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...DiCara said last week that he believes the city needs the new office space that Park Plaza would bring. "I would like to scale down the project in both height and density and then build," he said...
Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX), spearhead of the anti-Park Plaza movement, claims that the Boston development will abuse the power of eminent domain and give private developers excess profits at the public expense. The CPPAX--expected to be the main opposition to DiCara in Framingham--outlined an attack against him in a January 15 letter that claimed that qualified legal authorities and a majority of the councilors have stated that the council can rescind the Park Plaza funding because no plan for the project has been approved and no commitments made...
...group also charges DiCara with reversing a campaign promise to vote for recision that he gave to Boston '73, a non-profit citizens' information organization. The CPPAX letter alleges that DiCara told his constituents one thing during the campaign and then did the opposite. "It's just a question that he says he is going to do something and then he doesn't," Deirdre Henderson, representative for the Park Square Improvement Association and a leader of the DiCara opposition, said last week...
...councilman claims that he qualified his pledge to Boston '73 a few weeks after making the promise. DiCara also disputes the claim that he switched his vote as a political concession to Mayor Kevin White, a chief proponent of the Park Plaza project...
...DiCara can convince the opposition to this Park Plaza stand that he acted fairly, then his most controversial vote to date will have little affect at the caucus. If he can clinch the nomination, he will have taken a major step toward becoming a Massachusetts political power. But he's taking no chances--vigorously campaigning in areas outside of Boston in the last few weeks. "Since November 6 I have hit 75 to 80 cities and towns," DiCara said last week...