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Circuit Court for Baltimore City Case No. 98016013

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND NO. 18 September Term, 1999

CAROLYN BOITNOTT ET AL. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE ET AL.

Bell, C.J. Eldridge Rodowsky Raker Wilner Cathell Karwacki, Robert L. (Retired, Specially Assigned) J.J.

Opinion by Bell, C.J.

FILED: October 8, 1999

The issue presented for the Court's consideration is the validity of Baltimore City Ordinance 97-231, amending Inner Harbor East's urban renewal plan. We shall hold that the ordinance is valid. I. On November 19, 1971, by Ordinance 71-1188, the City of Baltimore ("City"), through the Mayor and City Council, designated Inner Harbor East, a 20 acre tract south of Little Italy and lying between Fells Point and the Inner Harbor, as an urban renewal area, for which it approved an urban renewal plan.1 Among the objectives of the plan were the elimination of unhealthy conditions and uses incompatible with mixed land use, removal of substandard buildings, provision of land for public improvements and expansion, improvement of traffic movement by redesigning existing streets, stimulation of economic activity, development of an urban residential community, and ability to take advantage of the closeness to the Inner Harbor by such things as pedestrian connections. The major tasks to be undertaken in line with the objectives were

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