Could even more new riverfront parks, trails, and public amenities be in Pittsburgh’s future? Get ready for “the RIV.”<\/p>\n
You may have heard about the riverfront zoning updates proposed by the Department of City Planning<\/a>. The “RIV” was created with feedback from the community and will encourage the creation of riverfront public open space like parks and trails, affordable housing on the waterfront, and energy efficiency in buildings.<\/p>\n NEXTpittsburgh<\/a><\/strong>‘s Sandra Tolliver breaks it down for us<\/a> and talks to Riverlife president and CEO Vivien Li about the need for the RIV:<\/p>\n The zoning includes a bonus system for affordable housing, stormwater management and transit, permitting exemptions if developers meet certain city goals in those areas.<\/p>\n With the riverfront interim planning overlay district (IPOD) in effect for nearly two years, \u201cI think people have gotten used to the fact that there needs to be certain standards for riverfront development, including setbacks and height restrictions and encouragement of various amenities,\u201d says Vivien Li, president and CEO of Riverlife, a nonprofit organization that promotes riverfront activation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Planning Commission was very responsive at its last meeting when it adopted a number of changes that the real estate community wanted,\u201d she says. The commission made changes to how wide buffer setbacks would be and made accommodations to the size of the North Shore stadiums, among other things.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it is a good compromise,\u201d says Li, \u201cin terms of fostering additional development along the riverfront with a number of amenities that benefit the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full NEXTPittsburgh article<\/a>, then visit the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning’s RIV website<\/a> to find out more about how the proposed legislation will help Pittsburgh’s riverfronts.<\/p>\n Top image by Ehren Zaun<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Could even more new riverfront parks, trails, and public amenities be in Pittsburgh’s future? Get ready for “the RIV.” You may have heard about the riverfront zoning updates proposed by the Department of City Planning. The “RIV” was created with feedback from the community and will encourage the creation of riverfront public open space like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[368,369,96,370,357,358,371,372,13],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-housing","tag-bonus-system","tag-city-planning","tag-nextpittsburgh","tag-riv","tag-riverfront-zoning","tag-rivpgh","tag-sandra-tolliver","tag-vivien-li"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}