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their persons, houses , papers , and effects, against unreasonable searcnes and
seizures , shall not De violated, and no '\;arrants shall i3sue out :mon probahl!" cause ,
supported by oatn or affirJ'lati:m, and p.qrticularly describing the place to be
searched, and the p"rsons or things to be seizpa . "
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part tLereof, and the occ'lpants of such building or structure, shall nave been
notified in 1Vriting at least five days in advance of the scheduled inspection . Such
notice of inspection shall contain the time and date of the inspection, and shall
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This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.
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Eminent domain
African Americans
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Be Alerted!!
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Community circular urging Baltimore County residents to vote against the urban renwal demolition bond issue in the November 1964 election
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1964
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Homeowners
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Urban renewal
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Baltimore County Citizens
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MOUNT ROYAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB
~~WffjL~TY~~
Dear Neighbor,
Only your presence at City Council on Wednesdqy, November 3 @ 7: 30 P.M.
City Council Chambers can assure defeat of the $58,000,000 expressway through
our Mt . Royal - l~ . Vernon neighborhood .
For four years now a six lane, high speed thruw~ link has been planned
separating the IiYric Theater and the Mt . Royal station, cutting through the
back fences of Tyson Street, through restored "Antique Row" on Howard Street,
through the Deutsches Haus, Richmond Market and scores of houses . The town
houses that surround Mt . Calvary Chur ch will be demolished, leaving the church
isolated in a maze of access lanes and highway signs . In Plan C, the recommended
plan, a 40 mile-an- hour exit ramp will spill into Mt . Royal Avenue beside the
entrance to the Lyric Theater.
Concrete highway bridges with brilliant, tal l-pole lights will be built
t o carry the traffic of Howard Street, Preston Street and Mt . Royal Avenue
over the Expressway. The Interstate Truck Traffic attracted by this shortcut
through the heart of Baltimore will compete with the noise of the B & trains
in our area, but on a twenty four hour basis . Overhanging green signs, designed to Federal Bureau of Roads standards will be necessary on Dolphin street,
Mt . Royal Avenue and several other neighborhood locations.
°
St . Mary 1s Seminary, Maryland General Hospital and the University of
Baltimore1s new library will be left teetering on the brink of the Expresswqy
ditch. $500,000 in annual City tax revenue will be lost forever by the razing
of homes and businesses in the path of the road and its interchanges, but the
lowering of property values in the area has not even been guessed at .
IrOnically, while the State and Federal Agencies , aided by the Administration Forces were pushing through the completion of the Jones Falls Expresswqy
this spring, it was repeatedly brought to light that this expressway link in
our own neighborhood serves no useful purpose . The official who had previously
been the road 1s strongest advocate , Mr. Philip Darling, then Director of
Planning, stated publically that the link was not necessary.
In response to this revelation, Ordinance 1102 has been introduced to
remove the threat of the link from the Bolton Hill and Mt . Vernon neighborhood.
But a three quarters vote of the City Council is required to wipe this road
off the plans of the highway engineers .
Your active presence at the hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the
City Council at 7: 30 P.M on Wednesday, November 3 is needed ! If you represent
.
a group -- be it a block organization, a club, or an institution - - your voice
is essential! Several groups and institutions have alreadY stated their
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disapproval of the link, among them the Mar,yland Institute , the Mt . Royal
Improvement Association, Mt . Calvar,y Church, St . Mar,y ' s Seminar,y , the Tyson
Street Association - -- and others .
But twenty one Councilmen from four corners of the City must be made to
realize-the importance of what appears to them to be a local issue . The progress we have made in renewing the heart of Baltimore must not be sacrificed
to this needless engineer ' s nightmare.
Sincere~
yours,
The Board of Directors of the
Mt . Royal Democratic Club
Thomas Ward , President
Joseph Robinson, Chairman
Civic Affairs Committee
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This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.
