REACH! Partnership at Lake Clifton Park and Harford Heights Building INSPIRE Recommendations

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Thank you for your interest in providing feedback to the draft INSPIRE recommendations for this INSPIRE plan. What we hear from you will help us understand what your highest priorities are as well as what needs revising.

More details of the following recommendations can be found in the Recommendation Report: https://planning.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/REACH%20+%20Harford%20Heights%20INSPIRE%20Recommendation%20Report.pdf

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HOUSING AND MARKET-STRENGTHENING RECOMMENDATIONS

Please mark your top 3 priorities in this section.

Connect homeowners to the “My home, My Deed, My Legacy” initiative.

Convene a homeownership counseling workshop to promote homeownership in the area.

Reach out to landlords to engage them with neighborhood organizations and activities.

Organize a “Code Enforcement 101 workshop” for residents.

The neighborhood organizations, schools, and other stakeholders should work together to develop and implement marketing strategies.

Strategically acquire and rehab vacant properties.

DOP and Baltimore DHCD should develop a detailed plan for target blocks in Darley Park.

Neighborhood stakeholders should develop an ongoing partnership with Baltimore DHCD, BCPD, and DPW to focus on abating nuisances on the “top 10” priority properties.

Visibly highlight the entry points into the neighborhoods.

Explore local conservation or district designation in the Broadway East and Oliver neighborhoods.

Initiate a community-based process to talk about significant places in CHM.

Make physical improvements to the commercial district along Harford Road.

BDC should partner with DOP, CHM, and Darley Park to identify and seek commercial uses that would thrive on Harford Road and serve community needs.

Work with the owners of the former Clifton Community Market (Sinclair and Washington) to identify possible business opportunities for this prominent corner.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS RECOMMENDATIONS

Please mark your top 3 priorities in this section.

Make capital and programming improvements in Clifton Park.

Provide low-stress walking and biking connections.

Activate neighborhood parks through capital and programming improvements.

Assess possible closure of the alleys adjacent to Briscoe Park.

Formalize and enhance an educational partnership among Civic Works’ Real Food Farm and Real Food Farm at Perlman Place, the community associations, and schools.

Ensure that future plans for Real Food Farm and other urban agriculture sites in the community abide by the City’s updated urban agriculture policy.

Develop and implement a healthy food environment strategy.

Explore using the purchasing power of institutions to partner with small food retail locations to pass along wholesale prices for healthy food.

TRANSPORTATION RECOMMENDATIONS

Please mark your top 3 priorities in this section.

Implement a robust pedestrian safety campaign for Harford Heights.

Implement traffic calming along high-speed corridors.

Explore and implement appropriate traffic calming mechanisms to slow traffic on E. North Avenue between N. Wolfe Street and N. Broadway.

Improve pedestrian safety and comfort along Harford Road.

DOT should install traffic calming measures along the roads in Darley Park, especially close to Regester Lane, a main pedestrian route.

Develop a plan for calming roads in Clifton Park.

Develop a comprehensive wayfinding system through Clifton Park and the surrounding area.

Make passage through alleys more comfortable and inviting through wayfinding and lighting.

Improve the vacant parcel at Holy Cross Lane and Germania Avenue.

Improve appearance of alleyways and related parcels

PUBLIC SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS

Please mark your top 3 priorities in this section.

Connect community organizations with City support to help residents in times of natural disasters or emergencies.

Develop place-centric strategies around each of the crime hot spots and immediately adjacent to the schools.

Develop a lighting strategy along primary walking routes.

Improve lighting under and around the CSX underpass on St. Lo Street.

The schools and community organizations should work together to reach neighborhood residents.

Collaborate across neighborhoods to fund organizing support.

Activate and beautify public spaces through art and creative placemaking.

SUSTAINABILITY AND CLEANLINESS RECOMMENDATIONS

Please mark your top 3 priorities in this section.

Expand community-led initiatives to address trash and litter.

Establish programs to honor individual efforts to beautify the neighborhood.

Continue to improve vacant lots in South Clifton Park through the creation of productive green spaces.

Beautify the vacant lot adjacent to the Great Blacks In Wax Museum.

Explore opportunities for REACH! and Harford Heights to become “green schools.”

The Duncan Street Miracle Garden volunteers, New Broadway East Community Association, and Baltimore Green Space should coordinate to provide gardening classes to Broadway East and other east Baltimore residents.

Beautify the median at The Alameda and Harford Road.

If there are any recommendations listed you strongly feel should not be pursued, please note them here.

Do you want to tell us about a success (an investment, initiative, partnership, etc.) in the INSPIRE area related to these topics?

Topics: Housing and Market-Strengthening - Health and Wellness - Transportation - Public Safety - Sustainability and Cleanliness

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