Deputy Mayor Anthony P. Coles, who oversees planning and zoning matters, did not return numerous calls requesting comment, and Mr. Rose declined to be interviewed.
The minister, Ashwani Kumar, who oversees planning, science and technology, said that cynicism had become fashionable among India's chattering classes, and he exhorted his audience to pay attention to all the good that this government had done.
Noting that the city already oversees planning and zoning through various boards, Ms. Uzzo said current controls were enough to prevent "shacks" from going up. "A new house may not be historic," she said, "but so what?
Since last summer, the state has been trying to intensify its water-monitoring efforts to get more "real time" data on subjects like stream flow more quickly, said Deputy Commissioner Bob Tudor, who oversees planning for the state's environmental agency.
In recent weeks, Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi has reacted angrily to the adjudication by Secretary of State for Communities Eric Pickles, who oversees planning, to give the go-ahead to a greenfield development on the edge of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hopkins oversees planning for the complex's Ground Systems Development and Operations.
That prompted a reaction from Kevin M. Rampe, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency overseeing plans for the trade center site.
That included overseeing plans to move BBC News and the Vision department – home to programme making and the flagship BBC TV channels – into the refurbished Broadcasting House in central London.
By Thursday, he was overseeing plans to deploy American military cargo planes to ferry French troops and equipment to Mali, where the government of neighboring Algeria said France's armed intervention was the cause of the abductions.
There is also a theory being advanced within sport that the plan was being "talked up" by the BBC sports controller, Peter Salmon, who has been overseeing plans for the Manchester move along with director of regions Pat Loughrey.