The complete Urban Renewal Files (URF) collection at the University of Baltimore consists of 5 linear inches of archival records, which are described in an online collection database. The complete collection has also been digitized at the folder level and is also available in the collection database. For this exhibit, 20 documents have been selected from the complete collection.
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Eminent domain
African Americans
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Mount Royal Democratic Club Newsletter
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Circular to residents of the midtown area regarding the proposed expressway along the Mount Royal corridor
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1965
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Highway planning
Express highways
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Mount Vernon (Baltimore, Md.)
Mount Royal (Baltimore, Md.)
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Talk by Ann McCloskey (Mrs . William B . McCloskey, Jr . ) Before the
Baltimore City Council, 4 May 1966 , in Opposition to Sections of
Proposed Ordnance 461 , a Unified Housing Code for Baltimore City
Speak~ng for HOOHA (Homeowners in Opposition to Housing Authoritarianism )
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight to express our
opposition to the proposed Housing Code for Baltimore City . Let
me make clear that we do not take issue with those who want safer
conditions in multiple dwellings nor with the dialogue taking place
between th e multiple property owner and tenant . We are , however ,
absolutely opposed to the inclusion of owner-occupied single family
housing . We also oppose, absolutely, sections 401 and 402 of
Ordnance 461 as it stands . To explain our position we must discuss
with you the urban renewal program and the intent of this code ,
along with citizen distrust of the renewal agency, known as the
Ba ltimore Urban Renewal and Housing Agency (BURHA), and this code.
As things stand, with the adoption of this code,
all of
Baltimore suburbs included,
becomes essentially a total renewal
proJect waiting to be tackled in segments . Even the Baltimore Sun
in January 1963 stated, and I quote , "The proposed new housing code
would, in effect, extend renewal requirements to every house in the
City . " Each neighborhood can now wait for the "spot check man" to
declare them an inspection district . To call Roland Park an urban
renewal area would be' <;lis tasteful and to most homeowners the tag
conservation district didn't sit too well either. But the idea of
inspection districts is supposed to pass without even having to have
consent engineered in Improvement Associations . The bumbling
invasion of overblown, arrogant expertise will be afoot creating
havoc wherever they decide .
Too many people were beginning to r eject urban renewal and
without the shoe horn of this code BURHA would get nowhere today.
That they have always hoped to fiddle in every area that could be
gotten for their empire was stated at least as long ago as 1959 .
I quote from their own pamphlet ;
"Urban renewal is a program for
all of Baltimore -- not one part of the city, one income group , one
special interest . For example, it will operate in suburban neighborhoods , removed from the center of the city, but still within the
reach of the long fingers of , blight ... "
Now, why is this code so important? W have been told it is
e
necessary to get more federal funds. Well , amusingly in Baltimore
County they said the same thing until the County Council vot e d out
the new code . Then Mr . William Boucher of the Great er Baltimore
Committee said they didn 't n ee d the new code after all, that they
could still get the federal money with the old one .
They say that Ordnance 461 is a clearer , mor e unified code .
Well , it's not . It's just another booklet from which you have to
move to the older books for clarification .
It lacks footnotes .
It
uses vague terms such as "where applicable" and as in the case of
sections 511, 512, etc . you must go elsewhere to determine if closing
of stairwells means single family houses or not . And by the way ,
there are already laws on the books to get the slumlord.
It just
needs someone who wants to concentrate on him .
�- 2 Let me throw out a curious question .
Is this code a smokescreen for setting up an untouchable committee of four Caesars who
will decide all things about housing management and neighborhood
planning for Baltimore? We have been accused of looking under the
rug for things , ladies and gentlemen , but I must submit that we ' ve
found more interesting things under the rugs than out in the open .
Why , one might even consider from the simple reasons the proponents
give , that the "unified" code could still be passed if the Director
of the Baltimore Urban Rene wal Housing Agency were left off the committee to run the entire code enforcement program .
