Lawrenceville Stakeholders 1st Annual Membership Drive Cookout

Come meet your neighbors and learn about Lawrenceville Stakeholders.
We will picnic, party and play badmitton!
There will also be live music performed by talented neighborhood residents.

Please join us!

Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009
Time: 3:00 – 7:30
Place: The Yard at 5134 Carnegie Street
Suggested $2 donation

Contact: Mary Moses at marypgh456@gmail.com with questions

Stakeholders members and potential members (Lawrenceville residents and business or property owners) are welcome. Please bring a side dish or dessert, or something special to throw on the grill.

See You On August 29th!

Lawrenceville Stakeholders members voted to support the “Accordion Pool Party” event and proposed community design workshops to discuss the future of Lawrenceville’s public pool.

Susan Englert presented the concepts at the June 29th quarterly membership meeting of Lawrenceville Stakeholders. Members present voted unanimously to support both concepts and Susan was asked to request a vote via e-mail from the full general membership—standard operating procedure for this group. Once criteria for reporting were clarified with Councilman Patrick Dowd’s office on July 2nd, Susan posted a summary of both proposed events on July 3rd, and requested a vote by noon on July 7th, allowing extra days for the long holiday weekend.

Voting members were unanimous in supporting both the performance event – Accordion Pool Party at the Leslie Park Pool – and a series of community design workshops to be held in the Fall to discuss the Pool’s future. No negative votes were registered. Thus, in accordance with the organization’s by-laws, Lawrenceville Stakeholders officially opts to endorse both efforts.

Lawrenceville Stakeholders hopes to see the performance event come to fruition in September, and anticipates that this community event will spur an engaged, creative, transparent discussion about the future of a major community asset.

7 pm June 18th, Building 3 of the Arsenal Terminal complex

Members of Lawrenceville Stakeholders are urged to attend a special June 18, 2009 meeting on the vacant and deteriorating McBride log house at 38th and Charlotte Streets.  The meeting will be held at 7 pm at Keith Cochran’s architectural office, which is on 39th Street below Butler Street in Building 3 of the Arsenal Terminal complex. Building 3 is a two-story red brick 19th century building on the east side of 39th Street, about 500 ft north of Butler Street. Stakeholders is inviting City Councilman Patrick Dowd, State Senator Jim Ferlo, and Lawrenceville Corp. executive director Maureen Ford to this meeting.

Join us for the first Allegheny Riverfront Vision community meeting. Learn about the planning process and take part in setting goals for the future of our riverfront.

Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman Street | Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Hosted by:
Perkins Eastman, The Urban Redevelopment Authority, The Department of City Planning, and Riverlife

The results of the membership’s vote on the proposed winery on 39th Street is as follows: 22 in favor, 5 opposed. The vote was to provide a letter of support for the owners of a residence (in a residential district) to operate a limited winery out of their basement. Products would include wines made on site, regional wines, hard cider made on site with PA apples, cheese, pastries and local fruit. If successful with zoning and license processes it would be the first limited winery within the city.

LC and LU also supported the use and a joint letter will be issued to the zoning board.

The owners of 4035 Liberty are pursuing a renovation of the former Roth Carpet building to transform it into medical office space. The membership was generally supportive of the project as it would remove neighborhood blight and provide some quality amenities such as street trees. The parking requirement for the project is 51 spaces, and the project only provided 19 space, plus a Zip Car and a bike rack. This posed a problem for the neighboring residential district which already experiences parking problems. The membership voted to oppose the owner’s request for a Special Exception to the parking requirement. 8 votes were in favor, and 19 were opposed.

Over the last 24 hours we’ve added more that 10 new members!  Most have arrived by way of the LUPS list.  If you haven’t already done so, please complete the survey down below.

As you can see, this site is a work in progress and doesn’t get a lot of love.  We will soon appoint a Web Czar who can give it the attention it deserves.

The Stakeholders voted in favor of the Lawrenceville Planning Team’s letter of support for Iron City Scooters’ application to the zoning board for a Special Exception at 5160 Butler Street. The vote was 13 in favor, and 3 opposed.  If granted, the exception will allow for (limited) motorcycle repair (but no painting).  The letter of support contained the following conditions:

a) this space can only be used for scooter repair (a scooter has three or fewer wheels no larger than 12 inches, a small bore engine of less than 400 cc’s, weighs less than 450 pounds, and usually has a step-through frame).

b) the operator is limited to working on 5 scooters per day (although more may be stored in the space)

c) all work must take place inside the building during normal business hours (between 8:00 AM and 9:00 PM)

At the annual meeting of 2006, the attending members agreed that we needed to reconnect with our membership and learn a bit about who we are, where we are, what our interests and concerns are, and what we’re good at. Being able to tailor Stakeholder activities to the interests of our members will help to set an agenda for the upcoming year.

Our Survey Committee (yes, we actually formed one), drafted a short questionnaire that will only take a few minutes to complete. It’s only 10 questions (the maximum allowed for free…). Please complete it by June 3o. Click here to take survey.