With your help, every cherry in our Cherry Heights orchard ripened on #GivingTuesday. And this means we can start creating a park on Beech Avenue in Overlea next spring. THANK YOU! This park is important for the Cherry Heights neighborhood because of what it will do for quality of life, or “livability,” there. The graphic […]
For over a year now NeighborSpace has been part of a committee working on a major collaborative project in Dundalk. The project, previously known as the “Maryland Line Trail”, has been given a new name to reflect the exciting steps being taken to bring this community development to fruition. The trail, an offshoot of the […]
When my spouse and I moved to the Baltimore Area in 2009 and were looking to purchase a house, our priorities were one we could afford in a good school system that had access to our jobs and to other lifestyle amenities. High taxes and the rankings of most public schools ruled out Baltimore City […]
I’d like to say that my love of nature implies that I “…will find beauty everywhere,” as inspired by Laura Ingles Wilder; however, in today’s climate, as a witness to mass declines in trees, bees and birds, I’m wondering where the beauty may lie. In September of 2018, NeighborSpace held a fall celebration at Adelaide […]
We mentioned in a July issue of News and Views that work had begun on transforming our Beech Avenue site in Overlea into a community park. Work has progressed since that time, with the most recent community meeting yielding a design concept. To fully understand it requires that we provide some historical background. In July, […]
Exciting news from Woodlawn as the NeighborSpace property at 1905 Gwynn Oak Avenue is getting a makeover. This may seem like run-of-the-mill news to many of you. NeighborSpace fixing up another property? Is that not what they do? But dig a little deeper and you will realize it is not that simple. As many of […]
My neighborhood has a “commons.” So does yours. The commons comprises those explicitly or, in some cases, implicitly shared resources in which the community as a whole has an interest. At a minimum, these include the community’s streets, sidewalks, and public facilities and I would add, among other things, important scenic vistas, architectural character, and […]
The 2nd design workshop, held on October 9 at the Battle Monument School in Dundalk, aimed to refine and give form to the concepts discussed in the initial workshop, which was held in July and discussed in this article. It took the trail features we highlighted in workshop #1 and brought us to the questions […]
One of the best things about going to the annual Land Trust Alliance conference, known as “Rally,” is the opportunity to take a field trip to see projects that other land trusts are doing around the country. This year, Rally was in Raleigh, NC, and among our land trust hosts was the Triangle Land Conservancy […]
Bill 37-19 eliminated one long-standing loophole, which has been in our law since at least 2010, that allowed parking islands, otherwise known as “zoning amenity open space” to reduce the amount of public open space that developers of major subdivisions are required to provide.