Fwd: Fw: LIve Entertainment Bill 08-0163 - Community Action Requested (1)

[kvn blckstn]

This was sent out to the Charles Village Community Association.
I haven't read the current version as passed and don't have time to right now, but someone should do that.

-Kevin

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From: Jennifer Erickson <cvcapr...@yahoo.com>
Date: 2009/10/29
Subject: Fw: LIve Entertainment Bill 08-0163 - Community Action Requested (1)
To: Jennifer Erickson <cvcapr...@yahoo.com>

All,  

 

Please read the below important e-mail, click on the link and be informed about the issue, and make your opinions count by e-mailing your thoughts to the Mayor's office:  Kristy...@baltimorecity.gov and by participating in the Baltimore Sun's online poll. 

 

Jennifer

 

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: "SLG...@cs.com" <SLG...@cs.com>
To: cvcapr...@yahoo.com
Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 1:45:24 PM
Subject: LIve Entertainment Bill 08-0163

Please send out this email to the CVCA Membership:

The Baltimore Sun at http://www.baltimoresun.com  is conducting a Poll of readers on whether Sheila Dixon should sign the Live Entertainment Bill passed by the City Council on 10/26/2009 expanding the use of live music in bars and restaurants near certain Residential Areas. 

 

The CVCA Board opposed the Bill on First Reader back in May and the CVCA Land Use Committee is now recommending to the CVCA Board that a letter to be sent to the Mayor opposing the Bill as passed, even with the companion bills which were introduced to make the bill stronger.

Right now the vote online at the Baltimore Sun is 73% in favor and 23% against.  Please add your vote to the mix.  The below link is from the Baltimore Sun dated 10/27 which explains the situation thoroughly.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.ci.live27oct27,0,4607385.story

A summary of the Land Use Committee's proposed letter is as follows:

       After careful consideration by its Land Use Committee and Board of Directors, the Charles Village Civic Association ("CVCA") opposes City Council Bill 08-0163, the Live Entertainment Bill. This Bill is a disappointing solution to the initial goal of balancing the desire to expand live entertainment venues in neighborhood business districts by providing sufficient enforcement mechanisms to ensure that these establishments are good neighbors to the nearby residential districts. 

Adding live entertainment as a conditional use to B1 and B2 zoning areas is an insufficient attempt at striking the necessary balance between the interests of businesses and their surrounding residential communities. The Bill creates a burden on the communities to make and pursue complaints against unruly establishments instead of providing a licensing system to regularly monitor these establishments. The two companion bills, which were passed by the City Council in an effort to reduce this burden, do not go far enough to protect the community. 

Currently in hearings before the BMZA, our community volunteers are forced to spend hours waiting to oppose zoning applications for changes in our neighborhoods that are pushed forward by the applicants with little advance notice to the community.  We are very concerned about the possibility that Live Entertainment applications will be added to that hearing list.

CVCA continues to support the creation of a licensing system for live entertainment venues in the City and not the abandonment of the idea.  We appreciate the difficulties encountered during the lengthy legislative process.  We ask you to veto City Council Bill #08-0163 so that the City Council can continue to consider a Live Entertainment licensing system that would enliven Baltimore as a creative and fun place to live and visit while protecting its residents.


Sharon L. Guida, Chair, CVCA Land Use Committee
2746 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-889-0436 (home)
410-467-4409 (work)
410-467-4410 (work fax)
410-960-1139 (cell)
SLG...@cs.com

[Cullen Nawalkowsky]

Can anyone summarize whether the changes/amendments have made it more
favorable to our concerns?

[Michael Byrne]

Basically, the concerns of venues were 100-percent bowed to. The license part of the bill is stripped and its focus now is on opening a couple of business district type zones--and no residential zones--to live entertainment as it's always been defined, however inadequately. 

[kvn blckstn]

I assumed it was in our favor if the land use committee of the CVCA was bitching about it.

2009/10/30 Michael Byrne <mpb...@gmail.com>

[Keri Anne Griffith]

Does anyone have a date idea for when Sheila Dixon will decide whether to sign it?

Keri

Sent from my iPhone

[John Berndt]

By the way, during this I tried to join the Charles Village association,
sent a check, and noted "live entertainement in Baltimore" as one of my
interests, and never heard back from them. Probably a coincidence. I
need to see if they cashed my check.

John

kvn blckstn wrote:
> This was sent out to the Charles Village Community Association.
> I haven't read the current version as passed and don't have time to
> right now, but someone should do that.
>
> -Kevin
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Jennifer Erickson* <cvcapr...@yahoo.com
> <mailto:cvcapr...@yahoo.com>>
> Date: 2009/10/29
> Subject: Fw: LIve Entertainment Bill 08-0163 - Community Action
> Requested (1)
> To: Jennifer Erickson <cvcapr...@yahoo.com
> <mailto:cvcapr...@yahoo.com>>
>
>
> All,
>
> Please read the below important e-mail, click on the link and be
> informed about the issue, and make your opinions count by e-mailing
> your thoughts to the Mayor's office: Kristy...@baltimorecity.gov

> <mailto:Kristy...@baltimorecity.gov> and by participating in the
> /Baltimore Sun/'s online poll.

>
>
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----

> *From:* "SLG...@cs.com <mailto:SLG...@cs.com>" <SLG...@cs.com
> <mailto:SLG...@cs.com>>
> *To:* cvcapr...@yahoo.com <mailto:cvcapr...@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wed, October 28, 2009 1:45:24 PM
> *Subject:* LIve Entertainment Bill 08-0163

>
> Please send out this email to the CVCA Membership:
>
> The Baltimore Sun at http://www.baltimoresun.com is conducting a Poll
> of readers on whether Sheila Dixon should sign the Live Entertainment
> Bill passed by the City Council on 10/26/2009 expanding the use of
> live music in bars and restaurants near certain Residential Areas.
>
> The CVCA Board opposed the Bill on First Reader back in May and the
> CVCA Land Use Committee is now recommending to the CVCA Board that a
> letter to be sent to the Mayor opposing the Bill as passed, even with
> the companion bills which were introduced to make the bill stronger.
>

> Right now the vote online at the /Baltimore Sun/ is 73% in favor and

> 23% against. Please add your vote to the mix. The below link is from

> the /Baltimore Sun/ dated 10/27 which explains the situation thoroughly.

> SLG...@cs.com <mailto:SLG...@cs.com>
>
>
>
> >

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