Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Anthony West
Marianne Das wrote: >Do you know if Pittsburgh's Historical Commission offers financial >incentives has restrictive Rules and Regulations?   Their Rules and Regulations appear at first glance to be similar to those in Philadelphia. I believe the enabling legislation that creates Historical

RE: [UC] local CSAs

2002-05-01 Thread debra kimmelman
Sande, Sorry for being cryptic. CSA stands for community supported agriculture. In a CSA, you have a direct relationship with the people growing your food. You pay the farmer in advance for a share of the season's harvest, in effect sharing the risk. I'm told the idea was started in Japan,

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Mark Krull
Dear Tony  Thank you for you objective research on the Pittsburgh experience. Hope folks will read. Mark Anthony West wrote: Marianne Das wrote:>Do you know if Pittsburgh's Historical Commission offers financial>incentives has restrictive Rules and Regulations? Their Rules and Regulations appea

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread debra kimmelman
> Anthony West wrote: > > I believe the enabling legislation that creates Historical Commissions >> and permits the establishment of HDs is state-level so their underlying > powers should be similar. I haven't heard of any Historical > commissions anywhere that offer financial incentives, but th

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Benjamin W. Dugan
Thanks for contributing this! It seems to me that one of the morals of Shadyside West is that those of us who have reservations about historic designation should organize to canvas the whole neighborhood ourselves. I understand that the Historic Commission is supposed to do this as a final ste

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:20:26AM -0700, debra kimmelman wrote: > > I believe the enabling legislation that creates Historical Commissions >> and > permits the establishment of HDs is state-level so their underlying > powers > should be similar. I haven't heard of any Historical > > commissions

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread steph99
> I cannot help but wonder how accurate it is to compare us with Pittsburgh. > Does the Pittsburgh neighborhood have as much economic and cultural diversity > as we do? And are Pitt and Carnegie-Mellon expanding/developing at the same > pace that Penn and USP seem to be? I figured I'd chime i

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Neil I. Lifson
Following up on Debra Kimmelman's questions: Is this Pittsburgh neighborhood (Shadyside West) a high-density student rental area, with large numbers of absentee landlords? If so, who was canvassed for the HD question? The absentee landlords? The student renters? Is there a problem with bligh

Re: [UC] A Victorian campus neighborhood that rejected HD

2002-05-01 Thread Anthony West
Steph wrote: > I lived near > the university of Pittsburgh campus in a nighborhood called Oakland, which would > be a much closer match to West Philly. Shadyside was always considered kind of > fru fru, the place where grad students with good stipends go to live, and where > one prances stylishly

[UC] lawnmower available

2002-05-01 Thread Robert Duncan
Sturdy electrical lawn mower available in return for a donation to the Union of Concerned Scientists to support their work on energy, the environment, transportation and disarmament.   Please reply off-list.

[UC] Think Spring!

2002-05-01 Thread MarniSweet
Stop in to purchase flowers, herbs and vegetable  for your garden and hanging baskets for your apartment or office at The Parent-Infant Center's annual plant sale. Come on Friday between 3-6PM or Saturday between 10AM-3PM. Proceeds from the sale support scholarships for children in the Daycare Cent