targeted funding requests, asking the
broader community to support the new
outpatient center.
SOUTH WEST MEALS
ON WHEELS SERVES
OUR AREA
South West Meals on Wheels
provides nutritious meals to seniors and
disabled people in Mt. Lebanon and the
surrounding communities who otherwise
wouldn’t have access to proper nutrition.
Meals are delivered Monday through
Friday between the hours of 10:30 a.m.
and 12:30 p.m. Volunteers offer a sacked
lunch and hot meals. Once a week,
recipients also receive a quart of milk.
Meals on Wheels can accommodate
most food requests. Most of the food is
prepared from the generous donations of
Trader Joe’s and The Fresh Market in the
South Hills.
To learn more about receiving meals,
or to become a volunteer, please visit the
website at southwestmealsonwheels.org,
email [email protected] or call
412.279.5670.
WESTERN PA
DATA CENTER AND
ALLEGHENY LAND
TRUST COLLABORATE
TO BUILD
REGIONAL TOOL
Allegheny Land Trust and the Western
Pennsylvania Regional Data Center have
just launched Urban Greenprint, an
interactive online regional mapping tool
that will guide urban greening priorities.
Urban Greenprint features a number
of land use data sets from public-sector,
nonprofit and private organizations, and
makes them available for public use at
tools.wprdc.org/urban-greenprint.
“The tool is an intersectional analysis
of the status of all Pittsburgh-area
land parcels that is equally accessible
to all organizations and individuals,”
ALT Community Conservation
Director Alyson Fearon said. “It offers
opportunities for public engagement
and self-education that we hope
empowers residents working on land use
challenges to take action in protecting
their community green spaces.”
Users of Urban Greenprint can view
environmental data on a map and interact
with regularly updated information
about properties in Allegheny County. It
is powered by the regional data sharing
infrastructure provided by the WPRDC.
In addition to developing and hosting the
tool, data featured in Urban Greenprint
is also available as open data on the
WPRDC’s website.
“The convergence of strong economic,
social, cultural and environmental factors
presents the Pittsburgh region with a
transformational land use management
opportunity that is unparalleled in
recent times,” Fearon explained.
“Local economic expansion is spurring
development in parts of the city and
county, benefiting many residents
while potentially leaving others behind.
Visionary, community-supported land use
decisions will be needed to best address
these issues and maximize opportunities
for all the region’s residents.”
ALT hopes Urban Greenprint
empowers residents to make
their communities more resilient by
addressing apparent opportunities to
affect community and environmental
issues including recreation opportunity,
neighborhood revitalization, urban green
space preservation, urban gardening/
farming, and remediation of issues like
flooding, combined sewer overflow,
landslides and air quality. The map helps
to outline where opportunities to preserve
environmentally sensitive and important
properties are greatest.
Some ways individuals could make
use of this data are by utilizing it to reach
out to individuals whose properties are
suitable for use as green infrastructure,
to identify opportunities to turn
vacant land into community gardens or
other neighborhood assets, or spark a
discussion about risks in developing flood
or landslide-prone properties.
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