For nearly 30 years, Midtown Community Benefits District has kept Bolton Hill and three other nearby neighborhoods cleaner, greener, and safer, supplementing city government services. But unless property owners in those locales vote Yes before March 27 to re-certify Midtown, those services will disappear.
After decades of mostly ignoring federal law requiring curbs and sidewalks to meet the needs of disabled pedestrians, the city has entered into yet another consent decree with the federal government. It is an outgrowth of a class action legal confrontation with a Maryland disability rights coalition.
Bolton Hill residents who have requested residential parking pass renewals – for the stickers that go on the inside left corner of a windshield – can pick them up at Brown Memorial Church on Saturday, March 22, 9 am-12 pm and Saturday, March 29 from 9 am-12 pm at Brown Memorial Church. Bring your vehicle registration with you.
BHCA’s transportation committee has acquired and installed Telraam sensors to monitor traffic electronically from two strategically located buildings on Lauren Street, with additional sitings planned for Lafayette Avenue and near Bolton Hill Nursery and MICA locations, according to committee member Sam Getchell.
If the season is right with no leaves on the trees, you can see Babette, a kinetic sculpture by Bolton Hill resident Paul Daniel. It is an impressive combination of grace and scale, a formative piece in an urban field on the MICA campus. And, as with most of Daniel’s work, the piece goes one step further: it moves with the wind.
A rite of spring in Bolton Hill, the Bolton Hill Garden Club’s spring plant sale will take place on Saturday, April 19. It will be in Fitzgerald Park (corner of Bolton and Wilson Streets), from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. It will feature for purchase annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and herbs – also available for pre-order on the BHGC website in the lead-up weeks.
Bolton Hill’s Eutaw Place has an important anniversary this month: it was on March 19, 1853, that Baltimore’s city council passed an ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept from Henry Tiffany the deed for land now in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of Eutaw Place, to create what was then to be called “Eutaw Square.”
When the steering committee of Bolton Hill’s Gray Panthers group decided to stage a salute to people who have lived in the neighborhood for half a century or more, they started out with just a half dozen names.
In Baltimore, community fridges have been a quiet horizon, maintained and even expanded across various neighborhoods. These fridges are generally hyperlocal, frequented by those close by, with the site provided and maintained by a philanthropic homeowner. Can we do this somewhere in Bolton Hill?
In an effort to decrease vehicular accidents and improve safety, automated speed enforcement cameras have been installed along the Jones Falls Expressway / I-83 within city limits. Enforcement locations have been identified along the JFX where high incidents of speeding and vehicular crashes typically occur.
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