City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0177R

• File #: 09-0177R
• Version: 0
• Name: BMore Streets for People
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 12/10/2009
• In control: Land Use and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 4/19/2010
• Title: BMore Streets for People FOR the purpose of calling upon the Department of Transportation to develop and conduct BMore Streets for People, the special and periodic closing of City arteries to vehicular traffic for the purpose of welcoming jogging, biking, skateboarding and other people-engaging activities in temporary closed-roadbed havens; and calling upon the collaborative commitments of the Departments of Transportation (DOT), Health, Police (BPD), General Services and the Offices of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) and Sustainability to engage in formal fashion among themselves, and with co-sponsoring organizations and neighborhoods, to plan and implement regular BMore Streets for People events throughout the City with venues as approved by proposed "host" communities.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, James B. Kraft, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, Nicholas C. D'Adamo
• Indexes: BMore Streets, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/19/2010	0	City Council	Adopted
4/19/2010	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Recommended Favorably
3/22/2010	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/15/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
12/10/2009	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: Councilmembers Clarke and Middleton


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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BMore Streets for People

FOR the purpose of calling upon the Department of Transportation to develop and conduct BMore Streets for People, the special and periodic closing of City arteries to vehicular traffic for the purpose of welcoming jogging, biking, skateboarding and other people-engaging activities in temporary closed-roadbed havens; and calling upon the collaborative commitments of the Departments of Transportation (DOT), Health, Police (BPD), General Services and the Offices of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) and Sustainability to engage in formal fashion among themselves, and with co-sponsoring organizations and neighborhoods, to plan and implement regular BMore Streets for People events throughout the City with venues as approved by proposed "host" communities.
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WHEREAS, BMore Streets for People is based on the successful “Ciclovia” concept in Bogata, Columbia, in which the city closes certain streets to traffic every Sunday morning and nearly 1 million people come out to enjoy camaraderie, bicycle riding, walking, and exercise; and,

WHEREAS, The BMore Streets concept has been in limited practice in Baltimore for about 10 years through the annual Jones Falls Celebration, when the northbound JFX is closed one Sunday morning a year; and

WHEREAS, The B...