I t carried the aura of everySome time ago I was for renewal .
thing that would make for good living for everyone . Then I discovered Baltimore's renewal agency (as others throughout the country )
to be basically a self-aggrandizing piece of machinery , determined
to perpetuate itself at any cost . To do this BURRA promises everything to everyone . They imply segreated neighborhoods to segregationists through build-up of property values and rentals ; they
promise open-occupancy to negroes ; they promise an end to slums,
more aesthetic neighborhoods and proper compensation to those demolished . Years ago they promised a projected raise in the city tax
base to supply services . But Baltimore is in a financial crisis
some part of which is due to renewal , as Judge Allen let slip last
year when he said that among other things , our tax base was being
eroded by renewal . BURRA promises relocation , beneficient handling
of their victims and moratoriums on raised assessments (which aft er
all is what they were after with the forced expenditures on houses ) .
BURRA will promise anything until it is discovered that they don 't
control agencies handling condemnations and assessments . And disenchanted Bolton Hill residents, for example, see broken promises
in many directions .
BURRA can boast no real glorious successes , although th e y brag
about how much money was wrung from the pockets of people in Harl em
Park -- in 2032 properties , $5 million . They ex hibited Harlem Park
at a planning convention in Philadelphia even while it was under
criticism (and was therefore being examined by , of course , their
good friends, the Citizens ' Planning and Housing Association CPHA) .
If BURRA brags at conventions about this kind of success, how much
truth is there in what we're told about successful renewal projects
in other parts of the country?
And when will BURRA ' s activities ever be studies by someone
besides its friends and renewalists? Citizen participation , for
example , was a requirement for renewal , but those who are chosen to
participate are those who are their rubber stamps . BURRA has untiring drumbeaters in the CPHA ... an organization on record was wanting
better housing for Baltimoreans . Who could quarrel with that purpose? Bu t no one when things go wrong becaus e of BURRA , no one who
has anything to do with their policy ever quarrels with BURRA .
Instead, the ordinary citizen without leisure time and organization
treasuries for propaganda has to unite and fight .
�- 3 One fight remains particularly curious to US in Bolton Hill .
When BURRA reacted in early 1963 to the outcry of Bolton Hill own e rs
and changed the standards for owner-occupied dwellings , did they do
it because they believed that adjustment was decent or just to stop
bad publicity? Do they believe Bolton Hillites require different
handlin e t han the homeowners in other parts of the city? Those
arguing with them said that the excessive code was as wrong for the
people of Harlem Park as Bolton Hill or anywhere . Did BURRA send
its housing code committeemen back to the Hollyday Committee
to investigate incorporation in the code of concessions , the need
for which had been demanded and demonstrated? Indeed, unwanted as
they are, among this professional renewal clique are men who apparently believe that they must peer behind every closed door , and they
want no one to limit their powers . Which brings us back to the most
shocking and serious sections of this code outline .
Please note and read Sections 401 and 402 . The four men named ,
these Four Caesars, may make and adopt what rules they deem necessary -- period . I repeat the period because that's all there is .
No qualifications on their powers . No checks and balances .
In
their hearts they must also be sure they are not wanted . But worse ,
gentlemen of the City Council, when did you all decide that you no
longer want to represent the people of Baltimore?
A justification for this unlimited power given at your first
hearing was that things would be more efficient . Gentlemen , dictatorships have always been more efficient . Mussolini , you will rememb e r ,
was credited with even making the trains in Italy run on time . Look
at the changes requested in this code -- the additions and omissions .
Have the housing people proven themselves infallible? Far from it .
What an insult to your constituents to merely publish rules after
the fact . And, please, do not be misled by any comments on any
previous concessions or casualness in handling of code enforcement ,
because the entire intent in the city code enforcement program now
is different . They even state in Section 103 that it is , and I
quote , "the intention of the Mayor and City Council (that's you
gentlemen) that this code be liberally construed to effectuate the
purposes stated ... " What , by the way , good does it do for you to
make amendments after listening to your constituents, if with
Sections 401 and 402 those four men can theoretically and actually
put back , or in , anything not included by this council?
