This case study involves the current renovations taking place at Druid Hill Park in West Baltimore, Maryland. You have moved up from your last position as the troubleshooter for the Department of Recreation & Parks. Because of your success and reputation as the Facility Trouble Shooter in the Department of Recreation & Parks city-wide has propelled you to become the new Assistant Director of Recreation and Parks on special assignment to become a member of the Mayors Committee on the Druid Hill Park Renovation Project. You are tasked with ensuring.

1. That the renovations take place and that the historical integrity of the park, monuments, The Maryland Zoo, and other features of historical importance are maintained.
2. New programs and opportunities are created taking into consideration the changing demographics of the communities surrounding the park.
3. Creating a diverse group of individuals to work at the park to ensure all that all individual and group needs are considered in programming.
4. You must create your own staff specifically for the
5. You must have knowledge of the history of the park, its boundaries, features, current programming, monuments, potential revenue streams that may be developed, environmental challenges, parking, sports leagues, entertainment, fitness and security issues are concerns.
6. The immensely popular loop around the reservoir has two options (see below) you must decide whether to

1. Open voting on the two options only to the immediate surrounding communities?
2. Open voting up to Baltimore City Residents only?
3. Open voting up to Maryland residents only?
4. Open voting up to registered voters only?
5. Open voting up to elected city and state government officials?
6. Let the Mayor and City Council members handle the selection?
7. You make the decision?

7. Whatever reason chosen you must justify your rationale for why you believe that the selection is the best option available and present this to the Director of Recreation & Parks.
8. Determine the best way to conduct and market the vote on the Reservoir Loop Vote to the targeted voters you decide upon.
9. The project redevelopment primarily affected the reservoir itself and the loop however, it has given the city the impetus to seek ways to generate revenue from the park. However, historical preservation advocates and environmentalist are against any further renovation of the park that takes away from its natural aesthetics and the monetizing of the park. The cash strapped city is entertaining all potential options and you must decide which OF the revenue-generating ideas offer the best value to all of the stakeholders and what do you propose.
10. Finally, all of the issues listed above harbor political, socio-economic, racial and gender concerns as every group is a stakeholder and part of the overall constituency of Baltimore City especially surrounding the park

Here are the two description of the walking, jogging and biking options.

Option One: Uses Red road and the roads behind the Recreation and Parks Headquarters. It is approx. 1.07 miles long (reservoir loop is approximately- 1.5 miles).

Option Two: Uses the Mansion House loop. This loop may have limited access due to zoo events and parking for park/zoo events. This option is approximately-958 miles).

Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre (3.01 km²) urban park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are marked by Druid Park Drive (north), Swann Drive and Reisterstown Road (west and south), and the Jones Falls Expressway / Interstate 83 (east).^[2] Inaugurated in 1860, Druid Hill Park, a famed urban park, ranks with Central Park (begun in 1858) in New York City, Fairmount Park (1812) in Philadelphia and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco as the oldest landscaped public parks in the United States.^[3]

History[edit]

The land was originally part of "Auchentorlie", the estate of Dr George Buchanan (1696-1750), one of the seven commissioners responsible for the 1729 establishment of Baltimore Town, which was laid out by the commissioners the following year. Buchanan's country estate northwest of the town, and on the west bank and overlooking the Jones Falls stream running south to "The Basin" (today's Inner Harbor) of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and future Port of Baltimore, included 579 of the 745 acres (3.01 km²) that comprise Druid Hill Park today. Renamed "Druid Hill" by Col. Nicholas Rogers, who married Eleanor Buchanan, it was purchased in 1860 by the City of Baltimore from family descendant Lloyd Rogers with municipal funds raised by the revenue derived from a one-cent park tax on the nickel horsecar fares, put through by 19th Mayor Thomas Swann, (1809-1883; served 1856-1860) - (later 33rd Governor of Maryland - served 1866-1869).^[4] After its purchase, Druid Hill Park was inaugurated by Swann on October 19, 1860. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Local residents often refer to the park as "Dru Hill" Park, a " Baltimorese" (local dialect) corruption of its given name.

The park was designed by Howard Daniels, landscape designer retained by the newly created and appointed Board of Park Commissioners, and John H. B. Latrobe, (1803-1891),^[5] who designed the gateways to the Park and the alterations made to the early-19th-century Nicholas Rogers mansion that already stood in the site, later known as the "Mansion House". George A. Frederick, (1842-1924), the 21-year-old Baltimore municipal architect who later won the commission for Baltimore City Hall in 1860, (constructed 1867-1875), provided designs for architectural features in the park. Among Frederick's playful structures for Druid Hill in Moorish and Chinese styles is the Chinese Station erected in 1864^[2] and the Moorish Station,^[6] which were stops on a narrow-gauge railroad that once wound through the park. The "Mansion House" now functions as the main administration building of the Baltimore City Zoo (founded 1876, later renamed Maryland Zoo in Baltimore).

Like Central Park in New York City's central urban Manhattan of the 1850s designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, (1822-1903), Druid Hill was at the northern edges of urban development at the time of its establishment. The northern end of the park, which contains some of the oldest forest growth in the state of Maryland, has never been landscaped, but rather left as a natural wooded habitat.^[2] Roadways through this section of the park have been closed to vehicular traffic since the late 1970s or early 1980s,^[8] but have always been open for hikers and bicyclists. A well-known Osage Orange tree, said to be hundreds of years old, was brought down by Storm Sandy in October 2012.^[9]

The southern end of the park was a popular destination for city dwellers for several decades. Druid Lake, the park's most notable waterway, was constructed in 1863 and remains one of the largest earthen dammed lakes in the country. In the early part of its history, it served as a reservoir for the Baltimore metropolitan area public water system. ^[2] With the advent of automobiles, the park's many winding roadways became popular with car dealers who took potential buyers there to teach them to drive.

