[2] After graduating from Northwestern University, he enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served as a navigator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) during the Korean War.

[3] Bodovitz left his job as a journalist in the early 1960s, and subsequently took up a position on the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.

The reputation that he earned from his work at SPUR ended up catching the attention of J. Eugene McAteer, a member of the California State Senate, who then approached Bodovitz.

[1] He also agreed to serve as the founding executive director of the regulatory agency created, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC).

Lane, who was the chair commission for the BCDC, and had been made the director of the CCC by Ronald Reagan, who was the governor of California at the time.