Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting against Trodden's resolution, G. d'Andelot Belin, one of the Council's three new members, stressed that he "does not want the Council to be recorded in favor of the present Belt route," but asserted that "the Commonwealth's highway system should not be hindered by municipality veto...
...Local veto power, Belin maintained, will cause "absolute chaos" in the State and "seriously hinder" the road program. "If every city and town in Massachusetts had veto power," Belin said, "highway construction would be impossible...
Belin Opposes Veto Clause...
Belin's opposition to the veto clause, which states specifically that "no money shall be expended under the Act without the consent of the City Councils of all the municipalities involved," has also been supported by the Cambridge Citizens' Advisory Committee...
...letter to the Senate Committee on Highways, the citizens' group maintains that "to permit each city through which a proposed highway is to pass to exercise a veto on the route or planning of such a highway must, in our judgement, be a deterrent to rational future development...