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City's longtime effort to create hiking and biking routes should not do so by sacrificing trees and other vegetation in favor of more asphalt.

The City Council hearing featured a wide-ranging discussion that often veered into the minute details of crime and policing in Baltimore but also raised big questions about how to reform a disgraced department while curbing rampant gun violence and rebuilding public trust.

The Baltimore office charged with implementing the city’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy defended itself in a letter delivered to the City Council Friday, arguing the process of reversing violent trends in the city is not “overnight work.”

Baltimore City Council members' frustration with a continuing lack of weekly recycling pickups triggered a six-hour budget meeting Wednesday with the Department of Public Works. The COVID pandemic previously halted all recycling, but the city has been collecting biweekly for the last six months. DPW says a study of recycling routes is needed before resumption of weekly pickups.

Mayor Brandon Scott pushed back against calls for a fresh short-term plan to address gun violence in Baltimore, an idea proposed by six City Council members.