Druid Hill

The Access Project for Druid Hill Park Auchentoroly / Mondawmin Complete Streets Report

Spring 2020 Druid Hill

The Access Project for Druid Hill Park envisions a future where residents of all ages and abilities are able to reach the recreational, public health, and cultural benefits of Druid Hill Park using safe and accessible complete streets.

Written & designed by Graham Coreil-Allen, Auchentoroly Terrace Resident, Public Artist, and 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow.

With input from the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association, the Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association, Friends of Druid Hill Park, and Bikemore.

Spring 2020 | tapdruidhill.org @tapdruidhill | [email protected]

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 4

Historical Context 8

Demographics 13

Community Engagement 14

Challenges & Solutions 20

Shared Goals 27

Appendix A: Related Efforts 28

Appendix B: Walk Audit Reports 35

Endnotes 41 Executive Summary

Druid Hill Park is the most valuable asset for our community. Many residents utilize the many amenities: Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory, Swimming pool. basketball and tennis courts, Farmer’s Market, Pavilions for festivals, etc. It’s imperative that residents of Historic Auchentoroly Terrace community have safe, improved, and increased access to Druid Hill Park. Immediate action is needed to improve pedestrian safety. — Ms. Barbara Anderson-Dandy President, the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association

The Access Project for Druid Hill Park (TAP cultural benefits of Druid Hill Park using Druid Hill) is a campaign to better connect safe and accessible “Complete Streets.” residents of West Baltimore with Druid Hill Park. A coalition of residents, city officials, and community partners are working Complete streets are streets together to increase access to the park designed and operated to be safe through transportation planning, a public and accessible for all, including health survey, and creating public art for pedestrians, transit users, pedestrian safety. We seek to convert the wheelchair riders, and people who dangerous, five-to-nine-lane-wide barrier rely on bicycles and e-scooters to highways around Druid Hill Park into get to work, school, and family. calm, liveable streets safe and accessible Each complete street is different for all. Census data shows that about half and based on the needs of the of neighbors living around Druid Hill Park surrounding neighborhood. do not have access to cars.1 As pedestrians, wheelchair riders, transit users, people who This community-based report identifies rely on bicycles and escooters, and drivers; the transportation safety and accessibility all of our neighbors also deserve priority needs on the west side of Druid Hill Park, access to the park. specifically between Auchentoroly Terrace and Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station. In TAP Druid Hill envisions a future where 2017 the Baltimore City Department of residents of all ages and abilities are able to Transportation announced the Druid Park reach the recreational, public health, and

2 Lake Drive Complete Streets Design Effort. ▶ Install protected “micro-mobility Our goal is to ensure that this planning lanes” connecting residents who process is as reflective of community rely on wheelchairs, bicycles, and voices as possible and draw additional escooters for transportation from attention to the transportation safety and Mondawmin to Druid Hill Park and accessibility needs of residents who live the Big Jump shared-use pathway. and work along Reisterstown Road. ▶ Complete the West Baltimore segment of the Baltimore This document is based on four years Greenway Trail Network. of community engagement, including pedestrian safety walks, resident ▶ Construct sheltered bus stops interviews, a public health survey, along Gwynns Falls Parkway and community events, and public art Auchentoroly Terrace serving MTA and projects. TAP Druid Hill has identified the Baltimore City Public School buses. following priorities for improving roadway safety and park access for our neighbors: ▶ Expand the free Charm City Circulator bus system with a Druid ▶ Slow car speeds to 25 miles per Hill line connecting Mondawmin hour or less and reduce car wrecks Mall / Metro Station to Druid Hill by converting Auchentoroly Park, including the Maryland Zoo in Terrace and Reisterstown Road into Baltimore and recreational facilities neighborhood boulevards safely like ball fields, the disc golf course, accommodating all users. and the Druid Hill Aquatic Center.

▶ Create protected, signalized crosswalks to Druid Hill Park for all side streets.

3 Introduction

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The neighborhood identified on maps Association. Gwynns Falls Parkway bisects as “Parkview / Woodbrook” but better the historically walkable neighborhood known as “Auchentoroly Terrace” and and serves as a main connection between “Mondawmin” is framed by Auchentoroly Baltimore’s oldest large urban park, Druid Terrace on the east, Fulton Avenue on Hill Park, and its second largest transit the south, Reisterstown Road on the hub, Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station. west, and Liberty Heights Avenue on the Widening of the surrounding streets to north. The area is served by two active accommodate high-speed car traffic community associations, the Mondawmin has significantly impacted the lives of Neighborhood Improvement Association residents who do not drive. and the New Auchentoroly Terrace

4 From the 1940s through the 1960s, over around Druid Hill Park have some of the protests of the local NAACP and the city’s highest mortality rates of neighborhood associations, city-led, cardiovascular disease and cancer. car-oriented planning deprived local residents of safe and easy access to the These are some of the dangerous recreational, cultural, public health, and conditions that pedestrians, people with economic benefits of Druid Hill Park. disabilities, and residents who rely on Paving the way for white flight, highway transit, bicycling, and e-scooters face: projects cut off working class African American and Jewish neighborhoods ▶ 8-10 lane highways up to 143’ in width from the park. The city’s goal was that hinder park access for people faster commute times that proved to who do not have access to cars. benefit predominantly white suburban residents. Construction of the 1948 Druid ▶ Extra car lanes that induce Hill Expressway and 1963 Jones Falls motorists to drive at dangerous Expressway resulted in the widening of speeds resulting in injury and death Auchentoroly Terrace and Druid Park to motorists and pedestrians. Lake Drive from two lane, park-front ▶ A loss of 16 historic park entrances, residential streets into roaring five-to- leaving West Baltimore residents nine-lane-wide highways equipped with with only a handful of marked only a handful of crosswalks routinely crosswalks to reach the park on foot. ignored by motorists. More than twenty neighborhood side streets once served ▶ No crosswalks to Druid Hill Park as gateways to the park. Now neighbors from smaller side streets. on foot can only get into the park at five traffic signals where they face turning or ▶ Existing crosswalks are unsafe, speeding cars. poorly marked, or not marked at all. ▶ A majority of pedestrian signals do Around Druid Hill Park approximately not provide enough time for people 50% of residents do not use a personal to walk all the way across. car for transportation yet 90% of the public right-of-way is dedicated to ▶ A lack of designated MTA and vehicular traffic. Residents who don’t public school bus stops at key drive rely on public transit, walking, park access and neighborhood biking, rented escooters, and ride sharing intersections. to move around the city. Druid Park Lake Drive and Auchentoroly Terrace are not ▶ Shelters needed at existing safe to use for most residents and make bus stops. it difficult for pedestrians, seniors, and ▶ Lack of protected, connected children to get to Druid Hill Park. “micro-mobility lanes”, also known as bike lanes, for people The prioritization of traffic flow over who rely on wheelchairs, bicycles, neighborhood value and pedestrian safety and escooters. has health and environmental impacts. Baltimore’s asthma hospitalization rates ▶ No transit lines connecting are far higher than the state and national neighborhood residents with average. The Baltimore City Health amenities in Druid Hill Park such as Department’s 2017 Neighborhood Health the pool, playgrounds, basketball Profiles2 shows that the majority working courts, and tennis courts. income, African American communities

5 been constructed. A brief summaries of these plans and their practical impacts can be found in the appendix.

In 2017, 7th District Councilman Leon F. Pinkett, III convened the Druid Hill Park Access Stakeholders group, including the Cars driving at speeds above 25 miles-per- New Auchentoroly Terrace Association, hour put pedestrians at risk of significant Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement injury and death.3 Roadways around Association, Reservoir Hill Improvement Druid Hill Park induce motorists to speed, Council, Bikemore, Rails-to-Trails resulting in a high concentration of fatal Conservancy, Parks & People, Baltimore or grievous crashes.4 Older adults and City Department of Public Works, people of color are disproportionately Baltimore City Department of Recreation represented in fatal crashes involving and Parks, and Baltimore City Department people walking.5 Nationally the number of Transportation (DOT). TAP Druid Hill is of people struck and killed while walking the resident-led advocacy campaign of increased by 35 percent over the past this stakeholders group. We are leveraging decade.6 The evidence is clear - we must contemporary transportation planning protect residents’ lives by redesigning best-practices, grassroots advocacy, and our roadways with target speeds of 25 creative programming to counteract years miles per hour or less. of city policy that prioritized cars over the public health and economic opportunity Over the past 15 years numerous of residents. unrelated neighborhood transportation plans have been developed by Baltimore In February 2018 DOT agreed to City, non-profits, and community conduct a major transportation study organizations around Druid Hill Park to address the needs of communities and Greater Mondawmin. The plans around Druid Hill Park.7 Later that year have all recommended sidewalk and Baltimore City adopted a new Complete street improvements that would benefit Streets ordinance that requires that pedestrians, wheelchair users, transit all DOT planning, “elevate the priority riders, and people who rely on bicycles for of pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit transportation. While well-intentioned, users in planning and roadway design some of the plans still prioritized high to increase quality of life and mobility speed commuter car traffic over needs in Baltimore City.”8 In late 2019 DOT of more vulnerable street users. Only a awarded their contract for the Druid Park small portion of the recommendations Lake Drive Complete Street design effort made by any of the plans have actually to a team of transportation planners led

6 by engineering firm WSP. The yet to be scheduled study will be an opportunity for local residents to shape a public vision for converting the dangerous highways around Druid Hill Park into complete streets safe and accessible for all.

