City of Baltimore Legistar System

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, President of the Council

Edward L. Reisinger, Vice President

District 1: James Kraft - District 2: Nicholas C. D'Adamo

District 3: Robert W. Curran - District 4: Bill Henry

District 5: Rochelle "Rikki" Spector - District 6: Sharon Green Middleton

District 7: Belinda Conaway - District 8: Helen L. Holton

District 9: Agnes Welch - District 10: Edward L. Reisinger

District 11: William H. Cole, IV - District 12: Bernard C. "Jack" Young

District 13: Warren Branch - District 14: Mary Pat Clarke

City Property - Renaming Benjamin Franklin Middle School #239 to

Masonville Cove Community Academy #239

FOR the purpose of changing the name of Benjamin Franklin Middle School #239,

located at 1201 Cambria Street, to Masonville Cove Community Academy #239.

Acquisition of Property - Block 6990, Lots 1 - 7, and Block 6991, Lots 1 - 26

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to

acquire, by purchase or condemnation, the fee simple or other interests in certain

property known as Block 6990, Lots 1 through 7, and Block 6991, Lots 1 through

26, and needed to create a public park; and providing for a special effective date.

Sale of Property - 101 South Ellwood Avenue

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 known as 101 South

Ellwood Avenue (Block 1752, Lot 1/54) and no longer needed for public use; and

providing for a special effective date.

Baltimore City Landmark List - Ann Wiggins Brown House

FOR the purpose of designating the Ann Wiggins Brown House, 1501 Presstman

Street, as a historical landmark.

Zoning - Junk or Scrap Storage and Yards - Critical Area Overlay District

FOR the purpose of defining "junk or scrap storage and yards" to clarify the scope

of that term; expressly prohibiting the storage of junk or scrap on barges, docks,

piers, and belt conveyor systems in the Critical Area Overlay District, but excepting

certain activities limited to unloading and loading; prohibiting construction- and

demolition-debris processing facilities in the Critical Area Overlay District; and

generally relating to prohibited and permitted uses in the Critical Area Overlay

District.

Parking Revenue Obligations - Authorized Aggregate Amount

FOR the purpose of increasing the maximum aggregate principal amount of

Revenue Obligations authorized to be issued by the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore under Ordinance 83-998, as amended; and providing for a special

effective date.

Limited-Service Pregnancy Centers - Disclaimers

FOR the purpose of requiring limited-service pregnancy centers to provide a certain

disclaimer to clients and potential clients; defining a certain term; imposing certain

penalties; and generally relating to required disclaimers by limited-service

pregnancy centers.

President Rawlings-Blake, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton,

Nicholas C. D'Adamo, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Rochelle 'Rikki'

Spector, Belinda K. Conaway, Robert W. Curran, Warren Branch and

Helen L. Holton

Urban Renewal - Carroll Camden - Amendment _

FOR the purpose of amending the Urban Renewal Plan for Carroll Camden to

revise an exhibit to reflect the disposition 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.

Sale of Property - Block 530, Lot 43/46 (the Mayfair Theater Dressing Rooms)

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 known as Block 530,

Lot 43/46 (the Mayfair Theater Dressing Rooms) and no longer needed for public

use; and providing for a special effective date.

Sale of Property - NS Eastern Avenue 402-9 Feet West of Kane Street (Block

6345D, Lot 9)

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 known as the NS

Eastern Avenue 402-9 feet west of Kane Street (Block 6345D, Lot 9) and no longer

needed for public use; and providing for a special effective date.

Urban Renewal - Harlem Park Project II - Amendment _

FOR the purpose of amending the Urban Renewal Plan for Harlem Park Project II

to amend the uses permitted in certain areas of the Plan, to revise an exhibit to

reflect the changes in the Plan, to provide that to the extent there exists any conflict

between the provisions of the Renewal Plan and the standards and controls of any

Planned Unit Development legislation approved by the Mayor and City Council,

the standards and controls of the Planned Unit Development control; conforming

certain references; 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.

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Wylie Funeral Homes, P.A., c/o Stanley S. Fine, Esq., Rosenberg,

Martin, Greenberg, LLP

URBAN AFFAIRS AND AGING COMMITTEE

Planned Unit Development - Designation - Wylie Funeral Home

FOR the purpose of approving the application of the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore and Wylie Funeral Homes, P.A., which are either the owner, potential

owner, developer, and/or contract purchaser of the following properties: 1602,

1604, 1606, 1606 ½, 1608, 1610, 1612, 1614, 1616, 1618, 1620, 1622, 1624, and

1626 Harlem Avenue; 703, 705, 707, 709, 711, 713, 715, 717, 719, 721, 723, and

725 North Mount Street; and 634, 636, and 638 North Gilmor Street (collectively,

the “Property”), to have the Property designated a Residential Planned Unit

Development; and approving the Development Plan submitted by the applicant.

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Wylie Funeral Homes, P.A., c/o Stanley S. Fine, Esq., Rosenberg,

Martin, Greenberg, LLP

LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

Zoning - Conditional Use Parking, Open Off-Street Area - 5401 Tippett

Avenue, 5451 Tippett Avenue, 4033 Lewiston Avenue, and Portions of

Rockfield Avenue and Tippett Avenue

FOR the purpose of repealing Ordinance 65-640 and permitting, subject to certain

conditions, the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a parking, open

off-street area (including driving test area) on the properties known as 5401 Tippett

Avenue, 5451 Tippett Avenue, 4033 Lewiston Avenue, and portions of Rockfield

Avenue and Tippett Avenue, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat.

