master plan

Members of the state Water Infrastructure Authority, a body tasked with financial planning for the state’s water and sewer utilities, gathered last month to ponder updates to North Carolina’s water infrastructure master plan.

But if the leap from gangster to gladhander wasn’t part of a master plan, it’s not a far stretch.

"I think he was a great opportunist and I don't think he had some master plan at all."

A “master plan” had been drawn up to improve health and education, transport connections and recreational facilities for the island’s residents, and to develop the fishing sector and the exploitation of coconut by-products, he said.

Though the board has not formally endorsed a hotel, members have said in meetings that something like the Marines’ Memorial Club hotel in San Francisco should be considered in that master plan.