City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0258R

• File #: 11-0258R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Vacants to Value Initiative
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 2/28/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Vacants to Value Initiative FOR the purpose of inviting representatives from the Department of Housing and Community Development to appear before the Council to discuss the Vacants to Value initiative, and to establish reporting mechanisms that will allow the City Council, and the public at large, to track and monitor the effectiveness of Vacants to Value at meeting its goals.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Warren Branch, William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, James B. Kraft, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Resolution, Vacants to Value

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/2/2011	0	Housing and Community Development Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
5/2/2011	0	City Council	Reassigned
3/3/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/28/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
2/28/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Vacants to Value Initiative

FOR the purpose of inviting representatives from the Department of Housing and Community Development to appear before the Council to discuss the Vacants to Value initiative, and to establish reporting mechanisms that will allow the City Council, and the public at large, to track and monitor the effectiveness of Vacants to Value at meeting its goals.
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Recitals

The “Vacants to Value” initiative, Baltimore Housing’s new approach to the longstanding problem of vacant properties in the City, is intended to meet a number of ambitious goals for neighborhood improvement. In order to attain these goals, it will need to approach old issues in a new way; and rally the support of many different stakeholders throughout the City.

Neighborhood groups, developers, City agencies, and many others must have a full understanding of how Vacants to Value is intended to operate, and what its specific goals are, if it is to have any hope of succeeding.

In order to foster this understanding, the public should be given a full explanation of how the multi-pronged Vacants to Value effort differs from past approaches to the problems caused by vacant properties. As part of this explanation, details about how small local developers can participate in the rehabili...