Most of the other elements that architects will be asked to address have previously been discussed by rebuilding officials, including requirements to build a grand promenade on West Street, a central transit center for the PATH and subway lines that run beneath the site, and a tall structure or symbol that would restore some distinction to the downtown skyline.
Now, after months of fighting, and with the security situation still fragile, there are huge new requirements, like rebuilding apartment complexes reduced to rubble by shelling, guarding oil installations as they restore or expand production, and training and equipping new armed forces.
"The World Trade Center site is so complex because of the infrastructure that runs underneath it and the requirements for rebuilding that no one should be surprised that the commercial development and the memorial will take longer than originally anticipated," said Mitchell L. Moss, a professor of urban planning at New York University.
In issuing the new requirements, then, the rebuilding officials did not abandon the notion that downtown needs millions of square feet of office space.
"If we conclude differently, that it is not possible to rebuild and still meet those requirements and have the kind of beautiful center that we want this to be, then we will change our plans".
The government's first choice is a solution that accommodates the lease, though John C. Whitehead, chairman of the development corporation, said on Wednesday that if it is "not possible to rebuild and still meet those requirements and have the kind of beautiful center that we want this to be, then we will change our plans".
To meet the requirement British Aerospace proposed rebuilding each Nimrod MR2 with new engines and electronics which it called Nimrod 2000.
While in Keene, he announced that he was temporarily suspending a variety of state permitting requirements to help speed rebuilding efforts.
Agency officials said it would be months before the new flood maps were finished, which means that homeowners are approaching the question of rebuilding without a full understanding of the requirements they may face.
