A four-page plan to confront the administrative, budgetary, and programming decisions needed to fight blight in Philadelphia.
This special section of the Daily News was published as a challenge to the Street Administration's long delayed blight plan. "Two weeks ago, I issued a challenge to Mayor John Street stating that it was possible to meet City Council President Anna Verna's request for a concrete plan before her Wednesday deadline, and that to prove it I would present a plan on these pages. Here it is.Maybe offering a concrete alternative will make the mayor's plan, when and if it comes out of the back room, look good in comparison. Maybe, if the mayor's plan looks bad in comparison, this alternative will prod some improvement and move us toward what we all want: the best possible blight plan.Either way, Philadelphia is better off."
Thanks to Mark Alan Hughes
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