyst
at
the
Pittsburgh
Community
Reinvestment
Group
in
the
Hill
District
PC
RG
is
a
member
based
organization,
primarily
of
Community
Development,
Corporation's
and
nonprofits
from
the
city
in
the
inner
ring
suburbs,
and
we
are
so
proud
to
stand
here
today
with
our
friends,
our
members
and
other
Lawrenceville
residents
to
strongly
support.
Councilwoman
gross
grosses,
isay
overlay
pilot
community
development
and
the
Community
Development
Corporation
and
model
was
created
out
of
crisis.
Y
It
was
built
to
stem
decline,
it
was
about
capital
and
resources
going
to
communities
and
individuals
that
were
left
behind
by
deindustrialization
white
flight,
redlining
urban
renewal
and
other
city
killing
actions.
We've
been
somewhat
successful
in
this
certain
places
have
rebounded,
but
the
human
consequences
many
unforeseen
have
been
equally
devastating.
This
was
never
supposed
to
be
our
vision.
We
need
to
rethink
Community
development's
purpose.
What
is
the
role
of
what
is
the
role
of
Community
Development
in
hot
markets,
especially
in
a
city
where
disinvestment
is
occurring
right
alongside
runaway
markets?
Y
Y
Z
Name
is
Loretta
millander.
They
call
me
the
Bible
of
Lawrenceville,
because
I
know
it
I've
been
there
77
years
living
in
Lawrenceville,
we
bought
a
home
20-some
years
ago
on
Fifth
Street
to
to
0/5
beautiful
place.
The
reason
I'm
here
today
is
Lawrenceville
has
changed
so
much
in
70
some
years
due
to
the
fact
80
percent
of
the
people
they
are
now
a
white
Tim
person
is
black.
Tim
Burton
is
another
color,
the
problem
that
we
have
today
with
this
housing.
We
need
affordable
housing.
Z
This
will
take
and
let
every
person
that
wants
to
buy
a
house
down
there
be
able
to
live
in
Lawrenceville
bring
the
community
back
like
it
was
where
I
could
look
out
door.
My
neighbor
was
white.
My
other
neighbor
was
polish.
Someone
else
was
afro-american.
Our
children
played
together.
They
went
to
school
together.
We
do
not
need
an
all-white
school
all
school.
We
do
not
need
an
all-white,
neighborhood
or
all-black
neighborhood.
We
need
to
live
in
America
mix
together
being
friends
loving
one
another.
We
wouldn't
have
this
hate.
Z
If
City
Council
will
pass
this,
give
us
affordable
housing
watch
how
people
will
start
changing
the
OL,
we'll
learn
from
the
new
the
young
will
learn
from
the
old.
You
need
to
do
this
and
help
us
if
you're
sitting
down
here
as
our
City
Council,
we
need
your
support
and
your
help
to
pass
this.
Thank
you.
Thanks.
B
AA
You
feel
emotional
losses,
that's
what
I'm
feeling
it's
about
losses.
I
was
born
and
raised
in
Pittsburgh
and
have
lived
here
all
but
seven
of
my
54
years,
I
love
Pittsburgh.
That
love
has
been
tested
and
seems
to
be
tested.
More
and
more
these
days,
Pittsburgh
house
excuse
me:
Pittsburgh
has
to
some
extent
lived
up
to
its
title
as
most
livable
city
relative
to
other
large
cities.
AA
AA
AA
We
tried
to
fight
to
have
more
humane
development
in
the
neighborhood
and
we
lost
a
lot
of
battles
and
I
moved
to
Lawrenceville
in
large
part
because
it
was
such
an
engaged.
Community
I
was
a
librarian
and
I
saw
what
people
did
to
hold
on
to
that
library
branch
when
it
was
threatened.
For
example,
it's
a
relatively
engaged
community
and
we
still
had
major
major
losses.
