Agreed.

Thanks! I tried hoka for hiking and I didn’t like it. Could be just that model though.

Also need to find a good stylist travel shoe. Sigh

Maintaining or replicating trim or wood windows on front facades have no structural effect. Just maintaining the front facade and underpinning with cinder blocks or wood framing. There’s grants for these type of projects as well.

I think residents are purposely mislead into thinking preservation is more difficult than it is to allow agencies to have discretion for demolition. If non developers knew everything could be preserved and isn’t cost prohibitive the political pressure to keep architecture would be too great to overcome.

Depending on how serious you intened to be, I'd go to REI and explain your goals and see what they recommend. If your feet need a little more attention you can try Falls Road Running Store or Charm City Run. My shoe of choice is the Hoka (One One) but this more for running cause I had debilitating plantar fasciitis. Hoka does make a hybrid hiker that I wore on a jaunt down the AT a few years back that is awesome too.

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I’ve thought of this but they do it on trash days after trash is picked and lids are left wide open. I’ve tried to grab it quickly but sometimes I miss

And if they didn’t pick it up, you’d complain.

I'll be at the Cats Eye On sunday dec 4th from 4---8 pm Playing with the Grapefruit Kings . And we will have that place Jumping !!

Matt

Put a bungee cord on the can so the lid is hard to open, one of my neighbors does that

Yes, that is gross. At the same time its a city owned trash can so I highly doubt there are rules against it. Putting a sign on would be your best bet.

Unfortunately for you I was very involved with that entire thing and the destruction of that ancillary building was a fucking fiasco for the project.

I say the church should auction them off. if they're really too far gone, nobody will bid. but we all know the church is full of shit and someone would definitely want these and be able to renovate and reinforce them. it's not actually that expensive to reinforce Baltimore row houses.

these should absolutely not be torn down. the Loyola School one was different, though. they only wanted to demolish the rear part that was already a later addition. they also wanted to do it to make a school for low income and immigrant children, which is a much better cause than an empty plot of grass.

I'm about as anti-NIMBY as it gets, but this is complete horse shit. those buildings would go for hundreds of thousands of dollars each and a developer would make them structurally sound and sell or rent them, preserving the nicer than average architecture. cutting out a bunch of buildings from the center of a block and putting ugly concrete block along the occupied ones will be a net negative to everyone.

how about the church auctions them off. if nobody bids on them, they can tear them down.

they can sell them. they could partner with a developer to renovate them and rent them out. there is no reason to tear them down. these houses would be snatched up in a heartbeat if they were to sell them. they would have 20 years ago and they would be today. they church isn't required to let them fall apart, that was a choice they made, and there is still time to save the buildings if they would just sell them.

I have rehabbed houses and seen many rehabbed. these are totally salvageable. row-houses in fed hill have gotten their basements dug, foundations underpinned, stripped to the brick, floors raised, new stairs put in, new roof, all new plumbing, all new electrical, exterior walls strapped and more for less than $200k. these places would definitely be worth more than that if they had the same treatment. calling them structurally unsound is bullshit because it's actually quite easy to reinforce walls and foundations and to repoint bricks.

The lake looks like a really nice spot to practice! Are people still going this late into Fall?

This sounds promising! Thanks for the suggestion

then sell all but one and work on that one. I would gladly pay $100k for one of those, even if it meant major renovations inside.

quite clearly, I stand corrected.

CHAP has failures in both directions.

Actually he said it was an omelet with biscuits and gravy on top.

when you say past MLK blvd i assume you mean west of the blvd?

You're really on one about this for some reason, but the difference between you and a church or, say, JHU, is that a tax-exempt entity has every incentive to acquire adjacent property without a plan to use it, because there's no cost to carry it until a plan is developed.

And if those properties should fall into disrepair before there's a plan to use them, so much the better--I'm guessing JHU's going to hear a lot less opposition about whatever they decide to build at the corner of 29th & Maryland now that it's just a vacant lot than they would've while the houses were still habitable.

Perfect give me a few days and I’ll let you know