Baltimore Council Agenda, produced by Legistar

City of Baltimore

City Council
City Hall, Room 408
100 North Holliday Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202

AGENDA
Monday, March 17, 2003
5:00 PM
City Hall

City Council

Sheila Dixon, President of the Council
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Vice President
District One: Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Jr., John L. Cain, Lois A. Garey
District Two: Paula Johnson Branch, Bernard C. "Jack" Young, Pamela V. Carter
District Three: Robert W. Curran, Kenneth N. Harris, Sr., Lisa Joi Stancil
District Four: Agnes Welch, Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr., Catherine E. Pugh
District Five: Rochelle "Rikki" Spector, Helen L. Holton, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
District Six: Melvin L. Stukes, Kwame Abayomi, Edward L. Reisinger

Call to Order

Invocation

Reverend Gary G. Johnson, Pastor, Faith Christian Worship Center

Pledge of Allegiance

Roll Call

Showcase Baltimore

Jim Roberts, Associated Black Charities

Approval of the Journal

March 3, 2003

Bills Introduced


03-1049	Zoning - Conditional Use Parking Lot in Parking Lot District - 215 East Fayette Street, 206 East Baltimore Street, 210-220 East Baltimore Street, and 3 North Calvert Street
	Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin.
	Requester: Baltimore Development Corporation.
	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of expanding, subject to certain conditions, the open off-street parking area previously approved for 215 East Fayette Street and 216-220 East Baltimore Street, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat. - LAND USE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE (030906)


03-1050	Rezoning - 6604 Graceland Avenue
	Sponsors: D'Adamo, Cain, Garey.
	Requester: C & D Installers, c/o Fred Lauer.
	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of changing the zoning for the property known as 6604 Graceland Avenue, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat, from the R-3 Zoning District to the B-2-2 Zoning District. - LAND USE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE (030907)


03-1051	In Support of Federal Legislation - (HR 676) The United States National Health Insurance Act ("Expanded and Improved Medicare For All")
	Sponsors: Holton, Young, D'Adamo, Stancil, Reisinger, Branch, Mitchell, Pugh, Rawlings-Blake, Cain, Garey, Carter, Welch.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of expressing support for Representative John Conyers, Jr.'s legislation that seeks to ensure that all Americans, guaranteed by law, will have access to the highest quality, cost effective, health care regardless of an individual's employment, income, or health care status; and urging the Maryland State Delegation to the 108th Congress to secure final passage of the legislation. - IMMEDIATE ADOPTION (030908)


03-1052	Task Force to Establish a Baltimore City Witness Protection Program
	Sponsors: Welch, Young, Holton, D'Adamo, Stancil, Spector, Mitchell, Carter, Pugh, Cain, Garey, Branch, Reisinger.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City State's Attorney, the Baltimore City Police Commissioner, and the State Prosecutor to address the Council on the operations of the State's Witness Protection Program; to determine specific operational protocol; to examine witness security within City neighborhoods; and to create a Baltimore City Witness Protection Program tailored to the particular needs of our citizens who have a special allegiance to the patchwork quilt of neighborhoods that are Baltimore City. - IMMEDIATE ADOPTION (030909)


03-1053	Informational Hearing - Staying Alive: Overdose Prevention and Management
	Sponsors: President Dixon, Curran, Stancil, Branch, Cain, Mitchell, Pugh, Rawlings-Blake, Reisinger, Garey, Welch.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Health Commissioner to brief the City Council and the Baltimore City public on the Staying Alive program, the Baltimore City Health Department's intervention initiative that will equip certain injection drug users with intensive first aid education and vials of Narcan to prevent overdose in injection partners and other addicts, and inviting Baltimore City residents and the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to attend this important public health information sharing hearing. - HOUSING, HEALTH, AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE (030910)


