Mt. Lebanon
’d like to introduce you to Ian
McMeans, Mt. Lebanon’s assistant
manager and planner. If you have had
a development project in Mt. Lebanon,
you may have met him, but I would bet
a lot of others have not. Ian is one of
those managers who is constantly at
work behind the scenes to bring high-
level projects to fruition. On top of his
fantastic work ethic, he is a master of
data collection and analysis, and many
of us on the municipal staff have
counted on him to help us with one
sort of project or another.

MAGAZINE Published by the Municipality of Mt. Lebanon
Municipal Commission ANDREW FLYNN, PRESIDENT
STEVE SILVERMAN, VICE PRESIDENT
LEEANN FOSTER
CRAIG GRELLA
MINDY RANNEY
Publisher KEITH MCGILL, MUNICIPAL MANAGER
Editor in Chief LAURA PACE LILLEY
Art Direction CHRISTOPHER LEEPER
JUDY MACOSKEY
Advertising Manager STU CHABAN
Senior/Online Editor STEPHANIE HACKE
Managing Editor MERLE JANTZ
Content Creator CARRIE MONIOT
Office Administrator KAREN GOTTSCHALL
Contributors SHELLY ANDERSON,
ANNETTE BASSETT, BOB BATZ JR.,
ANNE CAFFEE, ABIGAIL SCHADE GARY,
CODY MCDEVITT, MIA MCPHERSON,
DOUG OSTER, GEENA PROVENZANO,
BOB TAYLOR, LOIS THOMSON, KATIE
WAGNER, ELAINE WERTHEIM
Photography JOHN ALTDORFER, LINDA HACKETT,
DOUG HARHAI, ELIZABETH HRUBY
MCCABE, KEN LAGER, JUDY MACOSKEY,
GEORGE MENDEL, THOMAS O’CONNOR,
ROB PAPKE, MARTHA RIAL, JOHN
SCHISLER, JOHN TAMERLANO
Why am I spotlighting Ian? Ian is spearheading Mt. Lebanon’s Comprehensive Plan,
an 18-month process that will set us on course to set municipal goals for the next 10
years. Yes, it is required by the state Municipalities Planning Code. But towns have a
lot of leeway as to how they are conducted, and frankly, some places just phone it in. In
Mt. Lebanon, we treat this process—and its resulting document—as a benchmark for
everything we want to be, a guidepost for everything we want to do and a measuring
stick for how we are doing.

So Ian and his assistant, Urban Planning and Sustainability Coordinator Greg Wharton,
will be spending a large portion of their time shepherding this project. (A side note: the
last comprehensive plan shepherd was Municipal Manager Keith McGill, who was the
municipal planner at the time.)
Why am I telling you this? It’s because Ian is leaning on you to be a vital part of this
process. He needs you to respond to the many participation requests we’ll be publicizing.

Ian (and our consultants at Pashek MTR) hope you’ll fill out surveys, attend public
meetings, participate in group discussions and respond to all the ways you’ll be asked to
record your thoughts, because it’s your voice that will help plot the course for the future.

We have 34,075 people who call Mt. Lebanon home, and it will take a lot of work to create
a plan that represents the best for each one of you.

Incidentally, if you do meet Ian, he is also an expert in WPIAL sports, the Pittsburgh
Steelers, flags of the world, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and every James Bond film
ever made (and the ones he thinks should be made). Introduce yourself if you have
the opportunity.

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