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CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
It looks like the Little Free Library will have to suffice for several more months.
Representatives from the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the city’s Department of General Services regretfully informed residents at the Canton Community Association meeting on Jan. 27 that the Canton Library renovation would not be finished in June of this year, as planned.
“That will not happen,” said George Sandruck, a construction
Kraft says he will be on 2016 ballot, but not for 1st DistrictBY ERIK [email protected]
City Councilman Jim Kraft saved a major piece of news for the end of the big state-of-the-district speech he delivered at the Canton Community Association meeting on Jan. 27.
“While it is my full intention to be on the 2016 primary ballot, I want to make it clear that it will not be to seek reelection to this seat as your first district councilman,’ he said. “It is time for me to do something different.”
Speculation abounds--City Council president, mayor or a judgeship are a few that are circulating on the internet. City comptroller has also been mentioned.
Soon after Kraft made his announcement, WBAL’s Jayne Miller, who was attending the meeting as a CCA board member, yelled to him from the back of the room: “What are you running for?”
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with regard to the replacement of the windows,” Sandruck explained. “We’re at loggerheads with them right now.”
He said that the actual completion date now “looks like October,” depending on the outcome of a meeting with the Historical Trust scheduled for Feb. 2.
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City Councilman Jim Kraft chats with Jason Filippou after his state of the district address. | Photo by Erik Zygmont
Kraft says 1st District should demand Circulator Service to Canton; hints at development
Kraft said that other reasons he had voted against the budget were “the system’s failure to provide an adequate number of Spanish-speaking teachers and staff to our schools here,” and for what he characterized as “the system’s general disregard of the [City] Council itself.”
For an example, Kraft mentioned that the City Council had only been informed on Friday, Jan. 23, of two meetings on BCPS plans for new schools at Holabird Academy and Graceland Park; the meetings were held Tuesday, Jan. 27, the same night as his address.
“We know who the people are and how to get the people out to the meetings,” he said. “It makes no sense to have a meeting when half of the people won’t be there.”
Transportation: Extending the CirculatorKraft noted that residents in his district
shop at Canton Crossing, the city’s newest shopping center, and see movies and go to dinner in “the city within the city that is Harbor East.”
Amid the general overview of his recent work and the goings-on in the Southeast, 1st District City Councilman Jim Kraft slipped a few revelations into the state of the district speech that he delivered on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the Canton Community Association’s monthly meeting.
Close Patterson High SchoolFirst, he said that Patterson High School
should be closed. Kraft noted that he had voted against the city contribution to the Baltimore City Public Schools budget last year, in part, because of “the continuing academic deterioration of Patterson High School.”
“Our principals will not send their children there, and the system knows it,” said Kraft. “That school needs to close, and we need to something else.”
Whenever a Southeast parent mentions sending a child to Patterson High School, the principal of that child’s middle school talks the parent out of it, Kraft added. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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Greektown residents work toward quieter trainsBY ERIK [email protected]
Fait Ave. temporarily ends at that point, as do several east-west streets that meet the large north-south swath of industrial land and network of railroad track just east of Haven St.
Betty Smoot of the Baltimore City Department of Transportation attended the meeting to follow up on a discussion she had had with GGNA in July, on the process of establishing a railroad “quiet zone” for the train crossing at Fait Ave.
A railroad quiet zone is a railroad crossing at which the Federal Railroad Administration permits an exception to the “train horn rule.” At “at-grade” crossings--crossings in which automobiles and/or pedestrians directly cross the tracks directly rather than passing under or over via tunnels or bridges--trains are required by federal law to sound their loud horns as they approach.
If certain improvements are made to the crossing, such as signage, gates and flashing lights, the horn rule may be relaxed, subject to FRA review.
The Fait Ave. crossing is located directly adjacent to Ryan Homes’ O’Donnell Square development (not to be confused with Canton’s O’Donnell Square), a large, new, residential neighborhood of garage rowhomes.
Members of the Greater Greektown Neighborhood Alliance discussed ways to assuage “the number one Greektown complaint,” noise from trains, at its meeting last Wednesday, Jan. 27.
At issue was the Fait Ave. train crossing, located on private property owned by the Crown Industrial Park, just west of Fait Ave.’s intersection with S.Macon St.
