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This winter, the Pimlico Community Development Authority (PCDA) worked with residents and stakeholders to create a draft spending plan for Fiscal Year 2018. The plan allocates $8.7 M in Local Impact
Aid for the Park Heights Master Plan area, the Northwest Community
Planning Forum, the Liberty-Wabash area, and Coldspring Newtown.
Mayor Pugh and the PCDA hosted a public forum
in February and a second public forum in March to receive comments on the FY
2018 spending plan. The
Final FY18 Pimlico Local Impact Aid Spending Plan is now available for review.
For
FY 2018, the City is estimating that $8 million in Local Impact Aid will be
available for the entire Pimlico area.
This estimate is subject to change. The FY 2018 spending plan will also include
$713,000 in revenue from FY 2016 that exceeded that year's estimated funding,
bringing the total spending plan amount for FY 2018 to $8,713,000.
The
priorities for the FY 2018 spending plan are:
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Promote visible,
physical redevelopment
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Leverage
this unique funding source
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Focus
where need is highest and impact will be greatest
To
implement these priorities, 85% of the funds are allocated to the Park Heights
Master Plan area, where the need is greatest, and 15% to the 1 mile
radius. Within the Park Heights Master
Plan area, funds are targeted to two new initiatives that will achieve visible
redevelopment progress: an initiative focused on the Park Heights Avenue
corridor as the area’s main gateway and an initiative to provide development
incentives to help developers and residents renovate and occupy properties that
are currently vacant.
For
more information on the PCDA and the FY 2018 spending plan, please visit PCDA’s website.
About the Pimlico
Community Development Authority
The Pimlico Community Development Authority
(PCDA) is an advisory group established through State legislation to provide
community input on how slots funding is allocated in the Pimlico area.
In
2007, the State legislature passed the Maryland Education Trust Fund – Video
Lottery Terminals legislation (2007 SB 3), which provides Local Impact Aid to
jurisdictions that have casino facilities. The legislation also directs a
portion of the impact aid to the area around the Pimlico Race Track. The current statute provides funds to the
Pimlico Area for 20 years, through fiscal year 2032.
Camp Small Zero Waste Begins to
Generate Savings
In 2016,
Baltimore City began the Camp Small Zero Waste Initiative, using an Innovation Fund loan from
2015. This initiative is a collaboration of the City’s Department of
Recreation and Parks and the Baltimore Office of Sustainability. The project
aims to reduce the expense of managing wood waste, save city trees from
landfills, and support the wood-based economy in Baltimore.
Camp
Small has been used for wood processing in Baltimore since the nineteenth
century. The new initiative, Camp Small Zero Waste, allows the city to earn new
revenue through the sale of compost, mulch, wood chips and logs.
Check
out the Tree Baltimore website for more information about how you
can get wood products from Camp Small.
Made in Baltimore
Awarded EDA Local Technical Assistance Program grant
In 2016,
Baltimore City Planning was able to launch the Made in Baltimore program with a $110,000 grant awarded by the EDA.
Made in Baltimore focuses on growing
the local economy by supporting small-scale makers and manufacturers through a
brand certification program. In addition, the initiative opened a series of
five pop-up shops throughout the city featuring more than 80 local vendors. The
most recent pop-up shop generated more than $30,000 in sales over the 2016
holiday season.
Over the
past six months, Made in Baltimore has
also run a series of workshops to connect small business owners with startup
support services, including access to capital, marketing strategy development
and other best practices, in partnership with Open Works makerspace.
Next, Made In Baltimore will be completing an
economic impact study of Baltimore’s ‘Maker Economy’. Businesses in the
maker/manufacturing sector are encouraged to complete our business owner survey
at http://www.madeinbaltimore.org/survey
Read more
about the Made in Baltimore
initiative in this recent Baltimore Sun article. For more information on the
forthcoming workshops for small businesses, please email Program Manager Andy
Cook at andrew_cook@baltimorecity.gov
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