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How Neighborhood Plans Can Address Adopted City Goals
This guide provides support for planning teams in their efforts to address citywide 2030 goals adopted as part of the third version of the Climate Action Plan 3.0. This resource is designed to walk project teams through each of the plans, their goals and targets, and how each can be acted upon/implemented at the neighborhood scale.
Integration With Other City Plans
Neighborhood Plans provide an opportunity to incorporate larger goals and strategies from broader planning documents into specific actions items at the community level.
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Comprehensive Plan (Open Space PGH, Preserve PGH, ForgingPGH)
What Is it?
The Comprehensive Plan is the City’s plan to address the needs of its citizens, environment, urban form and civic functions through housing, economic development, and mobility plans. It is an action-oriented game plan that sets goals and identifies a strategy to meet those goals. The first chapters of the Comprehensive Plan were Preserve PGH (a strategy to preserve the City’s character and capitalize on the opportunities that cultural and historic resources offer) and Open Space PGH (a guide to optimal use of vacant, green, and recreation spaces). ForgingPGH is a vision for Pittsburgh to guide the City over the next 20 years in land use, housing, mobility, development, recreation, and open space.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plans are local interpretations of the Comprehensive Plan and are developed to translate citywide strategies into detailed, equitable actions for specific communities. The Comprehensive Plan will use data and projections to determine the best places in the city for growth, repurposing vacant land, jobs, housing, and transportation improvements. Neighborhood Plans will answer the question of how these aims will be met in specific locations and establish community-supported projects and programs to realize the potential of each area.
Pittsburgh Zoning Code
What Is it?
The Comprehensive Plan is the City’s plan to address the needs of its citizens, environment, urban form and civic functions through housing, economic development, and mobility plans. It is an action-oriented game plan that sets goals and identifies a strategy to meet those goals. The first chapters of the Comprehensive Plan were Preserve PGH (a strategy to preserve the City’s character and capitalize on the opportunities that cultural and historic resources offer) and Open Space PGH (a guide to optimal use of vacant, green, and recreation spaces). ForgingPGH is a vision for Pittsburgh to guide the City over the next 20 years in land use, housing, mobility, development, recreation, and open space.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plan processes will identify mismatches between the existing Zoning Code and the vision of the community and make recommendations for how the Zoning Code can be changed to bring the two into alignment. Planning may also result in the creation of new tools to incentivize development that meets community goals. Following plan adoption, one of the first implementation projects for most Neighborhood Plans will be some sort of amendment to the Zoning Code.
403 E. Ohio Street
East Allegheny / Deutschtown
OnePGH Resilience Plan
What Is it?
Pittsburgh’s resilience strategy identifies both existing and new actions related to resilience and equity, connects these actions to relevant resilience goals and objectives, and identifies next steps.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
OnePGH calls on Comprehensive and Neighborhood Planning to identify specific, land use, and community oriented implementation strategies to help the city meet its goals.
Climate Action Plan
What Is it?
The Climate Action Plan takes a new approach toward climate-change mitigation with action plans and strategies presented around six key areas: energy generation and distribution, buildings and end use efficiency, transportation and land use, waste and resource recovery, food and agriculture, and urban ecosystems.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plans present an opportunity to actualize the goals presented in the Climate Action Plans. For example, the Climate Action Plan has a goal of reducing vehicle miles traveled by 50%. A Neighborhood Plan might work towards achieving these goals by setting targets to increase walking, bicycling, and transit ridership, as well as proposing traffic safety improvements and other public realm projects to help meet the targets.
Brookline Park
Brookline
The p4 Initiative
What Is it?
The Climate Action Plan takes a new approach toward climate-change mitigation with action plans and strategies presented around six key areas: energy generation and distribution, buildings and end use efficiency, transportation and land use, waste and resource recovery, food and agriculture, and urban ecosystems.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plans present an opportunity to actualize the goals presented in the Climate Action Plans. For example, the Climate Action Plan has a goal of reducing vehicle miles traveled by 50%. A Neighborhood Plan might work towards achieving these goals by setting targets to increase walking, bicycling, and transit ridership, as well as proposing traffic safety improvements and other public realm projects to help meet the targets.
Fallen Stars of Northview Heights Community Garden
Northview Heights
Citywide Green First Plan (PWSA)
What Is it?
The Climate Action Plan takes a new approach toward climate-change mitigation with action plans and strategies presented around six key areas: energy generation and distribution, buildings and end use efficiency, transportation and land use, waste and resource recovery, food and agriculture, and urban ecosystems.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
PWSA has many options for where it places green infrastructure projects and how they are designed. Neighborhood Plans provide an opportunity to have detailed discussions with communities about where these projects would create the greatest benefits. PWSA can align project planning with neighborhood plans to maximize cost effectiveness and efficiencies. The integrated nature of Neighborhood Plans means that stormwater projects, mobility projects, and urban design can be studied at the same time and additional value found by co-locating improvements in key locations to drive community revitalization.
Fire Station Mural
Mount Washington
Urban Forest Master Plan (Tree Pittsburgh)
What Is it?
Tree Pittsburgh’s Urban Forest Master Plan is built on a solid foundation of data, mapping and community engagement, it provides detailed information, recommendations for multi-agency responsibilities, and resources needed to effectively and proactively manage and grow the city’s tree canopy. It provides a shared vision for the future of the urban forest to inspire and engage stakeholders in the care and protection of trees.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plans provide an opportunity to have detailed discussions with communities about where these projects would create the greatest benefits. Tree Pittsburgh and DPW’s Forestry Division have been implementing the plan through various programs. The integrated nature of Neighborhood Plans means that tree plantings can be coordinated with stormwater projects and mobility projects by co-locating improvements in key locations to drive community revitalization.This plan sets an overall target of 60% canopy coverage. Neighborhood level analyses will be needed to understand the current canopy coverage and what role that neighborhood can play in helping to achieve the citywide goals by setting its own target.
Black Lives Matter Mural
Bloomfield
Equity Indicators
What Is it?
Tree Pittsburgh’s Urban Forest Master Plan is built on a solid foundation of data, mapping and community engagement, it provides detailed information, recommendations for multi-agency responsibilities, and resources needed to effectively and proactively manage and grow the city’s tree canopy. It provides a shared vision for the future of the urban forest to inspire and engage stakeholders in the care and protection of trees.
Role of Neighborhood Plans
Neighborhood Plans provide an opportunity to have detailed discussions with communities about where these projects would create the greatest benefits. Tree Pittsburgh and DPW’s Forestry Division have been implementing the plan through various programs. The integrated nature of Neighborhood Plans means that tree plantings can be coordinated with stormwater projects and mobility projects by co-locating improvements in key locations to drive community revitalization.This plan sets an overall target of 60% canopy coverage. Neighborhood level analyses will be needed to understand the current canopy coverage and what role that neighborhood can play in helping to achieve the citywide goals by setting its own target.
