Bar Bad Bars: Protest of Renewal
This virtual workshop on Thursday, February 1 is designed for community groups and local residents - especially those preparing to protest a liquor license renewal in 2024.
Register for our How to Deal with Vacant Properties in Your Neighborhood training.
This virtual workshop on Thursday, February 1 is designed for community groups and local residents - especially those preparing to protest a liquor license renewal in 2024.
The Baltimore Sun recently ran an article on the city’s Adopt-A-Lot program, outlining the reasons that many believe the program provides insufficient land tenure rights for communities. Community Law Center was featured in the article as a legal resource for Maryland community groups — check it out here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-adopt-a-lot-sales-20130702,0,2116734.story. If you’d like to read the “plain …
As discussed in a previous post, CLC attorneys and interns have been cross-checking Baltimore City’s Adopted Lot list against the list of properties that are currently for sale under the City’s Vacants to Value program. In the spring, CLC found over 150 adopted lots that the city was actively trying to sell through VtoV. These …
Recently, we have come to understand more about how Baltimore City manages its Adopt-A-Lot program; therefore, we’ve updated our Adopt-a-Lot/Power in Dirt explanation to reflect our new understanding. Adopted Lot v. Community Managed Open Space: There are two overlapping categories of lots in the Adopt-A-Lot program: adopted lots and community managed open spaces (CMOS). Community-managed …
When we left Novella yesterday, she had just spoken with the owner of the large lot on which she had dug and planted a garden, without his permission. The man saw her work on his property and told her: “Garden ok. Only garden.” What Novella now has is a license to garden on the plot. …