"Death is always a great pity of course but it's not as though the alternative were immortality."

"Death is always a great pity of course but it's not as though the alternative were immortality."

Tom Stoppard

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Killing the UPMC Plan for the LTV Site

Squashing UPMC's development plan slated for the LTV site is possible.

Could Happen

The UPMC plans could fail to reach the necessary votes at the city council level.

The South Side Planning Forum nor its LTV Site Steering Committee is expected to move against the UPMC plan. The locals, acting under a charter of consensus, won't want to "rock the boat" and would rather "rubber-stamp APPROVAL" and "stay at the table" than create a hassle. Besides, the Local Development Corporation of the South Side has a spot on the LTV Steering Committee and it conducts business with the URA in other developments, so it has a conflict of interest in raising a negative vote and opinion on the UPMC plan. The LDC needs to get along with the URA for a number of other proects. A no vote could jeopardize the LDC's "working relationship" with the URA. But, with strong reasons presented here and elsewhere, the local leadership of the South Side could express its voice of serious concern and aim to delay the developments for further study.

Squashing UPMC's development plan would go against wishes of:

• UPMC's planners
• University of Pittsburgh Athletic Department Personelle who wanted to move
• Steelers who wanted out of the North Side
• Oxford Development people who despise re-design efforts
• the URA leaders that love have their own ways in spite of themselves
• perhaps the Mayor.