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THE SUN BALTIMORE LIGHT FOR ALL Informing more than 1 million Maryland readers weekly in print and online TUESDAY Price $2. Our 179th year, No. 299 October 25, 2016 Governor addresses a pinch point for cargo from port of Baltimore City's zoning changes get nod Preliminary OK for overhaul despite bitter fight over liquor rules IS AMY DAVISBALTIMORE SUN The Howard Street Tunnel, dug in the 1890s, is too small to accommodate double-stacked freight containers. This limitation significantly impedes the flow of cargo out of the port of Baltimore to the rest of the country. Hogan pledges to expand the Howard Street Tunnel By Luke Broadwater The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to the first overhaul of zoning rules in more than 40 years, affecting everything from fraternities to urban farms but not before a bitter dispute erupted over liquor stores.

Councilman Nick J. Mosby clashed with colleagues over whether they were doing enough to crack down on problem liquor stores. The zoning code rewrite would put dozens of liquor stores in residential neighborhoods out of business, but Mosby added a 60-page amendment to the legislation last week that Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young argued went too far against bars. Council members voted 11-3 Monday night to strip Mosby's amendment from the bill, saying that it was flawed and would hurt small businesses.

"I stand before you today utterly disappointed," Mosby told his colleagues. "You're on the wrong side of this issue." He described the votes against his amendment as "cocky" and "arrogant." "I'm not sure what we learned from April and May of 2015," when, in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, See REZONNG, page 6 it deeper. "This is something that we're going to make sure gets done," Hogan told reporters at the Seagirt Marine Terminal. "It's critically important, not only to the port of Baltimore and the city of Baltimore, but the entire state of Maryland. It really could be transformative to our economy." Hogan emphasized the state's plans to reapply for $155 million in federal FAST-LANE funding, a new federal grant program that last year doled out $800 million to 18 projects.

Neither of Maryland's applications received any money last By Erin Cox The Baltimore Sun Gov. Larry Hogan promised Monday to find a way to expand the more than century-old Howard Street Tunnel underneath Baltimore, a "transformative" project he said could spur an almost limitless production increase at the port. After touring what he called the "infamous" tunnel that bottlenecks freight coming out of the port of Baltimore, Hogan predicted the federal government would help pay the $425 million price tag to make year. But Hogan, a Republican, said he's confident the project will be funded in the second year of the grant program, citing the application's high ranking and his personal appeals to Democratic President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. "We believe that this time, we will be successful," Hogan said.

"I had lunch with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the importance of this infrastructure project. I discussed it with the president in the Oval See TUNNEL, page 9 SUMMARY OF THE NEWS 'Serial' podcast subject Syed seeks release from prison Lawyers say he's no threat as he awaits new trial MANDEL PROBE FIGURE DIES: W. Dale Hess, who rose to majority floor leader in the Maryland House of Delegates and was later convicted, then cleared, of charges in a political probe during the Gov. Marvin Mandel administration, died Saturday at 86. NEWS PG 8 tek KIM Al RSTONBALTI MORE SUN Lt.

Kenny Butler was elected last month as first vice president of the local Fraternal Order of Police, making him the highest-ranking black officer in the group's history. Amid scrutiny a rising black voice in city's police union TWO WEEKS TO GO: Hillary Clinton continued to focus Monday on allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump, while the GOP contender decried what he called "phony polls" during a visit to Florida. NEWS PG 6 By Justin Fenton The Baltimore Sun Adnan Syed, the "Serial" podcast subject whose murder conviction was overturned this summer, is asking a judge to let him out of jail as he awaits a new trial. Syed, 35, has been in custody for more than 17 years. In a petition filed Monday, his attorneys say he would pose no danger to the community and that they have a social worker lined up to help him transition out of prison, where they say he has had no behavior problems.

His attorneys write of the "crumbling" case against him, and raise new accusations about his former co-defendant, Jay Wilds, who was a key witness against him in his 2000 trial. "Syed has been waiting 17 years to get back into court to prove his innocence," his attorneys wrote. "With that moment within his grasp, there is no reason to think he would now abscond from justice and risk everything he has accomplished to date." Syed was convicted by a Baltimore jury of first-degree murder in 2000 in the strangling death of ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. See SYED, page 9 DREAM COME TRUE: The Indians and Cubs, perennial losers, meet tonight for Game 1 of the World Series. SPORTS PG1 thony Batts, critcizing orders that officers "not engage" violent protesters and Batts' comment that cops "took a knee" in the months that followed.

He joined a chorus of voices questioning State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby's decision to charge six officers in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. Many in the Police Department took note of Butler's outspokenness, and last month elected him first vice president of the local Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 making him the highest-ranking black officer in the organization's history. He resigned his See BUTLER, page 9 By Kevin Rector The Baltimore Sun In the aftermath of last year's civil unrest in Baltimore, one of the most forceful defenders of the city's police officers was a black lieutenant from Baltimore who maintained that most do their jobs with integrity, even as he acknowledged a history of racial disparities. Lt.

Kenny Buder, the longtime president of the Vanguard Justice Society, an organization for black and other minority officers, openly slammed then-Commissioner An SUNNY, BREEZY 59 37 HIGH LOW Sunny, cool Wednesday SPORTS PG 12 bridge sports 8 business sports 9 lottery news 4 horoscopes news 7 obituaries news 8 opinion news 10 puzzles sports 8, tonight on tv sports comics sports 10.