Pittsburgh’s City Planning Commission is poised to make its first return to in-person meetings since the early pandemic, starting with a Tuesday hearing on a contentious measure meant to address persistent homelessness.
The commission this week advertised that it will hold a hearing and vote on legislation that would allow temporary managed communities, via Zoom , with the public also able to watch via YouTube . Mayoral spokesperson Maria Montaño told PublicSource Wednesday that the administration has arranged to hold the meeting in hybrid fashion, with in-person access in City Council Chambers in the City-County Building, Downtown.
She said the commission has been meeting by Zoom because its old gathering place, in the shuttered Robin Civic Building at 200 Ross St., is no longer safe, while a new space at 412 Boulevard of the Allies remains under construction.
“This is a gap measure, but we feel that this is the direction we need to be going to offer both in-person and virtual,” Montaño said. That way, the city can “be in compliance with the state law.”