Disregarding requests from BHCA and a city council majority to revise his proposed council redistricting plan to keep our neighborhood intact, Mayor Brandon Scott vetoed a modified city council plan which accomplished just that. The mayor, instead, opted for political gamesmanship over transparency and community opinion.
Under federal and state law, the city needs to re-draw the boundaries of city council districts to reflect the change in population noted in the 2020 US census. All 14 district boundaries must be adjusted in order to balance the population of each district close to the mean/average population for each district of 41, 836.
Only six months after it was declared a “disallowed zone” in which harassing drivers and squeegeeing car windows would be no longer tolerated, a cadre of young men, squeegees in hand, are back working the traffic regularly at the I-83 south exit ramp to Mt. Royal Avenue.
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.
