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lines and for the creation of urban or regional districts.
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Would you have any thought as to whether or not that
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approach should be a constitutional matter?
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MAYOR McKELDIN: No, I don't, but I think it
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is very important.
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I think some place somewhere we should have
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some provision that would enable such action as that to
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take place, because it is becoming a very serious problem,
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as I say.
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In Baltimore City, we are not in a county, as
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you know, and we have problems with Baltimore County on
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the north and Anne Arundel County on the south.
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If we could have some kind of a metropolitan
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government, it would be greater to the advantage of both
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the counties and the City of Baltimore.
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JUDGE ADKINS: Do you think it would be realis-
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tic to provide machinery by which voters in each of the
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respective present subdivisions could vote to join together
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in a metropolitan unit, would that be realistic?
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MAYOR McKELDIN: It would be very desirable
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so far as I am concerned if you could work out something
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