Update: Ahead of Esplanade, Manchester now has two groups with development standing. Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning has approved an application from Manchester Neighbors, a group that applied for the RCO designation last year to push for a community impact study and deeper affordable housing in connection with the Esplanade project.

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The Esplanade development plan spurred two organizations to file with Pittsburgh’s Registered Community Organization Program, and a neighbors group that has seen its bid shelved now plans to “agitate, agitate, agitate.”