But , do the renewalists and their friends care about democratic
processes? To be against urban renewal and the excesses inherent in
it is not to be against decent housing . To demand that citizens control the agencies that order them about is not heresy -- its democracy .
Too long the city has been hearing the CPHA mouthing the gospel accord ing to BURRA , and it is so awe inspiring that a couple of organizations whose representatives went on record last week for the code
admitt e d later that no one in their organization had read any of it
but that they had r e c e ived a letter from CPHA asking their approval
and they sent it .
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Then there are also improvement associations where the spokesmen are employees of BURHA and a part of CPHA . Can any of these
spokesmen prove that their groups heard the opponents discuss the
program as well as the proponents? Did any of them poll their memberships -- many of whom may be less well of then themselves , or
more aware? But then look also at the proponents whose relatives '
jobs are related to the planning interests and you discover why
"right think" according to BURHA is not a proper intellectual dispute .
You also discover why citizens vote in spite of these well publicized cliques . Remember how close the last renewal bond issue was,
and then the county renewal vote? It is not a case of "know nothings"
vs progressives . Rather it is the citizens becoming aware of organization manipulation and repudiating it . We hope our councilmen are
becoming more sophisticated and detached -- we suspect some of you
are already .
There is no doubt in my mind as to how Nazi fascism , with by the
way its own version of the block inspector , came into being . The
psychology promoted by CPHA employees -- "of course you want your
neighbor inspected" -- has ugly ramifications . A pitting of neighbor
against neighbor. BURHA and CPHA talk well about code enforcement
but in the case of the home owner who may be poor or burdened in
other ways they are merely trading off the possibility of hazard
against the misery debt and stress of the inspection process . If the
renewalists tried to force the spruce-up process on the basis of
aesthetics alone they would be laughed out of the city for having a
superficial , new-rich mentality , so instead there is the emotional
blackmail of the possible dangerous situation in every home . According to accident statistics there is the ever present possibility of
my falling down the stairs . But, does this mean the stairs should
be removed from my house?
Let's consider the inspection procedure , s kipping the spot check
inspector . First , the notice and appointment .
If you can ' t make it
the time they suggest , you can call or write for another . You put
aside your chores for an hour or stay hom from work if necessary .
Since the inspector is not to discuss with you what he is putting in
his notes , you just wonder until you get your violation list . Then
have an ice bag ready when you open it . You may have a tiresome day
ahead of you or you may have opened it as you come in from work . If
they ' re treading lightly because your neighborhood is angry , an
aspirin may b e all you need .
If not , you may need anything from a
drink to a tranquilizer to your doctor . Bolton Hill sprang a bunch
of stress diseases that don't make the headlines . Rheumatoid arthritis flaired up in a couple of cases and there were many sleepless
nights . But wait.
You can get over this hump by making the second appointment for
"interpretation ." Your husband may also stay home again , if he can
afford ot , if he wants to know first hand what's going on . Now , if
the inspector can ' t find the violation that has been tabulated against
your property he is emplowered to tell you to skip it . He wont ,
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however , have to put anything he tells you in writing, and th e false
statistics being tabulated at h e adquart e rs to justify the program
won ' t record the mistak e s . Now if you disagre e with what he can
find and you can't be sold doing it , you and h e can s e t yet another
appointment for his supervisor to come look . That is if you can
afford this financially and emotionally . Believe me , many , many
p e ople have been through this and more . If you and the supervisor
disagree , this can go on to pretty wearing heights where you may
end up being fined $300 a day for each day in violation or run the
risk of losing your home . Or somewhere in th e pro cess you can be
summoned downtown like a wife in Bolton Hill supporting a sick husband to explain why you can ' t afford somet hing . This is a very
brief run-through of an extremely destructive process ladled on the
homeowner who pays the taxes to have this done to him .
