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.
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The fact that Baltimore County’s population has been steadily increasing for years is not breaking news. The fact that the County’s senior population has been increasing at a much quicker pace might be. Baltimore County already ranks first in the percentage of seniors in its population among Maryland’s ten largest counties and estimates are that […]
A. Executive Summary We respectfully ask the Council to Pass Bill 37-19 without amendments for 3 reasons: 1. Our Unique History of Development Set the Stage for an Enormous Open Space Deficit Beginning with the Great Depression and the severe housing shortage that ensued, history and policy created our inner suburbs with […]
Our County has a unique land-use history, shaped by federal zoning law and housing policy, the Great Depression, World War II, the GI Bill, the 1st Eisenhower Beltway, the Plan for the Valleys, and the Urban Rural Demarcation Line. The upshot of this is that we are NOT like Harford County, Carroll County, Howard County […]