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I am interested in seeing data on Immigrant statistics in this report at least showing breakdowns of Immigrants from each continent. Country of origin and language is most helpful as well. The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) could use this information for outreach as well as other immigration outreach organizations.

Add Gwynns Falls Mighty Park. It is a community managed open space with a community garden and park. 3025-3049 Stafford Street, Baltimore, MD 21223.

This map can be very helpful when designing the new public transportation system. Routes should be given priority through the neighborhoods with the least access to private vehicles.

Another insightful map would look at people leaving Baltimore by economic class. DOP should provide a comparison of the percentage of middle white and middle class black residents who have left the city in recent years. We all know that in our country race and class are interlinked. Due to our country's history of slavery and continued structural racism, white people are over all wealthier than other races. As the city continues to struggle to provide basic services (such as weekly recycling) and public safety, white and black middle and upper income people starting families who can afford to live other places may be choosing to exercise their privilege and moving to surrounding counties to access better schools for their kids. Single middle class young adults may also be leaving for other urban centers that offer more amenities like more robust cultural scenes, restaurants they can safely walk to, reliable transit, and integrated bike lane networks which Baltimore has proven unable to achieve. Long term working class whites in gentrifying neighborhoods are also leaving the city to cash in on the value of their properties. As an aside, it's noticeable that historically white, working class neighborhoods have gentrified earlier and faster than historically black neighborhoods. Does this suggest latent racism among white gentrifiers or a respect for trying to avoid gentrifying black neighborhoods?

Promote new development around transit stations, such as Mondawmin Mall where we have an excellent retail anchor surrounded by 4000 parking spaces that are rare if ever more than 1/3 full. New parking lots should be banned. Existing parking lots should be build on with walkable, high-density development including affordable housing.

New green spaces should only be established if there are dedicated community members willing to maintain the space or if the city is willing to dedicate long term funds to maintain the space, such as by making it an official BCRP park. Otherwise vacant land should be kept clean and attractive by DPW until there is a market for new development on the site.

More transit and dedicated bus lanes, but we know that DOP does no control over this as MTA is a state agency. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Road diet all the dangerous highways cutting up our historically walkable neighborhoods. According to this map, Mondawmin is very walkable, but actually getting to serves at the mall or Druid Hill Park requires crossing extremely dangerous highways where minimal to no pedestrian safety infrastructure exists.

Yes, we need more development, especially affordable housing. There is strong demand for affordable housing that needs to be met through density and development.

Increase the staff of DHCD to take home through receivership or in rem. Right now there are not enough lawyers to handle the need for vacants that could be redeveloped, if only they were not stuck in abandonment ownership limbo.

Might be interesting to look within each major industry to see what particular sectors are growing and the wages in those growing industries using QCEW data.

Might be easier to visualize with a heat map.

Is this "Black Alone" or "Black Alone or in Combination"? Using the latter might be more accurate and inclusive. Also important to note historic undercount. link

I think you mean the opposite "Baltimore City surpassed by Baltimore County's population..." or just remove the "by"

- Maps that show the impact of closed/surplused schools on neighborhoods & resident demographics. And also the presence, or lack of community plans, in those communities. - Maps with public elementary schools, their boundaries and how the neighborhood conditions have changed.

Increase support for low-income renters via increased rental assistance and improved housing conditions. Also provide more financial support to assist households in becoming homeowners and helping legacy residents remain in their home and age-in-place and/or transfer wealth/homeownership to family members.

There needs to be a policy conversation about the adopt a lot program, which has helped so many farms and gardens get started but doesn’t provide a route to land ownership. Too many farms are getting displaced by the city after years of building up community roots ex pop farm and black yield institute.

Is there a way to think about jobs the same way that development capacity was assessed? Are we zoning for the jobs we need, at average industry wage rates that can support life in the city?

BNIA research shows neighborhoods where most residents had commutes >45min shrunk over the last two decades. The plan should be deliberate about changing that and BCDOT needs to be committed to that plan!

It’s probably time to talk about what this population needs. Are city services including planning dept meetings being offered in both English and Spanish?

How does Baltimore provide high quality of life and wealth building for Black families more intentionally in this next decade?

It will be interesting to see what this looks like next decade after the COVID price spikes!

At this scale it’s hard to figure out what this means other than just showing all the vacancy. Is there another way to look at the vacancy issues that shows where it is being decreased and where it is getting ahead of demolition and redevelopment efforts?

This is a very interesting map! Would be really interested in additional analysis on what zoning/code/financing changes would be needed to increase infill development. Also, how many affordable housing units do we need? That seems like a crucial qualifier to this whole conversation - if we need 10,000 more affordable rental and homeownership units, how do we get there in a decade given this development capacity map? One more connected point - why not interface this with another measure like commute time or access to amenities and show how much development capacity is in high-amenity and/or high accessibility areas?

This is unclear as currently presented. Is 5 best access or worst access. If best, consider additional explanatory text, reverse the order, and/or reverse the color scheme!

This map incorrectly includes urban farms which have been closed and/or displaced by the City including Pop! Farm and Black Yield Institute