If I were to just go to the Wine Source I would walk or bike (though they don’t have a bike rack!!!), but I just happen to only go when I’m on the way home from something else that I usually drive to. It’s definitely not, as other commenters said, because I’m buying cases of wine lol, I only go to pick up a discounted 6 pack. Though I have fit like 6 750 ML glass bottles in my bike paneers before, it’s not hard at all, they give you little sleeves on the bottles to stop them from clanging around.

Wine Source was viable long before RoFo let them use the parking lot. And every other business on the Ave with literally ZERO parking spots also makes it work. It's the pedestrians that make the Ave profitable.

The RoFo parking lot was off limits for years. Only recently did they allow weekend and evening parking for Wine Source customers. Wine Source has parking right out front, which is very rare for the Ave. Obviously they don't want to move because nothing can beat the foot traffic of the Ave.

And that's the thing. Its the foot traffic that makes that spot good. Everyone knows it. If we start surrounding the Ave in parking lots it's not going to be walkable anymore.

Wine Source's proposal isn't unreasonable, but people are afraid of what the next parking lot will be. And the next and the next. It would be better if Wine Source would lead by example, if they're really such an anchor of the Ave.

It's a weird hybrid. I knew it was southern when I got here from New York because it was easier to find grits and randoms will say hello to you on the street, but it has a brusque-ness that is distinctly northern. And accents that are very foreign to a southern ear.

I dunno... I like it now? Always shocks me, because it was a very subtle adaptation and assimilation. I hated Baltimore for the first two or three years, initially. Such a strange, but lovely and sometimes unforgiving place. 🤷🏿‍♀️ Eudora Welty might have liked it, but she would have most definitely lived in Keswick or Evergreen.

Wtf, you're saying having under 15 seconds for live overhead observation for any crime in the city at any time 365/7 isn't productive?

The police are productive. It's the DAs and judges with their plea before judgment parole that detooth consequences. That and legislatures trying to allow blocks of criminals to operate at will: no pursuit of dirt bike policy means anything that can be carried in a backpack can go anywhere with impunity. They're trying to get rid of murder charges for people under 25. What age group demographic do you think commits the most murders? It's insanity.

It was a very good podcast, that was about as fair and balanced as you can get (no agenda on either side). And they presented some real smoking gun evidence from both sides that was not widely reported (or reported at all), which was really surprising. Even still, while I admit that I definitely leaned more towards him definitely being involved in some way; I still think there was enough reasonable doubt that he would be found not guilty (as someone else said, not guilty doesn't always equate to innocent).

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I lived near there, my address was Pikesville, but I think it was also technically Garrison, but it felt like Owings Mills?

The Courts of Avalon off of Reisterstown Road was a convenient location because you didn't have to deal with as much traffic as there was up the road a ways. Now, with the Wegmans up the road (I lived at The Courts of Avalon before the Wegmans and that entire shopping plaza were there), I am sure it is worse, and The Courts of Avalon could be even more desirable due to the comparably low traffic volume. Plus there are multiple ways out of that community (to Reisterstown Rd or McDonough Rd)... This came in handy, too. Living there, it was the first time in my adult life I had a private garage for my car. And ngl, it was kinda bomb. The rent was high though!

I was going to move closer to the subway terminus because it did feel quite suburban (plus they had the newly-built library in the new transit-oriented development in literal Owings Mills) and it would have made it easier to get to Baltimore, but I got a job transfer and moved to Columbia instead. There are a lot of nice apartments near the library and also off Lakeside between Painter's Mill and Owings Mills Blvd. I looked at places farther down Lakeside by Owings Mills High but it was too suburban for me. If you want a more dense feel with improved walkability to things, maybe stick to Reisterstown Road and Painters Mill or the transit-oriented development near the library/Costco.

I used to run all over that area, from the high school/Red Run Road all the way through Pikesville to the city line. Not all in the same day though! Lots of running memories, good and bad. Anyway, it's a generally nice suburb with a lot of traffic. All of the apartments I looked at over there had the same to me. When I go back to that area now, it feels the same, just more traffic.

That’s what the scissor lift is for.

I used to buy a few cases at a time on my bike. It has a storage platform on the back for carrying cargo. I don't go to Wine Source anymore though, because they removed their bike rack.

Here’s a statement from the Office of Governor Moore corroborating my thoughts. I found it here from WMAR Baltimore

"The safety of Marylanders is the governor’s highest priority. The water from East Palestine being treated by Clean Harbors is not at levels that would be considered hazardous waste but out of an abundance of caution, the state is treating it as such to ensure our communities are safe. Clean Harbors is a world class facility in Baltimore, and they are well-equipped to handle this project. The administration will continue to work with the federal government to ensure we have the resources and manpower needed to handle treatment in a secure manner."

What? I don't make the rules. But they exist for good reason. New curb cuts on dense, mixed use, walkable streets are dangerous, anti pedestrian design. And it sounds like there is precedent of previous denials so there certainly shouldn't be special treatment here.

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Totally valid, a scooter would not be ideal for a large purchase. I wasn't imagining people were hitting the Wine Source like a Costco on the reg.

Personally I’ve seen them do about 80-90 vehicle pursuits of stolen vehicles over the past 2 years if that means anything…

I understand completely. Good luck.

This is the only reasonable concern I’ve seen raised about this plan.

That’s RoFo HQ. There are offices upstairs.

Wait 2 minutes where? Double parked? Driving around the block?

Dude.

The point of the article is the process. By skipping the required Part II hearing and streamlining this demolition, they've likely set precedent that can be used in the future to speedily demolish other historic properties without pause, creating more situations like this one.

I have to wonder if the folks making this argument (you’re not alone) have ever purchased alcohol. It’s typically stored in large, heavy, breakable glass bottles. Who’s going to carry a case of beer on a scooter?

Even the producer said that he most likely did it.... in the podcast. People just love an entertaining story. More than thinking logically.

Again, all of this is being put in motion by RoFo’s decision to do who knows what with their parking lot and discontinue access for Wine Source.

It's also apparently illegal to put a new curb cut on Elm and they're just going through with the ordinance to pressure DOT into breaking the law and giving them the curb cut permit.

It is obvious he did it. Thanks to some dumb podcast created to poke meaningless holes in the investigation for entertainment purposes, Hae's family has to go through all this. It's disgusting.