Baltimore City Council
File #: 24-0566    Version: 0 Name: City Streets - Opening - Subterranean Portions of North Monroe Street, McKean Avenue, and a 10-Foot Alley
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 7/22/2024 In control: Ways and Means
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: City Streets - Opening - Subterranean Portions of North Monroe Street, McKean Avenue, and a 10-Foot Alley For the purpose of condemning and opening subterranean portions of certain streets and alleys bounded by Westwood Avenue, Presstman Street, McKean Avenue, and Appleton Street as shown on plat numbered 316-C-4, Sheets 1 through 3 dated September 26, 2023 prepared by Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP, and filed in the Office of the Department of Transportation; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: James Torrence, City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: City Streets - Opening
Attachments: 1. Law - 24-0566, 2. 24-0566~1st Reader, 3. DOT 24-0566, 4. BDC 24-0566, 5. DHCD 24-0566, 6. DOP 24-0566, 7. 2328 Eutaw Place BP Letter of Opposition, 8. Testimony 24-0566 - Copy, 9. Testimony 0566, 10. Statement on 24-0566 - Copy, 11. Testimony A Smith opposed 24-0566 - Copy, 12. 24-0566 Letter of Opposition - Copy, 13. 24-0566 Letter of Opposition RM - Copy, 14. 24-0566 City Council Letter 9-8-24 - Copy, 15. Balt WandM hearing 091024 bill 24-0566 - Copy, 16. DPW - 24-0566, 17. 2024_09-10 FDT Real Estate re Bills FINAL, 18. Ways and Means Testimony 9.10.24, 19. 0562 (Mark West), 20. 0563 (Mark West), 21. 0565 (Mark West), 22. 0566 (Mark West), 23. 0567 (Mark West), 24. 2001 Park Ave Property Opinion Survey Results & Summary_Map_Survey-doc 2019-03-31 (Kimberly Forsyth), 25. 2328 Eutaw Place BP Letter of Opposition RM (Rolando Maxwell), 26. Amtrak Frederick Douglas Fiasco 1 (Erika Smith), 27. Angela Kidane Support for CCB 24-0560 (Angela Kidane), 28. Balt WandM hearing 091024 bill 24-0562 thru 24-0566 (Darnellena C. Burnett), 29. City Council Letter 9-8-24 (Mark West), 30. Council (maria salame), 31. Statement on Amtrack Tunnel - Shaffer (Darnell Shaffer), 32. Testimony A Smith opposed to City council bills for Amtrak (Adrienne Smith), 33. BCC 09-10-2024, 34. bill-24-0564-bb-testimony, 35. RE Testimony to Oppose Bills #24-0562 #24-0564 #24-0566 - Request to Table, 36. RE Proposed Amtrak Rail Line to Replace Existing BP Line, 37. RE Testimony Bills 24-0562 24-0563 24-0564 24-0565 and 24-0566
* 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 Torrence
At the request of: The Administration (Department of Transportation)
A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning
title
City Streets - Opening - Subterranean Portions of North Monroe Street, McKean Avenue, and a 10-Foot Alley
For the purpose of condemning and opening subterranean portions of certain streets and alleys bounded by Westwood Avenue, Presstman Street, McKean Avenue, and Appleton Street as shown on plat numbered 316-C-4, Sheets 1 through 3 dated September 26, 2023 prepared by Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP, and filed in the Office of the Department of Transportation; and providing for a special effective date.
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By authority of
Article I - General Provisions
Section 4
and
Article II - General Powers
Sections 2, 34, and 35
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That the Department of Public Works shall proceed to condemn and open subterranean portions of certain streets and alleys bounded by Westwood Avenue, Presstman Street, McKean Avenue, and Appleton Street, and more particularly described as follows:

Description of
Subterranean Portion of N. Monroe Street

Ward 15, Section 38, Block 0019 and
Ward 15, Section 08, Block 0020

All that land known as Parcel 1D10 at a horizontal plane having an elevation of plus 158.00 feet which has reference to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) extending to an unlimited depth and contained within the following metes and bounds: BEGINNING on the west side of N. Monroe Street, 66 feet ...

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