Rochelle 'Rikki' Spector

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Tippett Avenue, LLC, c/o Stanley S. Fine, Esq., Rosenberg, Martin,

Greenberg, LLP

LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

Required Parking for Bicycles

FOR the purpose of requiring certain new or expanded structures, premises, and

uses to provide bicycle parking that meets certain standards; requiring certain

employers to provide their employees with bicycle parking that meets certain

standards; defining and redefining certain terms; imposing certain penalties;

providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to required parking

spaces for bicycles.

Transit and Traffic - Bike Lanes

FOR the purpose of allowing the creation of bike lanes; defining certain terms;

prohibiting parking or standing in bike lanes; requiring bike-safe grates in bike

lanes; imposing certain penalties; and generally relating to bike lanes on City

streets.

City Streets - Bike-Safe Grates

FOR the purpose of requiring that all City street paving and repaving contracts

require that drainage grates be installed in a bike-safe alignment; requiring anyone

undertaking a street paving project to install drainage grates in a bike-safe

alignment; and generally relating to bike-safe grates on City streets.

Parking, Standing, and Stopping of Vehicles - Obstructing Alleys

FOR the purpose of clarifying the law relating to obstructing the free passage

of traffic with a vehicle; providing a certain exception for parking in alleys; and

generally relating to parking, standing, or stopping that obstructs traffic.

Street and Transportation Projects - Complete Streets

FOR the purpose of directing the Departments of Transportation and Planning to

apply "Complete Streets" principals to the planning, design, and construction of all

new City transportation improvement projects; providing certain exceptions;

requiring annual reports on the implementation of "Complete Streets" principals;

and generally relating to transportation improvement projects.

Informational Hearing - Baltimore Police Department - Police and Cyclists

FOR the purpose of inviting the Baltimore Police Commissioner to report to the

City Council on the Police Department's procedures for responding to incidents

involving cyclists and the Department's general approach to the bicycling

community.

The Cyclists' Bill of Rights

FOR the purpose of reaffirming support for efforts to improve conditions for

cyclists and encouraging more widespread awareness of the "Cyclists' Bill of

Rights" .

BMore Streets for People

FOR the purpose of calling upon the Department of Transportation to develop and

conduct BMore Streets for People, the special and periodic closing of City arteries

to vehicular traffic for the purpose of welcoming jogging, biking, skateboarding

and other people-engaging activities in temporary closed-roadbed havens; and

calling upon the collaborative commitments of the Departments of Transportation

(DOT), Health, Police (BPD), General Services and the Offices of Promotion and

the Arts (BOPA) and Sustainability to engage in formal fashion among themselves,

and with co-sponsoring organizations and neighborhoods, to plan and implement

regular BMore Streets for People events throughout the City with venues as

approved by proposed "host" communities.

Retention of Baltimore Convention Center Food Services Workers

FOR the purpose of calling on the Baltimore Convention Center to ensure that the

change in food service contractors does not result in the loss of jobs for current

Convention Center food services workers and strongly endorsing the transition

proposal offered by the Convention Center food service employees to the incoming

food services contractor.

Carryout Plastic Bag Waste - Department of Public Works Study

FOR the purpose of calling on the Department of Public Works to study the amount

of waste generated due to the use of plastic carryout bags, and the environmental

impact of carryout plastic bag use, in Baltimore and to report the results of this

study to the City Council by a specified date.

Development of a National Student Bill of Rights

FOR the purpose of endorsing and supporting the effort by the Baltimore Algebra

Project to develop local proposals for development of the National Student Bill of

Rights and commending the Baltimore City Youth Commission for convening a

Citywide Youth Forum to discuss and debate the rights to be locally adopted.

Request for State Action - Support of the Maryland Heritage Structure

Rehabilitation Tax Credit

FOR the purpose of urging the Baltimore City House and Senate Delegations to the

2010 Maryland General Assembly and the Governor of Maryland to extend and

expand the Maryland Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit, a program

which has contributed greatly to Baltimore City and to the State of Maryland as a

whole, and which, without reauthorization, will expire in July 2010.

Request for State Legislation - Split-Level Property Tax Rate

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City House and Senate Delegations to

the 2010 Maryland General Assembly and the Governor of Maryland to introduce

and ensure passage of local legislation to enable the City of Baltimore to establish a

split-level property tax rate wherein vacant, nonoccupiable or uninhabitable

properties would be taxed at a higher rate than occupiable or habitable properties.

Scrap Metal Processors - Second-Hand Property Dealers - Reporting

Requirements

FOR the purpose of expressly including used motor vehicle parts among the items

to be reported to the Police Commissioner and held by scrap metal processors,

second-hand property dealers, and others; modifying certain definitions; and

generally relating to the regulation of scrap metal processors, second-hand property

dealers, and others.

Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Belinda K. Conaway, Edward L. Reisinger,

Robert W. Curran, Bernard C. 'Jack' Young, James B. Kraft, Warren

Branch, Rochelle 'Rikki' Spector and Helen L. Holton

Planned Unit Development - Designation - Irvington Knolls

FOR the purpose of repealing the existing Development Plan for the Irvington

Knolls Village Planned Unit Development and approving a new Development Plan

for the Irvington Knolls Planned Unit Development.

Rezoning - A portion of 6130 O’Donnell Street (Block 6694, Lot 001)

FOR the purpose of changing the zoning for a portion of the property known as

6130 O’Donnell Street (Block 6694, Lot 001), as outlined in red on the

accompanying plat, from the M-2-1 Zoning District to the R-6 Zoning District.

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