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...BRA had once considered appointing a separate task force to address the community-wide planning process, but eventually decided that the considerations were not technical enough to justify cluttering the existing landscape with another planning committee. Today, the BRA runs the community-wide planning meetings and invites members of the Allston Task Force to participate, given their prominent leadership role in the community. Gerald Autler, the senior Project Manager for the BRA, acknowledged that the current Task Force was appointed specifically to address Harvard’s future institutional campus, and as a result is not necessarily geographically or demographically...
...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 balancing community concerns with institutional interests, but it has not been enough to allay questions about the group’s ability to be responsive to community needs...
...BRA has endured perennial criticism for its political ties and its far-reaching responsibility to oversee many of the key stages of construction projects—an arrangement that the group says allows for cohesion between planning and implementation, but which some feel puts the BRA in a position to subordinate community concerns to developer interests...
...BRA should] simplify things in a way that’s accessible to any regular person,” said Boston City Councillor Sam Yoon at a recent community meeting in which he advocated for a re-structuring of the BRA’s authority. “Let the community make the tradeoffs...
...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...