Word: planning
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Under this alternate plan, Polis '76, the cities would be linked by a coastal transportation network sponsored by the Federal government. Exhibits in each of the cities would be determined by the long-range needs of the city: a new theater in one, better parks in another. "Boston's exhibit, for example, might include the needed stadium, which would attract fair-goers and serve the community after the end of the fair," Chard said...
Chard criticized the usual one-city format. "Traditional fairs are becoming too large and expensive for one city to handle," he said. The multiple-site plan would also hold "to an absolute minimum the displacement of residences and businesses...
Chard and Hollister have sent their plan to the President's American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, which
...other City and state officials strongly oppose the plan. The Boston City Council voted unanimously two weeks ago in opposition to the site, and Louise Day Hicks, now a candidate for the City Council, has been invited to speak against the plan at the hearing...
About twelve members of the Sierra Club picketed the Kennedy Building in Government Center yesterday to protest the proposed Harbor fill-in. Paul Swatek, a spokesman for the conservationists, said the plan would "only compound existing pollution and transportation problems." and labeled Boston Expo a "land-grab...