Citizens participation and an elected official's viewpoint. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1973.

Formal citizen participation in prominent public programs is chronologically reviewed. The programs start with public housing followed by urban renewal and later, model city programming. A case is described where the direction of a road was changed as the result of a public hearing. An instance of citizen reaction which is expected to change plans in Mercer County is described. An informal discussion is added.