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Unfortunately, things haven’t turned out that way. Harvard’s first project proposals were unilaterally conceived and abruptly presented. They violated design principles endorsed by the community in the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Framework for Planning. The University’s Allston Development Group compounded the problem with its dismissive response to objections posed by the neighborhood’s Harvard-Allston Task Force. Now widespread opposition to the sitting and scale of Harvard’s proposed art building has caused that project to be put on hold—and gives both sides...
Rapprochement can only happen though, if Harvard adopts a different attitude toward its neighbor to the south. Calls for Allston folk to wise up and appreciate the magnificence of Harvard’s plans will not help. Invitations to the community to participate in the drafting of those plans before they harden into proposals would be a lot more useful—we do, after all, share the space and infrastructure—and would encourage us, Allston residents, to reenter the review process with an open mind. No one wants Harvard’s Allston plans to flounder...
...shame of this is not just that bad buildings may get built. The proposed art center, packed into a too-small site, its public purpose largely undefined, is such a building. For all its environmental rectitude, Harvard’s Allston Science Complex is too tall for the neighborhood, and new roadways threaten to make our already congested traffic unbearable. But the greater shame is the lost opportunity to really create what Harvard said it wanted: a new sort of campus community...
...quite a lot to such a project—a solid, stable, working people’s neighborhood, home to many groups and cultures, a slice of the world more vibrant and real than much of what’s left in 02138. I like to picture a future Allston with some recherché café, a Pamplona or a Paradiso, right down the street from our neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts—now that’s true diversity...
...tutors in our community and meet our kids. Would the staff of the proposed Science Complex really object if our children share the daycare center with theirs? And when their staff use the fitness center, would it be so bad if the person at the next machine was an Allston resident? Can’t we all take the shuttle together to Harvard Square...