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Councilman Mark Conway proposes place-based ‘works program’ to dismantle open-air drug markets
Summary
Councilman Mark Conway unveiled a five‑pillar, place-based plan to dismantle open-air drug markets that pairs focused enforcement with sustained outreach, treatment, housing and a neighborhood ‘works program’ to create jobs. City agencies described a Lexington Market pilot and committed to tracking outcomes and coordinating weekly.
Councilman Mark Conway on Tuesday proposed a coordinated, place‑based strategy to dismantle open‑air drug markets in Baltimore that combines targeted enforcement with outreach, treatment, housing and a jobs‑centered neighborhood rebuild.
Conway told the Public Safety Committee the approach is meant to do everything at once in a defined area: “Can we engage the people on the corner, disrupt the market, hold the ground, and rebuild the environment so that it does not come back?” He argued the city must move beyond managing markets to “actually solving” them by replacing illicit economies with real employment and neighborhood investment.
The outline Conway presented has five pillars: engagement/outreach, focused enforcement to remove key actors, a sustained presence to prevent short‑term reversion,…
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