Baltimore DPW Centralizes Public Meetings at HQ | The Locally Times

Public notices show DPW scheduled meetings for at least nine projects—from the Westport waterfront to The Bryn Mawr School—at its Druid Park Drive offices between December 2025 and March 2026.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) scheduled public meetings for at least nine different development and infrastructure projects at a single address between December 2025 and March 2026. ## A Single Venue for City-Wide Projects Records show a consistent pattern of using the Druid Park Drive address for public input sessions over the four-month period, regardless of a project’s location. The projects affect neighborhoods across the city, including The Bryn Mawr Upper School Science Building (March 11, 2026), the BGE ORF Parking Lot (March 6, 2026), The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore’s Gibbons & Bird Exhibits (February 17, 2026), the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Domestic Water Loop Replacement, and the Westport Waterfront Park – Phase 1. For at least five of these projects, public notices specified an even more precise location: Room 228 of the DPW’s Office of Research and Environmental Protection. ## Unanswered Questions of Access and Policy The consolidation of public meetings at a single departmental office raises questions about public accessibility, as residents from any part of the city were required to travel to the same Druid Park Drive location to participate in person. The public records available do not include any formal policy from the Department of Public Works explaining the rationale for this centralized meeting strategy. The notices also do not specify whether remote participation was available. The records do not indicate if this centralized model is intended to supplement or entirely replace project-specific meetings held within affected communities.