AA
How
much
energy
does
it
take
to
have
you
protect
very
basic
human
rights
like
we
need
clean
air,
we
need
in
water,
we
need
places
to
live
and
we
need
food,
air,
water,
food,
housing,
it's
human
beings,
we're
talking
about
here,
it's
a
no-brainer,
so
so
many
intelligent
and
passionate
arguments
here
today
how
many
people
and
how
many
months
have
so
many
other
people.
You
know
I've
done
this
much
been
spending
their
energy
and
their
care
and
their
time
unpaid.
AA
AA
B
B
AB
Hls
represents
nonprofit
developers
like
action.
Housing
could
testify
today,
like
like
Lawrenceville
Community,
Land
Trust.
We
have
assisted
in
the
completion
of
her
billion
dollars
worth
of
development
projects
throughout
the
Commonwealth,
and
we
we
strongly
support.
Councilwoman
grosses
proposed
Lawrenceville
ize
interim
planning
overlay
district
I'd
like
to
make
a
couple
clarifications.
AB
You
know
about
things
that
were
said
earlier.
For
one
thing,
the
the
housing
needs
assessment
commissioned
by
the
city
that
Mullen
Lonergan
did
identified
a
gap
of
nineteen
thousand
nine
hundred
and
fifty
seven
affordable
units
units
that
are
affordable
to
people,
earning
half
the
city,
median
income
or
below
not
17,000.
Also
mr.
Mendoza
mentioned
you
know,
first
of
all,
his
preference
for
incentive
based
models,
but
also
New
York
City's,
poor
performance
in
their
isay
program.
What
he
didn't
mention
is
that
their
eyes
II
program
is
incentive
based
it's
based
on
density
bonuses
and
height
bonuses.
AB
You
know
so,
if
you're
gonna
look
at
include
how
effective
inclusionary
zoning
programs
are.
You
know
please
look
at
something
like
like
Montgomery
County
Maryland,
that's
been
at
it
for
decades
and
has
produced
thousands
of
affordable
units.
You
know.
Secondly,
it
really
isn't
just
about
production,
it's
also
about
what
kind
of
communities
do
we
want
to
live
in
right?
AB
Finally,
at
new
sir
mentioned
the
eysie
working
group
I
also
served
in
that
working
group
or
that
committee,
the
the
committee
included
a
housing
calculator
working
group
that
was
charged
with
reality
testing.
I
Z
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
looked
at
the
tested,
various
IC
requirements
based
on
actual
development
and
operating
costs
and
on
the
minimum
rate
of
return
necessary
to
attract
private
investment
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
AB
The
working
group
determined
that,
with
a
full
alert
of
tax
abatement
at
ten
percent
set
aside
at
four
households
earning
fifty
percent
of
ami
area,
median
income
citywide
would
be
feasible
with
15
percent,
feasible
and
strong
market
neighborhoods.
Now
Lawrenceville
is
one
of
the
strongest
market
neighborhoods
we
have
so
this
requirement
is
actually
a
conservative
requirement.
It
has
well
within
the
feasibility
findings
and
recommendations
of
the
ICA
exploratory
committee
with
that
I
just
want
to
thank
you
and
urge
you
to
vote
in
favor
of
this
legislation.
AC
My
name
is
Joanna
Deming
I'm,
the
executive
director
for
five,
you
and
Perry
hilltop
Citizens
Council
on
the
north
side
of
Pittsburgh
I
knew
would
be
a
struggle
to
get
here
today.
I've
left
the
house
twice
in
the
last
month
for
work
reasons,
so
I
really
wanted
to
be
here.
I
really
wanted
to
help
this
come
over
the
finish
line.
It's
been
in
the
works
for
a
long
time
back
I
think,
eight
years
ago,
when
I
was
at
the
Housing
Alliance.
AC
We
started
talking
about
this
with
some
people
that
are
in
the
room
and
we
started
researching
this.
The
city's
been
researching
it
I'm
just
so
excited
that
we're
at
this
moment
where
it's
gonna
I
believe
it'll
become
a
reality.
I'm
so
excited,
but
I
just
wanted
to
reiterate
the
importance
of
it.
