Word: bra
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...COME as a surprise today if the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) gives Harvard permission to build its $56 million power plant near the Medical School in Boston. Harvard waded through years of negotiations, hearings, and applications simply to get to the point where the BRA would say yes to its plant...
What will be a surprise, however, is that the BRA is in effect saying no to Boston Edison, something akin to handing down a trust busting order to a monopoly...
...hospitals than are currently in the area. And, despite written pledges against expansion, these residents believe that their homes would have to go if more institutions were to come to the area. And it is these people, trapped in Mission Hill, who stand to lose the most from the BRA's decision to let Harvard build its power plant...
...weeks, after some more perfunctory investigation, the BRA will probably rule in favor of the power plant and grant the zoning variances that are needed for the plant's immediate construction. It will probably do so in part because it wants the housing project, but mostly because those in opposition to the power plant don't carry much political clout in City Hall...
...cards have been stacked against us from the beginning," Murphy says. "There was no mention of our alternatives in the original impact statement--we were never really given a shot. People entertained us, the BRA listened to us, and we gave them information, but they never really did anything with it." What astonishes Murphy and the other people fighting the power plant, is that every city authority has turned its back on their objections, not the overwhelming power that Harvard has brought to bear on Mission Hill