The member governments ratified their decision. All these dynamics were going on at the same time, the waterfront task force, the issue about parking in downtown, the transit study that DeLeuw-Cather was doing for the region . . . DeLeuw-Cather had an engineer, Carl Buttke, who really understood traffic and mass transit planning. But he felt that transportation, traffic, parking and circulation should set the framework for land use. Whereas Dick Ivey kept saying that land use sets the framework for circulation and parking.
Land use comes first.
Ivey then decided to prepare a work plan for doing a downtown plan and taking it before a group of people that was being put together partly by Craig Kelly. He committed suicide, either late in 1969 or early in 1970. But Ivey persevered with Bill Brewster. He had asked me to prepare a work program for doing a downtown plan. It was a pretty skimpy thing.