My kind of civic leader

The first piece in the Washington Post, "L.B. Doggett Jr.; Parking Tycoon, Civic Leader," about the life of parking magnate Lloyd Doggett mentioned in passing:

1. "For decades, he was a force in preventing the District from building municipally owned parking garages and challenging private firms, a rarity for a large U.S. city."

Mr. Doggett, who also amassed a large portfolio of real estate interests, was a dominant business figure in the city under the old federally appointed District Commissioners system and during the emergence of elected leaders in the mid-1970s." ...

2. "He took over his family's parking business in the 1950s and began a large push into real estate. He bought old rowhouses, which he rented as rooming houses before razing them for parking lots."