I
think
we
can
all
agree
that
neighborhoods
shouldn't
be
like
private
clubs,
where
you
have
to
have
a
certain
income
or
erased
it
to
be
included.
AC
Imagine
what,
if
someone
told
you
you
couldn't
live
in
your
neighborhood
or
your
mother,
she
couldn't
live
there
or
your
brother
or
your
sister
or
you
couldn't
go
over
there.
It's
almost
like
modern,
redlining
income
and
price,
the
way
that
it
excludes
people
and
segregates
us
further.
Pittsburgh
already
has
a
huge
segregation
problem
in
terms
of
where
people
live
their
race
and
their
income
come.
We
don't
want
to
exacerbate
that.
We
want
to
fix
that.
We
want
to
change
that.
We
need
to
change
that.
AC
So
if
we
continue
to
develop
the
city
an
exclusive
way,
we
won't
solve
anything.
We
move
people
who
didn't
have
opportunities
to
places
with
less
opportunity.
Neighborhoods
should
be
places
where
people
from
all
walks
of
life,
walking
rolling
walks
of
life
can
share
their
knowledge,
experience
and
lives
in
a
way
that
benefits
everyone.
It's
a
proven
tool.
It's
a
powerful
tool
for
moving
our
city
forward,
not
just
Lawrenceville
our
city
lets
us
be
the
pilot.
Let
us
expand
in
other
areas.
B
AD
I'm
here
to
talk
about
something
else
that
happened
yesterday
and
I
wanted
to
address
you
councilman
Krause
I
am
in
favor
of
the
inclusionary
zoning
dev.
So
it's
going
to
let
you
know
that,
but
also
I
just
wanted
to
touch
base
real
quick.
You
know
yesterday,
I
was
really
disturbed
about
what
happened
when
encroachment
and
councilman
cross
I
think
you
were
out
of
line
yesterday
when
you
program
the
taylor
out,
he
was
forced
out
by
your
the
police
and
he
done
absolutely
nothing.
All
he
did
was
speak
about.
So
you
know
what
happened.
AD
AD
Kozma
crouched
anytime,
you
get
a
policeman
on
a
black
man.
Okay,
you,
you
punched,
a
black
man,
that's
a
death
threat
and
when
we
were
out
there
this
police
officer
actually
cited
it.
Then
he
asked
ran
before
his
identification.
That
was
wrong
and
I'm
just
saying
it
was
wrong,
was
totally
wrong.
Thank
and
and
you
interjected,
you
were
going
back
and
forth
with
mr.
Taylor.
So
why
did
mr.
Taylor
get
forced
out?
It
was
wrong
and
I
just
wanted
to
bring
it
to
your
attention.
A.
B
AE
B
Issue
no,
but
you're
welcome
into
public
comment:
every
Tuesday
and
Wednesday
at
10:00
a.m.
every
every
Wednesday
10:00
a.m.
public
comment,
but
we're
gonna
ask
you
please,
for
today
to
please
be
on
the
bill.
I
took
you
as
a
courtesy.
You
were
not
as
registered
speakers.
It
was
brought
to
my
attention.
You
claimed
that
you
were
registered
speakers
as
a
courtesy.
I
am
taking
you
as
a
registered
speaker
to
speak
specifically
to
bill
1415.
Do
you
have
comment
for.
AE
That
now
there
was
a
speaker
earlier
who
spoke
dr.
Jackie
Smith,
who
spoke
about
the
human
rights
of
housing,
and
she
was
allowed
to
go
out
topic
so
council
persons.
Why
I'm
not
allowed
to
speak
I'm
a
member
to
public
this
and
this
my
time?
Isn't
this
our
body
isn't,
as
our
city
council
can
I
speak
on
an
issue.
Mr.
AE
AF
AE
B
AE
AE
The
public
in
public
comment:
you
should
not
silence
the
public
when
they
come
to
you
to
speak.
This
should
be
our
time
to
speak
on
whatever
and
what
happened
yesterday
should
not
have
occurred.
