Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer

Personally I think permits is one of the worst processes we have for the amount of projects we have happening daily in the city. They say it’s a 3-6 month turn around time which is a very big window. It doesn’t matter if it’s a resident or an actual city agency applying. 3 months compared to 6 months is wild. Then when you compare it to other MD counties they’re spitting out permits in a few weeks-1 month. I get they’re smaller and have less projects but the overall process could probably be made more efficient. The follow up from people reviewing the permits is lacking as well. I had a permit issued for a playground and no one reached out to say hey it’s ready it was radio silence. I just had to dig around on the Accela portal until I found it. The only reason I found it is because my husband works for Planning and knows how to use Accela & I used to work for the city and am familiar but residents and people who aren’t computer savvy would never find what they need. Sorry for the rant it’s just something I’m actively dealing with 😔

As a Councilmember what’s your plans to address this?

I feel like maybe being less mean would go a long way. And it’s free!!

These are the performance metrics? This is it? Where are the metrics that show long the average permitting process takes? Where are the metrics on the number of permits administered per employee? How many permits take more than 60-90 days? There’s not much on their slide. Do they have more slides?

The absolute worst thing

It is so atrocious, it essentially an illegal taking of property! Recently reported was a story about a property owner waiting three years for a permit. Isn't that an illegal taking of property for three years? shouldn't the owner be compensated due to not being aboe to do anything with his property for three years? While that is a story that mad ethe paper it is not the only story of taking three years. We had an approved permit that expired while we were negotiating with out contractor. It took over three months to approve a new permit for the exact work that was already approved. How many tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity are delayed due to city incompetence. It is not just the permit dept. Try getting a response from the water dept, the tax sale dept, the finance dept. the law dept. the property transfer dept etc.

We have a stump they left in the street crazy drive around

Very Creative Also Correct Maybe Some Of The Constituents Who Say You Only Take Care Of Only Certain Constituents Should Take A Closer Look Keep On The Stump

So why don’t you take leadership leaders lead not complain

Put a sign on each stump - FOR SALE $20 and people will steal them!

“Find the money” is a kinda wild directive. Where do you suggest the money come from?

You can't gather a team of volunteers to help remove the stumps? I'm pretty certain home Depot would gladly donate some equipment to use for clean up and take it back afterwards. Roll up your sleeves like a leader and see who follows.

Here’s an idea community service for crimes committed by kids 12-17 years old. Do the crime pick up this stump

That’s a lot of dead wood.

I’m sure the environment has greatly benefited from the wealth of species the old stumps provide. Ask your Sierra Club endorser and the Audubon club how they view the removal of old stumps.

If baltimore city has any chance to survive only YITZY can do it

Yea- this was a major problem. The contractor told me they’d remove the stump for $2k. Talk about a racket. And perhaps the powers that be can plant appropriate size trees that won’t take over the neighborhood. Maybe some cherry or apple so there will be nice blossoms and maybe some fruit. The Maple trees and monstrosities that some morons planted years ago show a clear pattern of government stupidity and poor planning. Kind of like what we are experiencing now.

Enjoy your democratic city.

This is wild people are focused on “stumps” How about: The worst roads in the nation The worst schools in the nation The 4th worst crime in the nation The entire administration is incompetent and corrupt But by all means let’s focus on the “stumps”

Yes…. I complained about trees problems for years in Baltimore City!!!

Cut down two trees up the street from me nothing wrong with them but that was 2 years ago and have not seen a truck with a stump grinder yet

Meanwhile i had to pay a private company to have the overgrown city tree trimmed in front of my house after not getting a reply from several 311 complaints and your office over a 2 year period❗️

Again, higher taxes, less services.

thank you

No excuses!

Incompetence at every level

Can you investigate Brandon Scott!! And his illegal safe streets criminal organization!!!!!

Those city clowns don’t have a clue what they are doing. Right hand building and left hand destroying, while sheeps paying taxes.

It’s really incredible, the chaos that is Baltimore City government!

Failure poor management

Talk to Brandon Scott.

I broke in in the Northwest District July ‘71 . And retired while working in the Headquarters building both had serious asbestos problems big time

That's his area

All of the "old" police district stations were built around 1960's. They will all have some sort of asbestos.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention as the tax paying citizen of Baltimore

Creating million $$ work order for friends & family.

Do you really has to ask “Why”?? It’s in a specific target area.

As a Northwest resident I would prefer to see more investment geared to the actual working class residents in the community such as housing and business.

I lived in apartments in Baltimore that were covered in Lead paint. The window sills were so tasty! Cancer survivor!

Worry about your constituents Sir not Criminals 😳🙏🇺🇸

I worked in a school where my office had asbestos and the boiler room right across from it had asbestos and I am now on oxygen 24/7

The building in the Northeast also has Asbestos in it. A few years ago the garage was closed due to Asbestos. But you know if any officers get sick the city will try hard as hell to sweep it under the carpet because they don’t wanna pay out millions of dollars to the sick officers. Baltimore is a cesspool and they don’t take care of their own employees

Sue eraser head just like he always wants to sue. That asbestos tag has lawsuit written all over it.

That shit being fucked up

But you’re not serious about public safety you keep voting on softer policies to turn criminals loose over and over and over and over again, and let foreign criminals live in our city

My question is what is the city doing to attract economic development so I stop paying double what I would pay in our neighboring counties for far worse services? Downtown is hollowing out, Harborplace is an abandoned eyesore. Renaissance basically closed. Sheraton closed. My tax dollars subsidize the Hilton.

Izzy u r lucky that the dumb n stupid will vote for you. Then u along with others on the council will fill ur pockets with taxpayer money Judt like Kamenetz did.