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Recap from Community Meeting with the FBI
On Monday, January 28th, Lawrenceville United hosted the FBI units working on hate crimes and domestic terrorism for a presentation on hate crimes and hate incidents. Over 80 people attended. The full presentation is available HERE. Special thanks to the FBI, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Zone 2, and all…
R1A Zoning Text Amendments go to City Council
In March, Mayor Peduto introduced zoning text amendments with a goal of “improving pedestrian safety, enhancing neighborhood walkability, and promoting non-vehicular mobility.” Under this proposed legislation, minimum parking requirements would be reduced from 1 to 0 in R1A (residential, single-family attached AKA rowhouse) neighborhoods like Lawrenceville. Maximum parking requirements would remain the same (4). For more information,…
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10th Ward Block Watch & Community Meeting on 5416 Butler Street
* DATE/LOCATION CHANGE FROM USUAL 10TH WARD BLOCK WATCH * Please join us for the 10th Ward Block Watch and a community meeting on Cannabis Company of Pennsylvania’s proposal for a medical cannabis dispensary at 5416 Butler Street. Monday, November 7th at 6:30 PM at the multi-purpose room inside the Goodwill of Southwestern PA’s workforce…
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Notes/recording from second Thunderbird community meeting 4/19/2022
On 4/19/2022, Lawrenceville United & Lawrenceville Corporation hosted a follow-up community meeting to the 2/24/2022 meeting, in which Thunderbird presented a request to the community to amend their consent order to (1) increase their occupancy from 382 to 573, and (2) reduce the consent order’s parking requirement of 75 parking spots to what current zoning…
March “Happenings” meeting 3/9/23: 2022 crime in review
Lawrenceville Happenings Community Meeting, March Edition Review of 2022 Crime Please join Lawrenceville United and Lawrenceville Corporation on Thursday 3/9 at 5:30 PM for our monthly “Happenings” community meeting. Pittsburgh Bureau of Police will review crime stats in Lawrenceville for 2022. Our local police zone will be in attendance for updates & questions. 5:30 PM,…
Development of New Residential Units at 260 42nd Street
ByHelenBrian Mendelssohn of Botero Development attended a community meeting on October 14th to present his plans for 8 residential units at 260 42nd Street. Residents were generally supportive, but concerned around the additional cars in the area. Mr. Mendelssohn agreed to write into his leases that residents are NOT allowed to participate in the Residential…

