Will Disability Input Make Any Difference in the Reconstruction Planning for the World Trade Center Area?
An innovative coalition of over 80 civic groups formed the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York to unofficially gather public input. Months later, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC), the quasi-public agency handling reconstruction outside of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, which is owned by the Port Authority, started supporting the process, clearly implying that they were listening to the advice the public was giving.