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Smoot said that, since the July meeting, DOT had determined that the Fait Ave. crossing is private, which means that no federal or state dollars could be allocated toward making the crossing improvements that would allow for a quiet zone.
If a quiet-zone designation were pursued, the necessary improvements could cost “from $30,000 to $1 million or more, depending on what kind and combination of improvements are needed,” Smoot said, adding that $100,000-$150,000 study would first be needed to determine the necessary improvements.
Smoot advised that a dialogue between residents and the Crown Industrial Park would be the next step in the process. If residents were to pursue an agreement with Crown and its tenants (a large number of artisans and smaller-scale makers and businesses) regarding the establishment of a quiet zone and a funding mechanism for the necessary improvements, then “the city would be willing to participate in that and be at the table,” Smoot said.
Part of DOT’s analysis of the crossing included a count of the vehicles that travel that stretch of Fait Ave. According to Smoot, the stretch of road is busiest on weekdays between 8 and 9 a.m., when 75 vehicles pass.
GGNA President James Pringle questioned Smoot regarding the method used for counting vehicles. If an automated method were used, in which vehicles are counted as they break a beam spanning Fait Ave. or drive over a wire
on the ground, the results could be off, he said, because the road is narrow, and a vehicle traveling toward the middle of the street might register simultaneously as an inbound and outbound vehicle and be recorded as two vehicles in the study.
After the meeting, Pringle noted that, per his reading of FRA quiet zone regulations (they are complex and available at fra.dot.gov), a quiet zone may be established with fewer improvements if vehicle traffic at a crossing is sufficiently low.
City Councilman Jim Kraft, who attended the meeting, said that he had been in some recent meetings with a development team regarding redevelopment of the Crown Industrial Park.
“I told them that folks in the community were bothered by the noise,” Kraft said.
While ingress and egress from the site, which has few access points, is a hot button issue with the Fire Department, “at the point that you have a multi-million dollar development going in, that intersection would have to be addressed,” Kraft said.
The councilman did note that residents could consider the trains and tracks themselves permanent.
“While we can work on a quiet zone and should work on a quiet zone, people should remember that you are sitting on one fo the biggest industrial zones in the United States,” Kraft said.
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on the ground, the results could be off, he said, because the road is narrow, and a vehicle traveling toward the middle of the street might register simultaneously as an inbound and outbound vehicle and be recorded as two vehicles in the study.
After the meeting, Pringle noted that, per his reading of FRA quiet zone regulations (they are complex and available at fra.dot.gov), a quiet zone may be established with fewer improvements if vehicle traffic at a crossing is sufficiently low.
City Councilman Jim Kraft, who attended the meeting, said that he had been in some recent meetings with a development team regarding redevelopment of the Crown Industrial Park.
“I told them that folks in the community were bothered by the noise,” Kraft said.
While ingress and egress from the site, which has few access points, is a hot button issue with the Fire Department, “at the point that you have a multi-million dollar development going in, that intersection would have to be addressed,” Kraft said.
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“While we can work on a quiet zone and should work on a quiet zone, people should remember that you are sitting on one fo the biggest industrial zones in the United States,” Kraft said.
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Wednesday, February 4Butchers Hill Association: The association meets Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Church, Lombard and Chester streets. Fell’s Point Residents Association: The association meets Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., at Bertha’s Mussels, second floor, 734 S. Broadway.Thursday, February 5St. Helena Community Association: The association meets Thursday, Feb. 5, 7-8:30 p.m., at the St. Helena Community Center, 6509 Colgate Ave. Friday, February 6ENROLLMENT DEADLINE: The enrollment deadline for Patterson Park Public Charter School is on Friday, Feb. 6, a few weeks earlier than last year. Students have very little chance of getting into PPPCS if their applications are not received by Feb. 6. If you have children who are ready for pre-K who have older siblings at PPPCS, you must give PPPCS their applications by Feb. 6, or their automatic acceptance to our school will be lost. For an application to PPPCS and information about enrollment, please visit pppcs.org/school/enrollment.Free Zumba: The Door, 219 N. Chester St., is holding free Zumba Gold classes every Friday night at 6:45 p.m. Info: 410-585-8810, [email protected], February 7Pick-up Men’s Lacrosse: Come and play pick-up lacrosse in the park every other Saturday, 10 a.m. Meet at the Pagoda. Bring your own stick; a few laoners are available if you don’t have one. This group is for novices. Info: Search for the group on meetup.com.Sunday, February 8Italian Classes: The Rev. Orestse Pandola Learning Center is planning courses for spring. Classes are available in all things Italian, from the language to the culture to the cooking. Children’s classes are also available. Learn to make limoncello or gelato; learn painting, jewelry making, Italian card games and more. Classes will be held at St. Leo’s School, 912 Stiles St. A special day of registration will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8, after the 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Masses at St. Leo’s, 227 S. Exeter St. TEachers and staff will be available to answer questions about the school. Info: pandola.baltimore.md.us, 410-866-8494.
