City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0308R

• File #: 11-0308R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Maintenance of City Owned Properties
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 8/15/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Maintenance of City Owned Properties FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from the Departments of Public Works, Health, Housing, Recreation & Parks, and General Services to appear before the City Council to explain the City's current policies for maintaining City owned vacant lots and other properties; discuss how these properties could be better maintained; and establish a clear and simple method by which neighbors of City owned properties can quickly and effectively get their concerns addressed.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Bill Henry, Carl Stokes, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, President Young, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: City Property, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/19/2011	0	Housing and Community Development Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/15/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
8/15/2011	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 Conaway

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Investigative Hearing - Maintenance of City Owned Properties

FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from the Departments of Public Works, Health, Housing, Recreation & Parks, and General Services to appear before the City Council to explain the City's current policies for maintaining City owned vacant lots and other properties; discuss how these properties could be better maintained; and establish a clear and simple method by which neighbors of City owned properties can quickly and effectively get their concerns addressed.
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Recitals

As part of its ongoing efforts to address the problem of vacant properties in Baltimore, the City has acquired ownership of hundreds of empty buildings and lots. Many other properties have been obtained by the City for one purpose or another over the more than two centuries of Baltimore's existence. All together, the Baltimore Office of Sustainability estimates that the City owns 11,000 vacant or abandoned properties, as well as hundreds that are still in use. As a result, every neighborhood in Baltimore is dotted with City owned properties.

Regardless of when or why the City came to own a particular bit of land, wherever the City owns property it is, and should be, expected to show the same respect for its neighbors as any other property owner in how it uses its lan...