Word: annexation
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...Weaver faces the task of coordinating diffuse and disorganized federal programs ranging from sewage-disposal research (under the Public Health Service) and the location of new inner-city schools (Health, Education & Welfare) to the design and route of metropolitan freeways (Bureau of Public Roads). He has no charter to annex other agencies' territories; rather, it will be a matter of deft and exceedingly diplomatic manipulation aimed at finding some semblance of cohesiveness...
March, 1964--In a letter, Dietz calls on the Coop's directors to junk the proposed annex and plan one with courtyard and trees...
Sept.--Dietz asks the Board of Zoning Appeals to veto the Coop's building permit for the annex on the grounds that the truck dock is too small and that the building has too much floor area for its lot size...
...Dietz asks the Appeals Board to toss the Coop out of the first half of the annex because it has no temporary loading dock. The Coop shows pictures of a truck unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Dietz' attorney claims that the photographs were staged and that the platform is usually blocked. The Coop denies...
That is a tall order for Swenson and also for the Coop, which, until recently, had not given the problem much of its attention and is now busy with other matters, including planning for the new annex...