9/25 Planning Commission presentation now online. Five new items:
1. Minor rezoning in Larimer, where a property owner wants to take
four existing lots and change their zone from R1D-M to LNC. This appears to be because a local funeral home located across the street wants to build a new one-story structure and surface lot onsite, which isn't allowed in a residential zone in Pittsburgh.
2. Renovations to
the Bar Louie site at 300 North Shore Drive. It's a pretty small ($70,000) project focusing on semi-enclosing the outdoor patio.
3. Facade changes to
the existing Rite Aid Pharmacy at 3700 Forbes Avenue. Basically following the new renderings, the facades of the first floor and the upper floors of the corner building will be altered, and the rooflines of the two single-story storefronts aligned, so that they all match and appear to be the same structure. A new store logo focused on the three-story building at the corner will also be added.
4. In-kind window replacement for
the AAA Building at 5900 Baum Boulevard. The window replacements are three larged arched window assemblies on the Trade Street side of the building.
5. The only new construction this week is a $5 million project at the corner of Madison Avenue and E. Lacock Street on the North Shore. This will be a new 23,850 square foot. four-story 50-bed rescue mission for Light of Life Ministry. It will include 20 off-street parking spaces.
They're taking up basically all of the unused parcels in this area. Interestingly, they're not taking
the two abandoned buildings at the corner of Voeghtly which remain from the days of Schewizer Lock. The house is likely beyond hope, but I hope somehow the commercial building with the cool corner gets restored one day. I believe this facility is the relocation of the work they did elsewhere in the North Side (Allegheny West and Central North Side) which NIMBYs wanted to be relocated further away from residential zones. There are renderings. I find the roof choice a bit odd, but it adds some character to what would otherwise be a very bland modern building.