03-1054	Open Letter to the Governor of Maryland - Save Our Public School Children
	Sponsors: Mitchell, President Dixon, Curran, Young, Holton, Stancil, D'Adamo, Carter, Reisinger, Branch, Cain, Garey, Welch, Pugh.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to declare the contaminated water supply in the Baltimore City Public School System a state of emergency and to immediately direct all necessary human, capital, operational, and fiscal resources of the State of Maryland toward correcting the dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water in our children's public schools. - IMMEDIATE ADOPTION (030915)


03-1055	Informational Hearing - Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association
	Sponsors: President Dixon, Young, Holton, Stancil, Spector, Reisinger, Branch, Pugh, Rawlings-Blake, Cain, Garey, Mitchell, Carter, Welch.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the interim Chief Executive of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association (BACVA) to report to the City Council on the recently released report by Performance Management, Inc.; to update the Council on the financial operations of the Association; and to share with the Council long-range plans for the future operational and financial viability of BACVA. - COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (030913)


03-1056	Questioning the Odds - In Opposition to Slot Machines in Maryland
	Sponsors: President Dixon, Young, Cain, Reisinger.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of expressing opposition to authorizing horse racetracks in Maryland to offer video lottery terminals (slot machines) for public use; urging the Ehrlich administration to desist from holding Thornton Commission school aid funding for poorer subdivisions hostage to legislative approval of slot machines in our State; and requesting the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the 2003 Maryland General Assembly to secure defeat of any legislation allowing slot machines in our State. - JUDICIARY AND LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATIONS (030914)


03-1057	Lakeview Towers - A Housing Haven or A Towering Inferno?
	Sponsors: Pugh.

	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Fire Chief and the Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) to report to the Council on what fire prevention and fire safety provisions are in place to protect the health and welfare of the residents of the senior housing complex at 717 and 727 Druid Park Lake Drive in the wake of 2 deadly fires in the past 2 months. - IMMEDIATE ADOPTION (030916)

Consent Calendar

(See Section A at back of Agenda)

Second Reader

Executive Appointments


EA-0265	Neil E. Duke


	EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Civilian Review Board - 5th District (030878) Recommend Confirmation.


EA-0266	James H. Fields


	EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Parking Authority Board - 3rd District (030880) Recommend Confirmation.


EA-0267	John P. Stewart


	EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Executive Director, Commission on Aging and Retirement Education - 5th District (030888) Recommend Confirmation.

Committee of the Whole


03-1004	Mayor's Redistricting Plan


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of establishing the boundaries of the Council Districts for the election of members of the City Council of Baltimore. (030852) Reported Favorable with Amendment.

Finance


02-0949	Sale of Property - Inner Harbor Project I, Lot 2 (at the Maryland Science Center)


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to sell, at either public or private sale, all its interest in certain property that is located at Inner Harbor Project I, Lot 2 (at the Maryland Science Center) and is no longer needed for public use; and providing for a special effective date. (020782) Reported Favorable with Amendment.

Judiciary and Legislative Investigations


02-0987	Commission on HIV/AIDS


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of establishing a Commission on HIV/AIDS; providing for its membership, organization, and officers; specifying its duties; and generally relating to HIV/AIDS prevention, control, and treatment (020828) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


03-1025	In Opposition to the Reinstatement of the Death Penalty


	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of voicing opposition to the reinstatement of the death penalty in the State of Maryland and respectfully requesting the members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2003 Session of the Maryland General Assembly to support the continuation of the moratorium on the death penalty and to sponsor legislation to forever prohibit the use of the death penalty in the State of Maryland. (030877) Reported Favorable.

