BALTIMORE-The Baltimore City Council has scheduled 10 hearings that will start later this month to review a 350-page comprehensive overhaul of the city's zoning regulations.
The proposal entitled “TransForm Baltimore” calls for residential and retail development near mass transit stations, as well as adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings into lofts and workshops for artisans, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the plan would foster transit-oriented development along much of the planned 14-mile Red Line light rail.
"Any great city is a city that has high-quality, real transit, getting people from where they live to where they work, learn and play," Mayor Rawlings-Blake says. "With more transit-oriented development, I think it will take Baltimore to the next level in terms of being more vibrant and more of a 24/7 city."
The rules, if adopted, would affect all of Baltimore's quarter-million properties. See story in the Baltimore Sun.
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