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...hearing, conducted jointly by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Mission Hill Planning Commission was the third of three hearings on a draft environmental impact statement filed by the BRA several months ago on the plant...
Before the BRA could approve MASCO's application, it had to determine the project's impact on the environment. By law, the BRA had to conduct an environmental impact study on the site, paid for by MASCO. The preliminary results of their report were released in May. It showed that the power plant even though it would be in the middle of a residential and hospital area would have little negative impact on the environment...
Mission Hill is sick and tired of institutions telling us what to do. We're sick and tired of the BRA stepping all over us. Where are our elected officials to fight for us? Will they campaign as hard as they did for Mission Hill's vote...
ALTHOUGH IT is impossible to predict what will happen in the next few months on Mission Hill, several possibilities could occur. The BRA will probably hold as many community meetings as possible until it determines it can go ahead and hold a board meeting on the project without running headlong into violent community opposition. At that point, largely because the Mission Hill opposition lacks clout with City Hall in this highly political process, the BRA can in the long run give Harvard the go-ahead to break ground...
...that point several things could happen: Mission Hill residents may literaly strap themselves to the building, creating a visible, ugly, and graphic presentation of Harvard bulldozing over community people for all to see, This could cause a fierce political reaction and force the BRA or the medical institutions to back down and compromise...