If ever there were a time and place for the city’s historic preservation office to enforce the city’s Demolition by Neglect Ordinance, the time would be now and the place would be at 1232 Druid Hill Ave., just west of Bolton Hill.
Sen. Antonio Hayes (D-40) told BHCA’s annual meeting on May 2 that he considered the just-ended 445th Maryland General Assembly “particularly historic” and productive.
Arts in the Parks; Fresh food source nearby; Garden Club speaker; Upcoming Midtown Town Hall; Yoga on Eutaw; Landlord Oversight
Once a prosperous manufacturing center of steel and shipbuilding with a thriving, crowded port, the very old city had become a post-industrial cemetery.
In a Grinch-like holiday reminder, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development sent out this notice for property owners and building managers…
At long last, a vital physical asset to our health and well-being in this city is proposed for protection and conservation. City council member Kristerfer Burnett is readying legislation that would save from destruction or bulldozing for public or private development 842 acres of old-growth forest in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, one of the largest urban forests in our region. That’s most of the 1,000+ acreage that comprises Baltimore’s largest park.
The COVID crisis was tough on city services, but from a consumer (and taxpayer) perspective probably no disruption has been felt more universally than residential recycling collection.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, my husband and I embraced nearby Druid Hill Park as an urban gem for outdoor recreation. We started playing tennis there, met friends for socially distanced outdoor hangouts, rode bikes in the wooded hills on the north side of the park, and volunteered to water trees for the city’s forestry division.
Eutaw Place neighbor Henri Daniels organized a meeting at Unity Hall last month to have members of the city Department of Transportation hear concerns about a bike lane that could be installed on Eutaw Place. Approximately 60 people attended the meeting.
The mayor has approved a proposed city police redistricting map that will transfer Bolton Hill from the BPD Central District, which stretches south from the neighborhood and includes most of the Midtown benefits district and Downtown/Inner Harbor, to the BPD Western District.