In 2015 the Neighborhood Design Center created streetscape reports for the Reservoir Hill and Penn North communities. These publications advocate for street beautification and traffic calming interventions to improve pedestrian safety and connectivity between the neighborhoods, Druid Hill Giving back place to people and creating Park, and the local elementary school. a balance to how much of our space we The proposals include curb extensions give up to traffic is transformative. at key intersections to slow car speeds, decorative crosswalks treatments, — Leon F. Pinkett III and a shared use trail along Druid Baltimore City 7th District City Councilman Park Lake Drive. Building on those By publishing the report TAP Druid Hill recommendations, the TAP Druid Hill seeks to right an historical wrong in West report is recommending a holistic set of Baltimore by identifying short and longer transportation improvements to make term solutions to improve access to and it easier for residents to walk, roll, and around Druid Hill Park for our neighbors ride between the Druid Hill Park and who walk, roll, and ride. Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station.

Neighbors visiting at the Druid Hill Farmers Market.

NOTE: This report is for conceptual purposes only. Not for regulatory approval, permitting, or construction. TAP Druid Hill and its volunteers assume no responsibility or liability for its technical accuracy nor for any unauthorized use.

7 Historical Context

Auchentoroly Terrace / Mondawmin in 1927, before construction of the 1948 Druid Hill Expressway. When first settled in the 1600s, the area In 1741 George Buchanan purchased that would one day become Baltimore various parcels of adjoining land including was inhabited by Susquehannock Native Hab Nab and the Level. Buchanan named Americans. In 1643 King James granted it Auchentorlie after his family home in Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, the Scotland and commenced with building Chesapeake land and established the a castle-like mansion. “Auchen” is Gaelich Charter of Maryland. In 1688 Cecil’s son for “fields”. It may be understood that Charles Calvert, third Lord Baltimore, Auchentoroly means “Torlie’s Fields”. assigned the land that would eventually Druid Hill Park was originally part of the become Druid Hill. Over time the land was Auchentorlie estate. By 1796 Buchanan’s subdivided and given various imaginative son-in-law Nicholas Rogers had built a names, such as “Hab Nab a Venture”, “the new mansion (after the castle burned Level”, “Hap Hazzard”, “Happy be Lucky”, down) and renamed the estate Druid and “Come by Chance”.9 Hill. In 1856 Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, great grandson of George Buchanan, sold 33 ½

8 acres to John Morris Orem, a Baltimore dry goods magnate. Baltimore City purchased the remaining Druid Hill estate in 1860 with city stock and money from a tax on a lucrative train line contract.10

In the ensuing years, Baltimore City converted Druid Hill into a large urban park. The former private estate was redesigned in the English landscape tradition by landscape architect Howard Daniels, architect George Frederick, and park commissioner John H. B. Latrobe.11 Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue at Auchentoroly Terrace and Liberty Heights Avenue. Unlike Europe’s geometric gardens of the 16th & 17th centuries, the romantic Between the late 1800s and early landscape sought to evoke an idealized 20th century Jewish families from view of nature. Asymmetrical designs east Baltimore and overseas began included gentle lawns and water features purchasing and living in the developing set against tree groves and accented with neighborhood. The Shaarei Tfiloh picturesque architectural structures. Druid Synagogue was founded in 1921 by Hill Park is the third oldest large urban predominantly Russian and Eastern park in the country after Boston Commons European Orthodox Jewish immigrants (1634) and New York’s Central Park (1858). living in the neighborhood. The initial congregation first met in 1920 in the With his 33-½ acres John Morris Orem rowhouse at 2218 Bryant Avenue before built a large summer home and named raising money to build a permanent it Auchentoroly in tribute to the original temple. From 1921 to 1927 real estate name of the former Buchanan estate. businessman Louis Cordish, grandfather In 1876 Orem built two additional to prominent Baltimore developer mansions on Auchentoroly Terrace for David Cordish, and others raised over his son William Morris Orem and son-in- $285,000 to construct the two-story law William West, who had married his stone synagogue.13 Designed by architect daughter Sophie Baker. The Orem siblings Stanislaus Russel, the building is unique would go on to plan, parcel, sell, and in its embellishment on all four sides develop much of Auchentoroly Terrace with rusticated stone quarried at Port and the Mondawmin neighborhood.12 Deposit, stained glass windows, and a tall copper-clad dome with clerestory Built between 1876 and the 1920s, fenestration illuminating the interior Auchentoroly Terrace and Mondawmin sanctuary. Inside, the ground floor was represent an impressive collection of used for smaller gatherings and Hebrew Victorian-era architecture. Nine rows of school. The grand second floor features housing, two former mansions, and one two levels of seats - 700 for men and 300 synagogue frame the western edge of for women.14 At its peak in the 1940s the Druid Hill Park. The buildings eloquently building hosted upwards of two thousand contrast with and honor the park’s congregants during High Holy Days.15 romantically-inspired, natural landscape. Generations of hardworking, caring, and Beginning in the 1950s suburban creative residents have made political, development spread around Baltimore, educational, and artistic history along attracting middle and upper class the grand street. residents away from the city. Local

9 Jewish residents began moving farther Hill Avenue and McCulloh Street to one- northwest to places like Pikesville. During way thoroughfares connecting with a that same period African Americans widened and extended Auchentoroly began moving to neighborhoods around Terrace. By 1947 the highway plans had Druid Hill Park. sparked a robust public debate.17

In his Baltimore Sun op-ep on the history of the highways around the Druid Hill Park18, local resident Dr. Daniel Hindman uncovers how the city ignored the voices of African Americans:

In shaping this plan, the city did not seek input from the primarily African American and Jewish communities through which the proposed expressway would travel. When the plan was put through The Commission Senator Verda Welcome’s former home at on City Planning, the lone dissenting Holmes Avenue and Liberty Heights Avenue. member was John L. Berry, a man The The Mondawmin Neighborhood Baltimore Sun identified at the time as Improvement Association was founded the “negro member of the commission.” in 1954 by Verda Welcome. Welcome lived Despite Mr. Berry’s opposition as a behind the synagogue at the corner of representative of the community that Liberty Heights and Holmes Avenues. the proposed route and accompanying In 1958 Welcome was elected to the traffic would directly affect, the city Maryland House of Delegates. In 1962 she moved forward. Civil rights advocates, was elected to the Maryland State Senate, including Lily Jackson and Clarence making her Maryland’s first African- Mitchell, would later assist in resisting American female state senator. Welcome the project, but to no avail. lived a block off Auchentoroly Terrace at the southwest corner of Holmes and When the “Druid Hill Expressway” was Liberty Heights Avenues. During her 25 proposed, NAACP Labor Secretary years in the Maryland legislature Welcome Clarence Mitchell Jr. argued that championed legislation improving increased traffic speeds through employment regulation and eliminating westside neighborhoods would imperil Maryland’s racial segregation laws.16 black residents, individuals barred by racist real estate practices from moving It was during this period of demographic to the very suburbs that the highway transition that neighborhood streets also would serve.19 Shaarei Tfiloh synagogue underwent dramatic physical changes. Rabbi Nathan Drazin wanted to ensure From the 1940s through the 1960s, that traffic would not endanger children car-focused transportation projects attending Hebrew school as well as the drastically changed the face of the park. throngs of congregants who traditionally The city’s goal was faster commute walked down the middle of Auchentoroly times for downtown workers living in Terrace during the high holy days.20 the suburbs. At that time Mondawmin residents were largely Jewish and African Despite local outcry over the expressway American. Proposed in 1945, the “Druid plans, the three local council members Hill Expressway” would convert Druid were asked by area political boss James