No one should be enbroiled in this without proven cause . But
the renewalists fight any citizen safeguards that slow their efficiency . Even those touting renewal forget that th e y will grow old ,
have personal burdens , become chronically ill , lose their powe r and
their friends . Having lost t heir aesthetic app e al , they will find
that their brain-washed neighbors will only b e too glad to have them
relocated where they won ' t be an eyesore . There seems to be no solution for the poor who cannot "fix up . " FHA is no solution for them
nor is it one for the homeowner who chooses to see to his own subcontracting . It is no longer proper to suggest that there are greater
values than aesthetics . Or that young families should be allowed to
pull themselves up and put clothes on their children instead of paint
on the walls , or that the old be able to die peacefully in their
hardearned homes without humiliation .
I submit that a neighborhood
that thinks it will fall apart and gets hysterical over a couple
shabby houses has no depth , wholesomeness , or cohesion to recommend
it anyway .
When you finally back a renewalist in a corner on losing so
many patients with their operations, they come up with another stock
answer . When dealing with this progress , say they , someone has to
get hurt . Now will someone tell me if anyone mouthing this patter
ever gets hurt personally? They ' re so busy being pious that they
even go on record as rejecting tax cuts for property owners spending
large sums on their property . They reject allowing this aid because
of Baltimore's difficult tax situation . We already know they've
left enough dead land and property to eliminate much tax money . Th e y
don't mind , however , asking more money for higher salaries for
assistant directors . BURHA costs the city much each year -- so much
that Senator Tydings has a bill in the mill asking for several hundred thousand dollars additional federal payments to relieve the
city of some of its renewal burden .
Renewalists can blunder into people's lives , create havoc and
hea r tache and leave behind rubble and illness , hodge-podge architecture and newly impoverishe d citizens . The cost of carrying
BURHA low these many years helps to increase our t axes while they
produce overcrowding and blight and then claim they are the ones
neede d to cure the long finger of blight th e y helped create . This
brilliance now entitles BURHA to b e included in the housing code
�- 6 enforcement program for all Baltimore . Not just us awful inner city
people -- but the bell now tolls for suburbs also.
Which of you not yet labeled an inspection district will be
sacrificed for this crass manicuring?
If you decide to complain
before it's too late, watch one thing . When renewal activities are
disputed they'll tell you, you don't understand . This technique is
used so much throughout the country that I've come to wonder if there
isn't a section in some unified renewal manual that says when your
opponents argue with you, tell them they don't understand you or the
program . But , consider, last year the code was considered so important
that City Council president D'alesandro said it must be held back for
study an d discussion . Two weeks ago the first hearing to describe
the code was held . But did the backers of it publicize this major
event to educate the public? Indeed , even reporters didn't know
about it .
Gentlemen, the homeowner wants out . He has no reason to trust
the intelligence or kindness of the housing clique and their claque .
He do es the best he can with the money in his pocket . He believes
the health and welfare of the city is best served by inspectors
spending time in the properties of the chronic slumlords and not
humiliating and harassing homeowners who don't have the time , energy ,
or money to handle this legalized pocket-picking . He is not grateful
for the fanaticism that demands block by block, house by house search .
Retroactive, excessive codes are demoralizing and destructive .
HOOHA narrows its rejection of this housing program (and there
are many other problems we have not even touched on) down to two .
We ask exemption of owner-occupied single family dwel lings . We
suggest it now to save us and you and the city and the courts the
havoc now simmering .
We also demand that no one else be subjected to the unqualified
mercies of the four housing Caesars but that henceforth any changes
affecting the wellbeing of the citizens where they live and those
supplying their needs be made only after open public h earing .
Thank you.
Ann McCloskey
Homeowners in Opposition
to Housing Authoritarianism
4 May 1966
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Urban Renewal Files
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This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.
The complete Urban Renewal Files (URF) collection at the University of Baltimore consists of 5 linear inches of archival records, which are described in an online collection database. The complete collection has also been digitized at the folder level and is also available in the collection database. For this exhibit, 20 documents have been selected from the complete collection.
