Legislation to establish up to $125 million in tax-increment financing advanced in the Baltimore City Council Monday evening, despite continued protests from some local leaders and residents.

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A Baltimore City Council member said the head of the city’s development agency is making “personal attacks” based on an escalating dispute over public tax breaks for a $1 billion waterfront development.

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Calling the plans ill-suited to the site, the city’s design review panel on Thursday rejected schematic designs for a 15-story hotel in Middle East as part of the 88-acre East Baltimore Development Inc. project.

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Plans for a new hotel near the Johns Hopkins University medical campus, to be developed as part of the East Baltimore Development Inc. project, are slated to go before a city design panel next week.

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After nearly two hours in a closed session Monday, members of the Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation voted down an attempt by the city planning director to fire the group’s director in the wake of several recent clashes over historic preservation in Baltimore.

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