Many of the park's older fountains and man-made ponds have been drained, allowing nature to reclaim those areas. However, many of their structures remain partially or completely intact.^[8]

Druid Hill Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1973.^[1] The Park is also included in the newly organized Baltimore National Heritage Area in the 2010s in cooperation with the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior.^[10]

Racial segregation[edit]

When the Park first opened in 1860 - a few months before the outbreak of the American Civil War - recreation facilities such as pools and tennis courts were racially segregated.

By the early 1890s, tennis had become popular in clubs around Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and at Howard University. An organization dedicated to developing black tennis players, the American Tennis Association held its first ATA National Championships in Druid Hill Park in August 1917. The events were men's and women's singles, and men's doubles.^[11]

The practice of segregation was definitively challenged on July 11, 1948, when 24 black tennis players, protesting the City's discriminatory policies, were arrested for playing on the park's "white-only" tennis courts. The names of the protestors are commemorated on the Baltimore Tennis Club marker, located adjacent to the Rawlings Conservatory glasshouse along Druid Park Lake Drive. The incident was the subject of the last public column and editorial of the famed Baltimore editor, reporter, columnist and author, H.L. Mencken, who, writing in the Baltimore Sun in 1948, condemned the City's segregationist policies.^[12]

Festivities[edit]

The Maryland Zoo is located in the center of the park.

The Druid Hill Farmers' Market is located at the Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park. When open, it offers free programming each week, including concerts, children's activities, yoga classes, plant workshops, art workshops, hay rides, hula hoops, 4-H Workshops, and more. The market runs weekly from June through September.

The Park also is the venue for the annual Charm City Cyclocross bicycle race in mid-September, which is one of the major cyclocross bicycle races on the East Coast of the United States.^[13]

Since 2014 the annual Charm City Folk and Bluegrass Festival is held each April, next to the H.P. Rawlings Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

Health[edit]

In 2007, the city of Baltimore spent $50,000 on exercise equipment for the park. The park consists of three workout stations around the park reservoir. The workout machines in the park are free for the public. These stations have rowing machines, elliptical, and leg presses. Many of the exercise machines are manually operated. By the end of 2010, the city of Baltimore plans to install more outdoor exercise equipment for other parks in the city.^[14]

Monuments

William Wallace Monument

There are many different monuments in Druid Hill Park. The Wallace Monument, for example, honors fourteenth-century Scottish hero and rebellion chieftain William Wallace. The statue, at least 40 feet tall, is the most recognizable monument in the park. The Wagner Monument, dedicated to the German composer, stands on the lawn near the Mansion House ("Druid Hill" mansion). The monument in honor of Christopher Columbus lies within a view of the main South Driveway, and looks out upon the reservoir. The statue of George Washington (removed from old Carroll Hall building from the mid-19th century at the southwest corner of Calvert and Baltimore Streets in downtown) is placed at an intersection near the Rotunda driveway.^[15]

Housing[edit]

Druid Hill Park is not home to any private residences, according to the official neighborhood boundaries by the city government of Baltimore.^[16] However, the Mansion House, located in The Maryland Zoo, which was built in 1801, served as the estate for Colonel Nicholas Rogers and his family until it was converted into a public pavilion in 1863.^[17] The only privately owned properties that are somewhat submerged into the park are at the northeastern corner of the park. This small enclave is the Brick Hill historic district dating to 1877, made of small masonry as well as stone duplexes, where those who worked at the Meadow Mill of the Woodberry Manufacturing Company lived. However, this is considered to be a part of the Woodberry neighborhood.^[16][18] Many homes face the park in the neighborhoods of Hampden, Liberty Square, Park Circle, Parkview Woodbrook, Reservoir Hill, and Woodberry. The Achentoroly Terrace, which faces the neighborhood in the Parkview Woodbrook neighborhood, is a historic district of nine blocks built between 1876 and the 1920s in the Victorian style.^[19]

Today, the park is home to a number of attractions. These include:

• The Maryland Zoo, (formerly the Baltimore City Zoo)
• The Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens of Baltimore, with its historic Palm House and Orchid Room, built in 1888.
• An 18-hole disc golf course with 15 additional holes in the woods and another 18-hole wooded course under construction
• Several tennis courts open to the public and local tournaments
• The Baltimore Model Safety City (where school children learn how to be safe pedestrians by walking in a miniaturized model of downtown Baltimore)
• Jones Falls Trail, a hiking and bicycling trail, leaves the Jones Falls at the Woodberry Light Rail Station to enter the north end of Druid Hill Park. It then runs along the west side of the park, before it circles Druid Hill Lake and exits at the southeast corner, where to continues to follow the Jones Falls south.^[20]

DIRECTIONS

READ THE DOCUMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY FIRST! LIST ALL THE CHALLENGES, RESPONSIBILITIES, RISKS AND POTENTIALLY LIABILITIES THAT YOU BELIEVE EXIST IN THIS SITUATION

1. please resolve all of the 10 issues that you see on the list and any other potential issues you may see arising from the situation