City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0120R

• File #: 09-0120R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - The Park Heights Renaissance, Inc.
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/16/2009
• In control: Community Development Subcommittee
• Final action: 7/13/2009
• Title: Informational Hearing - The Park Heights Renaissance, Inc. FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development and the CEO of Park Heights Renaissance, Inc., to report to the City Council on the success of the Vacant Housing Initiative in marketing City-owned vacant properties; to discuss the feasibility of expanding the program to include privately-owned vacant houses; and the practicability of duplicating the program in other Baltimore City neighborhoods endangered by a proliferation of vacant houses.
• Sponsors: Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, President Young, William H. Cole, IV, Agnes Welch, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/13/2009	0	City Council	Adopted
7/13/2009	0	Community Development Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably
6/1/2009	0	Community Development Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
3/19/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/19/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/19/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/16/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
3/16/2009	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: Councilmembers Middleton, Clarke


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - The Park Heights Renaissance, Inc.

FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development and the CEO of Park Heights Renaissance, Inc., to report to the City Council on the success of the Vacant Housing Initiative in marketing City-owned vacant properties; to discuss the feasibility of expanding the program to include privately-owned vacant houses; and the practicability of duplicating the program in other Baltimore City neighborhoods endangered by a proliferation of vacant houses.
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The Park Heights Renaissance, Inc. (PHR), is a nonprofit organization incorporated in November 2007, “representing residents, businesses, religious institutions, schools, agencies, and other stakeholders committed to shaping a better future for Park Heights.” Under the direction of the Pimlico Community Development Authority, the PHR will manage the components of the Master Plan related to housing, economic development, and human services to secure the successful revitalization of Park Heights.

Park Heights, a February 2006 publication of the Department of Planning, describes Park Heights as a challenged community that, like the rest of Baltimore, has been losing population. Park Heights, however, has experienced nearly double the City’s rate of out-migra...