Councilman,
Krause,
I
didn't
do
anything
wrong.
You
should
not
have
called
the
police
on
me.
You
should
not
have
banged
on
the
gaol
hole
because
I
was
ten
minutes
too
late.
You
should
not
have
engaged
with
me
and
impugning
my
integrity
by
saying
it
was
a
political
stunt.
AE
When
you
initiated
everything
so
councilman
Krause,
you
don't
owe
Randall
tail
an
apology
for
your
disrespectful
and
unprofessional
behavior
towards
the
public
you
deserve.
You
should
apologize
to
the
public
for
that.
People
have
a
right
to
come
here
and
speak
their
truths,
their
opinions
and
their
beliefs
without
it
without
the
threat
of
physical
intimidation
or
physical
violence,
and
that's
what
you
did.
We
have
a
right
to
speak.
This
is
our
place,
not
yours.
Okay,.
B
AG
You
counsel
I
am
here
on
behalf
of
state
representative,
Adam,
Ravenstahl
and
myself
in
support
of
this
legislation.
I
am
also
here
as
a
proud
Lawrenceville
resident
I
live
at
five
one.
Six,
six
Natrona
Way
and
the
concept
of
home
for
me
is
extremely
important.
When
I
was
a
teenager,
my
mom,
my
sister
and
I,
had
to
leave
my
father
and
we
moved
from
place
to
place
I
believe
ten
different
places
in
two
years.
AG
So
when
I
moved
to
Lawrenceville
in
a
very
affordable
unit
that
I
rented
with
a
couple
co-workers
I
found
my
home
and
to
me
that
was
extremely
important.
To
give
back
to
my
community
and
I
became
a
homeowner
about
four
years
ago
buying
in
an
alleyway
home
that
I
could
purchase
for
about
seventy
thousand
dollars
on
my
$30,000
a
year,
nonprofit
salary.
AG
That
is
not
a
dream
that
exists
for
a
lot
of
people
who
are
in
the
position
that
I
was,
and
it's
one
of
the
main
reasons
why
I
ran
for
office
and
I'm,
proud
to
represent
the
21st
district
in
the
Statehouse
and
I
am
fresh
from
Harrisburg
passing
a
budget
that
actually
does
not
work
for
working
people.
We
cut
general
assistance.
AG
We
failed
to
raise
the
minimum
wage,
but
what
we
did
the
bright
shining
spot
in
our
state
budget
is
that
we
did
increase
funding
for
the
fair
program,
which
is
much
like
our
Housing
Opportunity
Fund,
hereby
15
million
dollars
to
me.
Yes
to
me,
that's
an
acknowledgment
that
our
General
Assembly
recognizes
that
there
is
a
housing
crisis
happening
across
the
Commonwealth
and
the
fact
that
I'm
standing
here
today
is
saying
that
you
have
a
lie
ship
in
Harrisburg
to
tackle
these
problems.
AG
AG
B
Okay,
that
exhaust
list
of
registered
speakers,
anyone
who
has
not
registered
in
advance
to
speak
at
the
public
hearing
you're
welcome
to
come
forward.
We're
gonna
give
each
of
you
one
minute.
You're
welcome
to
line
up
she's,
not
getting
in
line
again;
I'm,
not
gonna.
Do
this
she's
getting
in
line
a
second
time?
Okay,
great
all
right!
So
we'll
give
you
just
a
second
for
everybody
to
sort
of
collect
themselves.
We're
gonna
bring
you
up
one
at
a
time
and
again
you'll
be
given
one
minute,
but
your
minutes
going
to
go
quickly.
B
AH
Afternoon,
my
name
is
Felicity
Williams
and
I
am
the
programs
and
policy
manager
at
the
hill,
CDC
and
supress.
The
special
assistant
to
our
president
and
CEO
I
want
to
say
I'm
so
encouraged
to
be
here
today
to
see
so
many
in
support
of
inclusionary
zoning
I'm
encouraged
by
the
levels
of
affordability.
