By Ed Gunts
Baltimore Brew
Baltimore’s parks system is one of the most extensive in the country, but the last time the city commissioned a comprehensive plan to guide maintenance and use of its parkland was in 1904.
Last night, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution that calls for the establishment of an Open Space and Parks Task Force to lay the groundwork for the creation of a new master plan for the parks system, which consists of nearly 6,000 acres throughout the city and more than 300,000 trees.
The task force is an outgrowth of a hearing on the status of the parks system held last April by the Council’s Recreation and Parks Committee. The resolution creating the task force was introduced by Councilman Carl Stokes, chairman of the committee.
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