| | | Date | Series Name | Description | Schedule No | MSA Citation |
| |  Details | 1974-1981 | General Administrative Files | Central administrative files of the department with material on general topics as well as files on the department's divisions. The files for 1969-73 and some from 1964-68 were housed at the University of Baltimore's Baltimore Regional Institutional Studies Center (BRISC) and transferred back in 1989, described here. That series also has a large amount of supplementary material especially cartographic records, books and pamphlets, reports, and routine files such as purchase orders and time sheets. The whereabouts of the 1946-63 files are unknown. The supplementary material dates from 1939, although the bulk is from the 1960s. | 1375 | BRG60-1 |
| | Details | 1974-1979 | Reader Files | The reader files contain copies of correspondence, memos, and other material generated by administrative divisions of the department. Material in this central file is duplicated in the topically arranged general administrative files (series 1). | | BRG60-2 |
| | Details | 1932-1966, 1970-1973, 1980-1985 | Planning Commission Minutes | Minutes begin with the first meeting of the reorganized Commission on the City Plan on April 7, 1932. In September 1947 the Commission on the City Plan was again reorganized and renamed the Planning Commission, but there is no break in the minutes. The minutes for May 25, 1939 give a lengthy history of city planning in Baltimore. | 0440 | BRG60-3 |
| | Details | 1950-1977 | Subdivision and Development Plats | These plats were used by the Baltimore City Planning Commission, and each plat is stamped with the date of the commission meeting at which it was discussed. A duplicate file of these plats is kept on apperature cards at the department. The plats are arranged by department drawer and plat numbers with a descriptive index to the plats in each drawer at the beginning of each reel. The drawers, however, were not filmed in numerical sequence. Beginning in 1965 the plats are arranged chronologically. | | BRG60-4 |
| | Details | 1940-1960, 1971 | Master Plans | These master plans were prepared from the 1940s-1960s and a few in 1971 and arranged by function. A letter (1940) concerning the preparation of master plans is at the beginning of the film. Plans include: park plans, police and jail, libraries, markets, recreation, airport, port, bath houses, water, street cleaning, rapid transit, residential blight and slums, sewers, schools, fire departments, and street plans. | | BRG60-5 |
| | Details | 1939-1960 | Statistical Data Folio | The Commission on City Plan began in 1939 compiling statistics on various aspects of the master city plan. Parts on the plan covered are: Master Park Plan (1939-51), Master Plan on Residential Blight and Slum Areas (1946), Master Street Plan (1939-57), Fire Department Plan (1941- 61), Bath Houses and Comfort Stations Plan (1941-60), Master School Plan (1939-51), Master Water Plan (1943, 1945), Master Recreation Plan (1944-50), and Master Plan for Rapid Transit (1946). The data consists of the location of existing and proposed facilities in each of the areas covered. | | BRG60-6 |
| | Details | 1962-1964 | Square Mile Sheets | These are square mile sheets of the city, all revised in the period 1962-64. They are arranged on the film by location beginning with the northwest and ending with the southeast. Film of subsequent square mile sheets is in the department. | | BRG60-7 |
| | Details | 1930, 1960 | Transportation Division Plans | These plans were prepared by other city agencies and used for transportation planning. The plans were filmed by plan number, but there does not seem to be any organization to the plans. The types of plans represented are Bureau of Highways plans on specific streets, urban renewal plans, interstate highway system plans, census tracts, and square mile sheets. | | BRG60-8 |
| | Details | 1967 | Traffic Survey | In order to determine pedestrian usage of downtown streets, interviews were conducted at various downtown street corners in 1967. The data conisted of sex of interviewee, starting point, and destination. | | BRG60-9 |
| | Details | 1950-1959 | Pictures | In 1959 the Planning Department had slides made of graphic material relating to various planning projects. The material, collectively called "pictures," includes renderings, sketches, plans, close sections, profiles, and maps. These were done in the 1950s. This series features originals and copies of these pictures. The following projects are represented: Camden Redevelopment (Area 7); Broadway Urban Renewal Area (Area 4); Hilton Street and Frederick Ave.; St. Mary's Industrial School; Carlin's Circle; Edmondson Ave. and Hilton St.; Inner Harbor Basin; Baltimore-Washington Expressway; East-West Expressway; Mount Vernon Place; Jones Falls Expressway; Harbor Tunnel; Stiles St.; and Battle Monument.