However,
echoing
some
comments,
I've
heard
earlier,
I
think
we
can
do
more.
Ten
percent
is
the
bare
minimum
I
think
that
we
should.
AH
We
should
challenge
ourselves
to
reach
higher
levels
of
affordability,
one
and
I
think
we
should
also
revisit
the
portion
of
the
legislation.
The
provision
that
allows
for
the
affordable
housing
to
be
built
off-site,
assuming
that
is
not
feasible,
I,
think
that
that
may
lead
to
segregation
along
racial
and
class
lines,
and
so
I
think
that
we
should
really
look
at
revisiting
that
portion
of
the
legislation.
Thank
you.
Okay,.
AI
George
Shadyside
I'm,
here
speaking
on
behalf
of
the
Pittsburgh
Federation
of
Teachers,
we
represent
over
500
pair
of
professionals
and
technical
clerical
employees
who
have
a
residency
requirement.
They
need
to
live
in
the
city,
their
concern.
You
will
hear
from
somebody
a
couple
minutes
that
their
wages
are
not
keeping
up
with
rent
I
think
this
affects
school
district
employees
and
city
employees.
We
need
to
look
at
that
issue.
AI
We
have
about
900
homeless
students
in
the
Pittsburgh
Public
Schools
they're,
not
going
to
private
schools,
they're
going
to
public
schools
and
in
some
schools
like
Faison
Elementary,
the
number
is
closer
to
10%
of
students
or
houseless.
We
know
wage.
We
know
the
combination
of
wages
and
rent
have
pushed
out
about
14,000
african-americans
from
2000
to
2015
at
before
Penn
Plaza
I
assumed
the
numbers
gone
up,
so
I
think
it's
good
to
get
moving.
AI
We
support
this
measure,
I'm
worried
it
might
be
able
to
late
in
the
game,
but
it's
an
important
proposal
to
move
forward
with.
There
is
a
good
part
of
it
that
can
lead
to
more
community
land
Trust's.
Ultimately,
the
problem
is
treating
housing
as
a
commodity
or
what
we
need
is
Community,
Land,
Trust,
public
housing,
social
housing
and
not
just
public
subsidies
for
private
landlords.
Thank
you,
okay.
Thank
you.
B
AJ
AJ
We
are
enthusiastically
in
favor
of
council,
though
2019
1415,
to
establish
iPod
6
in
Lawrenceville,
and
we
hope
that
similar
rezoning
can
be
brought
to
Auckland
as
soon
as
possible,
which
is
a
neighborhood
that
faces
many
of
the
same
struggles
Lawrenceville,
as
we've
heard
today,
to
build
up
bright
to
build
a
vibrant
community
in
which
residents
and
local
businesses
thrive
all
across
Pittsburgh.
There
needs
to
be
room
for
a
diverse
mix
of
renters
and
homeowners.
We
urge
Council
to
support
this
bill.
Thank
you.
Okay,.
AK
Mr.
Elkins,
Dale
and
I
want
to
have
one
comment:
I
have
a
few
comments.
One
is
it's
not
about
the
housing
price
that
you
wanting
to
reduce
it
to,
but
when
you
do,
you're
gonna
have
problems
with
companies
coming
in
remodeling
building
whatever,
because
you're
out
spending
you're
talking,
maybe
three
four
hundred
thousand
per
apartment
and
they're
never
gonna
get
their
money
back.
So
that's
going
just
banned
in
the
city.
What
you're
gonna
end
up
doing
so
I,
don't
know
how
you're
gonna
do
this
with
keeping
companies
for
making
money?
AK
You
don't
lose
property
sales
properties
coming
good
I
am
and
that's
going.
One
of
the
problems
like
I
live
in
Lawrence
when
I
own
the
house,
my
mother
died
left
me
not
ounce.if
I'd
sell
today
it
happy
for
260
thousand,
because
I
couldn't
afford
to
move
nowhere
else
and
remodel
a
house
and
live
in
a
nice
place,
and
this
is
one
of
the
problems.
