To the u. S. Dept. Of housing and urban development: administrative complaint in opposition to granting U.S.a.g. funds to the city of Boston for "copley place".
Published: 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Copley Place (Boston, Mass.) -- Issues.; Development Projects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Issues.; Environmental impact analysis -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Issues.; Grant Awards -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Issues.; Low and Moderate Income Persons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Development Projects -- Impacts.; McDonough, Patrick F. -- Minority Report.; Minorities -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Development Projects -- Impacts.; Urban Investment Development Corporation (UIDC), Boston (Mass.); Massachusetts Turnpike (Mass.) -- Air Rights Development Project -- Issues.
Description: ...an appeal on behalf of several groups who represent low-income and minority persons in Boston to block a proposed grant award to assist in the construction of a mixed use development project on air rights over the MA Turnpike and adjacent to Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay by Urban Investment and Development Corporation (UIDC); argues 1) that the Boston City Council acted upon the application without sufficient information to evaluate the project's environmental impact on the city and it's neighborhoods, 2) that the project will have a negative effect on the special problems of low and moderate income people and minorities (housing, displacement and equal employment opportunity) and 3) that environmental impact issues have not been adequately addressed; includes minority report of City Councillor Patrick F. McDonough on this issue; the city's response is kept on BRA/1380; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...