Graffiti artists v. the mayor. Who is winning?
The mayor’s 90-day all-out attack on potholes and graffiti, announced in April, has come and gone. Was it a success?
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Mayor Scott to Bolton Hill: drop dead!
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.
Proposed city council redistricting will split Bolton Hill into two districts
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.
The squeegers are back at Mt. Royal Avenue freeway exit
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.
There’s a struggle underway to save an historic Marble Hill property
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. Hayes reports on legislative output
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.
Bolton Hill Notes
Arts in the Parks; Fresh food source nearby; Garden Club speaker; Upcoming Midtown Town Hall; Yoga on Eutaw; Landlord Oversight
What are your hopes for the Inner Harbor, and for Baltimore?
Once a prosperous manufacturing center of steel and shipbuilding with a thriving, crowded port, the very old city had become a post-industrial cemetery.
Winter wonderland! Snow glistening! And a $50 or $100 fine.
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…
Baltimore’s old-growth forest land needs your support
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.