10 Pollack to ignore the opposition of their found themselves facing a similar fate. constituents and instead support the In 1951, Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. “city wide” highway effort. In those days, proposed the Jones Falls Expressway.24 Pollack’s Trenton Democratic Club ran Druid Park Lake Drive would need to a political machine that picked and be expanded to serve as a feeder road elected almost all northwest Baltimore to this new highway. Ensuing years of politicians. While the councilmen residents’ protests were ignored and had local independence, they dared construction began in 1956. not cross Pollack over issues he considered important to the city at By 1963, with the completion of the large.21 Conveniently, the expressway Druid Hill Expressway and the Jones plan called for widening and extending Falls Expressway, what were once two- Auchentoroly Terrace to Anoka Avenue lane, park-front residential streets - the calm, tree-lined street that Mr. now served as dangerous five-to- Pollack called home.22 In the end, the nine-lane highways. The roads have councilmen appeased the local political made it difficult for people to cross machine, and they voted in favor of on foot into the park, and for disabled cutting down over 250 trees23 in Druid individuals who live in Lakeview Towers, Hill Park to make room for widening a public housing high-rise immediately Auchentoroly terrace into a highway, adjacent to the park, crossing by eliminating the historic and safe access wheelchair is nearly impossible. A to Druid Hill Park that residents of West park once served by over 20 footpath Baltimore had so long enjoyed entrances is now equipped with only five sets of deteriorating, nearly invisible Just a few years later, on the south side crosswalks for West Baltimore. of the park, residents of Reservoir Hill

11 The planning decision to build highways hardest hit blocks, car exhaust pollution around Druid Hill Park, a decision rooted accounted for 50% of the risk, more than in historic, structural racism, makes it twice than other pollution sources like difficult for the existing working class power plants. population - people of color living in Auchentoroly Terrace, Mondawmin, Baltimore City Department of Planning Penn North, and Reservoir Hill - to fully data also shows that nearly half of benefit from the park as a public health neighbors around the park do not have amenity. The Baltimore City Health access to cars.27 A 2016 study published Department’s 2017 Neighborhood Health in Injury Journal analyzed Baltimore City Profiles25 shows that the majority lower car crash data between 2009-2013 and income, African American communities found a major hot spot of accidents along around the park have some of the city’s the west side of Druid Hill Park caused highest mortality rates of cardiovascular by “very obvious combinations of high disease and cancer. According to the 1017 speed roadways and heavily trafficked Asthma and Air Pollution in Baltimore pedestrian areas.”28 In order to ensure City study26, Mondawmin zip code 21217 that residents have access to the park our was among the five local zip codes with streets must be redesigned to ensure the the highest rates of asthma. Within the safety of motorists and pedestrians alike.

Changes need to happen to improve our quality of life in the community. We love Druid Hill Park and have been planting street trees on our blocks to make a difference with climate change. We’ve got more people walking and riding bikes, which is why we support the greenway trail effort and calming traffic for our residents. — Sandra Almond-Cooper President, Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association

12 Parkview / Woodbrook also known as Demographics Auchentoroly Terrace / Mondawmin

Population: 1,1 Bicycle Other 2.2% Drive alone 7.4% 39.5% Walk 11.6% Auchentoroly / Mondawmin: 1,12

Subway +rail 13.7% Baltimore: 7,07

Carpool 11.6% 0 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 Bus Population Density per Suare Mile 2017 Means of 31.4% Transportation

$50,000 Baltimore Vacant Lots: 19 2.5% Auchentoroly Vacant $40,000 Mondawmin Buildings: 149 19.4%

$30,000 7,50 ,19

$20,000

$10,000 Occupied Buildings: 602

0 78.1% 201 Median Household Income Property Conditions

Black: 83.2% Hispanic: 7.6% 2+ races: 3.8% Auchentoroly / Mondawmin: 0.5 White: 3.5% Other: 1.9%

Baltimore: 21.9

2017 Racial 0 5 10 15 20 25 0 5 Composition Population Below Poverty Level

Data sources: city-data.com and Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development Code Map, retrieved April 2020

13 Community Engagement

This report is informed by ongoing Auchentoroly Terrace Association traditional and creative community and the Mondawmin Neighborhood engagement. At the core of our Improvement Association to address engagement has been the Druid Hill Park pedestrian safety and connectivity access stakeholders’ group, community around Druid Hill Park. Residents walks, resident interviews, creative identified pedestrian challenges and events, public art projects, and grassroots brainstormed ideas for temporary art advocacy efforts. projects. Based on resident input, public artist Graham Coreil-Allen and volunteers In 2016 the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy created the Footprints Crosswalk, a and Bikemore worked with the New colorful, temporary addition to the

14 intersection of Auchentoroly Terrace and Gwynns Falls Parkway that empowered pedestrians to safely walk to the Druid Hill Farmers Market. Local advocates also worked with DOT on a permanent traffic signal fix that now gives pedestrians a leading crosswalk signal.

In late 2017 Councilman Pinkett secured support from the Mayor’s Office for DOT to conduct a major transportation study and community-based Druid Hill Park access master plan. As DOT began preparing to launch their Druid Hill complete streets study in the summer of 2018, they were also implementing a temporary connectivity demonstration in the same areas.

The Big Jump Baltimore is a grant-funded shared-use path connecting pedestrians, wheelchair riders, and people who rely on bicycles living in Reservoir Hill and Remington along Druid Park Lake Drive and the 28th Street Bridge. The Big Jump Baltimore was championed by DOT, Bikemore, Councilman Pinkett, and resident advocates who would go on to power TAP Druid Hill. OSI Community Fellow Coreil-Allen worked with Bikemore and local volunteers to identify the shared- use path by adding custom vinyl “Big Jump” decals to its protective water-filled barriers and using traffic paint and stencils to create wayfinding directing residents to the path from adjacent side streets. Above: Big Jump Shared-Use Path, 2018 block To celebrate the grand opening of the party, and community tour. Big Jump, Bikemore hosted a block party Opposite: Footprints Crosswalk, temporary on August 26, 2018 attended by over pedestrian safety art project, 2016. 600 residents that featured free food, In the early fall of 2018 residents and non- partners, performances, and dignitaries profit partners in the stakeholder group including the Mayor and DOT Director. worked with DOT to define a scope of During the block party Coreil-Allen used work that covers all park access points the path to lead walking tours about and prioritizes neighborhood-park the history of the highways encircling connectivity, multi-modal transportation, Druid Hill Park and the current efforts to slowing car speeds, and ADA compliance. transform these roads into safer, more Stakeholders agreed that instead of accessible complete streets. functioning as high speed highways our major streets like Druid Park Lake Drive

15 and Auchentoroly Terrace should feel like identifying transportation challenges in parkways with integrated green spaces Mondawmin and along Auchentoroly that resonate with the historic park Terrace. Through these walks residents landscape. In addition, excess lanes should identified opportunities for better access be removed and restored to recreational to Druid Hill Park, places where motorists park land and new crosswalks should tend to speed and drive recklessly, and be created to provide park access from specific repairs needed to crosswalks, neighborhood side streets. sidewalks, signage, and traffic signals.

Based on the stakeholders’ expressed Coreil-Allen also conducted interviews scope of work and values, in February 2019 with dozens of neighbors, partners, and DOT released a Request for Proposals city officials regarding access to Druid from interested firms to lead the officially Hill Park. Thoughts shared by residents named, “Druid Park Lake Drive Complete reinforced the common goal to improve Streets Design Effort.” In August 2019 access to Druid Hill Park for all neighbors, the Baltimore City Board of Estimates especially those who rely on walking, awarded the contract to a team led by transit, and mobility devices. engineering and planning firm WSP.

Complementing the stakeholder group efforts, local leaders have also organized community walks to engage additional neighbors in discussions around public health, safety, and transportation. Since taking office Councilman Pinkett has led semi-annual walks with residents and city officials to address a range of issues in the blocks around Druid Hill Park. The walks serve as opportunities for code enforcement, sharing of public safety concerns, and transportation issues affecting residents.

Building on these walks, in the summer Complementing these conversations, of 2019 OSI Baltimore Community Coreil-Allen used TAP Druid Hill social Fellow and local Auchentoroly Terrace media to document the first hand resident Graham Coreil-Allen led a series experiences of pedestrians, wheelchair of Pedestrian Safety Walks focusing on riders, and people who rely on bicycles and scooter get around the park and surrounding communities. These images and videos have helped to reshape the perspective of outsiders and motorists who have not fully understood the risks of walking to and around Druid Hill Park.

To better understand neighborhood walkability and Druid Hill Park access conditions TAP Druid Hill conducted a series of six walk audits at peak hours in July and August of 2019. Using the

16 Arches & Access light art and community parade connecting residents and Druid Hill Park, 2019. AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit as a guide we residents, artists, and performers analyzed key Mondawmin streets for transformed Madison Avenue and Druid intersection, crosswalk, and sidewalk Park Lake Drive into a spectacular, roving conditions; driver behavior, safety, and block party. Neighbors collectively comfort and appeal. created a place to march, dance, and perform in celebration of our West In collaboration with artists and Baltimore communities united in organizers around Druid Hill Park, preserving green space and creating TAP Druid Hill has created active safe streets. programming promoting park access. Through months of planning, Coreil- In an effort to leverage public art to create Allen and Reservoir Hill residents more lasting park access improvements, Jessy DeSantis and Courtney Bettle Coreil-Allen has initiated efforts to orchestrated Arches & Access, a light create artistic crosswalks along lower art installation and parade. Showcasing Auchentoroly Terrace and at Fulton the cherished connections between and Druid Hill Avenues to beautify the Druid Hill Park and surrounding neighborhood while slowing down cars. neighborhoods, the Arches & Access The artist has solicited design feedback project illuminated and activated the from community members and is in historic Druid Hill Park Gate at Madison active discussions with DOT on approval Avenue and Rawlings Conservatory with and permitting to install the public art colorful lights, a community parade, with assistance from local youth. and a public party. On the evening of TAP Druid Hill has also engaged in November 3rd, 2019, over three hundred grassroots advocacy efforts. Since

17 Above: Before and after new crosswalk at Fulton Avenue and Druid Hill Avenue, 2019. Below: Before and after new crosswalk at Auchentoroly Terrace and Ruskin Avenue, 2019.

