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

An Ordinance concerning
title
City Streets - Closing - Subterranean Portions of Certain Streets and Alleys Bounded by Westwood Avenue, North Mount Street, Presstman Street, and Appleton Street
For the purpose of condemning and closing subterranean portions of certain streets and alleys bounded by Westwood Avenue, North Mount Street, Presstman Street, and Appleton Street, as shown on a plat numbered 316-C-4A, Sheets 1 through 5, dated September 26, 2023, prepared by Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP, and filed in 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, 35
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

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

Description of
Subterranean Portions of Certain Streets and Alleys Lying Within the Area Bounded by N. Monroe Street, Presstman Street, Appleton Street, and Baker Street

Ward 15, Section 38, Block 0019,
Ward 15, Section 08, Block 0020, and
Ward 15, Section 38, Block 0024

All that land known as Parcel 1C at a horizontal plane having an elevation of plus 158.0 feet which has ref...

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