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Some residents of the area may support a denser development than Harvard is planning. Last spring, the GSD activists collected some 50 signatures in the neighborhood on a petition supporting their plan to build 500 units on Shady Hill. Now they are planning surveys in Cambridge and Somerville-and later this year, a studio course at the school-in order to develop a plan for denser development which could get neighborhood backing...
According to various estimates, construction costs in the Greater Boston area are rising by up to 15 per cent a year. The preliminary designs for Shady Hill are now too expensive to construct, so University officials and architects have been reviewing the projects, trying to find ways to save money. L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, describes the situation like this...
...Agassiz School is old (build in 1915) and is scheduled to be replaced by a new school in 1971. Though some Agassiz parents hope construction of the new school can be coordinated with the development of another Harvard-owned parcel of land in the area and others have suggested a community school on Shady Hill itself, it is difficult to begin planning for the new school when no one can yet tell how many children will be attending it as a result of the Shady Hill construction...
Deciding among these interests will not be easy; what pleases one is only to likely to offend another. In fact, one observer of the situation recently suggested that the only action that could win the University friends, in the short run at least, would be to open up the area as a park until final plans are developed...
Lowry Hemphill '72, a member of the SDS anti-expansion committee, last night said that about 200 Harvard students would be present at North Harvard Street this morning if Deputy Sheriffs attempted an eviction. Students from other schools in the area will also be mobilized in an attempt to prevent the Sheriffs from evicing the families...