2017 the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association and OSI Baltimore TAP Druid Hill advocacy resulted Community Fellow Coreil-Allen in five crosswalks being restriped have worked with DOT and BCRP to and four new crosswalks created accelerate completion of BCRP’s long in 2019, all enhancing access to delayed “Druid Hill Neighborhood Druid Hill Park. Access” project. Originally proposed in 2007, the project’s goal was to upgrade Druid Hill Park and transportation. major intersections around the park In early 2019 T-Mobile and the with decorative traffic signals and ADA- Maryland Zoo shared proposals to compliant curb ramps and crosswalks. construct a 180’ cell phone tower While well intentioned, the project in the center of historic Druid Hill inadvertently resulted in multi-year Park. Representatives from the New removal of crosswalks and curb ramps Auchentoroly Terrace Association and it sought to improve. It took three years the Greater Mondawmin Coordinating of advocacy, a disabled person in a Council responded with concerns over motorized wheelchair being struck by the tower’s height and appearance, an MTA bus while using a deteriorated and requested that income generated crosswalk, and the community taking by the tower be used to support the story to the media before DOT and publicly accessible amenities in the BCRP finally finished the project. park. In the process of discussions Neighbors have also organized in with Zoo staff, advocates learned of response to major proposals affecting

18 A Druid Hill Circulator bus will help parents with young children, disabled or handicapped and elderly citizens travel safely, securely, serenely, scenically and swiftly in enjoyment of our beautiful landmark public park. — Alison Velez Lane Lifelong Auchentoroly Terrace resident Alison Lifelong Auchentoroly Terrace resident Velez Lane testifying against removing Druid Hill Park green space for a parking lot and in support of a free, Druid Hill / Mondawmin circulator bus, February 26,2020. the organization’s plan to pave a large DOT on developing a free Mondawmin area of Druid Hill Park as a parking lot. Druid Hill Circulator line to serve the Community advocates subsequently 50% of area residents who do not drive. made it clear that covering green space BCRP did not heed the suggestions of with asphalt will negatively impact the advocates and continues to push the historic landscape and create more parking lot plan. The proposal is still pollution and public health issues for up for debate and will be decided later local residents already coping with this year by the City Council’s Land Use high rates of asthma. Committee.

A year later the same diverse group of TAP Druid Hill plans on continuing advocates met with BCRP to express community engagement efforts to concerns over their plans to remove support and inform DOT’s forthcoming green space in Druid Hill Park to Druid Park Lake Drive Complete Streets construct a 79 car parking lot as part Design Effort. We support the WSP team of the Druid Hill Park Aquatic Center incorporating meaningful, equitable renovation. While community members engagement strategies. In addition support renovation of the pool, they to traditional community meetings, opposed removing recreational space we look forward to facilitating creative for more polluting car traffic. Several programming to reach residents where neighbors Auchentoroly Terrace and they already gather. The solutions Remington residents testified against section of this report goes into the proposed parking lot at the February further detail on participatory event 2020 at a Board of Estimates meeting. recommendations. Instead of a parking lot, advocates asked BCRP to utilize existing nearby empty parking lots and collaborate with

19 Challenges & Solutions

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Auchentoroly Terrace

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Reisterstown Road

ulton Avenue

What follows are observations of the major to serve as a conversational starting point streetscapes that frame the Auchentoroly to inform DOT’s forthcoming Druid Park Terrace / Mondawmin neighborhood and Lake Drive Complete Streets Design ideas for how to make them more safe and Effort. The design ideas include both accessible for all residents. The analyses lower-cost, quick-built solutions and and ideas are based on the past four longer-term reconstruction that may be years of community engagement. The incorporated into the Druid Park Lake proposals are conceptual only and meant Drive Complete Streets Design Effort.

NOTE: This report is for conceptual purposes only. Not for regulatory approval, permitting, or construction. TAP Druid Hill and its volunteers assume no responsibility or liability for its technical accuracy nor for any unauthorized use.

20 Auchentoroly Terrace & Liberty Heights Avenue

Challenges Solutions

▶ Missing pedestrian signals on ▶ Add pedestrian signals on northeast and northwest corners. northeast and northwest corners.

▶ The pedestrian signal is not audible. ▶ Make pedestrian signals audible.

▶ The roads are too wide to safely cross. ▶ Install curb extensions at corners to define parking and shorten ▶ South side crosswalk is faded. crosswalk distances. ▶ Excessive car lanes. ▶ Restripe crosswalks with high ▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. visibility Continental or artistic crosswalks. ▶ The 3400 block of Auchentoroly Terrace is exceptionally long and ▶ Narrow travel lanes and convert a missing its historic mid-block northbound lane of Auchentoroly crosswalk to Druid Hill Park. Terrace / Swann Drive into on- street parking. ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ mobility lanes. ▶ Convert a travel lane along southbound Auchentoroly Terrace ▶ A sheltered bus stop is needed. into a protected two-way bicycle/ mobility lane connecting to the Big ▶ As a major gateway to Druid Hill Jump Shared-Use Path. Park the intersection needs more signage and wayfinding to the ▶ Construct a High-Intensity Maryland Zoo and other amenities. Activated CrossWalK (HAWK) beacon to provide pedestrians with midblock park access.

21 Auchentoroly Terrace & Gwynns Falls Parkway

Main Challenges Short-term Solutions

▶ The traffic signal doesn’t give ▶ Reprogram traffic signals to allow pedestrians enough time to cross. pedestrians more time to cross.

▶ Three of the four crosswalks are ▶ Make pedestrian signals audible. poorly marked. ▶ Install curb extensions at corners ▶ The roads are too wide to safely cross. to define parking and shorten crosswalk distances. ▶ Turning traffic does not yield to pedestrians. ▶ Restripe crosswalks with high visibility Continental or artistic ▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. crosswalks. ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ ▶ Narrow travel lanes and convert a mobility lanes. northbound lane of Auchentoroly ▶ A sheltered bus stop is needed. Terrace / Swann Drive into on- street parking.

▶ Convert a travel lane along southbound Auchentoroly Terrace into a protected two-way bicycle/ mobility lane connecting to the Big Jump Shared-Use Path.

22 Auchentoroly Terrace & Side Streets Bryant Ave, Whittier Ave, Orem Ave, Ruskin Ave, Edgemont Ave, Avalon Ave

Main Challenges Short-term Solutions

▶ Auchentoroly Terrace is too wide to ▶ Narrow travel lanes and convert a safely cross. northbound lane of Auchentoroly Terrace / Swann Drive into on- ▶ Existing crosswalks are not marked. street parking. ▶ Side streets are missing signalized ▶ Convert a travel lane along crosswalks to Druid Hill Park. southbound Auchentoroly Terrace ▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. into a protected two-way bicycle/ mobility lane connecting to the Big ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ Jump Shared-Use Path. mobility lanes. ▶ Construct High-Intensity Activated CrossWalK (HAWK) beacons to provide pedestrians park access at every side street.

▶ Add speed cameras on the 3200 block of Auchentoroly Terrace.

23 Druid Hill Avenue / McCulloh Street & Fulton Avenue

Main Challenges Short-term Solutions

▶ The traffic signal doesn’t give ▶ Reprogram traffic signals to allow pedestrians enough time to cross. pedestrians more time to cross.

▶ The pedestrian signal is not audible. ▶ Make pedestrian signals audible.

▶ All crosswalks are poorly marked. ▶ Install curb extensions at corners to define parking and shorten ▶ The roads are too wide to safely cross. crosswalk distances. ▶ Turning traffic does not yield to ▶ Restripe crosswalks with high pedestrians. visibility Continental or creative ▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. style crosswalks.

▶ There is no median on Fulton ▶ Narrow travel lanes and convert a Avenue. northbound lane of Auchentoroly Terrace / Swann Drive into on- ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ street parking. mobility lanes. ▶ Create a protected median in the ▶ A sheltered bus stop is needed. center of Fulton Avenue.

▶ Convert a travel lane along southbound Auchentoroly Terrace into a protected two-way bicycle/ mobility lane connecting to the Big Jump Shared-Use Path.

