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CVCA Land Use Committee
The Land Use Committe, currently chaired by Sharon Guida, meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at 2434 St. Paul Street to review issues related to zoning, liquor board, and housing code violations within the Charles Village boundary, upcoming City and State legislation affecting land use, such as, live entertainment, group homes, comprehensive rezoning, North Charles PUD and Charles/25th Street URO committees, etc.; meets with and entertains requests from applicants for support and recommends action on these issues to the CVCA Board of Directors; attends hearings on behalf of the CVCA position.
Since the initiation of the 25th Street Development -- in 2009 -- on the site of the former Anderson Honda dealership, the Land Use committee has been extraordinarily busy as it has worked in concert with the Greater Remington Improvement Association and the Old Goucher negiborhood association to secure a development that serves the best interests of these communitiues. For complete details on these dealings, click on the 25th Dtreet Dev. tab in the right sidebar. For more on other Land Use committe items, read below:
December 2010 Updates
The Land Use Committee is reviewing the proposed new zoning maps which have recently been unveiled by the Department of Planning for comment. This is an opportunity for residents to look at certain areas should be rezoned to better reflect the actual uses that are thriving in that area. CVCA Land Use representatives have been attending the City's public workshops and collecting community comments regarding rezoning requests with respect to the Planning Department's Comprehensive rezoning. So far the CVCA Land Use Subcommittee has identified the following areas for possible rezoning within Charles Village:
i. Barclay between 31st and 28th Street (near Coca Cola bottling plant);
ii. Southside of 33rd Street between St. Paul and Calvert: we have received many requests from property owners for variances in that block for uses other than residential. So it has been suggested that we may want to look at that block to see if it is properly zoned for the changing retail environment with the additional of retail in the 3200 Block of St. Paul. We have made no decisions yet and are just studying it.;
iii. 251/2 Street near between Barclay and Guilford: There are some commercial/industrial buildings there from prior to 1971 zoning which have not been marketable and have remained vacant because the zoning is R7 and any commercial use is conditional and requires a variance. Either change the use to commercial and define the permissible use so that at the owners can revitalize those buildings or keep it the same and hope that urban blight caused by these structures mysteriously disappears.
iv. Maryland Avenue between 27th and 25th some or all of which is currently an OR-2 zone but which is mostly residential and maybe should be changed to residential.
Resident input is requested on these identified areas and others that are of interest to residents. Contact Sharon L. Guida at SLG2700@cs.com.
The Planning Dept has its last scheduled workshop to review the proposed new zoning maps tonight DECEMBER 2ND Morgan State University, University Center/ Student Center Room 210, On Hillen Road, south of East Cold Spring Lane, Park in garage behind the building; enter from East Cold Spring Lane. The CVCA Land Use Committee will schedule a special meeting with the CVCA membership to discuss comments to the proposed new zoning maps in the next several months.
For committee notes of the joint meeting held with other community associations on November 14, 2010, which include other areas that they have identified for review, LINK HERE TO DOCUMENT.
Click here for more info: WWW.REWRITEBALTIMORE.ORG. The DRAFT maps will also be available on the web later in December, after the public meetings. For questions, email or call 410-396-PLAN Copies of the text are available at the reference desk in all Enoch Pratt Libraries