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1961-1965
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Urban renewal
Maryland--Baltimore
Neighborhoods
Eminent domain
African Americans
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McCloskey HOOHA Speech
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Transcript of a speech given by Ann McCloskey, representative of HOOHA (Homeowners in Opposition to Housing Authoritarianism), on May 4, 1966 before the Baltimore City Council in opposition to sections of the proposed Ordinance 461, A Unified Housing Code for Baltimore City
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1966-05-04
Subject
The topic of the resource
Citizen participation
Urban renewal
City planning
Inspection
Baltimore (Md.) City Council
Baltimore (Md.). Urban Renewal and Housing Agency
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McCloskey, Ann
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urf01.01.10
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Urban Renewal Files, series I, box 1, folder 10, Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore
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Urban Renewal Files
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This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.
The complete Urban Renewal Files (URF) collection at the University of Baltimore consists of 5 linear inches of archival records, which are described in an online collection database. The complete collection has also been digitized at the folder level and is also available in the collection database. For this exhibit, 20 documents have been selected from the complete collection.
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1961-1965
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English
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Text
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R0124-URF
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2019-09
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20 documents
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Urban renewal
Maryland--Baltimore
Neighborhoods
Eminent domain
African Americans
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Use This Chance to Save Your Neighborhood School
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Community circular urging Baltimore County residents to protest the public funding of the Human Relations Commission and their work to integrate schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964
Subject
The topic of the resource
Citizen participation
Political participation
Segregation
Race discrimination
Housing
Public schools
Suburban schools
Baltimore County (Md.)
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Maryland Petition Committee, Inc., Baltimore County Chapter
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University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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urf01.01.09d
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Urban Renewal Files, series I, box 1, folder 9, Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore
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Baltimore County (Md.)
Citizen participation
Housing
Political participation
Public schools
Race discrimination
Segregation
Suburban schools
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"Here, I'll read it to you. It's from the phamplet TITLE 26A, REDEVELOPMENT and
i.EHABILI'rATION COlRUSSION that tells all about this commission, "no appoints it, its
po,.;ers, etc.; Listen: Sec . 26A - 15, page 9, "AN URBAN RENEWAL FLAN MAY BE MODIFIED AT
ANY THIE" - and uhat ' s more , Sally, ALL THE HOMES, OLD Hill NEI>l, inside the lines
mar ked for the urban renel'lal project will be subject to inspection . This i s what the
hw says on page 7 - The R & R has the power "(6) to enter into any building or
property in any urban rene,ml area in order TO MAKE INSPECTIONS, SlffivlITS, APPRAI SALS,
soundings or test borings, and TO OBTAIN AN ORDER FOR THIS PlffiPOSE FROM THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR BALTIl10RE C01.mTY I N THE EVENT EllTHY IS DENIED OR RESISTED. "
"Dear me, June, that's awful ! Don ' t you pity all those women ha\ir!;to l et those
inspectors in to snoop into closets, go around measuring windows, ceilings, checking
painting, s3eing i f they have enough floor space for a couple of kids to sleep in one
room - and all such things as that Housing Bill 12 the administr ation wanted to put
throu['h allowed for?
Ny goodnecs, didycu ever hear tell of such a thing? "
"Just Hait, Sally, they ' ll see by experience what those ladies in the city have
been telling us of WHAT ITS LIKE TO LIVE UNDER URBAN RENEHAL and it won ' t be pleasant.
/,nd lmen their husbands have to start shelling out the savings to make unnecessary
remodeling and repairs or else have tr.eir houses condemned as " sub- standard" - they
Hill react too. And hOly !"
"Say, I get it, June, that ' s hOlv they make it look so more taxes Hill be gotten
from th2.t area . If your home is allOl.lCd to stay in an area and not be bulldozed
away, you are forced to fix it up to their ideas and THEN YOUR ASSESSl-IEliT IS RAISED,
l.;;n YOlJ"R .TAYJ5S ARE RhISED. \VilOever thou::;ht that one up Hasn ' t thinking of us, were
they?
Glory be !"
