{"id":172294,"date":"2026-02-10T19:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172294\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:46:11","slug":"oakland-inclusionary-zoning-debate-reveals-costs-and-benefits-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172294\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland inclusionary zoning debate reveals costs and benefits \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Walnut Capital\u2019s late-in-the-game request to eliminate the requirement that it provide 16 apartments that meet standards of affordability at its 159-unit Caroline project now under construction on McKee Place in central Oakland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/03\/inclusionary-zoning-walnut-capital-oakland.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was bound to generate plenty of pushback from the community and proponents of inclusionary zoning in the city.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">That it did in a hearing on Thursday before the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment, in which the development firm\u2019s lawyer, Jonathan Kamin, made clear the request was at least partly motivated by Walnut Capital\u2019s involvement in a lawsuit by the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh against the city of Pittsburgh over the inclusionary zoning issue over all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The association had, in its lawsuit filed in 2022, challenged Pittsburgh\u2019s IZ policy. A federal court had dismissed the lawsuit in November, but in order for future lawsuits to be filed, developers have to exhaust all options to try to get around the policy, including Walnut Capital\u2019s asking for an exemption on the project. The project is already well under construction and expected to be completed and open as a student housing project in fall 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/07\/walnut-capital-partners-caroline-inclusionary.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/07\/walnut-capital-partners-caroline-inclusionary.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Walnut Capital\u2019s late-in-the-game request to eliminate the requirement that it provide 16 apartments that meet standards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[82492,82493,143,145,144,6184,82409],"class_list":{"0":"post-172294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-caroline-project","9":"tag-mckee-place","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-walnut-capital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}