Neily was a transportation planner for the Baltimore City Department of Planning from 1977 to 1996, and a consultant before and since. He was born in Chicago, but his family moved to Baltimore when he was a seven-year-old transportation geek, so he got to see the Beltway being built in the early 1960s and got to ride the streetcars during their final creaky years. He also wondered why the Baltimore waterfront was so deserted, when Chicago’s was a showplace. After many years of developing alternative plans in sandboxes, chalked-up sidewalks and the basement floor, he graduated from Penn State (BS) and Northwestern University (MS), where he majored in (you guessed it) Transportation Planning. Since 2005, he has written Baltimore InnerSpace which was named “Best Urban Planning Blog” of 2008 by Baltimore City Paper.
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May 17, 2013
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Obama in Baltimore today, talking jobs
UPDATED – At his stop at a South Baltimore factory this afternoon, President Obama announced a plan to boost the economy by reducing the red tape required on large federal projects. “Sometimes it takes too long to get projects off the ground,” Obama said at Ellicott Dredges, citing permits and planning delays related to infrastructure [...]
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May 16, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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CHAP rejects St. Michael’s demolition
The Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP) today rejected the partial teardown of the historic St. Michael’s Church complex in East Baltimore. The panel accepted the recommendation of the CHAP staff that the former schoolhouse and rectory “do contribute to the historic or architectural character” of the Butchers Hill district after hearing opposition from [...]
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Hamilton Royal Farms opponents turn to crowdfunding
They lost at City Hall, but the opponents of a proposed Royal Farms store in Hamilton are planning to appeal, and using an online fundraising strategy to build up a legal warchest. The gas station and convenience store project (proposed in Northeast Baltimore at the corner of Harford Road and Glenmont Avenue) won conditional use [...]
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