"And Sally, i f they take your home and put up apartments or something else, they
may get more taxe s out of that land . BUT I DON ' T VJANT TO LOSE NY HONE . h'e ' ve worked
hard for it - and it's almost mortgage free. He don 't want to ever move; and it
l'1akes me boil to think ."6 might be forced to do so, so some developer can have the
land from the R & R Commission much cheaper than the amount of our tax money which
"as used to buy it. In Baltimore City, land for urban renewal Has acquired for
1;1,444,15S . 00 . After it ;las cleared arrl ready for re-development, it was sold to
Frivate developers for ~300 , ODO . OO -- a net loss t.o U. S . taxpayers of $1 ,144,155 . 00 J
This same thing happened in Philadelphia, Jersey City, NeVI York City - and this .. as
during the infancy of the Urban Rene"al program. It ' s gr own up now - taxpayers a r e
losing much mor e! Ch, these stati stics are from a l etter the Urban ReneHal Adminis tration " r ote to United States Representative Bruce Al ger on Hay 1, 1956 ."
"I love my home too, June, - and I want to read that booklet to find out the
POilERS GIVEN TO THE R & R COMMISSION. Since our tax money paid for its printing, I'm
sure I could get a copy of it. from the County - ..hat's the name of it again?"
(Over please ---)
�"It ' s TITLE 26A, R3DEVELOPi1ENT AND REHABILITATION COM1ISSION, 15 pages, Sections
26 A- l through Sec. 26A - 33 . But, here, listen, I ' ll read you a feH of its powers :
IT DOESN ' T HAVE TO ABIDE BY I TS Oi'iN PLAN - "The R & R Commis sion may temporarily
c>perate and maintain real proper ty acquired by it in an urban reneHal area •..•• even
though not in conformity Hith the urban rene,;al pl an . " How l ong is tempor ary? That's
from Sec . 26 A- 19 , page 11 .
You've already heard it has ITS (loIN POl'IER OF COlIDEi'1NATION. Sec . 26A-12, page 11 .
And listen to this !
"The Commission can plan, REPLA;", install , construct, RECONSTRUCT, repair,
close or vacate streets , roads , sidel',alks, public uti l i t i es, parks, playgrounds , and
other public improvements in connection with an urban renewal project; TO ZONE OR
llliZONE ANY PART OF TtIE COUNTY AND TO HAKE EXCEPTIONS FRON BUILDII'IG REGULATIONS, and
to expend such funds as may be avai labl e to the Commissi on for the payment of any and
all costs and expenses incurred i n connection Hith, or i nc i dent a l to , the DEMOLITION ,
HEHOVAL , RELOCATION, RENOVATION, CON3TRUCTION, RECONSTRUC'rIOII OR ALTERATION OF LANDS,
BUILDINGS, STREETS, HIGIMAYS , SIDEI'iALKS, ALLEYS , PUBLI C UTILITI ES OR tiERVICES , PARKS,
PLAYGROUNDS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES OR I l1PROWlENTS. " Thi s is on page 7, item 7 . "
June, THAT GIVES THEM AN AWFUL LOT OF POI,'ER . I see what you mean about
Hr . Agnew ' s plan means nothing - it can be changed and those who now think thei r
homes ,'on ' t be ta~en, will be jolted one day to find they are. And this can happen
after they have spent their har d- earned money on forced improvements. NO WONDER THE
RESIDE1ITS OF THE U!lBAN RENE"vlAL AREAS IN CATONSVILLE AlID TGi·iSON ARE IN AN UPROAR'
•.'lI0 \;OULDN ' T BE? T!lis thing is morally ,rrong . Takes a,JaY privacy and property
right3 and puts all those peopl e in fea r. Well, they tel l us the whole County i s
soin" to be affected; they planned ahead for that in the budge t - SOWe can be next !"
"i~ell ,
"You're right, Sally, BUT THERE ' S SO}iETHlliG WE CAN DO .
at that! Ha! Ha!"
hiE CAN TALK.
