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...resolution, approved by a 6-3 vote, grants funds to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority to restudy the section of East Cambridge known as the Donnelly Field area. The CRA will then submit to the Council "a revised tentative plan" for urban redevelopment...
...people asked the CRA to look at Washington Elms and Newtowne, two government housing projects of the 1930's and the only real slums in Cambridge. However, under present Federal housing provisions, Donnelly would not share the fate of Washington Elms or Newtone. The people also claimed that the CRA's Riverview project could not relocate the inhabitants into the high-rise luxury apartments with rents starting at $215 a month which would replace their homes. This charge was true...
...conflict between the CRA and the people of Donnelly Field led to the defeat of urban renewal in Cambridge. More discouraging now is the near lack of future for redevelopment in the City. The polarized attitudes that defeated renewal last spring still persist. Neither side will admit any wrong. Consequently nothing can really be worked...
...future projects, the CRA (or any equivalent group must be sensitive enough to realize that the so called human problems of renewal are important. In other words, good public relations is crucial in order to make urban renewal work. The CRA was beaten last spring because it had no support from Donnelly, Cambridge neighborhood organizations, churches or the influential League of Women Voters...
Donnelly did not believe the City's strongest argument for renewal: neighborhood improvement. The municipal government itself rarely prosecutes infraction of zoning and building codes in a city full of infractions. An already messy Cambridge made it difficult for the CRA to consider providing Federal second mortgages to homes in Donnelly so that owners could improve them to meet existing municipal ordinances. But the CRA gave this alternative no consideration, even though provision for such mortgages is an important section of the Housing Act of 1954 under which the Authority worked. The prospect of spanking new buildings is exciting...