Clinton Planning Council was formed in 1959 to fight the deterioration ot the community's social fabric. The legislation was also designed to permit rehabilitation and new construction within the area in character with the existing scale of the community and at rental levels which will not substantially alter the mixture of income groups presently residing in the area. Most importantly, the SCD is supposed to promote the most desirable use of land in the area and thus to conserve the value of land and buildings, and thereby to protect the city's tax revenue. This is a neighborhood of families and it must remain that way. We can't let greedy people take from us all that we built.
Schools are among the best in ihe city and community organizations help the underprivileged.
Now developers, capitalizing on the economic revitalization of the surrounding neighborhoods, are trying to profit from the hard work of these people. Developers have been preying on the elderly and the infirm of the community, harassing these people until they abandon the homes that have taken them years to build. Buildings are razed to make way for cold towers that will rob the neigborhood of the warmth that has made it so special. This, according to the developers, is called progress. This housing must be preserved.