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However, the Cambridge Planning Board objects to the 18-story building, according to Robert A. Bowyer, director of Planning and Design for the City, on the basis of "location, height, and scale...
Planners would like to see the hotel be accessible by a service road instead of Mt. Auburn St. as currently planned. Although Bowyer predicts that basic agreements on the service road could be ready by fall, Kanavos wants to start now: "In order to wait that long I'm paying interest, it adds up to a lot of money...
...Robert Bowyer, head of Cambridge's Department of Planning and Development, worries that the character of the Square may be corrupted by the influx of tourists...
According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. Last month, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...
...Bowyer said that the cost of the second-stage project might be lowered by combining an underground garage with the related structure complex, thereby eliminating the need for piles altogether. Such a complex would "float" in the marshy subsoil, but would be limited in height to six or eight stories...