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BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

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IX. Final Town Meeting. The following is a summary of the recommendations:<br />

a) Educational program and facility development would begin by providing<br />

special advantages for children deprived by their circumstances<br />

and environments of the opportunity for a good education.<br />

In order to recognize mental and emotional handicaps at an early<br />

age, Baltimore service experts should develop comprehensive profiles<br />

of all children. The new Dunbar should emphasize comprehensive,<br />

rather than vocational education. A junior college<br />

should be established in East Baltimore.<br />

b) Economic development would be aided by the organization of a community<br />

development corporation.<br />

c) A system of co-ordinated, comprehensive housing development must<br />

be instituted in the community. Dislocation of inner city residents<br />

should be minimized. Existing housing codes must be more<br />

rigidly enforced in order to improve public and private housing.<br />

d) Political development would be furthered by waging a pervasive<br />

campaign in the Second Ward to education and register voters and<br />

develop a sense of political potency. The Dunbar High School<br />

Community Council should carry on the spirit of community involvement<br />

aroused by the charette.<br />

e) Transportation can be developed by moderating the traffic flow<br />

through East Baltimore, up-dating traffic signals, speeding up<br />

the traffic flow on major arteries, controlling pedestrian crossings,<br />

creating specialized streets, and making buses safer.<br />

f) Recreation and park development would include a stadium and field<br />

house, swimming pools, skating rinks, bowling alleys, inner-block<br />

and other forms of parks throughout the area, various kinds of<br />

playgrounds, tennis courts, community parks, and broader summer<br />

recreation programs.<br />

g) Cultural development would involve integration of public school<br />

library facilities in the Dunbar complex.<br />

h) Communications could be developed by founding a community newspaper,<br />

financed by business or the community development corporation.<br />

Television and radio facilities might be incorporated<br />

into the new Dunbar complex.<br />

i) In considering site development, the most controversial discussion<br />

area, the group proposed taking an option on the plot of land to<br />

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