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Others attacked the UPA as "mercenaries" interested not in the community itself but only in making a case for whoever retained their services...
...UPA went into Madison Park and began to conduct surveys and studies. By the time the Boston City Council was ready to begin public hearings in November, UPA had compiled its evidence...
During the hearings the UPA personnel said they agreed the new Madison Park High School could easily be erected on a 35-acre site. But the BRA insisted that it was in the best interest of the people of Madison Park to devote most of the remaining land to housing, primarily for people currently living in the area...
After this important concession, the UPA produced a memorandum of understanding which they wanted Logue to sign. He refused...
...UPA 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...