City of Baltimore - File #: 18-0176

• File #: 18-0176
• Version: 0
• Name: Alley Gating and Greening - Standards
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/8/2018
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/5/2018
• Enactment #: 18-107
• Title: Alley Gating and Greening - Standards For the purpose of clarifying a requirement that, to gate or green an alley, the majority of structures abutting the alley must be “residential”; and generally relating to the standards for the gating and greening of alleys.
• Sponsors: John T. Bullock, President Young, Bill Henry, Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Sharon Green Middleton, Brandon M. Scott, Leon F. Pinkett, III
• Indexes: Alley-Gating, Greening Program

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/12/2018	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
2/26/2018	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
2/5/2018	0	City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
2/5/2018	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
1/23/2018	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably	Pass
1/11/2018	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development
1/11/2018	0	The City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
1/11/2018	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Transportation
1/8/2018	0	City Council	Assigned
1/8/2018	0	City Council	Introduced
1/8/2018	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

Explanation: Capitals indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

                     * 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 Bullock                                                                                          

                     A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning

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Alley Gating and Greening - Standards

For the purpose of clarifying a requirement that, to gate or green an alley, the majority of structures abutting the alley must be “residential”; and generally relating to the standards for the gating and greening of alleys.

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By repealing and reordaining, with amendments

Article 26 - Surveys, Streets, and Highways

Section 8A-4(b)

Baltimore City Code

(Edition 2000)

Section 1.  Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

                     Baltimore City Code

                     Article 26.  Surveys, Streets, and Highways

                     Subtitle 8A.  Gating and Greening Alleys

§ 8A-4.  Scope; General standards.

(b)  Standards for authorizing gating and greening.

The Director of Transportation may authorize the gating and, if applicable, the greening of an alley if, on petition, public notice, and hearing as provided in this subtitle, the Director determines that:

[(1) the majority of the structures abutting the alley are residential;]

(1)                     [(2)] the alley is no longer needed for through pedestrian or vehicular traffic; [and]

(2)                     [(3)] the gating and, if applicable, the greening will promote the public health, safety, or welfare; and

(3)                     the majority of the structures abutting the alley:

(i)                     are residential; or

(ii)                     contain, above a non-residential ground floor, 1 or more upper stories that, as allowed by the applicable Use Table of the Baltimore City Zoning Code, are being used or are designed and intended to be used as residential dwellings.

Section 2.  And be it further ordained, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

Section 3.  And be it further ordained, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30^th day after the date it is enacted.