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 appear

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 then I

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

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 anywhere

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