Monday, February 9Patterson Park Neighborhood Association: The group meets Monday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. (socializing starts at 6:30 p.m.), at St. Elizabeth’s Church Hall, basement-side entrance, Baltimore and Lakewood avenues. Young Adult Group: Join young adults 18-35 at Sacred Heart of Mary Parish, 6727 Duluth Ave., Dundalk, as we seek to build our relationship with God. There will be talks, testimonies, small group discussions, music, free food and weekend activities. We meet Mondays, 7 p.m., in the Parish Center, 6727 Duluth Ave., a two-story brick building. Info: [email protected] or 410-633-2828. Tuesday, February 10Bayview Community Association: The association meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Pratt and Kane streets.Fell’s Point Community Organization: The group meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., at EBLO, 606 S. Ann St. Wednesday, February 11Fell’s Prospect Community Association: The association meets Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, 420 S. Chester St. Info: fellsprospect.org. Save the DateFish Fry, Feb. 18-April 3: Starting Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, and every Friday from there through Good Friday, April 3, the Dundalk Knights of Columbus is offering its famous fish fry, with Alaskan pollock, fries, slaw, roll, dessert and drinks for $12. Beer and wine are extra. Take-out, $13. The fish fry is available at the Dundalk Knights of Columbus Hall, 2111 Eilers Ave., Dundalk. A portion of proceeds go to religious and/or community charity. Info: Call Joe Witomski at 410-409-8173 or 410-285-6660.Road Fight, Feb. 21: The Road Fight--the battle of the 1960s fought and won by residents, who kept the freeway from supplanting Fell’s Point and Canton--is a seminal part of the history of southeast Baltimore. In February, the Friends of the Canton Library will present the “The Road Fight: Saving Canton, 1968-1976,” the latest installment of the Friends’ Canton Memories program. The event, featuring Joe McNeeley, Betty Deacon and Charlie Duff on the panel of “Road Fighters,” is Saturday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m., at the Firehouse Hall, 1030 S. Linwood Ave. In the event of snow, the event will be held the following week, same place and time. All are encouraged to attend with their own memories and memorabilia of Canton and southeast Baltimore to show and tell. Refreshments will be served. Info: 410-935-3696.
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In senior citizens’ homes across southeast Baltimore, there are watertight faucets, functioning smoke detectors, well-oiled door locks and general sense of working order, thanks largely to one man.
This year is Larry Kline’s 20th working on the Senior Home Maintenance Program, a Banner Neighborhoods initiative in which adults age 62 and up, living in the homes they own, receive home maintenance and minor repair service free of charge. The program is also open to fully disabled adults of any age.
The program exists for a simple reason, as Kline tells it.
“The ones that stay in their homes--we try to keep them there,” he says.
Its execution is also simple.“They call in when they need something,
and I make an appointment to go out and see them,” says Kline.
In 2014, he completed 268 work orders, according to Jolyn Rademacher Tracy, executive director of Banner Neighborhoods.
His customers speak very highly of him. “Mr. Larry’s a great person,” says Anita
Impallaria, who lives near the northern edge of Patterson Park. “He’s a wonderful man, always there when you need him. He’s of the old school.”
Impallaria began using the Senior Home Maintenance Program when her father’s aging began accelerating, and she had less time to perform day-to-day home maintenance.
“When you’re a caregiver, every little bit helps,” says Impallaria, now 73 and using the program herself, especially for tasks that would require her to climb a ladder.
“I hope [Kline’s] not going to retire or anything,” she adds, informed of Kline’s 20th work anniversary. “He always calls me back and comes down.”
Grace Benvenga, a huge Highlandtown booster known for sweeping the streets, about to celebrate her 97th birthday, calls Kline “a good guy.”
