I don’t listen but great for you! Be you.

On the bright side, your assessment will help spur other investment in your area and improve the area which in turn improves your property value.

The land was leased by Exxon Mobil for like 60 years. The ground is just filled with toxic dirt and fumes from petroleum. Sapperstein (the developer) was extremely limited on what they could build on the land. If you look at the parking lot light poles when you’re there they actually double as vents for the ground. They have caps at the top that allow toxic gasses to dissipate.

Yep. Police are there to protect capital, not citizens. This fact is the most clear proof of that.

It’s just terrible land use in general. Guess that’s what we get when a petroleum company leases a chunk of land for over half a century and leaves it toxic.

Towson, but it’s a college town. So if you’re mid-20s you’ll be the old person around. Catonsville, but it’s mostly families. Check out Canton, Fells point or Federal Hill.

The other activities are cancelled but the fireworks are going on.

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/celebration-cancelled-but-new-years-fireworks-will-go-on-in-baltimore

The best place to see the fireworks is a rooftop Deck in Fells, Fed Hill or Canton. If you don’t live there and have one, make friends with someone who does.

Good. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

Dude, Columbia is Stroads all over the place. If you watched that entire video and still think you’re right, I suggest you read Strong Towns’ book because you’re wrong.

The side roads are Stroads. Keep watching the video, not just the first 2 minutes. You chop up my reply to try to fit your narrative, high speed roads with traffic lights is stroad. Highways and roads don’t have traffic lights. I don’t know why you defend Columbia to a fault, but one trip to it will show you’re wrong.

311 it and forward the 311 # to your councilperson. Your councilperson’s job is to be your champion. If you aren’t getting the same resources from the city as wealthy areas, then either your councilperson isn’t being held to task or your councilperson needs to be fired (voted out of office.)

I don’t think you understand what constitutes a stroad. Stroads definitely don’t have sidewalks off of them in many cases, including in MD. Houston and FLA are notorious for this type of stroad. The only thing most of the Stroads in Columbia don’t have is constant driveways intercepting the roadway. Everything else they have. They have high speeds, the areas around them aren’t accessible via anything but a car, wide,highway sized lanes, long turn lanes, large signs meant to be seen from speeding cars, constant traffic lights, and even destinations just off of them with massive parking lots between. All of these are “features” of stroads and all of them are things found in the major thruways in Columbia. It’s a suburb built around cars and Stroads. Sorry.

https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM

Baltimore greenway trail

bike Baltimore map

There are bike lanes. Not as many protected lanes as DC, but we’re getting there. I’ll post a link to our bike network and the big greenway trail project that is coming (and will be transformative.) I bike everywhere I need to go inside city limits. I have a small CUV for work only purposes (I work in construction so it’s unfortunately pretty necessary until our bike network is completely built out at which point I may swap to an e-cargo bike.) The trains to DC allow you to take a bike on them, so your partner could do that if the distance on either end is more than a few blocks. The waterfront promenade is part of the city cycle network which is nice and probably rhe 2 best bike lanes in the city are right by Penn Station with the 3rd best being nearby.

1. Fallsway curb separated bike lane
2. Maryland Ave cycle track (protected)
3. Jones Falls Trail

Could you “liberate” the dog yourself?

I just saw the most recent numbers. Baltimore is worse, but (surprisingly to me) not by much. Baltimore’s violence gets over sensationalized in this sense and DC’s gets swept under the rug.

If you’re living around Penn station in Mt. Vernon or Barclay, violent crime won’t be much of an issue. Not anymore than many parts of dc. Violent crime is largely localized to areas that would not be convenient for y’all to live in Baltimore anyway. Penn Station gives y’all access to MARC, Amtrak and Acela trains, there are multiple bike lanes and bus routes in the area, great restaurants, shops, bars and just a few blocks to the west is the light rail which will get you north and south from BWI airport at the southernmost stop and Hunt Valley (a northern suburb 8-10 miles outside of the city) to the north. The light rail will also get you to the inner harbor and at the stadiums’ front doors (they both have separate stops.)You can get pretty easily from the light rail to the subway downtown. Also, art scape (one of the city’s biggest annual events) happens in the summer right outside Penn Station’s doors. I don’t live in the Mount Vernon/Bolton Hill area, but I definitely get the appeal, especially if one is trying to live car free and affordably in the dc/Baltimore area. It’s the confluence of a lot of great things including 4 types of public transit (which probably no other area of Baltimore has.) Definitely price compare an area of DC that y’all are considering living to Mount Vernon or Bolton Hill or Barclay in Baltimore.

Little pawtuxent parkway, broken land parkway, governor warfield parkway, Snowden river parkway… you can’t get from one development to another without crossing a winding stroad with no sidewalks. It’s not a walkable town. It wasn’t designed to be one. It was built when car centric design was king. Sure is has meandering walking paths, but they don’t get you from point a to point b without winding around a neighborhood and tripling the distance a pedestrian would have to walk.

1. There are city garages in Fells for people who don’t live in the neighborhood and drive everywhere
2. The metered parking on the south end of Broadway that is currently being used as parklets is extremely below market rate. Probably 1/50th market rate. The proposed price per square foot for the parklets of $10/sqft is still below market rate, but it will still bring in more money than a $2/hr parking spot.
3. It’s a walkable area that should have very few cars. I’d argue Thames st should be completely closed to auto traffic. Human scale the area.

Honestly, Barclay, the neighborhood right by Guilford Brewery has improved so much in the last 5 years and it’s going to explode once the improvements to Penn Station happen. It really is a good area to invest in/buy a house right now.

It’s likely your water meter. If you have a wrench, an extension cord and a small portable heater or hair dryer, open your water meter cover in the sidewalk, and drop the heater in there for a while (make sure there is no water in the meter hole.) the meters freeze BEFORE the pipes in your house almost every time because they aren’t insulated and the pipes in your house are. If you have some fiberglass insulation, wrap your meter with it after thawing it. This can prevent it from happening again.

Can y’all move to Baltimore right by Penn station and your partner take the train to work?