24 Reisterstown Road & Gwynns Falls Parkway

Main Challenges Short-term Solutions

▶ The southwest corner is missing a ▶ Install pedestrian signal at pedestrian signal. southwest corner.

▶ The pedestrian signal is not audible. ▶ Make pedestrian signals audible.

▶ The roads are too wide to safely cross. ▶ Install curb extensions at corners to define parking, shorten crosswalk ▶ There is no median or center distances, and clearly delineate turning lane on Reisterstown Road. travel lanes crossing intersections. ▶ Turning traffic does not yield to ▶ Create a protected median in the pedestrians. center of Reisterstown Road. ▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. ▶ Construct shelter for northeast ▶ Gwynns Falls Parkway is misaligned corner bus stop. forcing cars to jog diagonally across ▶ Slow down and protect motorists intersections, resulting in crashes. and pedestrians on Reisterstown ▶ A shelter is needed at the northeast Road by narrowing wide travel corner bus stop. lanes, removing a travel lane in each direction, and using extra ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ space for a center-running turning mobility lanes. lane and protected, curb-adjacent bicycle/mobility lanes. ▶ The northwest corner traffic island is damaged by car wrecks and provides no accessible amenities for pedestrians.

25 Reisterstown Road & Liberty Heights Avenue

Main Challenges Short-term Solutions

▶ The traffic signal doesn’t give ▶ Reprogram traffic signals to allow pedestrians enough time to cross. pedestrians more time to cross.

▶ The pedestrian signal is not audible. ▶ Make pedestrian signals audible.

▶ The roads are too wide to safely cross. ▶ Install curb extensions at corners to define parking, shorten crosswalk ▶ Traffic island at southwest corner distances, and clearly delineate heightens risk to pedestrians of travel lanes crossing intersections. being struck by cars. ▶ Close slip lane at southwest corner. ▶ Turning traffic does not yield to pedestrians. ▶ Plant more street trees.

▶ Drivers appear to be speeding. ▶ Construct shelter for northwest corner bus stop. ▶ There are not enough shade trees. ▶ Slow down and protect motorists ▶ A shelter is needed at the and pedestrians on Reisterstown northwest corner bus stop. Road by narrowing wide travel ▶ The bus shelter at the southeast lanes, removing a travel lane in corner is damaged. each direction, and using extra space for curb-adjacent bicycle/ ▶ There are no protected bicycle/ mobility lanes connecting to the mobility lanes. cycle track at the northeast corner of Liberty Heights Avenue.

26 Shared Goals through Complete Streets

Below are TAP Druid Hill’s shared goals to guide the forthcoming Druid Park Lake Drive Complete Streets Design Effort.

▶ Rebuild streets to prioritize the ▶ Strengthen transit connectivity safety and access of our most and equity by expanding the free vulnerable residents: people with Charm City Circulator with a new disabilities, pedestrians, children, line connecting Mondawmin seniors, transit riders, and Mall / Metro Station to Druid Hill people who rely on bicycles and Park, including the Maryland Zoo escooters for transportation. in Baltimore and recreational facilities like ball fields, the disc ▶ Save lives and reduce car wrecks golf course, and the Druid Hill by reducing car speeds to 25 Aquatic Center. miles per hour or less. ▶ Integrate sustainable design ▶ Restore historic connections features that mitigate and filter between Druid Hill Park and our water runoff while lessening the neighborhood by constructing urban heat island effect. protected, signalized crosswalks for all side streets. ▶ Use design elements that compliment the historic qualities ▶ Improve the public health of our of Auchentoroly Terrace. residents suffering from asthma and cancer by drastically reducing ▶ Create opportunities for air pollution. Redirect outside integrating site-specific, commuter car traffic to transit community-based public art into alternatives and other roads. the streetscape and adjacent public spaces. ▶ Construct sheltered bus stops serving the proposed Druid Hill ▶ Complete the West Baltimore Circulator, existing MTA buses, segment of the Baltimore and Baltimore City Public School Greenway Trail Network. buses that currently pickup students curbside.

27 Appendix A: Related Efforts

2007 Druid Hill Neighborhood Access Improvements

Lead partner: Baltimore City Recreation Impact: Construction began in 2015. and Parks (BCRP) Crosswalks and sidewalks were removed in late 2016 and left unfinished, Summary: Improved pedestrian access to endangering residents seeking to access Druid Hill Park through the modifications Druid Hill Park on foot. In late 2017, new of three park entrances: Madison Avenue faulty crosswalks were installed by a BCRP and Druid Park Lake Drive, Fulton Avenue contractor and immediately began to and Druid Hill Avenue / McCulloh Street, quickly deteriorate. In 2019 DOT installed and Auchentoroly Terrace and Gwynns new crosswalks. In early 2020 BCRP Falls Parkway.29 The much delayed project finished replacing the missing sidewalks took five years to complete once started. with ADA compliant curb ramps.

2012 GRAMA Master Plan

Lead partner: Baltimore City better pedestrian and bike connections. Department of Planning The Greening chapter focuses on opportunities to support the city-wide Summary: The plan includes principles effort to increase the tree canopy, improve and strategies which fall under five topic the visual appeal of the area through chapters: Neighborhood Revitalization, landscaping and greening projects, and Economic Development, Transportation, transform vacant lots into green assets Greening, and Historic Preservation. for the community. Finally, the Historic The Neighborhood Revitalization Preservation chapter lays out strategies to chapter addresses ways to improve the encourage renovation and redevelopment quality of life, expand housing options, in a way that promotes and maintains the enhance stable areas, and redevelop area’s unique historic character.30 areas with high vacancy. The Economic Development chapter provides strategies Impact: The master plan continues to guide to revitalize the major corridors, capitalize urban policy in West Baltimore, though on existing anchor institutions and assets, the impacts of its recommendations re-envision the industrial areas, and for Auchentoroly Terrace / Mondawmin increase access to quality employment have been mixed. While neighborhood for residents. The Transportation chapter population has continued to decline, makes recommendations to improve numerous blighted buildings have the enforcement of traffic rules, enhance been razed and several vacant buildings public transit services and amenities, renovated. Tree Baltimore has worked repair aging infrastructure, and create with local community associations to plant

28 2012 GRAMA Master Plan Continued numerous street trees. Illegal dumping impact. In 2012 Gwynns Falls Parkway and drug trade continue to hinder public and Reisterstown Road31 was identified health and safety improvements for as the most dangerous intersection in residents. Traffic calming suggestions the state by the annual number of car such as “adding ADA treatments, accidents. In 2019 DOT installed a red upgraded signage, and lighting light camera but car accidents persist enhancements” have been implemented on a weekly basis. The recommended at major intersections, making it easier strategy of creating a comprehensive for people who use wheelchairs to cross bike and pedestrian plan for the area the street. Recommendations to enforce has not taken place. traffic and driving rules have had minimal

2015 Connecting Reservoir Hill to Druid Hill Park

Lead partners: Reservoir Hill Impact: BCRP’s Druid Hill Neighborhood Improvement Council and Access Improvements at Madison Neighborhood Design Center Avenue resulted in historically consistent modifications to sidewalks and new Summary: The Reservoir Hill decorative traffic signals similar to Improvement Council engaged the recommendations made in this proposed Neighborhood Design Center to create master plan. The Big Jump project this conceptual master plan proposal effectively achieved the recommendation that identifies existing challenges and of creating an east-west shared use recommends streetscape improvements path by converting an eastbound travel to Druid Park Lake Drive. Major issues land along Druid Park Lake Drive into identified included missing sidewalks and a temporary shared use path. At the crosswalks, no pedestrian-scale lighting, writing of this report the Big Jump path and lack of green buffers between heavy car still exists, but it’s unclear how long it traffic and sidewalks. Recommendations will remain in its current form. Other include neighborhood gateway signage, suggestions such as curb extensions evenly spaced street trees, integration of and sidewalk and crosswalk upgrades crosswalks and ADA ramps, push button have not taken place. DOT’s forthcoming signals at all crosswalks, continuous Druid Park Lake Drive Complete sidewalks on both sides of Druid Park Streets Design Effort will build on this Lake Drive, curb extensions to define on- conceptual master plan proposal with a street parking and improve pedestrian more comprehensive set of community safety, a shared-use path parallel the informed designs and construction southern edge of Druid Park Lake Drive documents necessary to secure funding with bicycle and pedestrian signage, for larger scale improvements. and street furniture that encourages community gathering.32

29 2015 Reservoir Hill Streetscape and Safe Routes to John Eager Howard Elementary School

Lead partners: Reservoir Hill potential improvements such as Improvement Council and landscape curb extensions, decorative Neighborhood Design Center brick crosswalks, and ADA ramps.33 Impact: Findings from this report were Summary: In anticipation of the renovation incorporated into the “John Eager of the John Eager Howard Elementary Howard Elementary School INSPIRE School, now Dorothy Heights Elementary PLAN” published by the Baltimore City School, the Reservoir Hill Improvement Department of Planning and adopted by Council and the Neighborhood Design the Baltimore City Planning Commission Center worked with the Baltimore City on January 12, 201734. Aside from sidewalk Department of Planning and residents to improvements immediately adjacent identify streets “most likely to be used by to the rebuilt school, none of the youth traveling to and from” school. The recommended safety and accessibility report summarizes existing conditions upgrades along the safe route to school along these streets and recommends have been completed.

