Allegheny Riverfronts Project
RELEASED IN 2009!
Allegheny's Riverfronts: A Progress Report on Municipal Riverfront Development in Allegheny County (January 2009) is available for download.
Click here to view the report. (5MB file size)
There is a lot of work that has been done to date on Allegheny County's Riverfronts. This project is taking much of the work that has been completed to date, synthesizing it, and moving directly to implementation.
Some of the previous work that is being considered in this process includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Three Rivers Heritage Trail Plan
- Three Rivers Second Nature Reports
- Three Rivers River Conservation Plan
- Monongahela River Conservation Plan
- Middle Allegheny River Conservation Plan
- Allegheny County Comprehensive Plan
- Allegheny County Riverfront Plan
- Three Rivers Park Plan
- Riverlife Task Force Landscaping Guidelines
- Report of the Riverlife Task Force Quality and Corridors Committee
PEC initiated a partnership with Allegheny County (www.county.allegheny.pa.us) and Friends of the Riverfront (http://www.friendsoftheriverfront.org/) in summer 2007 on implementation. Implementation is ongoing.
Overarching all of these goals is the understanding that each community has its own character and will need to be approached with that character in mind. There will also be instances where achieving the Vision is complicated or currently impossible due to current conditions (e.g. railroads, industrial facilities, highways). In these situations, the Project will work to seek alternatives to achieving the Vision and be vigilant as to changes in use that may later allow full implementation. |
Photo credit: Friends of the Riverfront |
- Completion of the Great Allegheny Passage (all three partners are actively involved in this process).
- Focus on ensuring that reconstruction of Route 28 does not create an impassable bottleneck for trail connections along the Allegheny River (Friends is actively involved).
- Pursue opportunities for purchasing trail right-of-way alongside the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
- Explore opportunities for purchase of the riverfront hillside opposite Clairton and adjoining Dead Man's Hollow.
- Implement invasive species control on Sycamore Island, which was permanently conserved by the Allegheny Land Trust in 2007.
- Develop a strategy for art installations on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail between Fourth Street and the Hot Metal Bridge. Check out this web site for some images of the art pieces that are in place http://www.EcoArt08.blogspot.com.
- Undertake a census of municipal planning practices in riverfront communities (this project is underway with research being completed by AC and PEC).
- Re-visit the riverfront properties analysis conducted by Friends of the Riverfront in the early 2000s.
- Develop an Annual Report on the state of the County riverfronts and hold an annual conference to discuss issues related to the riverfronts.
- Implement a trail feasibility study for seventeen municipalities along the Allegheny River.
- Promote a standard trail easement to secure additional segments of riverfront trail along the four rivers.
Click here to see a video of the Pittsburgh Riverfront (not produced by PEC)
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Allegheny County Riverfronts 453_Strategic Planning Doc.pdf | 54.78 KB |
| Allegheny's Riverfronts January 2009.pdf | 5.69 MB |