Baltimore’s Planning Commission on Thursday approved a developer’s plan to add five new townhouses at the western edge of Hampden in North Baltimore, in spite of the neighborhood association’s objections about the parking arrangement and front-facing design of the new residences.

The new houses will be built on two currently vacant lots on Ash Street, near the bottom end of W. 36th Street overlooking I-83. The developer and property owner, TRM Realty, plans to put two townhomes on one lot at 3550 Ash Street and three more on another lot at 3600 Ash Street.

Both parcels are separated by a lot in between, technically the terminus of W. 36th Street, though one of the developer’s hired civil engineers from Colbert, Matz, Rosenfelt said they skipped over that property because prepping it for construction would have required a costly relocation of utility poles and streetlights and other work.

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