The City of Pittsburgh Standing Committees met on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 10:00 AM in Council Chambers. Nine council members were present. The meeting covered a wide range of legislative items across seven standing committees, including property sales, settlement approvals, intergovernmental agreements, zoning changes, and a package of garden and greenway ordinances. Five members of the public provided testimony. Most items received affirmative recommendations, with a few held or withdrawn.
A month and a half old Instagram page that will just so happen to need that exact amount of street every week, no matter how few people breathe its eight-foot walls and surveillance drones that will harass neighborhood residents and demand they produce their papers just to get to their homes. The best advertisement the organizers could offer yesterday, and I quote, we don't want it to feel like Stalog 17. In this House of Freedom, this Temple of Liberty, the yellow-ballied, peace to lanimous pretense of an event to justify a crackdown is a sacrilege. This council should say no to Stalog 17th Street. Before anything else, it should protect the right of every adult to walk down their streets. It should ban age discrimination for adults in accessing the public right of way. I will be here every week to make sure you each know about the full adult citizens in my community that are being denied their rights in their own city. If you do not fix this, do not ever tell me you didn't know. There being no further registered speakers, we will now take comments from those in the audience wishing to speak. The political faces and voices for the vulgarity and graffiti field illegal skate park in Panther Hollow. They have justified the illegal skate park by saying our playground was not being used. However, before any construction began, these fundamental questions should have been asked first. Last Wednesday, when I was speaking here about this issue, Charlie began laughing and talking to the council member next to him. These actions indicated this issue and its impact on our community don't matter. Charlotte's actions and Warwick's continued support underscore one of the fundamental roots of this problem. Respecting the dignity of others requires first respecting one's own dignity. This truth can be more fully understood when taken to an extreme example. A sociopath doesn't respect his own dignity and therefore does not respect the dignity of another. For him, taking another person to life is no different than stepping on an ant. When I began these testimonies, a staff member for Charling told me to back off because dozens of skateboarders came before this council in support of the skate park, whom Warwick then praised. However, that kind of mob mentality with the support of misguided politicians never justifies wrongdoing against our community. Five days ago, at around 8 30 a.m., I once again heard the distinct noise of skateboards crashing onto concrete while inside my home. I went to the skate park and told the skateboarders that their noise was penetrating my home. One of them replied to me, expressing the same attitudes of Charlin in Warwick. He said to me, I don't care. When politicians do not respect their own dignity, and therefore do not respect the dignity of others, support a mob mentality with all of their wrongdoings, and just don't care. We suffer the horrific injustice of the illegal skate park with the resultant shame and moral humiliation to this council, the mayor, his administration, and the city of Pittsburgh. Shut down the illegal skate park in Panther Hollow. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. My name is Yvonne F. Brown. I live at 715 Mercer Street. Um, that's in uh at the top of Beffrey. I've been bringing this sign for years. But I want to explain it, if I can. Well, you have it. Uh we were having politicians in the building. Kaylee Rover was tires. I didn't know it. And as I was walking down the hall, here comes the county council. The width Watson. He's the beaker, a large black man. And I said, hey, sir, you remember me? I said, uh, I came to you because we needed the bus to go down to the bottom of the hill. Um I said, and you didn't do anything, so he stopped and he's a loud man. I said, are you hollering at me? But he explained, no, I will call Pat Authority. So he goes out the side door.