Some Council members push back as Mayor Scott’s zoning bills move steadily forward

A measure ending the requirement for apartment projects to include parking and another allowing rowhouses to be built closer to the property line are coming before the Council for a vote Monday

Longtime residents made their way to City Hall once again to decry the Scott administration’s zoning deregulation bills, with speakers saying a North Baltimore neighborhood is already reeling from predatory development.

“They’re taking the single-family homes, and they’re breaking them down to like 10 and 11 people living in them now,” Betty Lee testified yesterday, explaining that she has lived in Coldstream Homestead Montebello (CHuM) since 1957. “It’s more trash. It’s more noise. It’s just a nuisance to the neighborhood.”…

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