Development Activities Meetings (DAMs)

Fundamentally, with our work as a community organization The Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition communicates to the public about development proposals and hosts public meetings to discuss them.  We are now taking on additional responsibilities to serve Squirrel Hill residents and stakeholders as a Registered Community Organization (RCO) with the Department of City Planning.  The RCO designation formally requires community engagement as part of the city’s development approval process.  According to the RCO legislation, our responsibilities as an RCO include: establishing orderly means for public input, reporting to the city about the process, and fostering communication between the community and city departments.  SHUC will use this page of our website to provide information about projects and request feedback.

Because there are so many projects happening at one time, we track all current projects below. We update entries as we have new information. Please check out the calendar for updates.

The Squirrel Hill Communication strategy is fundamental to our work as an RCO and is available to view here.

See our past board meeting minutes here.

Upcoming DAM Meetings:

Monday, October 12th: Permanent Light Pole Banners along Fifth & Forbes Avenues (virtual only).

This meeting will cover CMU’s plans to leave street-light banners on its campus permanently, which requires a Development Activities Meeting (DAM) and Public Art and Civic Design Commission (PACD) approval. CMU previously placed banners temporarily (for less than a year), but because they now plan to keep them indefinitely, a DAM is required.

This project falls within both Oakland and Squirrel Hill, so the meeting will be jointly hosted by City Planning, OBID, OPDC, and SHUC.

Please register here to receive the Zoom meeting joining instructions for this development activities meeting via email and refer to the flyer below for more details and information about this development project.

*Stay tuned for the meeting recording, which will be posted on this page after the meeting