In what would be one of her last acts in office, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday she plans to bypass the City Council with a proposal to sell four of Baltimore’s downtown parking garages to raise up to $60 million for recreation centers.
The plan, blocked for two years by City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, has stalled in a council committee long enough, Rawlings-Blake said. She said she is convening a little-known body called the Off-Street Parking Commission that will be mostly filled with members of her staff.
Having that committee pass the measure, she said, will eliminate the need for the City Council to approve the plan.
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