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...projects need only be approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority—a powerful city agency beholden to the Mayor and tasked with overseeing the entire City of Boston’s planning and development projects—in order for them to be implemented. Community members and the BRA did successfully negotiate a cooperation agreement with Harvard last spring requiring the University to provide $25 million worth of benefits to the neighborhood while proceeding with the construction of the Science Complex. The agreement is one of the instances where the BRA has drawn praise from Allston residents for skillfully...
...Harvard decides if [it is] slowing down its expansion and planning,” Mattison said. “That doesn’t mean the neighborhood doesn’t exist. There’s still plenty of issues, opportunities to make the neighborhood better.” BRA officials have recently committed to a revitalization of community-wide planning efforts that had been sidelined in recent months due to concern over the Science Complex slowdown. Affordable housing, commercial development, and public open spaces are among the areas currently pegged for consideration. “We?...
...BRA can be reorganized in that way, but it won’t happen so long as [the Mayor] is there, because it works for him,” Yoon said. “This is the one agency shielded from the City Council and any legislative body...
...Jessica Shumaker, a spokeswoman for the BRA, said in an interview that planning, economic development, and workforce development are all critical components of a successful city, and that “having these three functions unified in a single agency enables each division to inform and enhance the work of the other divisions...
...BRA doesn’t work the way it should, and that’s confusing for me,” said Sal Pinchera, a local resident. “I wish you would have been at some of the meetings, and maybe you could have brought something to the table...