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Now onto the news: Fineview, a hilly neighborhood on Pittsburgh's North Side, could prompt a significant zoning change with citywide implications after a nonprofit's attempt to construct six attached homes in Fineview was stifled.

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Big zoning rumblings from small Pittsburgh neighborhood

An effort, killed by a court, to build six townhomes in unassuming Fineview may result in changes to zoning rules covering around half of the city's residential areas.
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