The City of Baltimore finds itself mired in a classic Catch-22. Property taxes in Baltimore City are more than twice as high as any county rate in Maryland. That’s because to balance its budget each year, Baltimore City must levy disproportionately high taxes on its citizenry, which in turn induces more people to leave the […]
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Slash the city’s property tax rate by more than 50 percent over the next 25 years
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Transforming the urban ecosystem
Monday, March 17, 2008Is urban ecology an oxymoron? Not at all. The sooner we recognize that cities, people, and nature are inextricably linked, the better off we will all be. In order to broaden our focus from fixing what’s broken, we can treat this city as a design problem, as a system of interrelated parts, and begin to […]
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Uniting Baltimore through one connected park
Monday, December 10, 2007“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” Daniel Burnham, 1846-1912, architect and urban visionary Imagine a Baltimore where everyone lived within a few blocks of a park. Where you could walk easily throughout the city in a safe green network that connects school […]
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It’s about opportunity!
Monday, October 08, 2007Too many people in Baltimore are systematically denied the basic opportunities for healthy and productive development. Too many babies are born sick and too many children start school unprepared. Too many youngsters attend schools that aren’t academically, culturally or physically enriching and too many have no positive place to go when school is out. Too […]
