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Baltimore Board of Estimates approves Johns Hopkins right-of-way agreements after community objections
Summary
The Board of Estimates approved a DOT developer's agreement and an amendment to a 2015 memorandum of understanding with Johns Hopkins University to allow stormwater and roadway work on Wyman Park Drive and Remington Avenue, after extended presentations, board questioning, and more than a dozen residents who urged delay and restoration of public tree canopy.
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates voted to approve two related Department of Transportation items tied to Johns Hopkins University’s proposed data science and artificial intelligence complex: a developer’s agreement (developer’s agreement number 1954C) and an amendment to an existing memorandum of understanding that covers stormwater facilities in the Wyman Park Drive right-of-way. The items were approved by voice vote after presentations, board questions, and a lengthy public comment period.
Johns Hopkins lawyers and planners told the board the measures would allow the university to perform roadway and public-right-of-way stormwater work needed for construction of two new four-story academic buildings on the Homewood campus. “Importantly, it is not a data centre,” Caroline Becker of Rosenberg Martin Greenberg said, adding the buildings will house classrooms, research labs, offices and meeting space. Lee Coyle, Johns Hopkins’ senior director of planning and architecture, described…
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