...a collection of materials gathered together to provide background information for the Roxbury Neighborhood Council's (RNC) community/citizen participation planning efforts for the Dudley area of Roxbury to improve the quality of life in this Boston neighborhood; includes a charge to the RNC, a description of the area, a socioeconomic profile (data on population, transportation, employment, crime, private investment, abandonment, etc.), the results of a community atitudes survey, information on linkage with parcel 18, and affordable housing conditions; discusses the use of zoning to control community economic development growth policy and historic preservation; also includes a letter from Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, a draft agreement between the BRA and the RNC, Roxbury household survey data (1985), a copy of the "Roxbury Interim Planning Overlay District Discussion Workbook", a list and description of new and proposed housing construction in Roxbury, etc.; copies of this item were in the BRA collection..