On Thursday March 10, 2011 the Community Parking Task Force met to address parking concerns in the neighborhood. The committee is comprised of neighborhood residents and representatives from neighborhood organizations and City agencies. Thanks to the following who attended the meeting:
- Baltimore City Council President Bernard Young’s Office – Regina T. Boyce
- Baltimore City Department of Planning – Katie-Rose Imbriano
- Baltimore City Department of Transportation Traffic Division – Randall Scott
- Baltimore City Eastern Police District – Major Melvin Russell
- Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge – Alex Haworth
- Greater Greenmount Community Association – Grace Willis, Linda Johnson, Lowell Larsson, Sandra Coles, William Smith
- Housing Authority of Baltimore City – Alastair Smith
- Mother Seton Academy – Sr. Charmaine Krohe
- New Good Samaritan Baptist Church – Pastor Donald Palmore
- P-B Health – Delano Bailey
- People’s Homesteading Group – Michael Mazepink
- St. Ann Church – Sr. Jeanne Barasha
- St. Matthews United Methodist Church – Pastor Eric King
- St. Paul’s Free Will Baptist Church – Loyd Hawkins, William Smith
In the meeting, lead by Ms. Grace Willis, we talked about parking problems in various locations. After discussing a number of alternatives we decided as a first step to request a traffic study to determine if it is feasible to institute angle parking in the 200 – 400 blocks of E. 23 St. and 1900 – 2100 blocks of Boone St.
We submitted the application to Mr. Scott from the Traffic Division on March 15th and Mr. Scott responded that the study will be completed by May 15th. If the traffic study determines that angle parking is feasible the next step will be to survey residents of each block to find out if they support the change.
Other areas of concern will be addressed in the future.
