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...first to instill a more humanized philosophy. He stimulated better-looking public housing by instigating awards for design. He improved relocation policies by increasing funds available to help small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He saw to it that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic open-space areas. And he pushed through in that bill controversial Section 221d3, which gives nonprofit corporations cut-rate (31%) mortgage loans at the Treasury's expense to provide housing for displaced families of low or moderate incomes...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
Brotherly Accord. Though a vital feature of the valley's rehabilitation would be public acquisition of some 100,000 acres at 150 scenic points (cost: $100 million), most of the commission's recommendations could be carried out through effective coordination of already existing programs, including New York's own $1 billion water-pollution campaign. Scenic easements, under which a property owner would be granted tax concessions if he agreed to keep his land undeveloped, could hold back industry from the shoreline and crowning highlands, at the same time keep the countryside in private hands. Intelligent zoning could...
...Republic has boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
Citizens and conservation groups have opposed the project from the start, citing both esthetic and historical reasons. Last week's decision, handed down in New York City, came in response to a petition brought by the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference and three local towns...