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...hopeful entrepreneurs and real-estate moguls assert that the Defense Fund is a legalistic group of obstructionists whose only achievement has been to stymie free enterprise in the city and usurp what should be the prerogative of consumers...
Detractors say the Defense Fund's tactics are heavy handed--last year it hired a high-school student to photograph people entering and leaving Starbucks Coffee to demonstrate "congestion." But supporters assert aggressive methods are necessary to get results...
...Others assert the only result of that vigor has been to leave Square businesses and residents frustrated. "Some people feel that it's a waste of time, energy and money and that the whole process is frivolous," says a board member of the Harvard Square Business Association who asked to remain anonymous...
Critics of the Defense Fund dispute its interpretation of the law, and some even assert that the group should not be in the business of legal interpretation. One Harvard Square property owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he approved of public debate over development, but only in the "proper forum...
Developers assert the Fund's grass-roots tactics, while noisily aggressive, serve only to cripple the evolution of the Square. The board member of the HSBA asks: "The Defense Fund can rally people--they can do that well--but at what benefit...