South End urban renewal plan is approved by the Boston City Council.

The council approves the plan by a margin of 7 to 2, with councilors Katherine Craven and William Foley, Jr. dissenting. Foley at one point complains, “[Ed] Logue interferes in the lives of people and tells them to fix up their homes. He says people shouldn’t be allowed to live in lower-class neighborhoods. He wants to make poor people middle class, just like him. . . . Its [sic] the biggest urban renewal project in the United States, it will affect 30,000 lives, and it should have been more thoroughly considered.”