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...Allston residents head to the polls today to narrow the pool of candidates vying to be their next city councillor, Harvard’s much-anticipated expansion into the area has emerged at the center of the debate...
...successful candidate will have to respond with incredible verve and fortitude to forge our way through this challenge with Harvard,” said Tim McHale, the president of the Allston Brighton Community Planning Initiative, referring to negotiations over the University’s planned expansion. “There’s no greater issue on their plate. This is not an election about potholes or parking...
...however, all of the candidates are expressing concern about how the University will continue to forge ahead with its plans to develop its 215-acre Allston campus—Harvard’s biggest single territorial expansion in its history. Those concerns include the environmental and noise impact of the massive construction projects that are looming...
Undergraduates have long been the University’s staunchest environmental advocates. It was students who worked to ensure the 2004 adoption of the six guiding "Sustainability Principles" for the Allston development. Soon after, students passed a referendum that called for an optional wind-energy fee to be added to their term bills. Despite a prompt veto of the measure by the University administration, students voted green again in 2006, demanding emissions reduction targets for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) through another College-wide referendum...
...each of these cases, student support for environmental responsibility has been effective in creating substantial change on campus. The Sustainability Principles signed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers continue to guide planning strategy in Allston; the 2005 wind referendum resulted in the University-supported Green Crimson Renewable Energy Fund; last year’s vote prompted the creation of the energy task force planning FAS emissions reductions...