The Baltimore City Council voted Monday evening to advance a trio of bills to redevelop Harborplace under a plan by P. David Bramble, whose development firm MCB Real Estate’s project calls for hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing.
The legislation has now cleared the second of three legislative votes, putting it one step closer to final passage. The council will hold another meeting next week, at which it could decide to send the legislation to Mayor Brandon Scott’s desk.
The bills would modify the Inner Harbor’s zoning restrictions to allow multifamily residential use, and modify the area’s urban renewal plan and city charter to allow Bramble’s project to break ground. The changes to city charter would require Baltimore voters to approve a charter amendment in November’s general election. The bills each passed 13-1, with Councilman Ryan Dorsey as the lone no vote.
“You can’t possibly have sat in the committee hearing and and think that there is any detail to the plan,” Dorsey said after the meeting.
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