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Article: East End's urban renewal proposal faces its first vote: Group says it will take fight to court
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- January 16, 2003
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
The controversial proposal to create an urban renewal district on
Charleston's East End was likely to get its first up-or-down vote
today.
But members of a minority activist group vow to take the fight
from City Hall to the courtroom over a program they say is an attempt
to disrupt African-American neighborhoods.
"We will see them in court," said Romona Taylor-Williams, director
of the minority group REDEEM, which has fought the city on past
proposals.
The urban renewal committee's vote, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today
in the mayor's conference room, is the first major bureaucratic
hurdle the urban renewal district proposal must clear. If the
committee gives its stamp of ...