Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyPayton Chung @westnorth.com · 24/11/2025"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo." 1529
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMatt Yake @myake.bsky.social · 24/11/2025this gets at the core of what's wrong with all the arguments I've seen against bill 25-0066 "I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws." 2273
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyAlex Pemberton @yellowbrickurban.com · 24/11/2025The "health and safety" pretext for zoning is nonsensical today because it was never more than a Jim Crow assertion of Black neighbors as unsafe and unhealthful. It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual. 1194
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/11/2025Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS. 417444
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorseyellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/11/2025the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't" 14110
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyBen Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 24/11/2025nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning 112926
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 07/07/2025A 58-year-old man on a bike died on Friday evening after being hit by a driver on Ensor Street along Latrobe Homes 272
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Consistently ranked as one of the best downtowns in New England, attracting tourists from around the world, none of the buildings depicted in this image could be constructed today under our overly restrictive modern zoning regulations. 📍 Salem, MA 0313
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/06/2025In a functional housing market this would have been redeveloped as a small apartment building 30 years ago. 931335
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/06/2025this is true - but pales in comparison to resources required for cars tho 3673
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyChi Ossé @chiosse.bsky.social · 29/05/2025We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠 531529296
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 18/05/2025the embodied carbon potential of point access blocks v. status quo development is quite massive better homes. higher quality of life. better outcomes related to climate, too. 0214
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Excited to be jurying this event today. Hope to see you there. 051
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Amazing and historic council agenda in Baltimore! 091
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyIan Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I was thrilled to see @electryandorsey.bsky.social cut to the point about the pernicious social function of restrictive housing laws, especially here in Baltimore 072
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyAlex Holt @skatingtomato.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Back now with some more big ones, starting with one from @electryandorsey.bsky.social for Land Use & Transportation. That's right, we're doing single-stair reform! 161
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyAlex Holt @skatingtomato.bsky.social · 12/05/2025More on this package here at a press conference organized earlier today by @mayorbmscott.bsky.social & featuring remarks from himself & the other legislators involved in the package: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pT...youtube.comHousing Options and Opportunity Act; May 12, 2025YouTube video by CharmTV Citizens' Hub 131
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMarilyn Tomato JD, PhD @mddirtlaw.bsky.social · 10/05/2025This is how you grow the city. 1123
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyThe Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 09/05/2025You really love to see it. 😎 0314
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday: •Plex Reform •Single-Stair Reform •Parking Reform 56411
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Today, either @mayorbmscott.bsky.social signed my bill to establish a Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, or we’re hit-makers, depending on who you ask. 191
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025“The word he’d used for ‘world’ was the word for ‘city’, the one that derived from the verb for ‘correct action’.” -A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine 120
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Every Tuesday I have open office hours. And every Tuesday somebody comes to tell me that their neighborhood is diverse (by their definition) and they just love it, but that they don’t want those people moving to their neighborhood. The neighborhood is not theirs. It’s the city’s. 0152
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025DOT has no contract with its principal streetlight maintenance vendor (BGE), no coherent reporting system, and no discernible system of asset management. Gee, I wonder why there are still streetlights missing that got knocked down a decade ago. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...thebaltimorebanner.comWhy does Baltimore struggle to fix downed streetlights?A Baltimore City Council committee on Thursday delved into the question of why it's so difficult to get toppled street lights repaired? 1212
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025sprawl is an unmitigated environmental, social, and economic disaster it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time) sprawl is driving climate change. literally. and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs 15656167
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025That is such great work and great news coming from Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/ho...thebaltimorebanner.comA Baltimore housing program is leading the nation in a key metricA Cityscape paper found the Baltimore area is bucking a national trend. 0263
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I’ve never heard a renter demand to only have homeowners as neighbors. 0293