AK
Gonna
hurt
the
issue
and
that's
something
you
don't
have
to
figure
out
and
I'm
telling
you
I
think
your
best
turnin
tip
is
make
a
Commonwealth
law
where
people's
going
to
have
to
be
making
enough
money
they
can
afford
to
pay
their
bills
because
just
just
going
to
get
ahead
of
sperg
and
they're
telling
you
know
every
time
you
go
to
raise
the
minimum
wage.
It's
a
bunch
of
crime
because
they're
never
gonna
pay
a
bill
and
I
want
anything.
Hey
thanks!
So
yep!
Alright,
because
if
you
put
a
freeze
on
up.
AL
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Brenda
Marx
I
am
a
parent
educator
working
in
Arsenal
six
through
eight
in
the
neighborhood
of
Lawrenceville
and
I'd
like
to
think
Councilwoman
grouse
for
this
inclusion.
Zoning
initiative-
I
am
here
for
two
reasons:
the
families
of
the
children
and
I
serve,
and
for
my
colleagues
who
work
very
very
hard.
AL
B
AM
I'm
Marcia,
Betty's
and
I'm
from
Squirrel
Hill,
and
a
couple
of
things
here
at
first
I,
fully
support
the
inclusion
Aries
owning.
My
first
request
would
be
that
you
initiate
some
type
of
a
plan
to
look
at
all
of
the
neighborhoods,
and
the
public
housing
needs
that
they
are
going
to
need
or
the
affordable
housing
that
they're
going
to
need
over
the
next
5-10
years,
because
a
lot
of
these
how
these
locations,
these
neighborhoods
are
already
being
viewed,
those
that
are
along
the
T
and
other
places
and
they're
already
starting
to
be
bought
up.
AM
They
need
a
plan
now
so
that
they're
not
into
the
gentrification
situation.
That
Lawrenceville
is
the
second
reason
I'm
here
is
that
we're
not
going
to
build
our
way
out
of
that
and
as
a
couple
of
other
people
have
managed
I've
mentioned,
what
we
really
need
is
we
need
a
living
wage
in
Pittsburgh
and
I
recognize.
The
Pittsburgh
is
shackled
by
being
a
class-2
City,
and
that
is
what
I'm
asking
you
to
tackle.
AM
I'm
looking
to
you
for
your
creativity
or
tenacity
to
identify
the
steps
needed
to
get
control
of
our
corporate
salaries
and
pursue
these
changes
as
if
the
future
of
our
city
depends
upon
it
because
it
does,
we
are
not
going
to
be
able
to
build
our
way
out
of
this.
It's
just
going
to
get
worse
thanks.
AN
B
AO
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
karol:
Hardiman
I'm,
with
the
hill
district
consensus
group
I'm
a
long
time,
Hill
district
resident
and
I
I'm
glad
that
you're
or
I
hope
you're
in
favor
of
inclusionary.
Zoning
I
also
want
to
say
when
you
consider
the
tools
or
the
substance
or
the
ingredients
that
goes
in
with
inclusionary
zoning.
AO
B
AP
There,
my
name
is
Katherine
Shayne
I
live
in
the
4800
block
of
Hatfield
Street
in
the
10th
Ward,
9th
ward,
sorry,
I've
lived,
but
in
the
6th
and
10th
Ward
as
well.
I've
been
in
Lawrenceville
since
2008.
So
over
the
past
11
years,
I
I've
observed
the
cost
of
owning
or
renting
a
home
in
Lawrenceville
rise,
and
it's
only
accelerating
and
I've
observed.
The
demographic
shifts
that
a
lot
of
the
speakers
today
have
described.
AP
The
new
developments
appear
to
be
providing
a
surplus
of
what
I
would
call
luxury
housing
at
a
price
point.
That
is
only
available
to
a
very
small
segment
of
the
population,
so
I'm
in
favor
of
inclusionary
zoning,
because
it
represents
a
deliberate
step
towards
better
supporting
the
ability
of
our
current
residents
to
stay
in
the
neighborhood
and
so
that
newcomers
to
Lawrenceville
which
I
I'm
in
favor
of
growth
and
development.
