Major Highway Problems in D.C.: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session. December 5 and 6, 1967U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 222 pages |
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Page 3 - Plan developed by the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council. The plan projected a total regional population of five million by the year 2000.
Page 159 - Act, the Secretary shall not approve any program or project which requires the use of any land from a public park, recreation area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site unless (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land, and (2) such program includes all possible planning to minimize harm to such park, recreational area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site resulting from such use.
Page 112 - Among these are the county planning commissions, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the President's Committee on the Physically Handicapped.
Page 1 - Act of 1968, the Secretary shall not approve any program or project which requires the use of any publicly owned land from a public park, recreation area, or wildlife and waterfowl refuge of national, State, or local significance...
Page 1 - Secretary shall not approve any program or project which requires the use of any land from a public park, recreation area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site unless (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land, and (2) such program includes all possible planning to minimize harm to such park, recreational area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site resulting from such use.
Page 164 - With some of these things, it is a case of which comes first, the chicken or the egg, and you have to start somewhere.
Page 115 - ... Policy Advisory Committee on the plans for interstate freeways within the District of Columbia, and advising me that the Board of Commissioners has endorsed the statement of the Committee. The Committee's decision to seek the aid of a consultant, and its unanimous statement following the consultant's report, are reassuring to me and will be reassuring to the Congress and the citizens of the District of Columbia. This review demonstrates that freeways, which the District must have, can and will...
Page 113 - Commission can be expected to protect the community values so essential in a determination of route, size and location. In like manner, the Commission of Fine Arts can be expected to insure the incorporation of proper aesthetic qualities into future freeway construction. The Committee considers it essential that future transportation planning be thoroughly integrated with land-use planning on a metropolitan basis. In this connection, the Committee also notes that the current deadline of October 1,...
Page 115 - Washington, DC DEAR COMMISSIONER TOBRINER: Thank you for your letter of March 31, 1966, transmitting the statement of the Policy Advisory Committee on the plans for interstate freeways within the District of Columbia, and advising me that the Board of Commissioners has endorsed the statement of the Committee. The Committee's decision to seek the aid of a consultant, and its unanimous statement following the consultant's report, are reassuring to me and will be reassuring to the Congress and the citizens...
Page 86 - There shall be designated within the continental 'United States a National System of Interstate Highways not exceeding forty thousand miles in total extent so located as to connect by routes, as direct as practicable, the principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centers, to serve the national defense, and to connect at suitable border points with routes of continental importance in the Dominion...