Kick off the new year by learning more about what's

going on in our community. The

Greater Parkville Community Council (GPCC) invites you to its first general

meeting of the new year.



Meeting

Speakers Include:

Captain Gordon Skinner, Parkville's 8th Police

Precinct, will present what types of crimes that are occurring in our

community, what is being done to address

these crimes, and ways to prevent crime in your neighborhood. In addition,

the GPCC invites the Police Captain annually to its' meeting so that residents

have an opportunity to personally discuss crime related concerns with the

Captain and Community Relations Officers. At past GPCC meetings discussions

included:

- traffic management on residential streets

- robberies, home burglaries

and car thief

- preventing graffiti and get it cleaned up

- increase police



presence along the Harford Road Business District, local neighborhoods, and at



the Baltimore County/City line

- police resources for schools and local

neighborhoods.





Christina Minkler, Project Manager, State Highways Administration, will



present the proposed I-695 Beltway Ramp Reconfiguration Project and the



replacement of the Beltway Bridge at Old Harford Road.



The first project

involves changing the off ramp



configuration from the inter-loop of the Beltway onto Harford Road (see



attached map). The existing ramp southbound onto Harford Road (from Towson)

will be extended and widened from one lane to three lanes, and a traffic signal

will be installed at the top of the ramp on Harford Road. Southbound traffic

will exist as they do now, and northbound traffic going towards Carney will

make a left turn at the new traffic light on Harford Road. The existing off ramp

onto Harford Road will be removed.





The bridge at Old Harford Road has

been in disrepair for years and needs to replaced

if beltway improvements are to be made. It is expected that both projects will

be combined with the design of these projects completed in the spring of 2014

and construction work to begin in the fall of 2014. More details about these

projects will be given at the meeting.





Meetings are open to the public. Looking



forward to seeing you at the meeting and in our community in 2014.





PLEASE

NOTE: GPCC meetings will be cancelled if public



schools are closed or dismiss early due to weather conditions.



For more information contact Ruth Baisden, GPCC President, at 410.668.2580 or ruthbaisden@yahoo.com



















