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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Mosby
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Supporting Efforts to Grow Baltimore by 10,000 Families in Ten Years
FOR the purpose of embracing the challenge of growing Baltimore by 10,000 families in ten years, and calling on the citizens of Baltimore to explore how to best accomplish this goal by strengthening schools, improving public safety, and rebuilding neighborhoods afflicted by vacant homes.
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It is time to get Baltimore growing again. Despite a half-century of shrinking populations, recent progress in reducing crime and gains in our school system have laid the groundwork to meet Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s challenge to grow the city by 10,000 families over the next decade.
Just as the decreasing population exacerbated many of the challenges facing Baltimore - blight inducing vacant housing, disrupted neighborhoods, and a shrunken tax base - so, too, could a growing population help to sustain and build on recent progress by stabilizing emerging neighborhoods, injecting fresh energy into our communities, and providing new partners to share in necessary maintenance.
There is broad agreement that the pillars that growth will be based on must include improving schools for our children, building on reductions in crime to make our community safer, rebuilding neighborhoods by removing the blight of vacant homes, and targeting p...
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