Judiciary and Legislative Investigations/Economic Development


03-1047	In Support of State Legislation - (Senate Bill 452) Economic Development - Host Gaming Benefits Authority


	CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of expressing support for passage of this legislation that creates Host Community Gaming Benefits Authorities to protect the interests of communities surrounding entities hosting slot machines, requires that before a licensee makes a capital expenditure at a track a master plan must be submitted to the Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly and the Host Community Gaming Benefits Authority for the Gaming Benefits District in which the track is located, requiring these entities to submit recommendations to the State Racing Commission for approval or disapproval of the master plan, and providing for the management of funds by the Authorities on behalf of impacted
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Land Use and Planning


02-0898	Urban Renewal - Market Center - Amendment 15


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of amending the Urban Renewal Plan for Market Center to allow general advertising signs erected or placed on publicly-owned stadiums and arenas if approved by ordinance as a conditional use; waiving certain content and procedural requirements; making the provisions of this Ordinance severable; providing for the application of this Ordinance in conjunction with certain other ordinances; and providing for a special effective date. (020721) Reported Favorable.


02-0899	Zoning - General Advertising Signs - Stadiums and Arenas


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of authorizing in the B-5 District, as a conditional use that requires approval by ordinance, general advertising signs on publicly-owned stadiums and arenas. (020722) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


02-0900	Zoning - Conditional Use General Advertising Signs - Baltimore Arena


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of permitting, subject to certain conditions, the establishment, maintenance, and operation of general advertising signs on the property known as the Baltimore Arena, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat. (020723) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


02-0953	Planned Unit Development - Amendment - Baltimore Inner Harbor East


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of approving certain amendments to the Development Plan of the Baltimore Inner Harbor East Planned Unit Development. (020786) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


02-0954	Planned Unit Development - Amendment - Inner Harbor East II


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of approving certain amendments to the Development Plan of the Inner Harbor East II Planned Unit Development. (020787) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


02-0974	Rezoning - Rosemont Urban Renewal Area


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of changing the zoning for certain properties in the Rosemont Urban Renewal Area, as outlined in red on the accompanying plats, from the M-2-1 Zoning District to the M-1-2 Zoning District. (020816) Reported Favorable.


03-1006	Planned Unit Development - Designation - 921 Fort Avenue and Ward 24, Section 10, Block 2034, Lot 001


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of approving the application of Fort Avenue Property Inc., and Fort Avenue Properties, LLC, which are the owner and ground lessee, respectively, of 921 Fort Avenue and Fort Avenue MWLW Company, which is the contract purchaser of Ward 24, Section 10, Block 2034, Lot 001 (collectively, the "Property"), to have that Property designated an Industrial Planned Unit Development; and approving the Development Plan submitted by the applicant. (030854) Reported Favorable with Amendment.

Urban Affairs


02-0976	Urban Renewal - Greenmount West - Amendment 6


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of amending the Urban Renewal Plan for Greenmount West to add a new land use category, revising the land use category for certain properties; providing for Planned Unit Development Standards and Controls; revising exhibits attached to the Plan to reflect changes in the Plan; waiving certain content and procedural requirements; making the provisions of this Ordinance severable; providing for the application of this Ordinance in conjunction with certain other ordinances; and providing for a special effective date. (020817) Reported Favorable with Amendment.


03-0999	Urban Renewal - Inner Harbor East - Amendment 12


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of amending the Urban Renewal Plan for Inner Harbor East to amend Exhibit E to reflect the change in the Plan; waiving certain content and procedural requirements; making the provisions of this Ordinance severable; providing for the application of this Ordinance in conjunction with certain other ordinances; and providing for a special effective date. (030842) Reported Favorable with Amendment.

Third Reader

Third Reader (for final passage)


02-0921	Zoning - Conditional Use Parking, Open Off-Street Area - 2216 Garrison Boulevard


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of permitting, subject to certain conditions, the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a parking, open-off street area, for the parking of 4 or more automobiles, on the property known as 2216 Garrison Boulevard, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat. (020746)


03-0990	Supplementary General Fund Capital Appropriation - Department of Housing and Community Development - $800,000


	ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Capital Appropriation in the amount of $800,000 to the Department of Housing and Community Development (Account 9910-588-310) to provide capital expenses for the Strathdale Manor Project; and providing for a special effective date. (030833)