As she talks about the past--her days as a girl standing on Eastern Ave. and yelling at the Canton kids to stay on their side, or her multiple citations and recognitions from politicians like Martin O’Malley and Barbara Mikulski, or the fact that her birth certificate states that she was born in Highlandtown--she weaves in a few compliments for Kline.
“Larry’s a good guy,” she says. “If you’ve got a job for him, he’ll do it for you.”
Kline’s customers’ appreciation is reciprocal.
“They’re like my long lost mothers and
HIghlandtown native celebrates two decades of helping the elderlyBy Erik [email protected]
fathers,” he said. “You get to know them real well.”
Kline, 62, began his career with the home maintenance program in February of 1995.
“For me, it’s easy to remember because it was Babe Ruth’s 100th birthday,” he says.
An acquaintance had alerted him that Banner Neighborhoods was looking for temporary help.
“It was supposed to be for about two weeks,” says Kline. “Twenty years later I’m still here. You fall in love with the elderly and trying to help them. It just grows on you. Most of them don’t have family around. Some are in their 90s; a lot of them have outlived their kids.”
Prior to finding his calling, Kline spent most of his life in Highlandtown. He grew up on Mt. Pleasant Ave., north of Pratt St. off Highland Ave. His father, Arthur Kline, worked at Esskay Meats, and his mother, Evelyn, was a housewife.
Kline attended grade school at Sacred Heart at Conkling and Fleet. When school was out for the summer, he was easy to find.
“Patterson Park,” he says. “Baseball and
Larry kline began his work for Banner neighborhoods on Babe ruth’s 100th birthday. | Photo by Erik Zygmont.
football--we were there probably 10 hours a day. Everybody lived in Patterson Park if you were a kid back then; there was always a game or something to do.”
Kline initially attended Patterson High School, but he left and later got his GED.
When he was 17, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and shipped off for Vietnam.
“I joined,” he says. “I’m one of the few patriots left, I guess.”
After that, he did aluminum siding for 17 years, and also met his wife. When they got married, he moved to North Point where she lived.
When not fixing things in seniors’ houses, Kline is often glued to a baseball or football game.
“I am an Orioles and Ravens nut,” he says. He is also an avid member of the U N
Society, a club headquartered at 201 S. Eaton St. It was originally founded as an Italian organization, and now holds social events such as bull roasts and 50s dances. Though he is not Italian, Kline is the current vice president of the club, and previously served as president for 10 years.
While he enjoys his leisure time, he’s happy to work, too. He mentions each staff member at Banner Neighborhoods. “They’re some of the nicest people to work with,” Kline says.
Forty percent of the enrollees in the Senior Home Maintenance Program are 80 and over, according to Banner Neighborhoods Executive Director Jolyn Rademacher Tracy. Five participants are 90 or over.
“We have a woman in her 70s who has lived in her house her entire life,” Tracy adds. “A good chunk of those 80 or over have been in their homes for 50 years.”
Tracy says that Banner Neighborhoods, “which works with the people in neighborhoods to improve quality of life for everyone,” was founded on the Senior Home Maintenance Program in 1982. Today, the organization is involved with youth, as well, and focuses on “social capital” endeavors and “people stuff,” Tracy says.
Seniors age 62 and up who own and live in their homes may obtain more information about the Senior Home Maintenance Program by calling 410-585-8810, and leaving a message with their name and phone number.
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The leading threat to the health of our nation’s pets
PET CAREBy Adriene Buisch
No pet owner wants to hear it and some may even take offense to it.
Your vet kindly tells you, “your pet needs to lose some weight,” but what you hear is, “your pet is fat.”
The blunt truth is that obesity is the leading health threat to our nation’s pets. Obesity plagues our pets, and it’s actually at epidemic levels, threatening the health and longevity of their lives.
The core of the problem is awareness. The average pet owner does not know what a healthy weight for their pet looks like.
According to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, 93 percent of dog owners and 88 percent of cat owners thought their pet was within normal range of weight, when in actuality they were not.
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Multiple studies have demonstrated that obesity has detrimental effects on health and the life span of your pet. Some of the primary risks associated with obesity include osteoarthritis, Type II diabetes, cardiorespiratory disease, urinary disorders, kidney disease, different forms of cancer, and an average life-span reduction of over two years. That’s just a basic list of issues obesity can cause. Ironically, obesity is one of the easiest conditions to avoid. And it’s far less expensive to prevent disease than to treat it.
