City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0479

• File #: 10-0479
• Version: 0
• Name: Sinclair Lane Bridge - Reconstruction, Repair, and Maintenance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 4/19/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 9/22/2010
• Enactment #: 10-359
• Title: Sinclair Lane Bridge - Reconstruction, Repair, and Maintenance FOR the purpose of superseding certain laws governing the Sinclair Lane railroad bridge; ratifying a new agreement between the City and CSX Transportation for the construction and ownership of the bridge; providing for the repeal of laws inconsistent with this Ordinance; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the duties and responsibilities for and the ownership of the Sinclair Lane railroad bridge.
• Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
• Indexes: Bridge, Maintenance, Reconstruction, Repair

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/22/2010	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
9/20/2010	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
8/9/2010	0	Highways and Franchises Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably
8/9/2010	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
7/12/2010	0	Highways and Franchises Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/22/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/22/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/22/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/19/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
4/19/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* 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: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Department of Transportation)

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Sinclair Lane Bridge - Reconstruction, Repair, and Maintenance

FOR the purpose of superseding certain laws governing the Sinclair Lane railroad bridge; ratifying a new agreement between the City and CSX Transportation for the construction and ownership of the bridge; providing for the repeal of laws inconsistent with this Ordinance; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the duties and responsibilities for and the ownership of the Sinclair Lane railroad bridge.
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Background

On November 18, 2009, the Board of Estimates approved an "Agreement Regarding [t]he Reconstruction of [t]he Sinclair Lane Bridge" (the "Sinclair Lane Bridge Agreement" or "Agreement") between the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the "City") and CSX Transportation, Inc. ("CSXT").

Previously, Ordinance 1890-083 (the "Enabling Ordinance") authorized the Baltimore Belt Railroad to build a bridge at Loney's Lane (now Edison Highway) and Sinclair Lane. In 1934, by written agreement between the City and the Baltimore and Ohio (the "B&O") and Baltimore Belt Railroads (the "1934 Agreement"), the railroads agreed, among other things, to demolish the then-bridge and construct a new, substantially larger bridge (the "Sinclair Lane Bridge" or "Bridge"), with the costs of constru...