Committee recommends rezoning of 3200 Lily Avenue from R-4 to I-1 after applicant engagement with Cherry Hill community

The Land Use and Transportation Committee on April 24 voted to recommend favorable action on Council Bill 250023, which would rezone 3200 Lily Avenue from the R-4 residential district to the I-1 industrial district. Committee members said the applicants conducted an extended community-engagement process with Cherry Hill and secured letters of support from neighborhood groups and the sponsor’s office.

Councilwoman Felicia Porter told the committee the applicants had engaged the Cherry Hill community for about a year and a half and had letters of support from Cherry Hill development groups and the community association. Planning staff and the Planning Commission recommended the rezoning, and the law department certified the bill as formally legally sufficient for committee consideration.

Agency reports from DHCD and the Baltimore Development Corporation were favorable; Finance deferred to Planning. The committee adopted applicant-submitted findings of fact and moved the bill to the full council by roll-call vote; the chair and committee members voted yes, and no amendments were adopted. The bill packet indicates the site was developed in 1987 as a small self-storage facility and had been vacant in aerial imagery dating to the mid-1950s before that use.

The committee record does not identify a final developer or project program; the rezoning would allow I-1 uses on the parcel. The bill and its findings will be forwarded to the City Council for final action.