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University officials in charge of community relations deserve praise for the pact they brokered last month with residents of the Agassiz neighborhood north of Harvard Yard...
Under the agreement, which Agassiz residents approved 60 to 4 in a Dec. 16 vote, Harvard will limit the expansion of its facilities in the neighborhood to 1.6 million square feet over the next 25 years; the previous zoning arrangement would have allowed Harvard to build on almost twice the land it can under the new agreement. The University also promised to spend about $2.5 million on neighborhood beautification, public education and recreational opportunities during the first phase of construction. And the University has taken substantive steps towards reducing the disruption caused by the new buildings...
According to Amy King, the community liaison of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council, a neighborhood e-mail list has about 130 subscribers...
...Agassiz residents Tom Frank ’44 and his wife Kate Frank said after the meeting that they did not support the agreement because it was not specific enough on some points...
Though several of Harvard’s schools are interested in expansion, FAS is first in line to develop in Agassiz, with three science buildings totalling 670,350 square feet in various stages of planning...