AQ
Afternoon,
my
name
is
Matt
galuzzo
I'm,
the
executive
director
for
the
Lawrenceville
corporation
and
co-director
of
the
city
of
bridges,
Community
Land
Trust.
For
the
past
nine
years,
I've
led
an
organization
charged
with
serving
as
the
catalyst
and
conduit
for
responsible
growth
in
our
neighborhood
there's
a
palpable
desire,
as
you
can
tell
for
our
constituents
to
create
balance.
This
has
been
reflected
in
our
community
planning,
the
Upper
Lawrenceville
plan,
which
called
for
housing
for
all.
It
is
reflected
in
our
implementation
through
the
Community
Land
Trust.
AQ
It
is
also
reflected
in
our
work
to
create
affordable
rental
developments
in
our
neighborhood
through
action
housing.
This
partnership
we're
doing
35
units
in
Doughboy
square
inclusionary.
Zoning
will
not
be
the
panacea
for
all
our
housing
goals,
but
it
will
augment
these
aree.
These
recent
efforts,
including
our
advocacy
support
for
inclusionary
housing,
is
not
just
about
actually
housing.
It's
also
a
strategy
to
support
a
larger
ecosystem.
For
example,
businesses
need
to
access
workforce,
yet
workforce
housing
for
our
businesses,
both
large
and
small.
This
necessary
part
of
that
ecosystem
is
quickly
disappearing.
E
Try
to
make
this
brief,
I
really
appreciate
everyone's
time
who
came
down
here
today.
It's
so
important
in
your
your
comments
were
so
eloquent
I,
always
like
to
repeat
it's
so
important
for
members
to
hear
directly
from
your
voice
right,
I'm,
proud
to
represent
you
and
relay
I'm
and
report
back,
but
it's
really
meaningful
to
hear
your
stories
directly.
E
It
feels
like
meetings,
dozens
and
dozens
of
meetings,
and
that
also
I
do
think.
This
is
the
rightful
place
for
government
to
take
action.
We
have
so
for
very
long
in
the
city,
honed,
our
tools
and
sharpened
our
tools
and
hunter
skills
at
working
on
concentrated
poverty
on
blight
and
on
disinvestment
and
but
the
other
end
of
the
free-market
spectrum
is
also
the
rightful
place
for
government
to
take
action.
E
Concentrated
wealth,
hyper
investment
and
gentrification
are
the
opposite
end
of
the
spectrum
and
I
think
it's
the
rightful
place,
especially
when
we're
so
clearly
supporting
the
wishes
of
the
the
citizens.
Zoning
is
the
right
place
to
take
action
and
I
think
this
is
a
policy
that
will
help
manifest
lawrenceville
zone
vision
for
itself.
Thank
you.
B
AF
I
just
want
to
congratulate
councilman
Gross,
because
she
has
worked
on
this
for
a
very
long
time
and
she's
very
in
tune
with
her
constituents.
So
I
want
to
thank
her
for
this
for
her
work
on
here
and
fully
supportive
of
what
she
wants
to
have
happen
in
her
district,
because
she
does
know
her
district
I
don't
know
if
this
is
right
for
the
entire
city,
as
I
mentioned,
our
area
begs
for
development
begs
for
some
attention
and
just
trying
to
get
some,
but
it
seems
that
once
it
starts
happening,
it's
snowballs
so
quickly.
AF
So
I
think
that's
where
you
know
the
challenges
is
finding
that
balance.
So
we're
not
we've
learned
from
some
of
the
things
that
happened
in
the
East
End.
We
want
to
see
some
things
happen
in
our
area,
but
not
quite
to
the
extent
that's
happened
in
your
neighborhoods,
even
though
it's
a
fantastic
neighborhood
I
just
want
to
applaud.
To
comes
from
gross
for
her
work
on
this
and
getting
all
of
us
to
understand
her
side
of
this
I
also
want
to
I.