There are numerous factors involved with obesity, but typically it occurs when there are too many calories consumed and not enough exercise. Consult with your vet about the best approach for improving your pet’s health. Remember, don’t take offense because it’s not about you. Your vet has your pet’s best interest in mind. Make it a family commitment to better your pet’s health and and increase its lifespan.
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candidate’s vision as to what was best for southeast Baltimore,” he said. “...by and large, the campaigning was a positive one.”
Kraft’s words could be taken as advice to 1st District voters, who will choose their new councilman from a field without an incumbent, or to the emerging candidates themselves. He might also have been signaling that he intends to run a positive campaign for whatever position he will seek.
Who will run for Kraft’s spot? The rumor mill is running full bore.
“I’ll be addressing that issue at a later date,” he said.
Back to his more formal remarks, Kraft did say that he hopes for residents’ continued support.
“As I’ve said tonight, we face many challenges,” he said. “We will need lots of good people working together to meet them. I hope that, when the time comes, you will support me in my effort to remain one of them.”
Earlier in his state of the district, Kraft had commented on what he calls the “silly season,” when candidates are just starting to put themselves out there and jockeying for position at the very beginning of the campaign season.
“People begin promising things that everyone knows--even the voters--can’t be delivered,” he said.
Baltimore City is on the cusp of the silly season, Kraft said. The primary election--in which voters will choose the presidential as well as mayoral and City Council candidates for their political parties--will be in April 2016, about 15 months from now.
Kraft noted that when he ran for his first term, 12 years ago, there was no incumbent,
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Once the Historical Trust approves a set of windows--which must be wood and “almost identical” to the originals, Sandruck said--they can be ordered. But they won’t come in the following week.
“Right now, even if we had the approval of the windows today, it would take them over three months to be produced and delivered,” lamented Sandruck.
He hinted that the city has been unable to make it clear to the Historical Trust that the original windows are not an option.
“Right now it’s interesting, because they want us to retain the old windows,” said Sandruck, “but, as you know, they are sitting in a landfill someplace.”
As the parties seek a resolution, JA Argetakis Contracting, the company chosen to renovate the library, has adjusted the construction plan.
“In an effort to forestall that part of the delay, we have given instructions to the contractor to proceed with this project as if we weren’t replacing the windows,” Sandruck explained.
When a decision is made and the windows arrive, they will be replaced from the outside rather than the inside, he added.
Sandruck also noted that, currently, the project is prioritizing cost and community impact over speed. That could be adjusted if the wait for the library is simply deemed too long, he said.
Up to now, there has been no weekend work. If the contractor works on weekends,
the project, originally bid at $1.65 million, would go faster, but it would also be more expensive, Sandruck explained.
John Richardson, a Pratt Library liaison to the construction project, also expressed regrets over the delay.
“I’d be delighted to tell you I was doing a bang-up job; obviously, because we’re looking at a delay, that would be a hard sell,” he said.
Richardson did add that “everything that can be done...is being initiated by the library. It is of utmost concern that we get this project completed for the Canton community.”
The Canton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (colloquially known as the “Canton Library”) has been closed since early 2012. The Michael Group was the original contractor chosen for the renovation, but termite damage to the building proved to be more extensive than specified in the request for proposals. The Michael Group and the city both decided to not proceed with the contract.
The scope of the project was re-assessed, and new request for proposals was written, which the city awarded the contract to JA Argetakis Contracting in September of 2013.
The Little Free Library is a small sturdy box that serves as a community book exchange while residents are waiting for the full renovation of the Canton Library. The Little Free LIbrary is located on the property of Church on the Square, 1025 Potomac St., at the east end of O’Donnell Square and adjacent to the Canton Library.
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How do O’s stack up for 2015?
After you go to Baltimore’s Fan Fest and interact with Orioles players, you can’t help but leave excited. Seeing the players means baseball is just around the corner.
While hopes are high, let’s see how the O’s stack up against the other teams in the American League East.
Last year the Orioles finished 12 games over the second-place New York Yankees, 13 games over the third-place Toronto Blue Jays, 19 games over the Tampa Bay Rays, and 25 games over the last-place Boston Red Sox. While those standings are so favorable in the O’s favor, that doesn’t mean 2015 will be a repeat of 2014.
