City firefighter residency restrictions lifted

[Independentthinking83]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

Let's say that you're a... food safety inspector for the Allegheny County Health Department during a pandemic. Let's say that Allegheny County has stricter rules than any surrounding county. At least when you're having to enforce those rules, you have skin in the game. You're enforcing tough rules against restaurants, and hurting the livelihoods of employees and owners. At least you're doing it to your own community - your community will feel the economic impact.. and its not like you'll be locking things down during the day and then going home at 5PM to go out with your family to a place where you dont have to feel any sting of the restrictions youre enforcing against others while you party like its 1999.

Same thing if you're an air quality engineer for the Health Department. If your family is breathing in the air that you're regulating, you might have a different feeling and perspective about it. The environmental groups are on ACHD enough that they're allegedly not tough enough against US Steel. Can you imagine how much even more super-charged the politics would be if those regulators all got to go home at the end of the day to Butler County or Westmoreland County?

For large governmental entities like states or counties, I can understand why there are residency requirements. For smaller entities, like cities/boroughs/townships, I think that a residency radius (you must live within x number of miles) is a fairer way to do things.

But it’s no different for a police officer that decides to move to butler county but patrols zone 5 in homewood. If you are sworn to do a job you do it. Regardless if where you live.

I think a lot of this has to do with culture. That’s the way it is and what we always know. Any government jobs that are essential like that are constrained to live no more than a half hour from work. To me that is a reasonable compromise or any of the counties that touch Allegheny.

Columbus Fire Department is hiring now. All you need is a valid Ohio license. You can live anywhere in the state. They have 3x the population of pittsburgh city.

https://www.columbus.gov/WorkArea/Do...?id=2147504635

I just think it’s the way we have always done it and are afraid of change. Most of the country doesn’t do it the way western pa and the pittsburgh area does it. They are fine and life goes on.

[Independentthinking83]

New fire fighter recruit class.

https://www.wesa.fm/identity-communi...ve-in-the-city

[erieguy]

Great for them. Pittsburgh firefighters no longer required to live within city limits

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...n-city-limits/