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...building Harvard's low-cost housing projects of the '60s. Pebble Gifford was instrumental in compiling the Harvard Square Comprehensive Policy Plan that Harvard routinely dismissed as inaccurate and unhelpful. Brett Donham '60 is a long-time critic of Harvard's housing policy and James Herold '66 represents the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group that criticized Harvard last year for giving too little notice of its doings up at Sacramento St. It is no surprise that these people are behind the movement for change...
...vice president for government and community affairs--two officers whose names came up extensively at the meeting--have little to fear from the above cast of characters. These residents have always felt that Moulton and Daly have had little to do with the behind-the-scenes plotting for the Agassiz area and the bizarre, expensive and widely unpopular plan to divert the Red Line down Mt. Auburn St. to Brattle St. They realize that it is not just Daly or Moulton or, for that matter. Harold Goyette, director of the Planning Office, who pushed for a Red Line extension...
Just about everything else is, quite simply, wonderful. The scenery and the choreography are somewhat constrained by the claustrophobic proportions of the Agassiz stage, but the opulent costumes provide all the visual splendor necessary...
Russell said that the feeling among the residents at the meeting, including Pebble Gifford and Oliver Brooks of the Harvard Square Task Force. David Clem of the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation. James Harold of the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group and James Stanton of the CCA, was that Harvard needs personnel "who know more about community relations," than the officials currently employed...
...said residents told the overseers that Harvard's Long Range Plan of 1974 did not adequately answer community questions, that the matter of the Agassiz down-zoning was not handled well, and that Harvard acted selfishly in its favoring of a Red Line subway plan that would be more costly and less favorable to some community leaders than routes other interest groups in Cambridge favored...