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After the city of Boston issued its 50-page scoping determination last month for Harvard’s forecasted development in Allston for the next half-century, some residents say the document raises concerns about the University’s ability to adequately incorporate the city’s suggestions over the next few months...
...document focus on ways in which Harvard’s development over the next few decades can create a campus that enhances Allston by creating open spaces, improving transportation, and ensuring permeability and connections between Harvard’s existing campuses in Cambridge and the Longwood Medical Area and the neighborhood...
Harvard has the additional challenge of building and planning alongside other community development plans, such as the 2004 North Allston Strategic Framework Plan, a document that came out of a series of meetings between University officials and Allston residents that calls for an increase in the rate of home ownership and more pedestrian connections to the river, in addition to other improvements...
...toxic chemical was inadvertently released into the air during a Harvard construction project earlier this month, prompting Allston residents at a special meeting called by the University Monday night to express concern over future health risks as construction continues. On August 1, employees from Turner Construction—the company responsible for building Harvard's 589,000-square-foot science complex—caused a leak while relining a 300-foot portion of the century-old, brick-lined sewer pipe that runs along Western Avenue. Around 4 a.m., construction crews were pumping near-boiling water into the pipe...
...Think of the education portal as a preamble to the future,” said Lue, who added that he hopes the completed science complex will offer hands-on science opportunities for both Harvard undergraduates and Allston residents...