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Baltimore, Maryland 21202  
Meeting Minutes - Final  
Housing & Economic Development Committee  
Tuesday, May 5, 2026  
5:15 PM  
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25-0088 Taxes – Property Tax – Vacant Lots and Vacant Structures  
CALL TO ORDER  
INTRODUCTIONS  
ATTENDANCE  
5 -  
Present  
James Torrence, Odette Ramos, Zac Blanchard, Jermaine Jones, and Antonio  
"Tony" Glover  
ITEMS SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING  
25-0088  
Taxes – Property Tax – Vacant Lots and Vacant Structures  
FOR the purpose of amending the special real property tax rate for vacant  
and abandoned property to include vacant lots; establishing a subclass of  
real property of vacant lots and vacant structures; applying a special real  
property tax rate to the subclass of real property; requiring the provision of  
notice of the special real property tax rate; providing for the promulgation of  
rules and regulations; requiring a certain annual report; defining certain  
terms; repealing certain sections of Ordinance 24-431 that ordained an  
abrogation date for the Ordinance; and generally relating to the special real  
property tax rate levied on vacant lots and vacant structures.  
Sponsors: Odette Ramos, Sharon Green Middleton, Paris Gray, John Bullock, Zac Blanchard,  
Jermaine Jones  
A motion was made by Ramos that this Ordinance be Recommended Favorably  
with Amendments. The motion carried by the following vote:  
5 - Torrence, Ramos, Blanchard, Jones, and Glover  
Yes:  
ADJOURNMENT  
THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC