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YIMBYYay t1_jd2nncz wrote

Reply to comment by revolutionoverdue in Let's pour one out for the developers of Pittsburgh by PublicCommenter

The Planning Department is staffed by holdovers from the Peduto Administration. They have been implementing bad NIMBY, anti-development and anti housing policies for years. This is just getting press because it’s the most egregious.

I work as a designer in a firm with multiple offices and really got interested in the YIMBY movement after experiencing how awful and damaging zoning is in Pittsburgh compared to other cities where I was working.

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revolutionoverdue t1_jd2pdey wrote

I agree. I’m a small local neighborhood developer and it’s really hard for small time developers without lawyers and project managers on staff to navigate and afford the process. In my opinion it pushes local developers away. Building or renovating a 4 unit mixed use project in milvale or dormont or etna is soooo much easier than city of PGH.

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Dancing_Hitchhiker t1_jd2ru5c wrote

I’ve heard the same, basically makes it so time consuming it makes people give up on projects

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RepeatedFailure t1_jd3pc2o wrote

It probably causes a regulatory capture that favors larger developers who cut their teeth on suburban projects, and then bring their strip mall design process to the city. Sucks man.

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