Just
wanna,
say:
I
didn't
mean
any
disrespect
before
when
I've
said
made.
AF
The
comment
about
the
two
councilmen
Kraus
about
mr.
Taylor
speaking
I
just
I
know
that
it's
very
difficult
to
cheer
these
meetings
and
I
just
I,
don't
want
to
see
their.
We
do
have
rules
of
counsel
and
I
do
think
they
need
enforce,
but
I
think
they
can't
be
enforced
randomly
and
so
I
just
was
trying
to
throw,
because
sometimes
you
were
you're
in
that
position
of
cheering
it's
not
so
easy
to
gain
your
composure.
Sometimes
so
I
just
wanna
make
sure
that
I
made.
AF
AR
Many
of
the
neighborhoods
that
I
represent
have
been
out
of
reach
for
a
lot
of
people
for
a
long
time,
and
you
know,
as
we
were
talking
about
console
woman
gross
is
talking
about
concentrated
poverty.
Well,
concentrated
wealth
is
not
healthy
for
a
city
or
neighborhood
either
we
we
heard
a
lot
today.
We
needed
diverse
communities
right
and
it's
not
just
ethnic
and
racial
diversity.
We
need
economic
diversity
in
our
neighborhoods,
as
I.
Think
of,
as
millander
said,
we
want
children
of
different
backgrounds
growing
up
together.
AR
Lord
knows
in
this
day
and
age
with
the
political
rhetoric
at
the
national
level.
We
need
more
of
that
so
and
think
about
what
diverse
communities
can
do
for
our
schools
as
well.
Our
public
schools
so
I'm
watching
this
very
closely
I
agree
that
not
every
alleged
piece
of
legislation
on
every
policy
aimed
at
increasing,
affordable
housing
and
equity
and
housing
can
fit
in
every
single
neighborhood
all.
AR
At
the
same
time,
we
need
to
approach
this
with
a
scalpel
and
not
an
ice
pick,
but
I'm
watching
this
closely
to
see
if
we
can
apply
it
in
some
way
or
another.
In
addition
to
other
policies
too
neighborhoods
that
I
represent
down
the
line,
because
I
think
eventually
we
will
need
this
and
other
policies
do
apply
it
as
broadly
as
possible.
So
thank
you
for
your
work.
We're
going
to
benefit
from
all
of
the
work
that
you've
done
today,
yep.
C
C
B
B
B
It
put
a
new
faucet
in,
but
I
needed
a
wrench
just
to
make
one
more
turn,
and
if
I
could
do
that,
I'd
have
my
laundry
back
and
I
could
spend
Sunday
doing
laundry
and
for
the
life
of
me,
I
could
not
find
the
wrench
that
I
needed
and
I
thought
well.
I'll
just
borrow
it
like
how
difficult
would
that
be
and
I
walked
out
the
front
door
and
it
dawned
on
me.
B
I
didn't
know
anybody
to
borrow
the
wrench
from
that
nick
was
gone
and
Dorothy
was
gone
and
Mary
flew
a
cow
ski
was
gone
and
mrs.
Doyle
was
gone
and
Mike
was
gone
and
it
dawned
on
me.
For
the
first
time
it
was
tangible
just
how
much
things
had
changed
and
how
important
it
is
to
preserve
the
integrity
of
our
neighborhoods
right
and
to
protect
those
generations
of
people
who
sweat
equity
made
that
piece
of
real
estate
right
for
development
right.
So
it's
not
move
over
its
welcome
right.
B
How
can
we
live
together
and
live
collectively
right?
Isn't
that
the
story
so
with
that,
of
course
we're
going
to
support
the
councilwoman's
initiatives
here?
We
thank
you
for
your
effort,
your
who
led
the
charge
on
this.
We
simply
responded
to
you
and
the
things
that
you
want
to
see
happen
in
your
neighborhood,
so
we're
happy
to
help
in
support.
I
personally
want
to
thank
you,
too,
for
coming
down
spending
your
afternoon
with
us.
I
think
this
is
truly.