* the tax-generating potential of the Kennedy site.

The design probe comes on the heels of complaints by community members that the orientation of the memorial complex, which was designed by Pei to look out over the Charles, ignores the interests of the nearby neighborhoods and business districts.

The just-abandoned plans for 120 condominium apartments called for a ten-story building running the length of the library site with commercial frontage on street-level.

Community members complained that the apartments formed a wall between the neighborhood and the memorial and did not properly integrate the City into the design.

The parking problem caused by the million people who will visit the Kennedy memorial each year is especially troublesome because the nature of the soil--which is really more like mud--makes underground parking very expensive on the site.

Robert A. Boyer, City Planner, has said the Library should provide 1000 spaces for the site, but Corporation spokesmen say they cannot afford that many spaces