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Baltimore Planning Department outlines FY26 priorities, staffing and neighborhood programs
Summary
Director Chris Ryer told the City Council budget committee that the Department of Planning is nearly fully staffed, will implement the recently adopted comprehensive plan, and highlighted neighborhood programs funded or run through the department including CleanCorps and food security grants.
Chris Ryer, director of the Baltimore City Department of Planning, presented the department's FY26 operating priorities at a council budget hearing, saying the department is “almost fully staffed” and detailing programs and funding the department manages.
Ryer said the department will begin implementing recommendations of the recently completed comprehensive plan and will integrate the zoning administrator's office — previously housed in the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) — into Planning. “We are eagerly accepting the move of the zoning administrator's office from Department of Housing Community Development into the Department of Planning,” Ryer said. He described the change as a move to “place the team that writes the zoning code … with the team that interprets the zoning code.”
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