2015 Druid Hill Park Legacy Report

Lead partners: Bradley Wells, Mount Royal park with a 500’ diameter “Swann Circle” Community Development Corporation, to simplify the traffic pattern and create Friends of Druid Hill Park a more welcoming entrance to the park. The report also suggests converting a Summary: This independent draft report north bound lane of Auchentoroly Terrace and conceptual master plan for landscape into on-street parking and creating more and transportation improvements to park access with crosswalks at several Druid Hill Park was based on existing side streets, including Bryant, Whittier, data, observational studies, and a and Ruskin Avenues.35 survey of residents who use the park. It recommends the integration of public Impact: The unfinished report has wifi hotspots in the park, creative lighting provided inspiration for informal, ongoing of the historic Druid Hill Park Gate at discussions around how to improve Madison Avenue, and major roadway access to and amenities within Druid Hill redesigns. The report proposes replacing Park. No formal action has been taken to the dangerous cluster of high speed roads enact the recommendations since the that isolate the southwest corner of the draft report was shared in 2015.

30 2017 Separated Bike Lane Network Plan

Lead partner: Baltimore City protected by a buffer zone and vertical Department of Transportation elements such as curbs, planters, and/or flex-posts. Such protected lanes ensure Summary: This plan updates the that people who rely on bicycles are not pre-existing 2015 Bike Master Plan at risk of being struck by a motorist or car by identifying strategic corridors for door opening in their path. connecting existing and planned bike lanes in neighborhoods across the city Impact: The plan identifies Auchentoroly with “low stress facilities.”36 “Low stress Terrace, part of Reisterstown Road, facilities” are different types of roadway Gwynns Falls Parkway, and Liberty features and markings designed to ensure Heights Avenue as major corridors that people of all ages and abilities feel safe in need of protected cycle tracks. No and comfortable riding a bicycle on the planning efforts have taken place yet for street. For smaller, on lower traffic streets creating a cycle track on Auchentoroly it recommends options such as speed Terrace. However extensive community humps to calm car traffic and sharrows engagement has taken place as part of to show that bicycles are encouraged to the Baltimore Greenway Trail Network ride in the street. For larger streets with plan to create some form of trail more car traffic, the plan recommends connection along Gwynns Falls Parkway “cycle tracks”. A “cycle track” is a bike lane and possibly Liberty Heights Avenue.

2018-2019 Park Circle Intersection Improvements

Lead partner: Baltimore City Olmsted Brothers that was removed for Department of Transportation highway expansion in the 1940s. The new roundabout was initially designed to calm Summary: The Park Circle Intersection traffic, feature a landmark work of art in its Improvements project rebuilt and widened center, and serve as a formal gateway to the intersection of Reisterstown Road and Druid Hill Park. DOT significantly altered Druid Park Drive. The project reconfigured the design to remove the traffic calming, traffic flows, rebuilt curbs, repaved the historic traffic circle and the public art intersection, marked new unprotected planned as the centerpiece. While the bicycle lanes, and constructed new ADA- completed design includes helpful Compliant pedestrian ramps, bus loading accessibility improvements for people pads, and bus shelter foundations. Adjacent with disabilities, it does not create a new plazas were improved with new sidewalks, access point to Druid Hill Park. In addition, sitting ledges, lighting, and landscaping.37 the bicycle lanes are narrow, unprotected and aligned adjacent high speed, wide Impact: The long planned project was car lanes, making them dangerous and originally envisioned in 2011 as a restoration unlikely to be used by most people who of the historic roundabout designed by the rely on bicycles for transportation.

31 2018 Baltimore Greenway Trail Network

Lead partners: Baltimore City Impact: In 2018 the overall conceptual Department of Transportation, plan for the trail network was formally Baltimore Greenway Trail Coalition, adopted by the Baltimore City Planning Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Commission as part of the city-wide Baltimore Green Network Plan.39 Rails- Summary: “The Baltimore Greenway to-Trails Conservancy began community Trails Coalition seeks to create a 35-mile engagement in 2016 to identify possible world-class network of urban trails that routes and trail design options to connect link together the diverse neighborhoods, the Jones Falls Trail and Gwynns Falls Trail cultural amenities and outdoor resources through a path in northwest Baltimore. that make up the landscape of Baltimore Over the course of numerous community City.”38 Inspired in part by the 1904 meetings in 2017 and 2018 both Gwynns Olmsted Plan for Baltimore, this initiative Falls Parkway and Liberty Heights Avenue is linking existing urban trails with new were identified as possible streets that connections into a 35-mile network that could accommodate a trail connection. promotes social equity, improves health It’s expected that the trail will take and wellness, protects the environment, different forms as it continues through creates active transportation connections, different streets and communities. and stimulates economic reinvestment Various design options have been in neighborhoods across the city. publicly discussed but no formal plans have been decided. Options include an off-road path from Druid Hill Park to and around Mondawmin Mall / Metro Station, a center-running path down the median of Gwynns Falls Parkway west of Tioga Parkway, on-street shared-use path on either Gwynns Falls Parkway or a side street, and decorative sidewalks in lieu of a fully-accessible shared-use path. In 2019 Baltimore City DOT agreed to continue the community-based planning effort at some point in the next two years.

32 2018 The Big Jump

Lead partners: Baltimore City After the Big Jump was constructed Department of Transportation, Bikemore some residents expressed concerns that the conversion of a car travel lane Summary: The Big Jump is a new path to an equity lane for vulnerable streets accessible by foot, bike, and mobility users was causing car traffic backup. devices along Druid Park Lake Drive In response DOT made pathway and 28th Street. It connects neighbors to adjustments and reprogrammed traffic jobs and recreation, and allows people signals to better coordinate car traffic. who use wheelchairs to cross 83 safely Soon to be published data shows that care and easily for the first time. - Bikemore traffic speeds and rush hour congestion project statement.40 are similar to before installation of the shared-use path. With support from Bikemore, in 2017 Baltimore City DOT applied for and was In the near future the Druid Lake awarded a grant from PeopleForBikes to Reservoir Project42 will require digging create a pilot shared use path connecting up large sections of Druid Park Lake Reservoir Hill and Remington.41 Using the Drive to construct a new water main. grant funds DOT purchased moveable, This phase of construction will require water-filled barriers to create the significant changes to traffic patterns demonstration project and study its that will impact both motorists and Big impacts. With the Big Jump people are still Jump users. DOT is currently studying able to reach Druid Hill Park despite Druid alternative options for ensuring that Lake Reservoir Project disruptions to the residents who don’t drive are able to cross popular recreational loop around the lake. the Jones Falls Expressway and access Druid Hill Park amidst construction Impact: The Big Jump shared-use path disruptions. has temporarily realized a key component of the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council and Neighborhood Design Center’s 2015 Connecting Reservoir Hill to Druid Hill Park master plan. For the first time ever the path has made it possible for people who ride wheelchairs and bicycles to cross the Jones Falls Expressway. Extensive TAP Druid Hill documentation shows numerous residents using the path to commute between home and work, and for exercise. Big Jump users also reflect the demographics surrounding neighborhoods.

33 2018 Parks & People Campus Master Plan

Lead partner: Parks & People Foundation Impact: From the master plan: In just two years, Parks & People’s $13 million Summary: In 2018 the Park & People dollar investment in their new LEED adopted a community-informed master Platinum Certified headquarters and plan for developing their campus framed campus has positively impacted over by Liberty Heights Avenue, Reisterstown $16 million in affordable housing and Road, and Auchentoroly Terrace. The plan area improvements. The location of called for improving the green spaces the campus, across the street from the around their headquarters to create Mondawmin Transportation Center, a welcoming environment for local one of the busiest public transit hubs in residents, connecting people to nature the city, ensures that Parks & People’s and each other through new outdoor programs are accessible to everyone. social spaces and enhanced landscape In showcasing best practices in urban biodiversity, and building imaginative sustainability, we are providing a play spaces so people across the city network of learning opportunities from can “see first-hand the real, tangible geothermal systems to stormwater benefits of a sustainably designed and management practices impacting the managed landscape.” Major components Chesapeake Bay. of the plan include a playing field, outdoor amphitheaters, teaching Guided by the master plan, Parks & gardens, play spaces, and rebuilding People continue to make incremental Reisterstown Road as a complete street improvements to their public with enhanced crosswalks, better campus. Landscape improvements stormwater management, more trees, will serve as major amenities to local environmentally friendly lighting, and residents. The design for rebuilding public art.43 Reisterstown Road will complement and enhance DOT’s Druid Hill Park complete streets design effort.

