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...contrast to the grueling last-minute negotiations in Riverside—where the two sides came together on the last possible day for the city council to act on the neighborhood’s zoning petition—the progress on the agreement in Agassiz was steady over the course of a whole year...
...there is less bad blood between the University and the residents in Agassiz, where community members opted to enter into negotiations from the start, rather than taking Riverside’s more contentious route...
...Traditionally Harvard is the enemy,” says William Bloomstein, one of the four representatives of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID) who negotiated the deal with Harvard. “Rather than that approach, we decided to engage Harvard in a collaborative discussion, to understand and to figure out where there were mutual interests that could...
City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 says in both Agassiz and Riverside, the residents’ first choice would have been for no institutional development to take place at all. But he says the residents realized that if expansion was unavoidable, they wanted to have a say in how it was done...
...Agassiz, Harvard took steps to reduce the noise, dust and disruption caused by construction, which has been a key issue in a neighborhood facing years of development on all sides...