For starters, the O’s have lost a few players, and, while they haven’t made the big splashes in free agency, they still have the potential to repeat as AL East champs. The Yankees haven’t made that many big additions either, and they might be worse off. Starting pitcher Masah iro Tanaka is coming back from injuring his elbow, and while he opted to not have Tommy John surgery, I can’t help but wonder when that ligament might tear and force him to go under the knife. While I certainly don’t wish that to happen, I feel there is a good possibility that it might, and if it’s this year, the Yankees don’t exactly have a great starting rotation to fill that gap.
The Blue Jays added slugging third baseman Josh Donaldson from the Oakland Athletics, giving them even more power…just
in case they needed it. While that move is certainly a boost to an already potent offense, their pitching rotation is still sketchy at best.
The Rays lost manager Joe Maddon as he now is the skipper leading the Chicago Cubs. Their offense looks moderately worse than last year’s version, and with Ben Zobrist now in Oakland, that certainly won’t help. Evan Longoria can still hit and their rotation has quite a few good young arms, but if they can’t figure out a way to score runs (their 612 runs scored in 2014 were dead last in the American League), they might have trouble competing this year.
In my mind, the Boston Red Sox are the team to watch. Sure they finished dead last in 2014,
but this year might be different. For starters, they added a few big names on offense like Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval. They also added a few decent arms for the rotation, like Rick Porcello, Justin Masterson (provided he doesn’t pitch at all like he did in 2014), and Wade Miley. While those three guys aren’t anywhere near the quality of Jon Lester, who is now in Chicago with the Cubs, having quality depth in the rotation is paramount in baseball.
So where do the Orioles stand in all of this mess? I would say they certainly have a good shot to repeat, but the AL East will come down to them and the Red Sox. Either way, both will make the playoffs. Just ask some of David Day’s clients...
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Cathy Gentry didn’t think that neighborhood parks could disappear, but she may find out otherwise.Last November she and some of her Janney St.-area neighbors attended a meeting of the city and the Baltimore Development Corporation informing them that the nearby Pompeian Olive Oil Company was interested in expanding and would like to buy Janney Street Park from the city—and the city was considering selling it to them.
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With the development comes complications:“You get stuck in the traffic that is the
miles-long parking lot known as the Aliceanna-Boston St. corridor,” Kraft said.
He added that this year he had, “without fear of exaggeration, an average of a meeting a week dealing with development, traffic, transportation, or some other related matter on this corridor.”
The problem, according to Kraft, is not the amount of people, but that “there are too many cars.” He mentioned, as he has many times in the past, extending the Charm City Circulator out to the Canton Crossing area.
He said that the request has been “pending for years” in the mayor’s office.
“Her response has consistently been the same,” Kraft said. “If you can pay for it, you can have it.”
Likely referring to the 1st District’s contribution to the city’s tax rolls, Kraft said:
“Folks, I think that it is time to say that we are paying for it and we must have it. Now.”
Help on the way for upper Broadway?Kraft mentioned his “special obligation”
toward Fell’s Point: “to preserve and protect a heritage that cannot be replaced, duplicated or found anywhere else.”
“There is a Main Street program in Fell’s
Point just as there is in Highlandtown,” Kraft continued. “While the latter can place almost all of its focus on economic development and growth, the former has a more delicate challenge: promote economic development that emphasizes and enhances the uniqueness that is Fell’s Point.”
In the question-and-answer session following his formal remarks, Ed Marcinko, Fell’s Prospect Community Association vice president, questioned Kraft on the upper stretch of S. Broadway, which has seen ongoing issues including public drunkenness, littering, vagrancy and drug dealing.
“We have various community associations busting their butts, but it seems like the city has forgotten Broadway again,” said Marcinko.
Kraft mentioned the Broadway Area Business Association, formed a little less than a year ago to address some of the issues.
“It’s going slowly, but it’s going,” Kraft said. What the area really needs, he added, is “a
separate Main Street effort north of the [Broadway] Market, because there’s an identifiably different demographic.”
Kraft said that he had “had two offline conversations with major corporations trying to get a development corporation funded in there.”
The councilman said that he is trying to get a five-year, $1.25 million commitment, so that development corp. could start with “a quarter million a year to get going.”
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