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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 8A-4 Scope; General standards.">
  <section prefix="§" num="8A-4" heading="Scope; General standards.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of subtitle.">This subtitle governs the procedures for gating, greening, and leasing alleys under the authority of &lt;cite data-doc="City of Baltimore, Md., Charter" data-path="II|§35|(e)"&gt;City Charter Article II, § 35(e)&lt;/cite&gt; and (f).</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Standards for authorizing gating and greening.">The Director of Transportation may authorize the gating and, if applicable, the greening of an alley if, on petition, public notice, and hearing as provided in this subtitle, the Director determines that:<para num="(1)">the alley is no longer needed for through pedestrian or vehicular traffic;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the gating and, if applicable, the greening will promote the public health, safety, or welfare; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">the majority of the structures abutting the alley:<para num="(i)">are residential; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">contain, above a non-residential ground floor, 1 or more upper stories that, as allowed by the applicable Use Table of the Baltimore City Zoning Code, are being used or are designed and intended to be used as residential dwellings.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-409</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-580</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-405</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-107</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