Subseries 1 contains images from microfilm. In 2010, twelve drawings, originals and copies, were located, cataloged, digitized in color, and hyperlinked. These images form subseries 2. (Some of these drawings appear in in the microfilm in subseries 1.) | | BRG60-10 |
| | Details | | Park Blue Prints | Plats of various parks prepared by the Commission on Efficiency and Governmental Economy, Engineering Committee. Parks included are: Herring Run, Wyman, Carroll, Clifton, Venable, Druid Hill, park board property, Gwynns Falls, Patterson, Broening, Swann (Moale Point), Garrett, Riverside, Latrobe, Easterwood, Franklin Square, Union Square, Harlem Square, Lafayette Square, Collington Square, Perkins Spring Square, City Springs Park, Mt. Royal Terraces, Johnson Square, Madison Square, Bo-Lin Square, Maple Park, Fulton Ave. Squares, Mt. Vernon Place, Jackson Square, Park Space, Broadway Squares, Eutaw Place, Wilkens Ave. Squares, Philadelphia Road Squares, Cold Stream Park, Friend's Park, and Taylor Park. | | BRG60-11 |
| | Details | 1975-1979 | City Council Bills | Files created by the Planning Department when
researching and making a recommendation on city council
bills referred to them. The files contain printed city
council bills, correspondence, draft testimony, newspaper
clippings, plans, petitions, and rough drafts of
resolutions. | 1600 | BRG60-12 |
| | Details | 1967 | Institutional Survey | The Planning Department hired Morton Hoffman and Company (consultants) to prepare and conduct a survey of downtown or Central Business District III (CBD III) institutions. This survey provided the Planning Department with project space needs for future use. Separate questionaires were designed for each of four types of institutions: hospitals, health and welfare agencies, educational, and religious institutions. The various institutions surveyed are arranged alphabetically first, under their appropriate organizational category andthen, by the name of the institution. In addition to the questionaires the files contain: correspondence, articles, programs, brochures, interviews, published histories, analytical and annual reports, plats, and slides.
A container list is available at the Baltimore City Archives. | | BRG60-13 |
| | Details | 1976-1988 | Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals | Files created by the Planning Commission when requests
were made for renovations and zoning changes. The files
include: plats, correspondence, plans, newspaper clippings,
petitions, and hearing decisions. | 1679 | BRG60-14 |
| | Details | 1914-1980 | Economic Development Reports | Reports of studies and proposals done and issued by the Planning Department concerning industrial and commercial development in the city.
There is a container listing available at the Baltimore City Archives. | 1737-A | BRG60-15 |
| | Details | 1975-1988 | Slides | Slides organized by street address and created by the Planning Department for various projects. Note: many are general area views and do not photographically document the entire length of a particular street. | | BRG60-16 |
| | Details | 1929-1973 | Baltimore City Planning files (formerly in the custody of the University of Baltimore) | The collection was formally deposited at the University of Baltimore on August 8, 1973, based on a contract between Dr. W. T. Durr of the Baltimore Regional Institutional Studies Center (BRISC) and Larry Reich, Director of the Baltimore City Department of Planning. There were 20 accessions of records between 1972 and 1977. In 1989, series I through IV and VI were returned to Baltimore City Archives, and were cataloged with the temporary designation of BTR 22. Remaining series were returned in 2016, including later records not yet described. The bulk of the records consist of correspondence, cartographic records, case files, computer printouts, consultant reports, federal grant applications, housekeeping records, memos, newspaper clippings, photographic files, etc.
This finding aid to series IX through XXIV of the material was produced by the University of Baltimore. | | BRG60-17 |
| | Details | | Subdivisions | Land Use and Urban Design | 0403 | BRG60-18 |