City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0015R

• File #: 08-0015R
• Version: 0
• Name: A Request for the Allocation of Funds from the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund and Nonpoint Source Fund for Metropolitan Parks
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/4/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 2/4/2008
• Title: A Request for the Allocation of Funds from the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund and Nonpoint Source Fund for Metropolitan Parks FOR the purpose of requesting that the State of Maryland allocate $5 million of the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund and Nonpoint Source Fund to be used for metropolitan parks.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Chesapeake Bay, Resolution, Trust Funds

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/4/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
2/4/2008	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
2/4/2008	0	City Council	Adopted

* 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 Kraft


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
A Request for the Allocation of Funds from the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund and Nonpoint Source Fund for Metropolitan Parks

FOR the purpose of requesting that the State of Maryland allocate $5 million of the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund and Nonpoint Source Fund to be used for metropolitan parks.
Body
Recitals

The Chesapeake Bay is a valuable and unique resource that must be protected. Sadly, most of the Bay's waters continue to be degraded. In 2006, less than one-third of Bay water quality goals were met, despite recovery efforts.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program, urban and suburban stormwater is the one pollution sector where progress has been negative, due to population growth and related development. Where development replaces natural forests and fields with impervious surfaces, the volume of stormwater run-off increases, and this run-off moves across the land more quickly than it did under pre-development conditions. As a result, more pollutants reach the Bay, degrading the water. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation reports that the total acres of imperviousness in the watershed increased from 611,017 acres in 1990, to 860,004 acres in 2000 - an increase of 40.7%. At the current impervious change rate of 24,899 acres per year, the watershed is estimated to contain 1,108,9...