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Hey buddy, can you spare a dime? How about $50 million? That’s the projected price tag for an ambitious and attractive plan to save City Dock — the loose term describing the public areas along Dock Street, Compromise Street and Susan B. Campbell Park — from the ravages of sea-level rise on the Chesapeake Bay.

Long-standing efforts to turn the Annapolis City Dock into a more park-like setting are inching forward — at last. A request for qualifications was sent out by the recently formed City Dock Action Committee and the nonprofit Historic Annapolis with a due date of Nov. 20.

It’s that time of year again: The Annapolis by Candlelight tour. The 28th annual tour of the fine homes in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Annapolis celebrates the variety of homes and highlights the current owners’ stewardship.

When Eileen Fogarty was selected to chair the City Dock Action Committee, she imagined a dozen or so people working to reimagine Annapolis’ downtown tourism and business center while protecting it against impending floodwaters.

After a year of planning and consideration with extensive input from the community, the Annapolis City Dock consensus plan will be announced on Tuesday.

City Dock in Annapolis has been studied to death. About the only thing that everyone can agree upon is that a parking lot is not the best use.

The National Park Service is giving Historic Annapolis more than $100,000 in the first year of a five-year partnership to finish a plan that would guide City Dock revitalization projects.

When Mike Halbig and Jan Thorman bought their house at 32 Maryland Ave. in July 1979, they planned to raise a family and live a life typical of any Annapolitan.

For Annapolis to brace itself against the changing climate — and the storm surges, rising sea levels and temperature shifts that come with it — the city is going to shell out a lot of money.

Renovations at Maryland Hall, a new garden complex at Historic London Town and Gardens and several new museum exhibits were awarded almost half a million dollars in state grants last week.