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Under pressure not only from Madison Park residents but from other Roxbury civic leaders the BRA conceded that the rest of the land in the site could be devoted to housing rather than to industry...
...people, rather the LRCC leaders themselves, had done most of the talking at the City Council public hearings. This confirmed Logue's worst fears--that there really wasn't any community or community leadership in Madison Park and that a few people there were being used by the UPA. According to the terms of the proposed agreement the LRCC (for which Logue read UPA) would have a veto over the BRA's plans for the neighborhood...
...agreement it does not have a veto over the BRA plans, although Logue has said he is willing to renegotiate this point in a few months if the LRCC shows itself to be a true voice of the community. Nor was the LRCC allowed to determine the percentage of Madison Park housing which will be low income...
...without future planning, but it has promised to base its figures not only on its own surveys but also on surveys made by the UPA. Some observers feel that UPA will face its most serious test when the time comes to determine the amount of low income housing in Madison Park...
...getting Logue to come to an agreement with the LRCC, Urban Planning Aid has managed to prove, in a back-handed sort of way, that there is a community in Madison Park and the UPA is not a group of frustrated, teachers using a neighborhood as a laboratory. But BRA officers are sure to challenge the UPA's figures about the precentage of low income housing needed in Madison Park and charge that they do not represent the true situation but merely the wishes of UPA's employers