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DRAFT Our Baltimore, Your Baltimore: A Comprehensive Plan for the City of Baltimore

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Is this due to the rehab requiring fewer trips and having greater potential for repurposing materials rather than creating waste?
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Is comparable data available for Baltimore?
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For clarity, is this proposing extending from 10 years to 15 years? Or is the five years referring to something else?
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Are there additional funds that can be allocated to urban farms?
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"civic and cultural..."?
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Might a few (additional) computers be made available at rec centers as well?
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Include the private sector in the set of opportunities.
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An earlier section of the plan talks about how so many city residents leave the city daily for work and many non-city residents enter the city daily for work. Consider including recommendations that increase job training for city jobs so that city residents don't feel like they have to leave the city to work.
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Can you include a short explanation for why DC, Philly, STL were chosen?
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Consider adding a recommendation to analyze response times to 311 requests related to street light outages and make address issues that lead to lengthy response times or disparities in response times across neighborhoods.
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Is it worth mentioning in community spaces (e.g., rec centers) as a current effort?
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BCPSS website says that DPW will collect recycling once per week from each school that registers. Is this optional? If so, why not make it so that schools are automatically registered and would have to opt-out if they don't want to participate.
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What partnership can be created or scaled with the schools so that all students learn about recycling and see it in action at school?
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To help address the myth, include education on what actually happens with the recycling.
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Is there any information available about the length of time it takes for the city to respond to requests for initial or replacement recycling bins? If so, are there improvements needed in the response/delivery time?
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As I was reading regarding the pimlico’s racetrack and communities I did not read businesses that has been the economic driven engine. There is history of legacy of family wealth that has been passed to the African/caribean children
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Is the infrastructure suitable for high raise apartments. Has there been a sufficient study of the landscape of the grounds to uproot.
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This plan does not meet the stated goals and mission of this document nor the established historical intent of the inner harbor as protected public spaces. It is clear what activates the inner harbor already through events such as wine fest, holiday market, ice skating, ships visiting, other festivals, fleet week, and potential additions such as showing movies, showing Orioles and Ravens games, food trucks etc. Open park spaces and well programmed existing spaces could be successful while keeping the public costs low and the inner harbor visually wide open and accessible to all citizens. The citizens of Baltimore gain nothing from taking away public spaces and thoughtfully planned historic view corridors and instead adding private apartment towers and office buildings directly on some of the last remaining open waterfront. It is disingenuous to suggest that park and promenade are included in this plan. Any perceived public park or waterfront improvements are to be funded through public funds of which there is no evidence of existence and if these funds do in fact exist then why not just make these improvements without building towers in open air spaces? It is not just the view out to the water that is important but also the view in the other direction of Baltimore skyline that will be irreparably harmed. There is little benefit to the citizens of Baltimore in this plan but plenty to lose in an unnecessary, poorly vetted, loss of public space. This is a priceless piece of land that belongs to all the citizens of Baltimore and is enjoyed by visitors from all over the world that is being sacrificed for the benefit of 900 residents who could live across the street.
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I assume the bridge reconstruction will be added in this section at some point.
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I think we should other entites that help with small business develop:
Innovative Works
SBA
Enoch Pratt Library
Impact Hub
CUBE
Family League
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i agreed !
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I oppose putting in high rise luxury housing in the Inner Harbor. The existing pavilions can be revitalized to support local businesses. We need to make the revitalization community-focused. There is already luxury housing downtown with occupancy rate as low as 30%. Also, the City needs to invite bids and ideas from other developers other than MCB.
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this is important, household could be struggling to take care of their yards/ homes, but in some neighborhoods punitive measures is the only methods used to combat these issues.
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in reply to Renee Taylor's comment
Correction typo above - Disinvested in
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Where is the pilot program NPP that is occuring on West North Avenue?
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I agree!
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Love it , incorporating neighborhood events to help set the tone of the community and its people.
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Must invest in middle neighborhoods lest there is no more substantial population in Baltimore of resident property owners and sense of community ,rather a town of investment predators an mostly renters and transient communities. Try to zip up the great divide separating west + east side of York rd.39th st. to Woodbourne Ave.which was greatly disinfected in during the Redlining beginning in the early to mid 1900's.
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Funding block captains programs for expansion into other neighborhoods. Bring back programs like clean block.
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I love this idea of incentives for community clean up efforts. I wonder what is the plan to reactivate the Resident Advisory Council under DPW?
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The city's strategy of handing Inner Harbor redevelopment over to a single developer, with neither a creative design competition among leading national developers nor significant public input, is deeply flawed. It would be wise for the city to put the brakes on this project immediately and begin again at the design phase, with multiple potential partners competing to come up with the best concept that would not involve handing ownership of any part of the Inner Harbor Park to a private developer.
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I fully support the idea of evaluating and re-evaluating rezoning in context, but since development does not happen on an annual schedule, an annual process might result in unintended consequences for the individuals trying to move things forward and inhibit progress toward this document’s intended goals. Would it be possible to create some sort of tiered process that expedites rezones that are aligned with the comprehensive plan’s vision?
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Increase tree maintenance is a reality. The trees grown two decades again has overpowered the sidewalks and the tree Limassol hang in the street beyond the number growth. Maintenance need to priority
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The Baltimore City Council should adopt this plan and work with the planning department to move forward policies and land use decisions that help to achieve the vision. Community advocacy and buy-in are important, but this document represents a major endeavor by the planning department with incredible levels of public involvement so I would expect that it would not rely solely on community advocacy to implement it. How will City Council partner with the planning department to pass policies and achieve this vision?
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in reply to Tashima Ricks's comment
Allowing students to become a tree keeper/weed warrior should be credited to your education. This would allow the young adult to protect nature and appreciate the ground they walk in caring for the trees. I am a certified tree keeper and weed warrior
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Yes I totally agree murals is what’s going to make a landmark in baltimore city. Changing the blight to bright with electrified bold colors. Bold colors talks, walks and smile
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Can this be public facing?
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Funding is not provided by the City?
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Are community members being informed when equipment is being replaced or repaired? Are they asking those who use the equipment what they would like to be replaced with if the items are not identical?
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Can we a name of the agencies this plan is going to guide
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What is the plan to center voices of the community
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For example, the 5100 portion of Park Heights, once labled the million dollar block, is now veiwed as problematic for various reasons, such as drug trafficking and solociting. If residents and store owners knew the rich history of this part of PArk Heights, they would treat it accordingly. Not to mention the lack of supervision regarding trash pick-up in this business area.
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Will there be more markers or acknowledgement (visually) of these nations? Especially since we have parks, it would be culturally relevant to have acknowledgement of the nations before Baltimore city was formed.
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What is this quoting?
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It'd be interesting to see a graph two columns - number of open VBNs, number of newly issued VBNs - for every 5 years since 2000. This might be available on the Key Stats Dashboard but could pair well here.
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This sentence is more specific than the "More than 90%..." sentence above. Can you keep this one and remove the previous one?
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Can you clarify what types of payments?
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typo: "interest" should be "interested"
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Is this "13" meant to be a footnote? Same comment applies to the "15" and "16" in the "reducing intergenerational poverty and increasing economic mobility" and "economic security" sections, respectively, on the next page.
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Will this sharing of information have an intentional focus on sharing with and engaging people who as underrepresented in the permits process?
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