City of Baltimore - File #: 17-0045

• File #: 17-0045
• Version: 0
• Name: City Streets - Naming an Unnamed 15-Foot Lane, Located in the Vicinity of William Street and Beechwood Avenue, Unity Lane
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 4/3/2017
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/13/2017
• Enactment #: 17-0045
• Title: City Streets - Naming an Unnamed 15-Foot Lane, Located in the Vicinity of William Street and Beechwood Avenue, Unity Lane For the purpose of naming an unnamed 15-foot lane, located in the vicinity of William Street and Beechwood Avenue in the Franklintown Community and measuring approximately 315 feet east of the William Street intersection and approximately 120 feet west of the William Street intersection, Unity Lane.
• Sponsors: Kristerfer Burnett
• Indexes: City Streets - Renaming

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/19/2017	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
6/5/2017	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
5/15/2017	0	City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
5/15/2017	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
5/9/2017	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably	Pass
4/24/2017	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/6/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Planning
4/6/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Transportation
4/6/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation
4/6/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
4/3/2017	0	City Council	Introduced
4/3/2017	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

Introduced by: Councilmember Burnett

A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning
title
City Streets - Naming an Unnamed 15-Foot Lane, Located in the Vicinity of William Street and Beechwood Avenue, Unity Lane
For the purpose of naming an unnamed 15-foot lane, located in the vicinity of William Street and Beechwood Avenue in the Franklintown Community and measuring approximately 315 feet east of the William Street intersection and approximately 120 feet west of the William Street intersection, Unity Lane.
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By authority of
Article 26 - Surveys, Streets, and Highways
Section 7-3
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

Recitals

Since the early 1900's, the unnamed 15-foot lane has been present, nameless, and recognized as a right of way by successive deeds and subdivision proposals. Two houses, located on two separate lots, were built adjacent to the unnamed lane probably in the first quarter of the 1900's, with their backs facing the lane and with their fronts facing Division Street, a proposed right of way that was never improved from its original wooded and rocky state. The unnamed lane has been the only means of entry/exit since the houses were built. The lane measures approximately 315 feet east of the William Street intersection and approximately 120 feet west of the William Street intersection.

The owner-occupants of the properties adjacent to the unnamed 15-foot lane have requested that the lane be named. The lane is the only access to their homes. Division Street is an unimproved “paper street”, unlikely t...