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Mayor’s Land Recycling Taskforce Meeting II

Thursday, June 3, 2010

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Luke RavenstahlMayor, City of Pittsburgh

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Agenda

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Welcome, Introductions and Review Purpose of the Task Force

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

Tools We Currently Have: Local, State and National Level

Irene McLaughlin, J.D., Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania House Bill 712

Kendall Pelling, East Liberty Development, Inc.

Next Steps & Proposed Work Process for Moving Forward

Kim Graziani, Office of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

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Scope of the Problem

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City has lost 50% of its population in 50 years

City has lost only 15% of its housing stock

Currently 1,400 condemned structures

Currently 6,000 vacant buildings

Currently 24,000 vacant lots (11,000 publicly owned)

Almost 20% of our parcels are tax delinquent

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Tax Delinquency and Declining Market Value

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Addressing the Problem

Initiatives are underway (e.g. CARC buyback, Land Reserve, Green Up

Program, Increase in demolition budget, City’s first Comprehensive Plan)

But they are not enough Treasurer’s sales are time and cost intensive Pittsburgh’s Land Reserve process is limited to a few

hundred parcels Demolitions do not keep up with rate of

condemnationsGreen Up Pittsburgh and other greening initiatives

do not tackle the scale and need of open spaces

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Progress to Date

Collected data (i.e. Market Value Analysis, SNAP, PNCIS)

Community outreach(i.e. PCRG, Foundations)

Advocacy and input on current

legislation (i.e. HB 712)

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The key to revitalization is to control these tax delinquent and abandoned properties. Then we can control our

destiny.

Thank you.