You can place him in a hotel near you, make sure he has a working cell phone and charger with him. Then you can pick him up in the morning to work with CPS. That’s what I do. I’m a single woman, not comfortable with someone I don’t know in my home overnight. The hotel option has worked for young men that age in my area.

You and your boyfriend will need to give your ID for the hotel room. You need to impress upon the boy that you will hold him accountable for any damage to the room.

The article says specific projects for the funding have not yet been announced.

That is a great documentary! I have a smart, I streamed this on Vimeo. I think it’s free.

You’re welcome. There is a button on the top of the page to choose look up violations (no fine) or look up citations (fine). I missed that at first, it defaults to violations.

My neighbor got the barking dog Animal Control letter last year, he doesn’t have a dog either. I believe there has to be a way to fix this, I don’t know what it is. I don’t want to move, this used to be a nice, friendly area.

In my experience, in my neighborhood these fines aren’t for work done by the city. These are fines where the city inspector takes a picture of something he or she wants to be cited, the they send you a fine. Nothing was made better, no grass mowed or fallen fences fixed. This is a fine for the sake of a fine.

You can check this website for your address, the citation photos should be there. I learned to check my own address often so I don’t miss a citation. I’ve received multiple citations, I never received the notice on time.

https://cels.baltimorehousing.org/Search_On_Map.aspx

This is a good article about environmental citations. The part about black neighborhoods being cited more is important. I believe it’s also important that Violetville/Morrell Park is the most cited “white” neighborhood.

I live in Saint Agnes, right next to Violetville. I noticed for a few years that my neighbors and friends in Violetville complain about the environmental citations more than they did years ago. Multiple friends say they get fined if they complain about the local political group, or complain about the police or elected officials. Last year I filed a formal complaint about a police officer, I received an environmental fine and a parking ticket the next week. The fine was for “tall grass”, the picture online wasn’t my house. I received the fine notice in the mail three months after it was issued so I couldn’t appeal it, I only know the fine was issued the week after I filed the complaint because the notice online was dated.

I believe this is misuse of the environmental citation process. This area used to be beautiful and clean, we had groups of students and young people who did community service sweeping the streets and picking up litter, annual garden contests for the older people, events like that to keep the area nice looking. When I talk to my neighbors about the citations and fines, the people who get the fines are the people with the cleanest looking houses, but they speak out about what seems like corruption. The vacant houses, abandoned buildings, rentals with tenants that change every month and never get cleaned don’t get fined.

This has been a problem for at least three years. I reported it to the Mayor’s office. I don’t know where else to report it. I know this post is an older black woman venting. Does anyone have insight or suggestions?

The shopping center has been failing for at least four decades, most of my adult memory. It’s hard to believe no valid investors were found in all this time. Thank you for your insight.

From what I heard at the meetings there were no other options. This area of Baltimore has been plagued with corruption my whole life, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was graft or a bribe. I’ve heard good things about Councilman Burnett so I hoped something good would come of this. Thank you for your insight.

In your opinion this is a bad option for the neighborhood?

Thank you for the insight. I’m glad people like you are on here to explain the details. I’m not business minded, I live in Southwest Baltimore and work with residents from the Edmondson Village area. I know this shopping center needs help, I don’t know enough about business to understand the details of this.

I’m your opinion is this something we residents should protest so city council doesn’t approve it?

I’m not surprised by this, I hope the new report shows enough evidence to fix or stop the program. From my experience I believe it does more harm than good.

Oh yes. Our block captain brought back the flyers from the DPW Annual meeting, a long report of the progress so far with the reasons for delay, and other information. I never would have known anything about the process and repairs if I hadn’t pushed for help. The city holds a meeting open to public every year to answer questions. I believe I heard about it before but didn’t know how much my area was effected. There was raw sewage, I believe it’s been a problem for years but last year it was so bad I saw used sanitary supplies and toilet paper collecting in the corner where the curb was high enough to stop the solid items. It was unpleasant, I hope the city fixes these problems soon.

I love this discussion, thank you for doing this. What a good way to learn more about local charities.

I’m learning Blue Water Baltimore isn’t as effective as they need to be. I live in Southwest Baltimore where we’ve had multiple floods and sewage overflows. Blue Water Baltimore is supposed to be the representative for residents in the process for fixing the city’s sewage system. Our block captain does a better job getting us information and help. She follows through with DPW on the repairs. We had multiple big sewage leaks at the edge of my neighborhood where the sewage went right into the river back by the park. When I followed up on the pollution reports to the city, the city told me Blue Water Baltimore gets paid to handle those reports but they focus on high profile spills in the white L. I understand why groups focus on high profile incidents but I believe it a group gets paid to handle something citywide you should do that.

What a great idea! Thank you for the link.

I work with lower income victims of violence and accidents in Baltimore City and County. Over the years I’ve heard multiple stories involving out of line behavior by Safe Streets workers that cause harm to young men and women. I wish Baltimore had a better way for victims to report intimidation and harassment, then the issues with Safe Streets might be more widely known.

I’ve treated enough patients to not have any trust in Safe Streets or the people who manage it. It’s not a good organization

The Franciscan Center, Moveable Feast both do excellent work.

I work with patients who in the bottom tier of income levels, I see them referred to many non profits and quasi government resources. Sadly most of these don’t do much to help their main audience. The Franciscan Center and Moveable Feast both do good work for their audiences.

I can’t give an abridged version of the capital improvement process, maybe someone who works with the city can. I believe most of the larger developments in the city receive money from the CIP or TIF.

This is similar to the $650 million TIF for the Port Covington projects, but paid out of current capital improvement funds instead of future taxes.

Well, don’t report it the moderators, maybe they won’t delete this post. Even if they do delete at least it stayed up for a few hours.

Unfortunately the moderators wouldn’t approve the other version of my post because it had a link to the developer’s crowdfunding effort. Fox was the only news station who covered the efforts, I don’t think my notes from the meeting would be good posting material. The information in the Fox article is the same information shared with the community by the councilman and the mayor’s office.

I don’t like to post Fox articles but the other post from the developer had a fundraising link in it.

This is the shopping center where the mass shooting occurred last month, one student was killed.

I tried to post the developer’s proposed new plans but the post was denied. The developer is plans to focus on black owned businesses only, they will receive &9 million from the city and hope to receive more from a crowdfunding effort.

I went to a community meeting where they presented the plans, talked about addressing the violence problem in the current shopping center. That area has been violent for years, I have faith this new investment will be an improvement.