Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan for a Central Business District is not quite so far along though we have already entered the early land-acquisition and construction stage. The Project will be carried on in stages and will endeavor to put some order into the mish-mash of narrow streets which we inherited from our forebears...
...This plan and other plans were carried out with a unique blend of private enterprise and the public sector. You will remember that nonprofit corporations took part in both the Waterfront and the Central Business District. Merchants in the business community raised the "seed" money: in one case $200,000, and in the other case $250,000. We then signed a memorandum of understanding between the BRA and the non-profit organization agreeing, not to the adoption of their plan in toto, but rather that there would be consultations between their staff and the BRA as to any significant changes...
...highly unusual and greatly misunderstood projects: the Tufts Complex and the New England Medical Center involves the use of the new Quincy School not only as a school but also as a community health resource with all the social amenities and health services made available in that building. A plan for the expansion of the N.E. Medical Center has also been worked out with the neighborhood. It is substantially a horizontal design which has already been given an award from London "as one of the ten most outstanding architectural innovations in the world...
...conference committee was set up, and Russell, as chairman of the Senate conferees, asked Johnson to submit a specific random-selection system to the committee since no one on the Hill had yet seen a fully-detailed plan. The White House was silent. After waiting several weeks and still not receiving a plan from the President, the committee approved a compromise version of the bill that included the added restriction of mandatory Congressional approval of any random plan before it could be implemented. The Senate and House approved the compromise several days later...
...President himself knows why he chose to remain silent. If he had submitted a specific plan, Russell probably would have gotten it included in the compromise version. Throughout the summer, even after the bill had become law, Russell offered to give any specific random system "expeditious" hearings before his Senate committee. Still, the President remained silent, except to express his displeasure at the lottery...