Robb Hollow Park update and stormwater fee update

It looks like the Solicitor for the Municipality is keeping busy.  First, the Trib had instructions on how to declare the stormwater fee as unconstitutional. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_754811.html

Also, the Friends of Robb Hollow Park sent out an update which I am printing below.  To grind or not to grind (and I am not talking about skateboarding here,) that is the question. Please read to the end of the letter.  I love the last two paragraphs.

Last night Friends of Robb Hollow Park’s Core Group were pleased to attend a meeting of the Parks Advisory Board. We shared information from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regarding the violation of Project 70 regulations limiting the use of Robb Hollow Park solely to recreation. This was apparently the first the Parks Advisory Board had heard of the violation.

 

Commissioner Brumfield informed the attendees that Mt. Lebanon has turned the matter of grinding in Robb Hollow Park over to their solicitor. Mt. Lebanon’s response to the DCNR’s letter is to try and pass this activity off as “conservation”. It is clear that our elected leaders are planning “business as usual” at this industrial production site in the Park.

 

The board members listened to our concerns about the health effects of the smog emitted by the Beast. They expressed frustration that many of the needs in the parks have been put aside due to a lack of money.

 

We heard a good bit of discussion regarding the proposed 3 Million dollar bond issue to create playing fields in Mc Neilly Park. We listened as Commissioner Brumfield spoke emotionally and sincerely about not wanting to be in the position of telling little six year old girls that they cannot play a sport this year due to a lack of availability of sport fields.

 

We wonder why the Mt. Lebanon Commissioners are comfortable telling our children that they cannot have the same quality of clean air that all other neighborhoods in Mt. Lebanon enjoy?

 

Mary D’Angelo

for Friends of Robb Hollow Park