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...arboretum has increasingly stressed hands-on education since it began working with Boston-area schools in 1983, when 450 school children came to the arboretum for special classes. Since then the number of children visiting annually has increased to more than...
Changes to the city's zoning laws normally require the approval of six councillors, or six of nine votes, but if the owners of 20 percent of the land in the area affected oppose the change, a seventh vote is necessary. Harvard, which owns about half the land covered under the Crystal petition, has already registered its opposition to the plan...
Crystal's original petition, which was submitted to the council in January, called for drastic changes in the zoning of the East Harvard Square neighborhood. The change was designed to halt two major developments slated for construction in the area--Harvard's proposed hotel and Graham Gund's "Zero Arrow Street" development, a six-story complex of shops and offices...
Under the new plan Harvard could build to a height of 45 feet on the gulf station lot, at a floor-area ratio (FAR) of 1.75. FAR is the proportion of a building's total floor area to the size...
...reason is obvious. Boston is a sports town. When teams from the area win championships, from the pros to the high schools, Boston does not forget. The 1989 Harvard hockey team has joined the city's rich tradition--the same one that has immortalized Bobby Orr, Larry Bird...