Maps

The enclosed mapping analysis is derived from ongoing efforts to outreach and involve affected communities to not only identifies relevant issues, but to develop a methodical process to addressing community based and driven issues. The goals are twofold: to help the affected public gain action on specific concerns, but in the process also develop a model for how to systematically approach similar problems in the future. What’s envisioned is the development of a “toolkit” that will be a guide both for effective inclusion of the public in planning and decision-making, and on appropriate analytic steps to quantify and improve understanding toward resolution of key issues. These case study maps were selected with the objective of testing different types and geographic scales of Environmental Justice issues, consist of the following:

1. Concerns in relation to the location and operation of a bus depot in an older, inner-city working-class neighborhood along Kirk Avenue.
2. A history of public transit service changes, reductions and poor service delivery in a predominately African American, low-income community known as Cherry Hill.
3. Reaction to changes in transit service at Lexington Market in central Baltimore, an historic shopping destination frequented by lower-income residents from surrounding communities.
4. Concern of communities in the U.S. Route 40 Corridor through West Baltimore regarding plans for a proposed Red Line and efforts to create transit-oriented development around an existing commuter rail station (West Baltimore MARC), fearing community disruption, destruction and dislocation as occurred in the abandoned Highway to Nowhere which divided West Baltimore in the 1960s.