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A controversial development in Oakland may get the go-ahead from City Council Tuesday.
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The small, state-owned road is a critical connection in an area primed to see significant growth, and people disagree about how best to fix it.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: WESA development and transportation reporter Margaret J. Krauss explains why an 18-acre plan that includes mixed-use housing in Oakland is getting pushback from residents and scrutiny from planning commissioners; the Iris Lunar Rover, built by Carnegie Mellon University students, is one step closer to liftoff now that it’s secured to Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander; and is Pittsburgh part of Appalachia, or something else?
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Oakland began a neighborhood-wide master planning process in 2019, the results of which are expected to come before the Planning Commission this coming March. But the mayor’s office introduced legislation with zoning changes to help launch Oakland Crossings in October, and critics fear those changes would preempt the very standards the master plan is supposed to help shape.
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The nearly 18-acre project requires significant zoning changes that will now head to the Planning Commission.
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Ten percent of the housing planned for the Oakland Crossings development would be “walk-to-work housing,” with no income limitations.
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Residents of Oakland are asking City Council to put an ambitious redevelopment on hold, arguing that backers are trying to rush approval on the project — before Oakland can chart a future that would make such development obsolete.
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A weathered stone structure sits quietly on the corner of Fifth and Bellefield avenues in Oakland as students, cars and buses hurry past. Six sandstone…
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Pittsburgh businessman Greg Spencer, of Oakland, says he may be nearing retirement from Randall Industries, the chemical company he owns. But he says he…
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A few years after Polish scientist Marie Curie discovered radium, two Pittsburgh brothers sought to build upon her work by launching a commercial…