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 03/04/2025A man died last night after crashing his car in the 2500 block of Hawkins Point Road. 032
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMarilyn Tomato JD, PhD @mddirtlaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Thank you @odetteramos.bsky.social & @electryandorsey.bsky.social! 072
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025So thankful and fortunate to hear Jerusalem Demsas at the Smart Growth America Equity Summit today. She is a true champion. Thank you also to Calvin Gladney and the SGA team for a great event and great opening remarks. @jerusalem.bsky.social @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social @smartgrowthceo.bsky.social 011
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 23/03/202522 years of continuous sobriety. 4272
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyTom Coale @tomcoale.bsky.social · 19/03/2025“Giving people a subsidy for a good whose supply is choked is like building a ladder to try to reach an elevator that is racing upward.” - @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social, #Abundance 041
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A 76-year-old woman was killed in a two-car crash at Northern Pkwy & Pimlico this afternoon. 064
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This Thursday my committee will hear CB 25-0006, the first of what’s intended to be four annual zoning code modifications bills this term. It makes about 30 minor changes throughout the code, plus amendments adding changes, including striking parking requirements for up to 3 dwellings.baltimore.legistar.com City of Baltimore - File #: 25-0006 Title: Zoning Code – Modifications FOR the purpose of amending provisions of the Baltimore City Zoning Code relating to variances to conform to relevant State law; making modifications to the proces... 062
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Minimum parking requirements destroy our communities. 🖼️ @parkingreform.org 213038
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyOpen New York @opennewyork.org · 14/03/2025These are the zoning changes that City of Yes opponents called "apocalyptic" 318513
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyBmoreCityDOT @bmorecitydot.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Baltimore City Mayor's Office to host job fair for displaced federal employees buff.ly/ufkZ3mP Both private and public sector employers are set to attend the event, including the Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore City Department of Transportation, and more. 0166
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyBmoreCityDOT @bmorecitydot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025 24-hour parking enforcement is now in effect, cracking down on illegally parked vehicles, residential permit violations, and repeat offenders. Towing operations are also running 24/7—so make sure you’re parked legally! 241
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Driving the speed limit in an area with a high volume of potential conflicts, it’s always SUPER SHOCKING to see in the rear view mirror that the person laying on the horn behind you as you approach a red light is while texting driving a vehicle that has very clearly already been in a wreck. 1111
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyEmily Warfield Scarr @emilyscarr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Councilman @electryandorsey.bsky.social goes back and forth with BGE’s executives on steep increases in delivery rates, saying, “If you were to compare 2008 to 2024, in terms of the distribution rate increases, people are paying more than 100% more over that time.” youtu.be/OrjxQ5gsznA?...youtu.beCity Council Hearing: Committee on Legislative Investigations; February 20, 2025YouTube video by CharmTV Citizens' Hub 141
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyPatrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 10/03/2025In central #Ohio, “People are tired of having their housing choices dictated by zoning codes that reflect what their great grandparents thought was cool.” Wow! Overwhelming support for allowing Missing Middle Housing on any residential lot. columbusunderground.com/new-survey-s... 3646
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 10/03/2025we are moving the wrong direction on VMTs and the number of cars on the road and not one city or state is doing *anything* to reverse that. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...reuters.comUS drivers log 3.28 trillion miles in 2024, setting new recordTravel on U.S. roads in 2024 rose 1% to 3.28 trillion miles setting a new yearly record and topping pre-COVID 19 levels for the first time, the Transportation Department said Wednesday. 59533
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Starting March 10. You’re welcome. 3245
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver last night in the 100 block of South Hilton Street. 070
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I got a few constituent emails about this today, so I’m saying it here: The City of Baltimore has not bought and is not buying any Tesla vehicles. 2708
Reposted by Councilman Ryan DorseyMarilyn Tomato JD, PhD @mddirtlaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Great bill @electryandorsey.bsky.social 061
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025“The time is always right for local government to take action to protect citizens,” Dorsey said. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...thebaltimorebanner.comBaltimore moves closer to creating consumer protection agencyThe office would have the power to investigate complaints and issue citations. An accompanying board could suspend a business’s license if it engages in unfair or deceptive practices. 0204
Councilman Ryan Dorsey @electryandorsey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Got a favorable committee report on my bill to create a Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing. 0122