We ' re good
"You said it! And we can tell peopl e TO VOTE " NO" IN NOVEMBER ON THE BOND ISSUE
of ~)3 , 616,OCIO.OO (and any other Bond Issues fo r Urban Renewal purposes Hhich may be
put on the ballot) . This is the money the R & R Ilill use to take the homes in Ca tor.~
ville. If enough VCTE "NO" , they won ' t have the funds - - . "
"And, Sall;" we can I;rite our Delegates to the House of Del egates to express
themselves on Urban ReneHal, and we can urge them to tal~e the cour ageous stand that
:' . Jacqueline :'!cCurdy and Bernard J . :-ledairJ, Jr . , have taken AGAINST URBAN RENElfAL.
Hait - I'll give you their names and addresses; ' cause I KnOW you'll be using the
'phone to I-larn ycur friends and neighbors about Urban Renewal:
BALTIl10RE COUNTY DELEGATES
)1. Jacqueline 11cCurdy, 203 VI . Chesapeake Ave . , Towson 4, Ud.
Francis X. BossIe, 5 Seminole Ave . , Catonsville 28, Hd .
H. Kemp NacDaniel , 5717 Oakland Road , Baltimore 27, 11d .
Gaines McNillan, Box 67 , Lutherville, rId.
John N. }\aquire, 1 4 Murray Hi ll Circle, Baltimore 12 , Hd .
Bernard J . Nedairy , Jr . , ;;>04 Courtl and Ave . , To,lSon 4, lId.
\'iillia'1l H. Pet ers, Jr . , 1528 Eastern Ave ., Essex 21 , ;'!d.
George Price , Stockton Farm, Phoenix, Md .
'dilliam Rush , 3307 East Putty ,lill Ave . , Baltimore 34, Md.
LeRoy B. Spurrier, Cockeysmill Road , Reistersto,ID, Hd .
Roy N. Staten, 3012 Dunglo>l Road, Dundalk 22, Hd.
Norman R. Stone, Jr . , 7833 St . Gregory Drive, Baltimore 22, Md .
Herbert H. Tyler, 1956 Edge1<ood Road, Towson 4. Nd .
"Thanks a lot, June . Anything else? Say - DON ' T FORGET - THE COUNTY COUNCIL
VOTES ON THE BUlXlE'f,
June 1, 1964, 7 : 30 P . M. , County Offi ce Building, Towson .
J\fter all this, I "<ant to see how they vote ! "
I hope to see YOU there .
"Glad you r emi nded me, Sally. it ' s been ni ce tal king to you - KEEP HE ALERTED
' cause I don ' t want t o lose my home; I don ' t Hant i nspector s - and you know me.t. I ' m
a worker - as well as a t 'll ker ! Goodbye for now !"
"So l ong!"
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Urban Renewal Files
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This exhibit presents documentation related to Baltimore's urban renewal efforts during the 1960s. The files include correspondence, speeches, editorials, newsletters, flyers, and maps from Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Renewal plans for the neighborhoods of Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are highlighted, along with responses from neighborhood residents and homeowners' associations.
The complete Urban Renewal Files (URF) collection at the University of Baltimore consists of 5 linear inches of archival records, which are described in an online collection database. The complete collection has also been digitized at the folder level and is also available in the collection database. For this exhibit, 20 documents have been selected from the complete collection.
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<a href="http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore</a>
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<p><a href="https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/111" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Urban Renewal Files</a></p>
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1961-1965
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text/pdf
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English
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Text
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R0124-URF
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2019-09
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20 documents
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Urban renewal
Maryland--Baltimore
Neighborhoods
Eminent domain
African Americans
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R and R Can Change the Plans Any Time!!
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Community circular criticizing the urban renewal policies of the Baltimore County Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Commission
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1964
Subject
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Citizen participation
City planning
Urban renewal
Baltimore County (Md.)
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Baltimore County Citizens
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University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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application/pdf
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urf01.01.09b
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Urban Renewal Files, series I, box 1, folder 9, Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore
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Baltimore County (Md.)
Citizen participation
City planning
Urban renewal