The following walk audits were completed using the AARP’s Walk Audit Tool Kit.44

34 Appendix B: Walk Audit Reports Auchentoroly Terrace & Liberty Heights Avenue

Date: Friday, August 2, 2019 sidewalk is blocked or interrupted: bushes Time: 5:30pm - 6:00pm mid-block. Cars, trucks, vendors are Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have blocking the sidewalk: cars jumping curb a pedestrian signal or audible signal: mid-block. Other issues and observations: no signals on northeast and northwest utility patches have been left unfixed and corners, none audible. The signal doesn’t are not ADA compliant, the 3400 block give people enough time to cross: the 100 of Auchentoroly Terrace is exceptionally foot wide Auchentoroly Terrace needs long and missing a mid-block crosswalk 40 seconds but provides 32 and the 88 to Druid Hill Park. foot wide Liberty Heights Avenue needs Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic 36 seconds but provides 32. The location signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. needs a traffic signal or crosswalk: signals Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, especially needed on the northeast and northwest at right turns. Drivers do not stop behind corners. The crosswalk is not marked or is the crosswalk. Drivers make unexpected poorly marked: the south side crosswalk turns/maneuvers in the left turn lane, they is faded. The road is too wide to safely speed up to beat oncoming traffic. cross: Auchentoroly Terrace is 9 lanes Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s and Liberty Heights Avenue is 6 lanes. too much traffic. Drivers are distracted. Other issues and observations: there The signage or directions for drivers/ are no protected bicycle/mobility lanes, pedestrians are confusing. and a bus stop is needed at this major intersection and park gateway. Comfort & Appeal: The street needs shade trees. The street needs: flowers, Minimum crossing times needed: and landscaping. The street needs AT 100’ distance: 7s + 100’/(3’/sec) = 40s benches and places to rest. The grass and/ Current crossing time: 32s or landscaping needs maintenance. A LHA 88’: 7s + 88’/(3’/sec) = 36s sheltered bus stop is needed. There are no Current crossing time: 32s water fountains and/or bathrooms. There’s Crosswalk users: graffiti or vacant buildings or rundown People walking at an average speed: 3, People buildings. There’s too much trash or litter. crossing against the signal: 2, Bicyclists: 1 As a major gateway to Druid Hill Park the Sidewalks: The sidewalk isn’t wide enough intersection needs more signage and for two people to walk together side- wayfinding to the Maryland Zoo. by-side at the northeast and southwest Ratings & Observations: corners. The sidewalk is broken or cracked: Intersections and Crosswalks: Poor, northeast corner, southwest corner, and Sidewalks: Fair, Driver Behavior: Poor, about one half of the residential side of the Safety: Poor, Comfort and Appeal: Fair, 3400 block of Auchentoroly Terrace. The Overall Rating: Poor

35 Auchentoroly Terrace & Gwynns Falls Parkway

Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Sidewalks: The sidewalks are not Time: 5:30pm - 6:00pm continuous: 4 corners and medians (since Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have fixed). The sidewalk is broken or cracked: a pedestrian signal or audible signal: 4 corners and medians (since fixed). The all sides of the intersection. The signal curb cuts aren’t textured or marked for doesn’t give people enough time to cross: people with visual impairments: 4 corners the 138’ wide Auchentoroly Terrace needs and medians (since fixed). Other issues 53 seconds but provides 20 and the 86 and observations: 4 corners and medians foot wide Gwynns Falls Parkway needs missing and left with “temporary” asphalt 36 seconds but provides 25. The traffic patches for the past 3 years (since fixed). signal makes pedestrians wait too long Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic before crossing: 45 seconds during the signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. turn cycle. A Push-to-Walk signal is not Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, available/operating/accessible: all four especially at right turns. Drivers do not corners (since fixed). The crosswalk is not stop behind the crosswalk. Drivers make marked or is poorly marked: north, south, unexpected turns/maneuvers: turning left and east side crosswalks are standard but speed up to beat oncoming traffic. should be higher visibility continental or Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s too creative style. The road is too wide to safely much traffic. Drivers are distracted. There’s cross: Auchentoroly Terrace is 9 lanes and loitering or suspicious/criminal activity: Gwynns Falls Parkway is 6 lanes. Other panhandler. The signage or directions for issues and observations: eastbound traffic drivers/pedestrians are confusing. on Gwynns Falls Parkway turning right on to Auchentoroly Terrace does not yield Comfort & Appeal: The street needs to pedestrians, there are no protected shade trees: northwest and southwest bicycle/mobility lanes, and a bus stop is corners. The street needs: flowers and needed at this major intersection and landscaping. The street needs benches park gateway. and places to rest. The grass and/or landscaping needs maintenance: median Minimum crossing times needed: has piles of dirt (now gone). There are AT 138’ distance: 7s + 138’/(3’/sec) = 53s no water fountains and/or bathrooms. Current crossing time: 20s A sheltered bus stop is needed. There’s GFP 86’: 7s + 86’/(3’/sec) = 36s graffiti or vacant buildings or rundown Current crossing time: 25s buildings. There’s too much trash or Crosswalk users: litter. Other issues and observations: new People walking at an average speed: 7, traffic poles not finished, going on for 2 People walking slowly: 3, People crossing years (now fixed). against the signal: 2, People using assistive Ratings & Observations: Intersections and devices: 1, Bicyclists: 5, Skateboarders and Crosswalks: Poor, Sidewalks: Fair, Driver escooterists: 1 Behavior: Poor, Safety: Poor, Comfort and Appeal: Fair, Overall Rating: Poor

36 Auchentoroly Terrace & Side Streets

Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 poles at northwest corner. Other issues Time: 5:50pm - 6:20pm and observations: bicycle riders compete Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have with pedestrians for space on narrow a pedestrian signal or audible signal: sidewalks. all side streets. The location needs a Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic traffic signal or crosswalks: all side signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. streets leading to Druid Hill Park are Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, missing both signals and crosswalks especially at right turns. Drivers do not across Auchentoroly Terrace. A Push-to- stop behind the crosswalks: deteriorated Walk signal is not available/operating/ crosswalks and stop bars are practically accessible: all side streets. The crosswalk non-existent. Drivers make unexpected is not marked or is poorly marked: all side turns/maneuvers: motorists merging into streets. People need to walk more than the left turn lane on southbound Druid 300 feet for a safe place to cross. The road Hill Avenue below Fulton Avenue. is too wide to safely cross: Auchentoroly Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s Terrace is 9 lanes. Other issues and too much traffic. Drivers are distracted. observations: Auchentoroly Terrace is The signage or directions for drivers/ overbuilt as a highway mostly used by pedestrians are confusing: park access outside commuters that blocks local point has no gateway signage or residents from safely and conveniently wayfinding. accessing Druid Hill Park and there are no protected bicycle/mobility lanes, Comfort & Appeal: The street needs shade trees: west side. The street needs: flowers Minimum crossing times needed: and landscaping in median. The street AT 144’ distance: 7s + 144’/(3’/sec) = 55s needs benches and places to rest. The grass Side streets 23’ average: 7s + 23’/(3’/sec) = 15s and/or landscaping needs maintenance: Crosswalk users: median and northwest corner. People walking at an average speed: 10, Ratings & Observations: People walking slowly: 1, People crossing Intersections and Crosswalks: Poor, against the signal: 5 Sidewalks: Poor, Driver Behavior: Poor, Sidewalks: There are no sidewalks, paths, Safety: Poor, Comfort and Appeal: Poor, or shoulders: east side of McCulloh Street Overall Rating: Poor above Fulton Avenue. The sidewalk isn’t wide enough for two people to walk together side-by-side: southwest corner at Fulton Avenue. The sidewalk is broken or cracked: northwest corner (since fixed). There’s no buffer between traffic and the sidewalk: west side of Druid Hill Avenue below Fulton Avenue. The sidewalk is blocked or interrupted:

37 Druid Hill Avenue / McCulloh Street & Fulton Avenue

Date: Friday, August 2, 2019 people with visual impairments: 4 corners Time: 6:10pm - 6:40pm and medians (since fixed). Other issues Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have and observations: 4 corners and medians a pedestrian signal or audible signal: not missing and left with “temporary” asphalt audible. The signal doesn’t give people patches for the past 3 years (since fixed). enough time to cross: the 100 foot wide Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic Druid Hill Avenue / McCulloh Street needs signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. 53 seconds but provides 30. The traffic Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, signal makes pedestrians wait too long especially at right turns. Drivers do not before crossing: crossing Druid Hill Avenue stop behind the crosswalk. Drivers make / McCulloh Street. A Push-to-Walk signal is unexpected turns/maneuvers: turning left not available/operating/accessible: Druid speed up to beat oncoming traffic. Hill Avenue / McCulloh Street signal only Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s too works towards park, but not back towards much traffic. Drivers are distracted. There’s neighborhood. The crosswalk is not marked loitering or suspicious/criminal activity: or is poorly marked: crosswalks are standard panhandler. The signage or directions for but should be higher visibility continental drivers/pedestrians are confusing. or creative style. The road is too wide to safely cross: Druid Hill Avenue / McCulloh Comfort & Appeal: The street needs Street is 8 lanes. There’s no median on shade trees: northwest and southwest a street with four or more lanes: Fulton corners. The street needs: flowers and Avenue. Parked cars or utility poles block landscaping. The street needs benches the pedestrian view of traffic: northwest and places to rest. The grass and/or corner. Other issues and observations: landscaping needs maintenance: median there are no protected bicycle/mobility has piles of dirt (now gone). There are lanes, and a bus stop is needed at this no water fountains and/or bathrooms: major intersection and park gateway. the historic “Waiting Room” at the old Park Terminal building could be a public Minimum crossing times needed: amenity instead of a closed off office. A DHA/MS 100’ distance: 7s + 138’/(3’/sec) = 53s sheltered bus stop is needed. There’s Current crossing time: 30s graffiti on the historic wall. There’s too FA 62’: 7s + 62’/(3’/sec) = 28s much trash or litter. Other issues and Current crossing time: 60s observations: as a major park access Crosswalk users: point the intersection needs more formal, People walking at an average speed: 10, pedestrian friendly design, signage and People walking slowly: 5, Bicyclists: 3 landscaping. The new traffic poles are not Sidewalks: The sidewalks are not finished, going on for 2 years (now fixed). continuous: 4 corners and medians (since Ratings & Observations: Intersections and fixed). The sidewalk is broken or cracked: Crosswalks: Poor, Sidewalks: Fair, Driver 4 corners and medians (since fixed). The Behavior: Poor, Safety: Poor, Comfort and curb cuts aren’t textured or marked for Appeal: Fair, Overall Rating: Poor

38 Reisterstown Road & Gwynns Falls Parkway

Date: Monday, August 19, 2019 the center-running path that was part of Time: 5pm - 5:30pm the original Olmsted design. Other issues Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have and observations: bumpouts are needed to a pedestrian signal or audible signal: protect corners and shorten crosswalks. southwest corner signal missing, southeast Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic and northwest signals off, none audible. signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. A Push-to-Walk signal is not available/ Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, operating/accessible: southwest corner, especially at right turns. Drivers do not southeast and northwest signals off. stop behind the crosswalk. Drivers make The signal doesn’t give people enough unexpected turns/maneuvers. Drivers time to cross: the 100 foot wide Gwynns make unexpected turns/maneuvers. Falls Parkway needs 44 seconds but Other issues and observations: overall provides 40. The road is too wide to safely driving behavior is very aggressive. cross: Reisterstown Road is 5 lanes and Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s too Gwynns Falls Parkway is 6 lanes. There’s much traffic. Drivers are distracted. There’s no median on a street with four or more loitering or suspicious/criminal activity: lanes: Reisterstown Road. Other issues drug dealers adjacent to the southeast and observations: Gwynns Falls Parkway is corner. The signage or directions for misaligned forcing cars to jog diagonally drivers/pedestrians are confusing: drivers across intersection, resulting in crashes; unaware of lane shifting mid-intersection. Reisterstown Road needs center turning lanes, corners need bumpouts to shorten Comfort & Appeal: The street needs shade crosswalk distances, there are no protected trees: southwest corner. The street needs: bicycle/mobility lanes, a signalized midblock flowers and landscaping. The street needs crosswalk is needed to connect bus stop benches and places to rest. The grass and/ on east side of Reisterstown Road north of or landscaping needs maintenance: traffic Gwynns Falls Parkway to Metro Station. island fence is broken and Mondawmin Community sign missing. There are no Minimum crossing times needed: water fountains and/or bathrooms. The RR 60’ distance: 7s + 60’/(3’/sec) = 27s bus stop doesn’t provide shelter: northeast Current crossing time: 60s corner. There’s graffiti or vacant buildings or GFP 100’: 7s + 100’/(3’/sec) = 40s rundown buildings. There’s too much trash Current crossing time: 44s or litter. Other issues and observations: Crosswalk users: the traffic island at the northwest corner People walking at an average speed: 60, only functions a landscaping and needs a People walking slowly: 17, People with children gateway sign or sculpture and park features or baby strollers: 2, People crossing against such as street furniture and lighting. the signal: 1, People using assistive devices: 1, Ratings & Observations: Intersections and Bicyclists: 4, Skateboarders and escooterists: 1 Crosswalks: Poor, Sidewalks: Good, Driver Sidewalks: There are no sidewalks, paths, or Behavior: Poor, Safety: Poor, Comfort and shoulders: Gwynns Falls Parkway is missing Appeal: Poor, Overall Rating: Poor

39 Reisterstown Road & Liberty Heights Avenue

Date: Monday, August 19, 2019 Driver Behavior: Drivers do not obey traffic Time: 5:40pm - 6:10pm signals. Drivers appear to be speeding. Intersection: The crossing doesn’t have Drivers don’t yield to pedestrians, a pedestrian signal or audible signal: no especially at right turns. Drivers do not audible. The signal doesn’t give people stop behind the crosswalk. Drivers make enough time to cross: the 120 foot wide unexpected turns/maneuvers. Other Reisterstown Road needs 47 seconds but issues and observations: overall driving provides 20 and the 168 foot wide Liberty behavior is very aggressive, feels like a Heights Avenue needs 63 seconds but highway interchange. provides 24. The road is too wide to safely Safety: Car speeds are too fast. There’s cross: Reisterstown Road is 6 lanes and too much traffic. Drivers are distracted. Liberty Heights Avenue is 6 lanes. Other There’s loitering or suspicious/criminal issues and observations: slip lane at activity: drug dealing at the southeast southwest corner should be closed, major and southwest corners. The signage or utility patch on Reisterstown Road need to directions for drivers/pedestrians are be repaved, there are no protected bicycle/ confusing: it’s unclear when to cross mobility lanes, pedestrians are running traffic island. across the street where no crosswalk exists Comfort & Appeal: The street needs between the bus stop at the southeast shade trees: northeast and southeast corner and the Metro Station. corners. The street needs: grass, flowers Minimum crossing times needed: and landscaping (especially traffic island). RR 120’ distance: 7s + 120’/(3’/sec) = 47s The street needs benches and places Current crossing time: 20s to rest. The grass and/or landscaping LHA 168’: 7s + 168’/(3’/sec) = 63s needs maintenance: all corners need Current crossing time: 24s to be weeded. There are no water Crosswalk users: fountains and/or bathrooms. The bus People walking at an average speed: 81, stop doesn’t provide shelter: northwest People walking slowly: 7, People with corner, the southeast corner shelter children or baby strollers: 5, People using needs repair. There’s graffiti or vacant assistive devices: 3, Bicyclists: 6 buildings or rundown buildings. There’s too much trash or litter. Other issues and Sidewalks: There are no sidewalks, paths, observations: too much pavement makes or shoulders: east side of Reisterstown the intersection feel uninviting and like a Road north of Liberty Heights Avenue is highway, the traffic island could benefit missing sidewalk. The sidewalk is broken from placemaking improvements. or cracked: northwest corner. There’s no buffer between traffic and the sidewalk: all Ratings & Observations: Intersections and sides. Other issues and observations: large Crosswalks: Poor, Sidewalks: Poor, Driver traffic island uninviting to pedestrians. Behavior: Poor, Safety: Poor, Comfort and Appeal: Poor, Overall Rating: Poor

40 Endnotes

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42 Acknowledgments

TAP Druid Hill would like to thank the following people and organizations for their past and ongoing participation, advice, and support:

7th District Councilman Leon F. Pinkett III, Ms. Barbara Anderson-Dandy, Sandra Almond- Cooper, Don Akchin, Adeline Hutchinson, Tom Orth, Donna Cypress, Dr. Daniel Hindman, Cheryl Bailey Solomon, Mario Chang, Anne & Felipe Goncalves, Alicia Puglionesi, Alison Velez Lane, Bernadette Tanzymore, Charles Penny, Graham Young, Matthew Hendrickson, Eric James, Jim Brown, Avery Harmon, Liz Gordon, Liz Cornish, Jed Weeks, Danielle Parnes, Clarissa Chen, Menelik Yeha, Terence Brown, Adam Boarman, William Andersen, Stephen Preston, Davin Hong

The New Auchentoroly Terrace Association, the Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association, Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, Friends of Druid Hill Park, Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council, Bikemore, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the Baltimore Greenway Trails Coalition, Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore City Department of Transportation, Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, Baltimore City Department of Public Works

tapdruidhill.org | @tapdruidhill [email protected]

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