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Let your voice be heard on city schools
The Citizens Planning and Housing Association is starting a campaign to make sure the voices of community groups around Baltimore are heard as part of the city’s 10-year, $1 billion plan for new and renovated schools.
Should city solicitor be an elected office?
In the midst of the City Council's debate on having its own counsel, another idea about the city solicitor's office was proposed.
Editorial: On counsel for the council
If the question of whether the Baltimore City Council should have its own legal counsel ends up in the hands of the city’s voters, it may prompt them to ask their own question: “Huh?”
Proposal advances to add legal counsel for Baltimore City Council
A Baltimore City Council committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would give the legislative body its own legal counsel.
Baltimore City Council panel passes Harbor Point TIF
A City Council committee voted to approve a $107 million tax increment financing plan for the proposed Harbor Point development, turning aside calls from business leaders to reduce it to about a third of that amount and from protesters to reduce it to zero.
GBC to ask for reduction in proposed Harbor Point TIF
The Greater Baltimore Committee will ask city lawmakers Wednesday evening to cut the proposed initial amount of tax increment financing for the Harbor Point project to less than one-third the amount under consideration.
Harbor Point TIF could cost $283 million
Although the initial request for one of three public tax breaks for a $1 billion development on the city’s waterfront near Harbor East is $107 million, the cost of repaying that amount will balloon to more than $283 million over the three-decade term of the bonds, according to city documents.
Community requests Harbor Point share its tax benefit
A crowd of nearly 150 — many of them residents of public housing and local clergy — packed the chambers of the Baltimore City Council Wednesday for a committee hearing on a set of tax breaks totaling $88 million for a waterfront development where the energy giant Exelon Corp. plans to locate its local headquarters.
Councilman expects crowd for Harbor Point hearing
A day before what is expected to be a combative Baltimore City Council committee hearing over a tax break granted to the developer of Harbor Point, the war of words over the $1 billion waterfront project heated up.
Committee guts measure to limit ticket surcharges
A Baltimore City Council bill that would have capped ticket surcharges at a percentage of the box office price was changed Tuesday to allow licensed ticket vendors to set the rate freely.
Editorial: Gerrymandering city’s enterprise zones
Baltimore City Council member Carl Stokes has a legitimate grievance regarding the gerrymandered enterprise zone that is enabling the developers of the swank Harbor Point project to earn tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks.
BDC: Time’s up for Superblock
Thanks, but no thanks. That’s what top Baltimore officials reportedly told the developers of the proposed $150 million Superblock redevelopment after they asked for a sixth extension on the exclusive development rights for the city-owned parcel.
